Tucson Festival of Books

Unreal!


What happens if you think you're living a contemporary romance life, but suddenly magic (or space aliens) takes over? These authors all write romance with a bit of the unreal, whether it's magical realism, ghostly hauntings, or alien abductions.


Panelists
Jen DeLuca

Jen DeLuca is the USA Today bestselling author of the Well Met series, which was inspired by her time volunteering as a pub wench with her local Renaissance Faire, as well as "Haunted Ever After," a romance set in a haunted Florida tourist town....

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Kimberly Lemming

Kimberly Lemming is a USA Today bestselling author who is on an eternal quest to avoid her calling as a main character. She can be found giving the slip to that new werewolf that just blew into town and refusing to make eye contact with a prince of a far-off land....

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Raquel Vasquez Gilliland

Raquel Vasquez Gilliland is a Pura Belpré Award–winning Mexican American poet, novelist and painter. She received her BA in cultural anthropology from the University of West Florida and her MFA in poetry from the University of Alaska Anchorage....


Books:
Lightning in Her Hands
Raquel Vasquez Gilliland
Romance
Penguin Publishing Group
October 2024
ISBN 9780593548592
352 pages
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Haunted Ever After
Jen DeLuca
Romance
Penguin Publishing Group
August 2024
ISBN 9780593641217
352 pages
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I Got Abducted by Aliens and Now I'm Trapped in a Rom-Com
Kimberly Lemming
Romance
Penguin Group
February 2025
ISBN 9780593818633
304 pages
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