Tucson Festival of Books

Don't Want You to Want Me


Forbidden love, amirite? Whether it's because of timing, personality, or circumstances, that crush you can't help can always leave us wary. These authors talk about putting their characters through the wringer, and how much fun it is to torture them.


Panelists
Jonny Garza Villa

Jonny Garza Villa is a product of the great state of Texas, a Sagittarius sun and Capricorn everything else. They consider themself a former, very bad, baseball player and former, pretty good, drag queen....

Ali Rosen

Ali Rosen is a bestselling author of both cookbooks and fiction and the Emmy and James Beard Award-nominated host of Potluck with Ali Rosen on NYC Life. She has frequently been featured on NBC’s Today Show and ABC’s Good Morning America....

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JL Seegars

J.L. Seegars is a romance author from the sticks of South Carolina who has been in love with love for as long as she can remember. Known to her readers as a smut peddler, and occasional heartbreaker, she takes pride in writing books like "Restore Me" that make people swoon, cry and swoon again....


Books:
Futbolista
Jonny Garza Villa
Romance
Levine Querido
March 2025
ISBN 9781646145096
400 pages
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The Slow Burn
Ali Rosen
Romance
Amazon Publishing
January 2026
ISBN 9781662535963
316 pages
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Restore Me
JL Seegars
Romance
Sourcebooks, Incorporated
January 2026
ISBN 9781464267437
576 pages