Talk and Book Signing with Author Natalie Messier

Meet Reese’s Book Club LitUp Fellow Natalie Messier at your Flagship HPB on Thursday, July 9 at 7 p.m. Joined in conversation by author Alex Temblador, they'll discuss Natalie's new book, Every Version of You, heartfelt contemporary romance debut. Book signing to follow. Tickets include a copy of the book.

About Every Version of You

Joey Vasquez’s life is the definition of good on paper. At thirty-two, she’s a lawyer on the cusp of making partner, she owns her house in Los Angeles, and she almost keeps pace with her doctor sister in her parents’ eyes.

When she reluctantly arrives at the very couple-y dinner party hosted by Elijah Aarons, the best friend she’s secretly pined after for fourteen years, she’s dismayed to find that the last person on earth she’d ever want to see again is also there: Alex Aquino. Your basic rich Silicon Beach bro asshole. The night couldn’t possibly get worse—and then she dies.

When Joey is given a second chance at life, she finds herself eighteen again, the year she first met both Elijah and Alex. Armed with memories from her first life, Joey is certain she’s come back to finally convince the one man she ever loved to love her back—so why does she find herself strangely drawn to the man she thought she hated?

About Natalie Messier

Natalie is a Reese’s Book Club LitUp Fellow and Los Angeles-based screenwriter. She has worked as a writers’ assistant for the series Severance and Chicago Fire, and her scripts have received recognition from NBC, Disney, Paramount, Final Draft, The Blacklist, NHMC, and the Austin Film Festival. Originally from south Texas, she is a proud Mexican-American. When she’s not writing, she can be found searching for LA’s best matcha lattes, reading romance novels, and cuddling with her two cats.

About Alex Temblador

Alex Temblador is the Mixed Latine author of two magical realism novels, Half Outlaw and Secrets of the Casa Rosada, and one writing craft book, Writing An Identity Not Your Own: A Guide for Creative Writers. She received her MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Central Oklahoma and has had creative writing pieces published in Living Beyond Borders: Growing Up Mexican in America, Speculative Fiction for Dreamers: A Latinx Anthology, PALABRITAS, Colorado Review, D Magazine, and more. In addition to teaching creative writing classes and giving presentations to the likes of WritingWorkshops.com, Texas Book Festival, Women's Fiction Writer's Association, and Macmillan Publishers, Alex is also a freelance journalist with publications in Travel + Leisure, Business Insider, USA Today, Fodor's Travel, among many others.