Book Talk: It's Only Dancing with Jasmine Guillory

We're welcoming bestselling romance author Jasmine Guillory for a discussion of her newest young adult romance book, It's Only Dancing! Q&A and signing to follow discussion.

About the Book

New York Times bestselling author Jasmine Guillory makes her highly anticipated young adult debut with a Dirty Dancing-inspired contemporary romcom!

It's the summer before her senior year of high school and Kat (Kitty to her family) planned to spend it reading good books, working on her college applications, and enjoying her independence. Instead, she's stuck for an entire month with her family at a camp in the desert in Southern California.

When she stumbles across a staff party on the first night, she's jealous of their joyful, uninhibited dancing. She hasn't danced like that since two years ago, when she was forced to quit ballet, which she once loved more than anything. She's determined to leave dance where it belongs -- the past.

But Jordan, the handsome and magnetic hip-hop dance instructor, keeps dragging it into her present. As Kat begins sneaking around and lying to her parents to spend time with Jordan, she'll have to ask herself -- what is she willing to risk to finally feel free? And is it possible her feelings for Jordan could reignite her love for dance?

Jasmine Guillory is a New York Times bestselling author of nine novels including The Wedding Date, the Reese's Book Club selection The Proposal, and Flirting Lessons. Her work has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Cosmopolitan, Bon Appetit, and Time, and she is a frequent book contributor on The Today Show. She lives in Oakland, California. It's Only Dancing is her YA debut.

Samira Ahmed is the bestselling and award winning author of numerous titles for young people including, Love Hate & Other Filters, Internment, Hollow Fires, This Book Won't Burn, The Singular Life of Aria Patel, a Ms. Marvel comic book mini-series and the upcoming novel-in-verse, It Begins with the End. Her poetry, essays, and short stories have appeared in various publications and anthologies including the New York Times, Take the Mic, Color Outside the Lines, Vampires Never Get Old and A Universe of Wishes. Samira serves on the national board of Authors Against Book Bans.