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Interview with Christina Lauren - THE TRUE LOVE EXPERIMENT

Interview with Christina Lauren - THE TRUE LOVE EXPERIMENT

In this interview, Christina, Lauren, and I discuss The True Love Experiment, how they decided to tell Fizzy's story, deciding how much steam to include and who drafts those portions of each book, how they balance each other, the benefits of writing together, important romance genre rules, and much more.

In this interview, Christina, Lauren, and I discuss The True Love Experiment, how they decided to tell Fizzy's story, deciding how much steam to include and who drafts those portions of each book, how they balance each other, the benefits of writing together, important romance genre rules, and much more.

Their recommended reads are:

  1. The Plus One by Mazey Eddings
  2. Finlay Donovan Is Killing It by Elle Cosimano
  3. Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin

My Read-Alike Request Recommendations for The Golden Spoon by Jessa Maxwell:

  1. Killers of a Certain Age by Deanna Raybourn
  2. I Love It When You Lie by Kristen Bird
  3. Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers by Jesse Q. Sutanto

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If you enjoyed this episode and want to listen to more episodes, try Megan Tady, Brenda Janowitz, Lauren Thoman, and Laura Hankin.

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Christina Lauren

The True Love Experiment

Christina Lauren is the combined pen name of longtime writing partners and best friends Christina Hobbs and Lauren Billings, the New York Times, USA TODAY, and #1 internationally bestselling authors of the Beautiful and Wild Seasons series, Dating You / Hating You, Autoboyography, Love and Other Words, Roomies, Josh and Hazel’s Guide to Not Dating, My Favorite Half-Night Stand, The Unhoneymooners, Twice in a Blue Moon, The Soulmate Equation, Something Wilder, and The True Love Experiment. You can find them online at ChristinaLaurenBooks.com and @ChristinaLauren on Instagram or Twitter.