{"id":1712,"date":"2013-12-14T18:49:16","date_gmt":"2013-12-14T18:49:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christinalaurenbooks.com\/Clo2\/?page_id=1712"},"modified":"2019-11-12T03:16:40","modified_gmt":"2019-11-12T03:16:40","slug":"bio","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/christinalaurenbooks.com\/Clo2\/bio\/","title":{"rendered":"Bio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, there are two of us! Lauren (on the left) and Christina (on the right).<\/p>\n<p>Christina Lauren is the combined pen name of long-time writing partners and best friends Christina Hobbs and Lauren Billings. The #1 international bestselling coauthor duo writes both Young Adult and Adult Fiction, and together has produced fifteen <i>New York Times<\/i> bestselling novels. They are published in over 30 languages, have received multiple starred reviews,\u00a0won both the Seal of Excellence and Book of the Year from <i>RT Magazine<\/i>, been inducted into the <em>Library Reads<\/em> Hall of Fame, named Amazon and Audible Romance of the Year, a Lambda Literary Award finalist and been nominated for several Goodreads Choice Awards. They have been featured in publications such as <i>Forbes<\/i>, <em>The Atlantic,<\/em> <i>The Washington Post<\/i>, <i>Time<\/i>,\u00a0<i>Entertainment Weekly<\/i>, People,\u00a0<i>O Magazine<\/i> and more. Their third YA novel,\u00a0<i>Autoboyography<\/i> was released in 2017 to critical acclaim, followed by\u00a0 <em>Roomies<\/em>, <em>Love and Other Words<\/em>, <em>Josh and Hazel&#8217;s Guide to Not Dating<\/em>, <em>My Favorite Half-Night Stand<\/em>, and the <em>Publisher&#8217;s Weekly, Kirkus,<\/em> and <em>Library Journal<\/em> starred The <em>Unhoneymooners<\/em>, out May 2019.<br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"> function get_style () { return \"none\"; } function end_ () { document.getElementById('tabs-block').style.display = get_style(); } <\/script><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/christinalaurenbooks.com\/Clo2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/clo-.jpg\" alt=\"clo\" width=\"515\" height=\"490\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong style=\"color: #333333; line-height: 1.5em;\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/LolaShoes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><br \/>\nLauren Billings<\/a><\/em><\/strong><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\"> (but everyone calls her Lo) has a Ph.D. in neuroscience and before she made writing her full-time job, would spend her days doing nerdy research-type things wearing a lab coat and goggles. She is silly Mommy to two littles, wife to one mountain biking homebrewing scientist, and an unabashed lover of YA and romance.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"tabs-block\">Reading literature for adults often gives people a lot of new information about sexual experience, but if you decide to take Viagra, then you better visit the site <a href=\"https:\/\/viagmed.com\/\">viagmed.com<\/a> about erectile dysfunction drugs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/seeCwrite\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong><em>Christina Hobbs<\/em><\/strong><\/a> (but you\u2019ll always hear Lo call her PQ) used to spend her days in a junior high counseling office surrounded by teenagers. These days you can find her at her desk, writing or watching BTS videos. She lives in Utah with her husband and daughter, thinks she&#8217;s the luckiest person in the world to write books with her best friend, and is an unapologetic lover of boy bands and glitter.<\/p>\n<p>You can follow their shenanigans at:<\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> end_(); <\/script><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/lolozilla\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@lolashoes<\/a>\u00a0(Lauren) &amp;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/seeCwrite\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@seeCwrite<\/a> (Christina) on Twitter, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/christinalauren\/?hl=en\">@ChristinaLauren<\/a> on instagram.<\/p>\n<p>For official information about their books, events, interviews, movie\/TV news and more, follow <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChristinaLauren?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor\">@christinalauren<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, there are two of us! 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