Join us for an engaging evening featuring authors Keith Roysdon and Jill Blocker at the E.B. and Bertha C. Ball Center. The duo will be debuting their new novels: Seven Angels by Roysdon and Happily After Ever, Blocker’s new young adult novel. Books will be available for purchase and signing.
An Evening with Authors Keith Roysdon and Jill Blocker, Tuesday, July 14, 6-7:30 p.m.
No Charge – Includes reception and book signing | RSVP by emailing ebball@bsu.edu.
Blocker, a native Hoosier, graduated from Ball State University and worked at The Star Press as an intern. Now a resident of Switzerland, her first novel, What Was Beautiful and Good, explores love and freedom in the early days of the Dada art movement during World War I.
Her newest book, Happily After Ever, follows a young American who finds love, heartache, and renewed hope while navigating life as a global citizen. As love evolves and challenges surface, the idea of oneself begins to change, forcing the most uncomfortable question of all: Is love meant to last forever… or just long enough? Tender, sharp, and emotionally honest, the book explores the messy, beautiful reality of love beyond the fairy-tale ending.
Roysdon, a resident of Tennessee, was a reporter and editor for 40 years at The Star Press (and its predecessors) in his native Muncie. He won or co-won more than 30 first-place awards in Indiana and national journalism competitions. He’s the co-author, with Douglas Walker, of four award-winning true crime books about the Muncie area, including Wicked Muncie, Muncie Murder & Mayhem, The Westside Park Murders, and Cold Case Muncie. His short fiction, news, and pop culture writing have been widely published.
Roysdon’s first novel, That October, was published in 2025. Set in a fictionalized version of Muncie, the novel follows six high school friends who band together to solve the mystery of a friend’s murder and another’s disappearance.
His newest book, Seven Angels, features a young woman who returns to her small Tennessee town to help run the family funeral home. After she’s named county coroner, she must not only solve a murder but also battle white supremacists, a pill-pushing doctor, a corrupt sheriff, and a ruthless Russian trafficker hunting a young girl from Ukraine. She assembles a small band of allies—many of them women: an overlooked sheriff’s deputy, a fearless state investigator, and an old mountain woman with a mysterious past—to avenge a murder and rescue the Ukrainian girl.
The program is open to adults ages 18 and older and will be held at the E.B. and Bertha C. Ball Center, 400 Minnetrista Boulevard.