Lawrence native Kathleen Gilles Seidel will give a talk and sign copies of her new book, “A Most Uncommon Degree of Popularity,” at 7 p.m. Tuesday at the Lawrence Public Library, 707 Vt. The event is free and open to the public, and it is co-sponsored by the Raven Bookstore, 6 E. Seventh St., which will make copies of the book available for purchase.

Seidel is a Lawrence High School graduate who has written 12 contemporary romances and twice won the highest award in romance fiction writing, the RITA from the Romance Writers of American for contemporary single title, in 1985 and in 1995.