Gone Girl’s Gillian Flynn and Sex in the City’s Candace Bushnell Highlight Avalon’s Storyteller Series

Avalon Waterways on Tuesday unveiled the lineup for its new, celebrity-hosted Storyteller Series of sailings and it includes a number of big-name authors and musicians.  

The series, which will kick off this year and run into 2022, will give guests the chance to spend a week on board an Avalon ship, sailing European waters, with some of their favorite storytellers.

Each sailing is limited to just 160 guests and will include booking signings, concerts, Q&A sessions, and “off-the-cuff opportunities” to interact with the celebrity host.

“Our new, exclusive invites travelers to enhance the storytelling tapestry of their lives by embarking on incredible, ‘once upon a river’ vacations,” said Pam Hoffee, managing director of Avalon Waterways.

“Through this special series of sailings, Avalon guests get to spend a week in Europe with their favorite storytellers. They’re invited to meet legends in legendary landscapes.”

Here are the confirmed names for the series:

• Diana Gabaldon, author of the series of novels, will host a weeklong Romantic Rhine cruise departing Oct. 30, 2021.
• Candace Bushnell, author of the anthology, will host a sailing from Paris to Le Havre on the Seine River departing July 19, 2022.
• Cheryl Strayed, author of the novel , , and , will host guests on a sailing on the Danube from Budapest to Prague departing on Sept. 14, 2022.
• Christopher Moore, the comic book author of series including The Pine Cove Books and Vampires in San Francisco, will host guests on a Rhine sailing from Basel to Amsterdam departing Sept. 20, 2022.
• Edwin McCain, singer-songwriter of hits including “I’ll Be” and “I Could Not Ask for More,” will host guests on a Rhine sailing departing on May 3, 2022.