Author Event! Amy Ephron & Holly Goldberg Sloan

About the book:

A socialite living in late-1930s New York City disappears without a trace in Unseasonably Cold, Amy Ephron's elegant, melancholy noir of secrets, misapprehensions, and deceptions.

Replete with beautifully observed period detail and sharply drawn characters, Unseasonably Cold is classic storytelling, a mystery crafted with an artist's eye. Rendered in Ephron's lovely, austere literary prose, it is utterly worthy of the era it depicts, when the polite mask of high society's mannered calm disguised the turbulence just beneath; a mirror for the terrible events swirling in Europe at the lead-up to the Second World War.

"Altogether intriguing-haunting, even-and I couldn't have enjoyed myself more."

- Benjamin Dreyer, author of the New York Times bestseller Dreyer's English

About the authors:

Amy Ephron is a bestselling and award-winning novelist of both adult and children’s novels. Her essays have appeared in Vogue; The New York Times’ T Magazine; The Chicago Tribune; The Daily Beast; Time, and many more. She Is currently a contributor to Airmail Weekly. She lives in Los Angeles with her 2nd husband.

Holly Goldberg Sloan was born in Michigan and spent a peripatetic childhood with her psychology professor father and architect mother as the family moved to California, The Netherlands, Istanbul, Turkey, Washington D.C. and Oregon, where she finished twelve grade attending South Eugene High School.

After graduating from Wellesley College in Massachusetts, Holly spent a brief time in New York City and then moved west, making Los Angeles her home. She sold her first screenplay at the age of twenty-four to Paramount Pictures. Sloan has since written eight successful family feature films, three for the Walt Disney Company including the baseball classic “Angels in the Outfield” and the soccer movie “The Big Green”, which she also helmed, making her the first woman to direct a live action movie for the studio.
In addition to her film and television work, fifteen years ago Sloan turned to publishing. She is today the New York Times bestselling author of six books for Penguin Random House, two with Little Brown, and one with Macmillan. Her novel “Counting by 7s” has sold over a million copies in the United States and was an E.B. White Honor book. In 2022, Sloan was honored with a Christopher Award for children’s literature for her book “The Elephant in the Room”. Her novel “Pieces of Blue” was an Oprah daily pick, and one of the Washington Post and New York Times Best Books of Summer in 2023. Her novels have been published in 34 languages. “Finding Lost” from Rocky Pond (Penguin Random House) is her tenth novel.
Sloan’s other film work includes the Universal Pictures comedy “Made in America” starring Whoopi Goldberg, Ted Danson, Will Smith and Nia Long, which earned $100 million dollars worldwide in its theatrical release. For MGM, she wrote “Collision Course: The Crocodile Hunter Movie” starring the late Steve Irwin. For Warner Brothers, she wrote “Pure Country, Pure Heart” with Willie Nelson. She has penned movies produced for television by Hallmark Hall of Fame, Universal and ABC. For PBS, she wrote and directed “Heidi 4 Paws”, in which she cast dogs in costumes to recreate the famous children’s story of Heidi.
She is a member of the Writers Guild of America, the Directors Guild of America and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. The mother of two grown sons, Holly lives in Santa Monica, California with her husband, writer Gary Rosen, and their two rescue dogs.

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