1–What is the title of your latest release? LAVASH AT FIRST SIGHT 2–What’s the “elevator pitch” for your new book? Two women fall for each other at a food packaging conference only to realize that their parents are mortal enemies, owning rival Armenian food businesses. The two women, along with their nosy, scrutinous parents, are pitted against each other in a competition at the conference to win an ad in the Superbowl. Their attraction to each other and the stakes of the competition keep ratcheting up and up until it’s absolutely boiling. 3–How did you decide where your book was going to take place? I lived in Chicago for a year and fell so deeply in love with it. I knew I wanted to set a book in the Second City, and this idea for the big conference came to me. I went to ALA in Chicago at McCormick Place one year for work, so the idea of a food packagers conference being set there came to mind. The book is infused with tons of Chicago adoration from this West Coast lifer. 4–Would you hang out with your protagonist in real life? By the end of the book, yes definitely!…

1–What is the title of your latest release? SORRY, BRO 2–What’s the “elevator pitch” for your new book? An Armenian-American woman rediscovers her roots and embraces who she really is in this queer rom-com. Nareh Bedrossian goes hunting for an Armenian husband to appease her mother, but none of the men on her mother’s list strike her fancy. Instead it’s Erebuni Minassian, a witchy Armenian woman invested in preserving Armenian identity. Erebuni helps Nar see the beauty of their shared culture and makes her feel understood in a way she never has before. But there’s one teeny problem: Nar’s not exactly out as bisexual. The clock is ticking on her double life—a major banquet is coming up and her entire extended family will be there, along with Erebuni. Her worlds will inevitably collide, but Nar is determined to be brave and to claim her happiness. 3–How did you decide where your book was going to take place? I grew up in the San Francisco Bay area, surrounded by the Armenian diaspora community here, so I wanted to set the book in this place I know so well. I have complicated feelings about the Bay and included some of them in…