In Meryl Branch-McTiernan’s debut novel, What You Should Worry About, it’s January of 2020 and thirty-seven-year-old Layla Moody is trying to worm her way into a party at the Sundance Film Festival, trying to gain access to someone who can jump-start her stymied career as a Hollywood television writer. Branch-McTiernan is a novelist, essayist, and screenwriter. Her short fiction has appeared in the Brooklyn Rail and the Southampton Review. She co-wrote and produced the comedy feature Katie’s Mom, which won the Audience Award for Fusion Features at the 2023 Dances with Films festival. The author will sign copies of What You Should Worry About.
