Christina Lauren
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Christina Hobbs and Lauren Billings write together under the combined pen name Christina Lauren. The two met online in 2009 through the Twilight fan fiction community and decided to write a novel together in 2010, signing with literary agent Holly Root in 2011.
Their debut, Beautiful Bastard (2013), began life as a Twilight fan fiction titled "The Office" before Simon & Schuster acquired the series. Since then the duo has built a career in contemporary romance and rom-coms, with titles including Love and Other Words, The Unhoneymooners, The Soulmate Equation, and The True Love Experiment, plus the young-adult novel Autoboyography.
They have published more than thirty books -- over twenty of them New York Times bestsellers -- translated into more than thirty languages. The two come from different professional backgrounds: Billings holds a doctorate in neuroscience from UC Irvine, while Hobbs previously worked in a junior-high school counseling office.
Hobbs lives in Utah and Billings in California; in practice Billings usually drafts first and Hobbs revises, with the roles swapping as circumstances change, and the combined pen name reflects their aim of reading as a single voice.
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They met in 2009 through the Twilight online fan fiction community and became co-authors in 2010, publishing jointly as "Christina Lauren," a combination of their two first names. They describe the partnership as a single author identity.
Yes. Beautiful Bastard (2013) was originally posted online as a Twilight fan fiction titled "The Office" before Simon & Schuster bought the rights to the series.
Lauren Billings earned a doctorate in neuroscience from UC Irvine and researched neurodegeneration before writing full-time, while Christina Hobbs previously worked in a junior-high school counseling office.
They outline together intensively in person, then divide the work, alternating points of view and switching off who drafts and who edits, blending their voices into one.
The duo has published more than thirty books, over twenty of them New York Times bestsellers, with translations into more than thirty languages.
They have been inducted into the LibraryReads Hall of Fame, named Amazon and Audible Romance of the Year, and were Lambda Literary Award finalists for their young-adult novel Autoboyography.
Yes. Their novel In a Holidaze is being adapted as a Netflix rom-com, and other titles including Roomies and The Unhoneymooners have been optioned for the screen.
They signed with literary agent Holly Root in 2011, the year after they began writing together, and Simon & Schuster went on to acquire the Beautiful series.