BookPeople Presents: Jen Besser and Shana Feste - Diana in Love

Please welcome Jen Besser and Shana Feste in conversation with Maya Perez to celebrate Diana in Love: A Dirty Diana Novel!

This event is free and open to the public.

• Start time: 7:00 P.M.
• Run time: 45-60 minutes, followed by a signing line.
• Location: The second floor of BookPeople.

The authors will be signing and personalizing copies of the book after the speaking portion of the event.

• To get a book signed, a copy of the event book or an item of equal value must be purchased from BookPeople.

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About the book:

The second book in the sensational Dirty Diana series—based on the #1 fiction podcast

Traveling to Paris, Diana Wood reconnects with the man from her past who’s haunted her memories and ignited her imagination. Will this trip help her to reclaim the wild, sensual woman she used to be?

Diana has thrown her life in the garbage disposal and flipped the switch. Everything is a mess. After years of watching her safe, steady marriage grow strained, she and her husband, Oliver, decided to separate. Now he’s embarked on a new career and what seems to be a satisfying dating life, while she’s eating cereal for dinner in an empty kitchen.

When she’s invited on a trip to Paris, she jumps at the opportunity—only later realizing that Jasper, the seductive, elusive man from her past, might be there, too. He once lit her up in every way; will her dimmed lights shine again if she and Jasper reconnect in the City of Love?

In Paris, Diana indulges every desire—culinary, artistic, and sensual. But no vacation lasts forever. When she returns to Dallas, she must confront the still-raw feelings she has for her husband and decide once and for all: Is it possible to be the spontaneous, creative, fully alive woman she recently rediscovered?

About the authors:

Lifelong best friends Jen Besser and Shana Feste met as eleven-year-olds in California and have been collaborating ever since. Dirty Diana, first launched as a podcast starring Demi Moore, debuted at #1 on Apple, was nominated for Podcast of the Year, and won the Ambie for Best Fiction, Screenwriting. Shana is the award-winning screenwriter and director of several feature films, including Country Strong and Run Sweetheart Run. Jen is a fiction editor and publisher. They now live thousands of miles apart and talk every day. This is their debut novel.

About the moderator:

Television producer and screenwriter Maya Perez is currently developing a pilot with Berlanti Productions and Warner Bros. TV and an independent sci-fi TV series with Kat Candler, Aaron Marshall, and producers Toby Halbrooks and Jacob Jaffke. She was a co-producer on a romantic drama series starring Joshua Jackson and Lauren Ridloff and produced by Ava DuVernay for Starz, an executive story editor on Showtime’s American Rust S2, and an executive producer on EMMY Award-winning Austin Film Festival’s On Story on PBS for eleven seasons. Her feature screenplays have been optioned for production and recognized by fellowships from SFFILM/Westridge, Sundance Institute, and NY Stage & Film. Her short stories and essays have appeared in Texas Monthly, American Short Fiction, Electric Literature, Joyland, and more. Maya received her BA from Vassar College and her MFA from the Michener Center for Writers at The University of Texas at Austin, where she is now Screenwriting Area Head and an Assistant Professor of Practice.

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