Welcome to Author Talks with the Barbara Moscato Brown Memorial Library!
The Barbara Moscato Brown Memorial Library showcases a virtual author talk series each month featuring bestselling, award-winning, and highly acclaimed authors from around the world. The featured writers and thought leaders will cover a wide range of fiction and nonfiction genres.
The free, virtual series takes place two to three times a month and includes the opportunity to ask questions to the author. A complete list of events is available on the Barbara Moscato Brown Memorial Library virtual author talk series website at https://libraryc.org/barbaramoscatobrownlibrary.
All events are free and open to the public. For more information or to register for the author talks, visit the link at the button below or call us at 814-486-8011.
Upcoming Author Talks
March 2025
13/12/25 @ 2 pm ET: Power of Reset and How to Change What’s Not Working with Author Dan Heath, #1 New York Times Bestselling Coauthor of Made to Stick, Switch, and The Power of Moments – Are you ready for a revolutionary guide to fixing what’s not working—in systems and processes, organizations and companies, and even in our daily lives?
3/20/25 @ 2 pm ET: How Women’s Liberation Transformed America: In Conversation with Clara Bingham, Award-Winning Journalist and Author of Women on the Hill and Witness to the Revolution – The Movement is a comprehensive and engaging oral history of the decade that defined the feminist movement, including interviews with living icons and unsung heroes.
3/26/25 @ 7 pm ET: Dreams We Chase: An Author Talk with Novelist Jennifer Weiner, #1 New York Times Bestselling Author of In Her Shoes, Big Summer, and The Breakaway – Hearing from the queen of fun herself, we’ll chat with the author about her New York Times bestselling novels.
April 2025
04/02/25 @ 7 pm ET: Wordsmith and Wonder: An Author Talk with Jodi Picoult – Step into Spring with us as we chat with the highly acclaimed New York Times bestselling author about her newest novel, By Any Other Name.
04/08/25 @ 2 pm ET: The Stories, Science, and History of Trees with Smithsonian Gardens Greenhouse Horticulturalist Matthew Fleming- Join us as Fleming, guides us through the secret world of trees as is revealed in the beautiful and absorbing guide to the giants of the plant world—The Tree Book: The Stories, Science, and History of Trees.
04/24/25 @ 7 pm ET: The Thrill of Writing Action, Adventure, and Suspense: A Conversation with Bestselling Author Gregg Hurwitz – Do you love action-packed adventure? Are you ready for the thrill? You’re invited to a riveting conversation with Hurwitz as he chats with us about his Orphan X series and his life as a writer of suspenseful storytelling.
Author Talks F.A.Q.
There are a number of questions we frequently hear from Author Talk attendees. We will cover these questions here, and will continue to add information as more questions are asked.
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Author Talks are provided by your library through a special website. These Author Talks are available live to register and watch from the comfort of your own home. You can also watch recordings of the Author Talks at a later time. You can find a step by step guide to registration at this link: How to Register and Watch an Author Talk
After you have registered for the author talk, you will receive an email confirming your registration. The link to watch the live talk is in this email. You can also save the talk to your google calendar at the time of registration or through the link in your confirmation email and the calendar event will contain a link to view the talk as well.
Yes! If you cannot watch the talk live, you can come back and watch the recording afterwards. The recording of each talk will be posted 24 hours after the live event is complete. To view the recordings, go to the author talks page for your library and scroll to the bottom to choose “View all recordings”. You can find a list of participating libraries at this link.
If you would like to view the talk live or submit a question to the author, you will need to register for the author talk ahead of time. If you cannot attend the talk live, you can still register to submit a question, and a link to the recording will be emailed to you the day after the talk is complete.
You will get one email to confirm your registration with a link to the event, a second email as a reminder the day before the talk with a link to the event, and a third email the day after the talk with a link to the recording. After that, you will only get a seasonal email with a list of upcoming talks and registration links, which you can unsubscribe from at any time.
There is an option for Closed Captioning with all of our live-streamed author talks (as well as in their replays). Once the author talk has begun, look for the CC icon on the bottom right of the video.
All of the author talks produced by the Library Speakers Consortium are live-streamed and can be attended through any device that connects to the internet. You will find the link to the event in your registration confirmation email (as well as a reminder email that you’ll receive the day before the event).
When you register for the author talk, there is a field for you to enter in your question(s). We also take questions during the event, and will cover as many questions as time allows.
During the live author talk, you can submit questions in a field below the video labeled as “questions.” We will cover as many questions as time allows.
