Vive le Livre to feature best-selling author Joshilyn Jackson

Vive le Livre 2014 on Sept. 25 will feature author Joshilyn Jackson. (CONTRIBUTED)

HUNTSVILLE – Best-selling author Joshilyn Jackson will be guest speaker for Vive le Livre 2014 (or “Long Live the Book”).

Jackson’s best known works include “Gods in Alabama” and “Backseat Saints.”

Since 1988, the Huntsville Library Foundation has presented Vive le Livre as its annual fundraiser to support the Huntsville-Madison County Public Library.

Vive le Livre will be held in the Thurber Arts Center auditorium at Randolph School, 4915 Garth Road on Sept. 25 from 6 to 9 p.m.

“This year, the Huntsville Library Foundation fully funded the library system’s Digital Media Zone, in addition to providing more than $21,000 in grants to individual library branches,” library communications director Ann Marie Martin said.

Jackson’s most recent novel is “Someone Else’s Love Story.” “You won’t be able to put it down,” “Kirkus Reviews” magazine stated in its critique.

The books has a gripping opening: “I fell in love with William Ashe at gunpoint, in a Circle K. It was on a Friday afternoon at the tail end of a Georgia summer so ungodly hot the air felt like it had all been boiled red. We were both staring down the barrel of an ancient, creaky .32 that could kill us just as dead as a really nice gun could.”

Jackson lives in Decatur, Ga. with husband Scott and their children, Sam and Maisy Jane. A former actor, Jackson reads the audio versions of her novels. For this work, she received an Audie Award nomination, and “AudioFile Magazine” placed Jackson’s work on its ‘best of the year’ list.

Twice, she has been named “Georgia Author of the Year.”

For Vive le Livre ticket information and more details, call 256-532-5954 or visit huntsvillelibraryfoundation.org.

For more information about library events, call Martin at 256-532-2361 or email to amartin@hmcpl.org.