13 Little Love Stories

Jennifer Dugan is the author of the YA contemporary novel Some Girls Do. She writes stories about finding yourself and falling in love.

Speculative fiction author from Houston.

Jessica Goodman writes suspenseful stories for young adults. Her work often explores dark secrets in seemingly perfect communities, as seen in her book The Meadowbrook Murders.

Katharine McGee writes popular young adult fiction. She is the author of the "American Royals" series, which imagines a monarchical United States. Her books often feature romance and royal intrigue.

Julie Murphy is a #1 New York Times bestselling American author. A former librarian, she wrote her debut novel, Side Effects May Vary (2014), during National Novel Writing Month while working in a Texas library. She is best known for the young adult novel Dumplin' (2015), adapted into a 2018 Netflix film starring Jennifer Aniston, and its sequels Puddin' and Pumpkin. Her other work spans picture books, middle-grade fiction, and adult romance, including the Christmas Notch series co-written with...

Lynn Painter is an American author of romantic comedies for young adult and adult readers. Born in Champaign, Illinois, she settled with her family in Omaha, Nebraska, where she still lives and writes as a community columnist for the Omaha World-Herald. Her young adult debut, Better Than the Movies (2021), found its audience through BookTok and spent years on the New York Times young adult bestseller list; a sequel, Nothing Like the Movies, followed in 2024. Her other young adult novels, publish...

Laura Sebastian grew up in South Florida, earned a BFA from the Savannah College of Art and Design, and has lived in New York City before settling in London. She is the author of the New York Times bestselling Ash Princess trilogy (Ash Princess, Lady Smoke, Ember Queen), the Castles in Their Bones duology, her adult debut Half Sick of Shadows, and the middle-grade novel Into the Glades.

Sara Shepard (born April 8, 1977) is an American author best known for the young-adult mystery series Pretty Little Liars (2006–) and The Lying Game (2010–2013), both adapted for television by Freeform. She grew up in the Philadelphia suburbs of Pennsylvania — the setting that inspired Pretty Little Liars' fictional Rosewood — earned a B.S. from New York University and an MFA in creative writing from Brooklyn College, and worked as a ghostwriter for YA book packager Alloy Entertainment before pu...

Jesse Q. Sutanto is a Chinese-Indonesian author of humorous mysteries and contemporary fiction, best known for the Vera Wong series, including Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers, and for Dial A for Aunties, winner of the 2021 Comedy Women in Print Prize. She holds a BA from the University of California, Berkeley, and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Oxford, and grew up between Indonesia and Singapore. She now lives in Jakarta.