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Emily Wibberley and Austin Siegemund-Broka | A World-famous Pop Star Who Embarks on a Nationwide Tour For Her Latest Album with Her Ex-boyfriend
Author Guest / January 23, 2024

1–What is the title of your latest release? THE BREAKUP TOUR 2–What’s the “elevator pitch” for your new book? The Breakup Tour is the story of a world-famous pop star who embarks on a nationwide tour of her latest album with the ex-boyfriend who inspired her hit breakup song. 3–How did you decide where your book was going to take place? From the beginning, we knew this book was going to be about a music tour. We’ve written two romances that take place in single settings, so for this one, we were eager to tell a sweeping story across multiple cities. 4–Would you hang out with your protagonist in real life? Hang out with a world-famous pop star? Um, absolutely. Riley Wynn is exactly the kind of artist we admire, someone who writes highly personal music that connects with so many people. 5–What are three words that describe your protagonist? Relentless, talented, brave. 6–What’s something you learned while writing this book? Writing songs is incredibly hard! We included original lyrics in this book, and we have renewed respect for every musician. 7–Do you edit as you draft or wait until you are totally done? Because of our co-author relationship, there…

Emily Wibberley and Austin Siegemund-Broka | Author-Reader Match: DO I KNOW YOU?
Author Guest / January 27, 2023

Instead of trying to find your perfect match in a dating app, we bring you the “Author-Reader Match” where we introduce you to authors you may fall in love with. It’s our great pleasure to present Emily Wibberley and Austin Siegemund-Broka!   Writes: Romance! Contemporary realistic stories of love new and enduring.   About: Hopeless romantics? More like hopeful romantics. Believers in love at first sight and love at thousandth day together. Married co-writers ourselves, it’s no surprise we write stories of the unique joy of long-term love, of slow-burns, second chances and new opportunities to find connection where it wasn’t expected. Our characters are often people with history, who’ve shared friendship or hardship or other complications of life, whether as co-writers of romantic novels (like our characters in The Roughest Draft) or the central couple of our upcoming romance DO I KNOW YOU?, who are already married and looking for the lost spark in their relationship, which they find in an unconventional way—pretending they’re strangers meeting for the first time on their weeklong vacation. We’re avid travelers, if writing gorgeous settings counts. Catch us in the cliffs of Northern California, on the humid sunset shores of the Florida Keys,…