Swanson is incredibly well-connected in Denver and Colorado as a whole from her previous novels, which is often the key to a very successful anthology in our Noir Series. Swanson’s debut novel, The Bookseller, a New York Times best seller, is slated to be a motion picture produced by and starring Julia Roberts. The Bookseller was an Indie Next selection The Bookseller won both the WILLA Award for Historical Fiction and the Wisconsin Library Association Outstanding Achievement Award; it was also nominated for the Goodreads Choice Award and the Mountains & Plains Independent Booksellers Association Reading the West Award; and it was a finalist for the Colorado Authors’ League 2015 CAL Awards, a Women’s Fiction Writers’ Association 2015 Star Award, and a High Plains Book Award The Bookseller received wonderful review coverage including a starred review in Kirkus and a glowing review in USA Today Swanson’s second novel, The Glass Forest, was a USA Today best seller The Glass Forest received glowing reviews in Forbes, Library Journal (starred), and Publishers Weekly (starred) Swanson’s past events include appearances at: Denver Women’s Press Club, Northern Colorado Writers Conference (keynote), 21st Annual Tattered Cover Writers Respond to Readers, LitCrawl (Denver), Tucson Festival of Books, Rocky Mountain Literary Festival, Chautauqua Author Series, Magers & Quinn, Boswell Book Co., and numerous libraries throughout Colorado