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My New Rom Com!

The teasering is over. I’m finally ready to reveal what my next book will be! Press play…   So You Think You’re a Match is a romantic comedy featuring: -Bad boy/good girl -Friend zone to forbidden love -Slow burn -Bacon pastries -Adorable big brothering -Stuffed narwhal as a fairy godmother Yes, I know, this book sounds crazy as hell and twice as fun. As advertised, my friends. But wait, there’s more… True facts about this book: -It was both the fastest and the most fun to write of any of my books (of which there have been 26) -It has the most tacos per square inch of any book I have ever written -Of all the fictional weddings I’ve written for my characters (and I kind of specialize in these) this book has the wedding I would most like to...
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Confidence and Comebacks Author Event

Tonight! Come join romance author Katie Golding and I as we talk about confidence and comebacks, and celebrate her new book, Wreckless. It comes out next week and features a female motorcycle racer who crashes and then has to figure out how to get her badass, race-the-boys confidence back online. Also, a fan-yourself sexy Italian hero. At this event, we’ll be talking: -Favorite comeback stories. Think swelling trumpets, Rocky at the top of the stairs, the bloodier and harder the road, the better. -Personal stories of when we both lost our confidence, and the net we used to catch ourselves and come back stronger -First reveal of my next published book! I’ve been sitting on this secret like a hen with a golden egg BECAUSE I AM TERRIBLE and I like to torture you all! But I’m very excited to...
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2 Quotes that Inspired Not Nothing

These two quotes inspired the writing of Not Nothing, my new young adult contemporary novel. This was in the pre-2016 election days, when all around me I saw apathy and people not voting, not speaking out because they felt like the world was fucked and there was nothing they could do to change it. Every line of this book seethes with the fiery energy of knowing that doing SOMETHING is better than nothing, every time. Brooklyn, like many of us, had no idea at first how far the ripple effects of her actions would go. The second quote was from Martin Niemoeller and it gives me chills every time I read it because when I started to write the book, it was a theory pulled from history alone. And then Trump was elected and we got the Muslim travel ban...
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