Join Mandy on Wednesday, April 22, at the Hotel El Roblar in Ojai for a luncheon with author Emily Franklin.
Mandy and Emily will be in conversation about Emily's new novel, Love & Other Monsters.
Emily Franklin is the bestselling author of twenty-five books including The Lioness of Boston, based on the life of trailblazer Isabella Stewart Gardner, now in its eleventh printing and recently featured as a clue on Jeopardy! Her fiction, poetry, essays, and photos have been published in The New York Times, The Boston Globe, The Kenyon Review, Guernica, and The Journal of the American Medical Association, among many other places, as well as featured and read aloud on National Public Radio, longlisted for the London Sunday Times Short Story Award and named notable by the Association of Jewish Libraries. Her next novel Love & Other Monsters, historical fiction based on the forgotten — but important life of Claire Clairmont, Mary Shelley’s stepsister who was integral in the creation of Frankenstein, will be published in April 2026. She lives outside of Boston with her spouse and four children.
Event tickets are $125 and include a copy of Love & Other Monsters, a three-course prix fixe lunch, a conversation with Emily Franklin and Mandy Jackson-Beverly, followed by a Q&A and book signing.