Lauren Forry

I'll be appearing at the Bucks County Book Festival on Saturday, May 2 alongside authors Erin E. Adams and Taylor Grothe as we discuss writing horror and dark fiction. Our panel, Into the Dark: Crafting Horror Fiction , will be in Tent 2 at 3pm with a signing to follow. The festival is a full day of awesome book-ish events with multiple panels, signings, a marketplace, kids festival, and more! Check out all the details here .

Join me at The Doylestown Bookshop on Thursday, April 23 at 6pm as I talk with thriller author Joanna Margaret about her new novel, The Daughters ! Joanna Margaret is the author of The Bequest and The Daughters . Her short story Malena appears in A Darker Shade of Noir: New Stories of Body Horror by Women Writers , and she received her MFA from NYU, where Joyce Carol Oates served as her thesis advisor. Before turning to writing fiction, Joanna Margaret was a historian, wit

My first event of 2026 was a local author event at the Horsham Township Library - their first one! I had a great time seeing some familiar faces and meeting new readers.

I had a great day at the Plymouth Meeting Mall Book Fest, hosted by the Norristown & Norriton Authors Alliance, as one of 40 participating authors from the Philadelphia region. Now that the mall has been sold and is going to be re-developed, I don't know if this event will happen again, but I'm so glad I was able to go at least once!