Yasmine Yacut (@yasminereads) is leading our April discussion of Hardly Strangers by A.C. Robinson paired with How to Fake It In Hollywood by Ava Wilder as we sink our teeth into the delicious trope of celebrity/normal person romances—in this case, ones set in L.A. featuring MMCs with hard-partying pasts.

Browse our titles and merch and get your books signed by authors at the 831 Stories booth at the L.A. Times Festival of Books. Find us at Booth 070 in the Cardinal Zone. (We’ve got something special in store for The Ones, too!)

Rooting Interest author, Cat Disabato, will be on a panel titled "Love Is a Contact Sport: Romance and Rivalry in Competitive Worlds" in Albert and Dana Broccoli Theatre, Sat., April 18 at 3 P.M.

Big Fan and Square Waves author, Alexandra Romanoff will be on a panel titled "Romance and the Subgenre" in Taper Hall 1, Sun., April 19 at 3:30 P.M.

Tickets to all panels will be available April 12 on the LATFOB website.

Browse our titles and merch and get your books signed by authors at the 831 Stories booth at BookCon.  Find us at Booth 638 in Hall 3. (We’ve got something special in store for The Ones, too!)

Join Upasna Barath (Comedic Timing), Eliza Dumais (Grape Juice), and Lana Schwartz (Set Piece) as they discuss their path to writing romance from other backgrounds. This is a ticketed event with books available for purchase.

Join Lit Club NYC to chat all things Found Time by Caroline Goldstein. This is a ticketed event.

Join Found Time author Caroline Goldstein and Joss Richard, author of It’s Different This Time, at Catbird Larchmont. This is a ticketed event; tickets include a copy of the book.

Join 831 Stories and Lit Club NYC for a conversation between Found Time author Caroline Goldstein and author and podcast host Becca Freeman at VICTORIA!. This is a ticketed event.