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Writing Darkly Charming Villainous Love with Hannah Maehrer

A Virtual Author Talk - Friends Speaker Series

2025-09-03 19:00:00 2025-09-03 20:00:00 America/New_York Writing Darkly Charming Villainous Love with Hannah Maehrer Embrace your dark side (and your best evil laugh) and join a conversation with author Hannah Nicole Maehrer, as she discusses her latest book in NYT bestselling series, "Assistant to the Villain." Reading Public Library -

Wednesday, September 03
7:00pm - 8:00pm

Add to Calendar 2025-09-03 19:00:00 2025-09-03 20:00:00 America/New_York Writing Darkly Charming Villainous Love with Hannah Maehrer Embrace your dark side (and your best evil laugh) and join a conversation with author Hannah Nicole Maehrer, as she discusses her latest book in NYT bestselling series, "Assistant to the Villain." Reading Public Library -

Embrace your dark side (and your best evil laugh) and join a conversation with author Hannah Nicole Maehrer, as she discusses her latest book in NYT bestselling series, "Assistant to the Villain."

Embrace your dark side (and your best evil laugh) and join us in conversation with Hannah Nicole Maehrer, creator of the New York Times bestselling Assistant to the Villain series. 

Register here to attend and ask the author questions!

Evie Sage didn’t mean to become the right-hand woman to the kingdom’s most terrifying villain. One minute, she was applying for an entry-level position that promised “light paperwork and occasional beheadings,” and the next, she was knee-deep in magical mayhem, murder plots, and an entirely inappropriate crush on her brooding, sharp-jawed, walking disaster of a boss.

Now, with a magical prophecy unraveling, assassins showing up in the break room, and a suspicious amount of frogs wearing crowns, Evie has to figure out how to survive her job without setting the kingdom on fire or her dignity, which is hanging by a very sarcastic thread.

Being evil-adjacent was never part of the five-year plan. But then again…neither was falling for The Villain.

Full of humor and heart, this magical office comedy about a sunshine assistant and her grumpy evil boss is one you won’t want to miss out on. 

About the Author:

Hannah Nicole Maehrer—or as TikTok Knows her, @hannahnicolemae—is a fantasy romance author and BookToker with a propensity for villains. When she’s not creating bookish comedy skits about Villains and Assistants, she’s writing to Taylor Swift songs. Her biggest passions in life include romance, magic, laughter, and finding ways to include them all in everything she creates. Most days you can find her with her head in the clouds and a pen in her hand.

This program is brought to you through the generosity of the Friends of the Reading Public Library. Thank you, Friends!

Check out more upcoming virtual author talks and enjoy recordings from past events by exploring our Friends Speaker Series page.

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