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 Rachel Lynn Solomon!   Writes: Hi! I write contemporary romantic comedies featuring struggling millennials, plenty of banter, and Jewish and mental health rep. I love subverting and flipping tropes when I can, and I especially love beta heroes.   My books always have a healthy dose of spice, especially my upcoming release, BUSINESS OR PLEASURE, which is about a ghostwriter who has a disastrous one-night stand with a C-list actor, not knowing who he is, only to be hired to work on his memoir. Their partnership heats up when she admits to him that their night together wasn’t exactly mind-blowing…and offers to help him out in the bedroom.   About: I’m originally from Seattle, a setting that plays a huge role in my books, and I’ll always be a Pacific Northwesterner at heart. Two years ago I moved to Amsterdam with my husband, and while expat life isn’t without its challenges, it’s been such an exciting, eye-opening experience. I’d never been to Europe before…

1–What is the title of your latest release? THE EX TALK 2–What is it about? THE EX TALK is a romantic comedy set in the world of public radio, about coworkers who pose as exes to host a show about dating and relationship—only to fall for each other as the show gains popularity. 3–What do you love about the setting of your book?  I’m a born-and-raised Seattleite, and it’s a setting I really love exploring through fiction. I’ve always felt there’s a hopeful romanticism associated with the Pacific Northwest. One of my favorite scenes in The Ex Talk takes place outside of Seattle on Orcas Island, and without giving too much away, I will just say that there is only one bed. 4–How did your heroine surprise you?  At the beginning of the book, Shay comes across as a fairly put-together person: she has her almost-dream job, she owns a house, she has a support system. But as her layers are gradually peeled away, I was able to see that she’s not entirely fulfilled at work, she’s still grieving the loss of her father, and she’s scared to enter a relationship, as badly as she wants one, because she’s always…

I have a love-hate relationship with the New Year. On the one hand, it’s a brand-new time—full of possibility, a fresh start, and a time to plan and think about all the things that could happen in the coming months. On the other, we live in a society where the New Year signifies a time of intense diet culture (which is really just body shaming and misogyny), insecurity, and whatever else deemed wrong and in need of change. And let’s not forget we’re still in the middle of a world-wide pandemic and political turmoil. Thanks, 2021! In spite of all of that, however, good things have been happening (more on that later), and by good things, I do very much mean GOOD BOOKS. Here are a few of my favorite opening lines from some of my fave books of 2020, as well as a few from the 2021 books I’m looking forward to coming out! The Worst Best Man by Mia Sosa (2020) My phone’s text tone chirps like a robin—which fails to prepare me for the clusterfuck on the screen. ANDREW: Everything you said last night made sense, M. Thanks to you, I can see the truth now. I…