Author Talk: Annabel Monaghan at Bedford Books
Bedford Books is thrilled to welcome USA Today bestselling author Annabel Monaghan, and celebrate the launch of It's a Love Story. Annabel will be joined in conversation by Good Morning America Lifestyle Contributor Lori Bergamotto.
Books will be available for sale and signing. Wine and snacks will be served.
About the book:
Love is a lie. Laughter is the only truth.
Jane Jackson spent her adolescence as "Poor Janey Jakes," the barbecue-sauce-in-her-braces punch line on America's fifth-favorite sitcom. Now she’s trying to be taken seriously as a Hollywood studio executive by embracing a new mantra: Fake it till you make it.
Except she might have faked it too far. Desperate to get her first project greenlit and riled up by pompous cinematographer and one-time crush Dan Finnegan, she claimed that she could get mega popstar Jack Quinlan to write a song for the movie. Jack may have been her first kiss—and greatest source of shame—but she hasn’t spoken to him in twenty years.
Now Jane must turn to the last man she’d ever want to owe: Dan Finnegan. Because Jack is playing a festival in Dan’s hometown, and Dan has an in. A week in close quarters with Dan as she faces down her past is Jane's idea of hell, but he just might surprise her. While covering up her lie, can they find something true?
About Annabel Monaghan:
Annabel is the USA Today bestselling and Library Reads Hall of Fame author of Summer Romance, Same Time Next Summer, and Nora Goes Off Script, published by G.P. Putnam’s Sons. Her forthcoming novel, It’s a Love Story, will be published on May 27, 2025.
She is also the author of two novels for young adults, A Girl Named Digit and Double Digit, as well as Does This Volvo Make My Butt Look Big?, a collection of essays based on her column that appeared on the Huffington Post, The Week and The Rye Record. She has a BA in English from Duke University and an MBA in Finance from The Wharton School at The University of Pennsylvania. She hosts an author series called Friends with Words and spent several years on the novel writing faculty at The Writing Institute at Sarah Lawrence College. She lives in Connecticut with her family. Her novels have been translated into 20 languages.
About Lori Bergamotto:
Lori Bergamotto is a Lifestyle Contributor for Good Morning America and the former Style Director for Good Housekeeping, where she wrote and edited content across the fashion, lifestyle, gift, and home categories from 2014 to 2022. Lori, her husband Nick, and three children reside in New York.
