Author Event: Brendan Slocumb

Join us for an author event featuring musician, educator, and writer Brendan Slocumb who will speak on his research and writing processes for The Violin Conspiracy and Symphony of Secrets. There will be an audience Q&A following the prepared remarks. A book signing line will commence after the Q&A ends. Paperbacks Ink--All Booked Up will be onsite selling copies of Brendan's work.

Registration is required to attend this event. 

Author Bio: Brendan Nicholaus Slocumb was raised in Fayetteville, North Carolina. He is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro with a degree in music education, concentrations on Violin and Viola. For the past two decades, he has been a public and private school music educator from kindergarten through twelfth grade, teaching general music, orchestra and guitar ensembles. His students were often chosen for district and regional orchestras. In 2005, Brendan was named Teacher of the Year for Robert E. Lee High School; he has been named to Who’s Who of American teachers, and is a Nobel Teacher of distinction. Brendan also serves as an educational consultant for the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.

In 2022, Brendan published his first novel, The Violin Conspiracy (Anchor Books), a GMA Book Club Pick, about a young man who discovers that his family’s old violin is a Stradivarius, which launches him into classical music stardom. On the eve of the biggest music competition in the world, someone steals the violin and he must get it back. In 2023, he published his second novel, Symphony of Secrets (Anchor Books), about a music historian who discovers that the world’s greatest composer may have stolen the music from a neurodivergent Black woman – and the powers-that-be will do anything to silence the historian. Brendan’s third book is The Dark Maestro (May 2025) about a young Black musical virtuoso at the peak of his career who’s forced into hiding when his family runs afoul of a ruthless criminal organization—until he fights back, using music to bring his enemies to justice.