USO Gricignano Library Naples Italy

Make a Memory with NYT Bestselling Author Andra Watkins at the USO Gricignano Library on base in Naples, Italy!

In March 2014, Andra Watkins became one of the only living persons to walk the 444-mile Natchez Trace from Natchez, Mississippi to Nashville, Tennessee. 15 miles a day. 6 days a week. For 34 days.

She did the walk to launch her debut paranormal historical thriller To Live Forever: An Afterlife Journey of Meriwether Lewis, but she ended up having a life-changing adventure with her 80-year-old father. Their journey together inspired her NY Times best selling memoir Not Without My Father: One Woman’s 444-Mile Walk of the Natchez Trace.

Andra’s presentation is irreverent, hilarious, and poignant. Attendees won’t find the usual author-behind-a-desk-or-podium program. Library patrons around the United States laugh and cry, but even more importantly, they leave and make memories with people who matter. Don’t stay home thinking this will be another boring author talk.

Here’s what prior attendees say about Andra’s appearances:

“I loved your talk and slides in Carrollton at my lovely library. Never heard of you but your bubbly personality influenced me to buy all four of your books! I have read your first 2. I’m impressed! Looking forward to the third and fourth.” – Robin Moore Collins, Carrollton, GA

“The best adult library program we’ve ever hosted.” – Erwin Magbanua, Programming Director, San Diego Public Library Main Branch

“Our patrons want Andra to visit again. One of the highest rated programs we’ve ever had.” Jennifer Devine, Programming Director, Durham NC Public Library

Andra Watkins is a New York Times best selling author.

She is author of five books: To Live Forever: An Afterlife Journey of Meriwether Lewis (Word Hermit Press LLC, 2014), Not Without My Father: One Woman’s 444-Mile Walk of the Natchez Trace (Word Hermit Press LLC, 2015; NY Times best seller, week of 18 October 2015); Natchez Trace: Tracks in Time (Word Hermit Press LLC, 2015); Hard to Die (Word Hermit Press LLC, 2016); and her latest, I Am Number 13 (Word Hermit Press LLC, 2018.)

Watkins is a popular motivational speaker and has been booked throughout the United States and internationally in Ecuador and the United Kingdom. She has appeared at Nashville’s Southern Festival of Books and on the faculty of the acclaimed Pike’s Peak Writers Conference. She was also selected as writer-in-residence at Stiwdio Maelor in Corris, Wales; the Trelex Residency in Trelex, Switzerland; and Buinho Creative Hub in Messejana, Portugal. She lives with her husband in Charleston, South Carolina.

Learn more about Watkins at www.andrawatkins.com. Connect with her on Facebook and Twitter.

I Am Number 13 will be available November 13, 2018 in HARDCOVER, PAPERBACK, AND E-BOOK from AMAZON, BARNES & NOBLE, ITUNES, KOBO, BOOKSTORES, AND LIBRARIES EVERYWHERE, INCLUDING GRICIGNANO!

ADVANCE REVIEW COPIES OF I AM NUMBER 13 AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST