Get a Clue: Janet Evanovich is Coming to the Texas Book Festival

Janet Evanovich, bestselling author of the Stephanie Plum crime series, will be appearing at this year's Texas Boon Festival (Courtesy of Roland Scarpa)

Yeah, writing great cops-and-robbers fiction is hard - unless you're Janet Evanovich.

The author of the blockbuster Stephanie Plum books, about a hard luck bounty hunter, has just been announced as a very special guest for this year's Texas Book Festival (Nov. 5-6).

Evanovich will be cracking the spine and cracking the case on her latest book in the hardboiled, humorous, and occasionally romantic adventures of Stephanie Plum, Going Rogue. In the 29th book in the series, the bounty hunter isn't on the trail of an absconding criminal but of series favorite Connie, the office manager at Vincent Plum Bail Bonds, who has been kidnapped.

The book will be published Nov. 1 but tickets for the special event at First Baptist Church come with not only a chance to hear the 26-time New York Times bestseller list #1 slot repeat offender talk about her literary career but also with a copy of the book and a signing session. Not only that, but the loot from the event will benefit the festival and support its year-round literacy programs.

Don't miss your chance to catch the author while she's in Austin at 2:30pm, Sun. Nov. 6 at the First Baptist Church of Austin, 901 Trinity. Tickets available via eventbrite.

Evanovich is far from the only author announced by the Texas Book Festival. Last month the celebration of the written word started stocking up on titles in advance of appearances by another NYT bestseller fixture, Sandra Brown (Overkill), Pulitzer Prize finalist David George Haskell (Sounds Wild and Broken), and nine-time NAACP Image Award winner Omar Epps (Nubia: The Awakening). Expect a whole library's worth of authors to be added when the festival releases its full lineup in September.