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Ambassadors of real-life happily-ever-after, Fay and Karelia Stetz-Waters have been together for twenty-three years. Their latest, Taste the Love is out today! It's a delicious, heartwarming romantic comedy about big dreams, life-changing friendships, and the people who bring out your best.

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A born and bred New Yorker and lifelong daydreamer, Meredith Schorr, author of her new book Roommating, as well as As Seen on TV and Someone Just Like You, fueled her passion for writing everything from restaurant reviews, original birthday cards, and even work-related emails into a career penning romantic comedies. When she’s not writing books filled with grand gestures and hard-earned happily-ever-afters or working as a trademark paralegal, she’s most often reading, running, or watching TV…for research, of course.

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Erin Palmisano is the author of the New Zealand bestselling novel The Secrets of the Little Greek Taverna and the upcoming The Secrets of Maiden’s Cove (out today!). She loves writing stories where her passions of food, wine and travel come together with a hint of magic. Originally from Maryland, Erin is a dual US and New Zealand citizen. She and her chef partner live with their two cats in Nelson, New Zealand, where they own and operate three restaurants.

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Julie Tieu is a Chinese-Cambodian American author of lighthearted, contemporary romcoms. Her debut, The Donut Trap, was one of Booklist's Top 10 Romance Debuts of 2022. Her follow-up, Circling Back To You, was a 2022 Golden Poppy Award finalist by the California Independent Booksellers Association. Fancy Meeting You Here was named one of Powell's Best Books of 2023: Romance. Her latest novel, The Girl Most Likely To, is an Amazon Editor’s Pick for Best Romance.

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Ana Houguin is the author of the forthcoming UP CLOSE & PERSONAL (2025, Forever) and MUSIC PEOPLE (2026, Forever). She grew up in the American Southwest and eventually made her way to the other side of the Mississippi, where she landed in Chicago.

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Noël Stark, the pen name of Debra Felstead, is a multi-talented artist, actress, screenwriter, and TV producer, whose debut novel, Love, Camera, Action, by Penguin Random House, comes out April 22. She's worked both in front of and behind the camera, producing more than 200 hours of TV, and her debut novel promises to take readers behind the scenes of a television shoot, where passion and ambition collide.

In Love, Camera, Action, a scrappy TV director lands her big break only to go head-to-head with the surly yet sexy director of photography, in this page-turning romance perfect for fans of Ava Wilder and Tessa Bailey.

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Lissette Decos, author of Ana Takes Manhattan, is a Cuban-American writer and TV producer with experience in reality formats of the love-wedding-relationship-disaster variety. Shows such as TLC’s Say Yes to the Dress, 90 Day Fiancé, and Bravo’s Summer House have helped mold her skills in telling an engaging and oftentimes unconventional love story.

Her new release, Takes One To Know One, is You Had Me at Hola meets Dirty Dancing in this enemies-to-lovers rom-com set in Puerto Rico's music industry.

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Sara Fujimara, who writes sweet and swoony YA romance, is the American half of her bicultural Japanese-American family and spends about a month each summer in Japan with her children. She started as a journalist, so it is no surprise that Sara’s young adult books contain a lot of facts to go along with the fiction.

Whether you want to know about Japan (TANABATA WISH), the Spanish Flu pandemic of 1918 (BREATHE), what it’s like to be an Olympic-caliber skater (EVERY REASON WE SHOULDN’T), or how unscripted television works (FAKING REALITY), Sara takes readers on swoony journeys to unusual places. She is a creative writing teacher, a literacy advocate and is excited to support the next generation of authors. If you go to anime cons in Arizona, you may also see Sara as her alter ego, The Obento Lady.

EVERY REASON WE SHOULDN’T was named one of NPR’s Best Books of 2020.

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