OUR Community Reads Author Visit: Lucy Gilmore

Lucy Gilmore, author of OUR Community Reads 2026 title Lonely Hearts Book Club, joins us for an author talk and Q&A. Book signing to follow.

Lucy Gilmore began her writing career in 2012 as a romance author. Since then, she’s expanded to include cozy mysteries (as Tamara Berry) and upmarket women’s fiction (as Lucy Gilmore). She graduated from Eastern Washington University with an English literature degree, where she learned about Very Important Books and also that she vastly prefers to read about love and murder. In 2023, she was awarded the first-ever Lilian Jackson Braun Award at the Edgars for her cozy mystery Buried in a Good Book. That was the same year that one of her women’s fiction novels, The Lonely Hearts Book Club, was chosen as a Barnes & Noble Fiction Pick of the Month. Most of her books are set in and around the Pacific Northwest, where she makes her home with her husband, son, and far more pets than any of them needs.

Books will be for sale at the event in partnership with The Bookworm.

Doors will open at 6 p.m. for open seating.