Come to a brunch and book signing with author Tessa Afshar. Saturday, September 21, 11am.
Registration fee is $15. Click here to register and pay online or pre-register here and pay on the day. Walk-ins are welcome, but please note that space is limited, so not all may be able to enter. Brunch will be followed by a book reading, and conversation between Tessa and Pastor Peter Smith, FCC Hanson. She will be reading from her soon to be released book, The Queen’s Cook. Thanks to Heritage House of Brockton, other books by Tessa will be available for purchase, to be signed by the author! Guests are also welcome to bring books they already own to be autographed.
About the author
Tessa Afshar’s historical fiction has been on Publishers Weekly, CBA, and ECPA bestseller lists and has been translated into 12 languages.
Her novel, Pearl in the Sand is the recipient of the ECPA’s Bronze Milestone Sales Award. Tessa’s books have received the Christy, INSPY, and ECPA Christian Book of the Year (Bible Study category) Awards, and are Carol, Christy, and ECPA Christian Book Award finalists.
Tessa was born in the Middle East and lived there for the first fourteen years of her life. She then moved to England, where she survived boarding school for girls and fell in love with Jane Austen and Charlotte Bronte, before moving to the United States permanently.
Her conversion to Christianity in her twenties changed the course of her life forever. Tessa holds a Master of Divinity from Yale, where she was elected as the co-chair of the Evangelical Fellowship at the Divinity School for one year. She served in women and prayer ministries for twenty years before becoming a full-time writer.
Tessa is a devoted wife, a mediocre gardener, and an enthusiastic cook of biblical recipes.