Alena Dillon is the author of Mercy House, a Library Reads and Amazon book of February 2020! Join us for a chat with Alena about her new best selling book!  Please join us for this special ZOOM program! You MUST register with your email address to be able to participate. Sue will then send an invite to all who have registered the day of this program. In the invite will be a link that you click on within 5 minutes of the program's starting time. During the program, audience members may use the "chat" to type questions. Alena will answer these questions at the end of her program. Alena will be "raffling" an ARC of her book the night of this program. Sue will contact the winner and ask them for their address so that Alena knows where to send this prize. 

Movie rights for Alena's book have been purchased! 

"She would stop at nothing to protect the women under her care.  Inside a century-old row house in Brooklyn, renegade Sister Evelyn and her fellow nuns preside over a safe haven for the abused and abandoned. Gruff and indomitable on the surface, warm and wry underneath, little daunts Evelyn, until she receives word that Mercy House will be investigated by Bishop Hawkins, a man with whom she shares a dark history. In order to protect everything they’ve built, the nuns must conceal many of their methods, which are forbidden by the Catholic Church."

Alena is also the author of the humorous book We Agreed to Pee in the Ocean. Her works have appeared in several publications: LitHub, The Rumpus, Slice Magazine, Scary Mommy, River Teeth, The Doctor TJ Eckleburg Review, and The Smart Set. Alena teaches creative writing at Endicott College and St. Joseph's College. She lives in Boston with her husband, newborn son and little black pup named Penny.

Copper Dog Books (978-969-3460) has copies of Alena's books on hand if anyone wants to purchase a copy.  If you want an autographed copy, please let Copper Dog books know this. They have been bringing purchased copies to Alena's home in Beverly to sign before being shipped and/or delivered.