BY KAREN BOSSICK

Ketchum author Alli Frank and Danielle Girard met as sorority sisters at Cornell University in the 1990s. Fast forward 30 years, and they have reconnected as authors and friends through the all-female author’s group Tall Poppies Writers.

Both bestselling authors, they will come together on Thursday to talk about what it's like to write the extremes of lovers and killers in contemporary fiction.

They’ll talk about the gruesome and the beloved. The bloody and the beautiful. And the heartbreaking and the heartful at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, July 30, at The Community Library in Ketchum.

“We are two authors and long-time friends who write in very different genres--Danielle in suspense/thriller and me in contemporary fiction/rom-com,” said Frank. “We are going to talk with each other about these two very different book genres and the writing choices that ensure in our professional lives given that one of us writes about darkness and evil, and the other lightness and love.”

Girard lives in Bozeman, Mont., and is the author of 19 bone-chilling thrillers—both series and stand-alone novels. Her latest, Pinky Swear, was released in February 2026.

Frank lives in Ketchum and is the author of five women’s fiction/romantic comedies with two optioned for film/television. She also is an essayist in two anthologies. Her latest novel, Run For Your Life, Callie Kingman, launched in December 2025.

A book signing with books for sale will follow the discussion.

Reserve your seat at https://thecommunitylibrary.libcal.com/event/15757848. Or watch it via livestream https://vimeo.com/event/6070385?fl=so&fe=fs. The program also will be recorded for later view on the Library Archive.