This live panel event is available for members with full, extended, or time traveler admission levels.

Central to the plot or not, we’ll be discussing the perfect romance: from setting up believable struggles in relationships to the right amount of swoon.

Events can only be accessed on the date and time they become available. Panel Events open for questions 30 minutes before the session starts.

This event will remain accessible until March 1st for members with General and Full Admission, and March 22nd for members with Extended and Time Traveler Admission.

Gabriela Martins is a Brazilian kidlit author and linguist. Her stories feature Brazilian characters finding themselves and love. She was a high school teacher and has also worked as a TED Ed-Club facilitator, where she helped teens develop their own talks in TED format to present. She edited and self-published a pro-bono LGBTQ+ anthology (Keep Faith) with all funds going to queer people in need. Gabriela also used to host monthly webinars with themes ranging from Linguistics in Fiction to Self-Care for Writers. She was recently selected as a Pitch Wars mentor for 2020. Her debut, Like a Love Song (Underlined/PRH) comes out in summer 2021.

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Sophie Gonzales is the author of The Law of Inertia and Only Mostly Devastated. Perfect on Paper and Off the Record (co-written with Cale Dietrich) are forthcoming in Winter and Fall 2021 from Wednesday Books / Macmillan.

When she isn’t writing, Sophie can be found ice skating, performing in musical theatre, and practicing the piano. She currently lives in Melbourne, Australia where she works as a psychologist.

She is represented by Molly Ker Hawn of The Bent Agency.

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Hannah Reynolds is the author of the upcoming young adult romantic comedy, The Summer of Lost Letters. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, not far from where she grew up, and enjoys stress baking chocolate desserts. Her favorite genres include romance, science fiction, fantasy, and historical fiction, but honestly she’ll read anything about snarky girls reluctantly falling in love, strong female friendships, and mother/daughter relationships.

Under the pen name Allison Parr, she’s written three adult romance novels about girls in their twenties living in New York, who bizarrely all fall for members of a pro football team.

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