MURFREESBORO, Tenn. (AP) — Author Rebecca Wells will discuss the art of writing in a free event at Middle Tennessee State University this week.

Wells wrote best-seller "Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood," two other books in the same series and a separate work.

She's appearing at 1 p.m. Thursday in the second-floor Parliamentary Room of the Student Union as part of the university's Tom T. Hall Writers Series. She will read from some of her works, participate in a question-and-answer session and sign copies of her books.

Wells is also scheduled to appear Friday during the three-day Southern Festival of Books. She will be in Room 16 of the Legislative Plaza in downtown Nashville.