Along with our friends at Meet Cute Romance Bookshop, we are thrilled to host internationally bestselling coauthors Christina Lauren and Lauren Billings — the two halves of “Christina Lauren”— at the Neil Morgan Auditorium, San Diego Central Library @ Joan Λ Irwin Jacobs Common. In conversation with San Diego favorite Susan Lee, these beloved authors will share from the new Deluxe Edition of Love and Other Words.
We’ll begin the evening with a conversation and Q&A, followed by a photo reception line. This is a ticketed author talk, and your book is your ticket. Each ticket comes with one event entry and one signed (not personalized) copy of the Deluxe Edition of Love and Other Words, which will be available for pickup at check in on the night of the event. Proceeds support the San Diego Public Library System.
Ticket Details
- Each ticket comes with a signed (not personalized) Deluxe Edition of Love and Other Words in hardcover. You can pick it up at the event!
- Books which are not picked up on the night of the event will either be held at the shop or, if you pay for shipping, shipped to you within 2 – 3 business days following the event.
- Each ticket allows one (1) entry into the theatre for the conversation, and later photo line access. A staff member will be on hand to take a photo with the authors using your phone/camera. (Those without a ticket will not be allowed entry).
- When you reserve your spot, please select “pick-up” at checkout (not shipping). Your book purchase is your ticket: each book comes with one event entry.
- Personalization is not available. Books from home cannot be signed by the authors, but a small number of pre-signed copies of other Christina Lauren titles will be available for sale at the event. If there’s a title that you would really love to purchase as a new, signed copy, please let us know the title in the notes field of your book/ticket purchase. While we are unable to guarantee signed editions of other Christina Lauren titles due to limited time, we will try to make as many signed books available as possible.
Event Details
- Check-in starts and event doors open at 6:30pm.
- PARKING INFO: The Central Library is located at 330 Park Blvd, in the heart of the East Village. The building has underground parking which can be accessed off 11th Ave. Parking is $1.25 per every 20 minutes. For more information on parking, click here!
- Masks are optional but recommended.
About the Authors
Christina Lauren is the combined pen name of long-time writing partners and best friends Christina Hobbs and Lauren Billings. The #1 international bestselling coauthor duo writes both Young Adult and Adult Fiction, and together has produced twenty New York Times bestselling novels. They are published in over 30 languages, have received multiple starred reviews, been inducted into the Library Reads Hall of Fame, named Amazon and Audible Romance of the Year, a Lambda Literary Award finalist, and been nominated for several Goodreads Choice Awards. They have been featured in publications such as Forbes, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, Time, Entertainment Weekly, People, Today, O Magazine and more. Their third YA novel, Autoboyography was released in 2017 to critical acclaim, followed by Roomies, Love and Other Words, Josh and Hazel’s Guide to Not Dating, The Unhoneymooners, In a Holidaze, The Soulmate Equation, Something Wilder, The True Love Experiment and The Paradise Problem.
Lauren Billings (but everyone calls her Lo) received her doctorate in neuroscience from UC Irvine, and before she started living the dream as a full-time writer, spent her days researching neurodegeneration in aging. She lives in California with three cuddly dogs, two less-cuddly teenagers, and one mountain biking, homebrewing scientist husband.
Christina Hobbs (but you’ll always hear Lo call her PQ) used to spend her days in a junior high counseling office surrounded by teenagers. These days you can find her at her desk, writing, or watching BTS videos. She lives in Utah with her husband and daughter, thinks she’s the luckiest person in the world to write books with her best friend, and is an unapologetic lover of boy bands and glitter.
Beloved author and former Book Crawl Ambassador Susan Lee is the critically acclaimed writer of multiple bestselling romance novels, including Seoulmates and The Name Drop. A graduate of UC San Diego, Susan first built a successful career as an HR executive — until she realized that writing stories was a more impactful and powerful form of resistance and change. Now she channels her energy into writing Happily Ever After for those historically underrepresented in Romance. When not writing, Susan can be found listening to Kpop, binge watching K‑dramas, collecting sneakers, building mechanical keyboards, and obsessing over her two adorable, but ill-behaved chihuahuas.
About Love and Other Words
Macy Sorensen is settling into an ambitious if emotionally tepid routine: work hard as a new pediatrics resident, plan her wedding to an older, financially secure man, keep her head down and heart tucked away.
But when she runs into Elliot Petropoulos— the first and only love of her life— the careful bubble she’s constructed begins to dissolve. Once upon a time, Elliot was Macy’s entire world— growing from her gangly bookish friend into the man who coaxed her heart open again after the loss of her mother…only to break it on the very night he declared his love for her.
Told in alternating timelines between Then and Now, teenage Elliot and Macy grow from friends to much more— spending weekends and lazy summers together in a house outside of San Francisco devouring books, sharing favorite words, and talking through their growing pains and triumphs. As adults, they have become strangers to one another until their chance reunion. Although their memories are obscured by the agony of what happened that night so many years ago, Elliot comes to understand the truth behind Macy’s decade-long silence, and must overcome the past and himself to revive her faith in the possibility of an all-consuming love.
