Join us for another installment of Novel Night, a monthly celebration of all things prose! Here’s how it works: published authors will read from their books and there’ll be an audience Q & A. Also worth noting: we’re offering 20% OFF ALL FICTION TITLES during Novel Night (from 6pm till closing).

This month’s Novel Night features Joan Moran, Myra McIlvain, and Dr. Joy Selak. Joan will be sharing her novel An Accidental Cuban, described as a “gritty, energetic, neo-noir” set in contemporary Cuba’s underworld. Myra will read from her recent novel Waters Plantation, which takes readers back to Texas at the end of Reconstruction. And Joy will be reading from CeeGee’s Gift, an intergenerational novel meant to be read and shared between older and younger readers.

Joan Moran is an author, motivational speaker, and an expert on health and wellness. She teaches management, employees and business leaders how to think creatively, achieve work-life balance, and live a life of optimum wellness. After a career that combined 25 years of theater experience, teaching, and performing, Joan founded and was the artistic director of Nevada’s first professional year-round theater. Her future then manifested in film studies at the American Film Institute where she became a screenwriter and producer. Joan’s idea of a happy life is to roam the world dancing Argentine tango. Joan is the author of her humorous and incisive memoir, 60, Sex & Tango: Confessions of a Beatnik Boomer, I’m The Boss of Me! Stay Sexy, Smart & Strong at Any Age, Women Obsessed, and her most recent novel, An Accidental Cuban.

Myra Hargrave McIlvain is a teller of Texas tales who aims to make the Texas story alive. Her latest historical fiction, Waters Plantation, opens in 1875 post Reconstruction Washington County, Texas. It is a sequel to the award-winning Stein House and The Doctor’s Wife.

Joy Selak is the author of CeeGee’s Gift, the story of a young girl with an unusual gift, and the old man who teaches her what it truly means to be gifted. “The reason we are here on earth,” he says, “is to discover and give our gifts. Everyone has gifts to share.” Set on a timeless, small island town on the Texas coastal bend, CeeGee’s Gift is a book to be read and shared by young and old. Her non-fiction book You Don’t LOOK Sick! Living Well with Invisible Chronic Illness, provides support for patients living with long-term illness. Joy is a Philanthropic Advisor in Austin, TX.