Check out these Romance today! PERSON COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY Meet the Authors PRESENTS

Ever wonder how authors got published, what their inspiration was for writing, or where they got the ideas for their characters? GET UNDER THE COVERS Join us Saturday, April 26th for our WITH ROMANCE Get Under the Covers with Romance program in the library Gallery. We will be hosted by three North Carolina romance authors from 2 - 3 p.m.

Katharine Ashe, Laura Florand, and Jennifer Lohmann will be here to answer all your questions, autograph books, and more!

Jennifer Lohmann’s new book coming soon to the Library. Saturday, April 26th Library Gallery Add your name to the waiting list 2 - 3 p.m. today! NORTH CAROLINA ROMANCE AUTHORS KATHARINE ASHE LAURA FLORAND JENNIFER LOHMANN

Katharine Ashe is Laura Florand is the Jennifer Lohmann is a the award-winning, international Rocky Mountain girl at best-selling author bestselling author of heart, having grown up in of How To Be a the Amour et southern Idaho and Salt Proper Lady, an Chocolat series Lake City. She’s always Amazon.com (The Chocolate Thief, been a reader of romance Editors’ Choice for The Chocolate Kiss, etc). novels, mysteries, the Ten Best Books Her books have been nonfiction, cereal boxes, of the Year, and translated into seven etc.–so it wasn’t a nine other historical languages, received surprise to anyone when romances reviewers the RT Seal of she tossed away her degree in economics to become call “intensely lush” and “sensationally Excellence and starred reviews from Publishers Weekly, a public librarian, though her post-college decision intelligent.” Upon the publication of her debut and been recommended by NPR, USA Today, and The to move to Shanghai to teach English did. in 2010, the American Library Association Wall Street Journal, among others. Four of her past five books have been recommended reads by Dear Author After writing on and off for many years, Jennifer named Katharine among its “New Stars of won the Librarian of the Year award from Romance Historical Romance.” She is a three-time and two have been Sizzling Book Club Picks by Smart B*, Trashy Books. of America in 2010. Being at the RWA nominee in the coveted Reviewers’ Choice conference reminded her how much she loved Awards, including Historical Romance of the Laura was born in a small town in Georgia, but the writing and she became more serious about it. As Year for 2013, and winner for Best Historical travel bug bit her early. After a Fulbright year in part of Harlequin’s “So You Think You Can Write” Romantic Adventure. In 2011, her novella A Tahiti, a semester in Spain, and backpacking in New Contest, she was offered a contract on her first book Lady’s Wish launched HarperCollins Zealand and Greece, she ended up living in , in 2012, published as Reservations for Two in February Publishers’ Impulse imprint. Her books where she met and married her own handsome of 2013. Set in the Polish communities of Chicago, have been recommended by Woman’s World Frenchman. You can find out quite a bit more about Reservations for Two sent many readers out to the Magazine, Booklist, Library Journal, Barnes & those crazy adventures in her memoir, Blame It on store to buy pierogi. Her second book, The First Move Noble, and many others, and translated into Paris. She is now a lecturer in Romance Studies at was an All About Romance Desert Island Keeper languages across the world. Duke University. Contrary to popular opinion, that and won praise for its heartfelt portrayal of a woman Katharine lives in the wonderfully warm means she studies and teaches French language and still struggling her decision to relinquish a child as a Southeast with her husband, son, dog, and a culture, rather than romance. Fortunately, French teenager. culture includes French chocolate, research to which garden she likes to call romantic rather than In her spare time, Jennifer tends to her chickens, unkempt. A professor of European history, she she is very dedicated. You can catch some glimpses of that research in the books, on her blog, and on her tries not to let her cats drive her crazy, and enjoys has made her home in California, Italy, , Durham, North Carolina’s food culture. and the northern US. She adores hearing from Facebook site, where you are welcome to join her readers. and other readers!