From Abbott Elementary to GET LOST: Justin Halpern with Bill Lawrence!
About this Event
About the book:
From the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Sh*t My Dad Says, a fast-paced and hilarious thriller about a young woman who reluctantly teams up with her deadbeat dad to find her missing mom—perfect for fans of Carl Hiaasen and Elmore Leonard.
When Lila Dixon gets a call that her mother has gone missing, she initially brushes it off—Mattie’s disappearances are a part of life, like earthquakes in their dusty California hometown. But this time the prime suspect is Lila’s larger-than-life father: the one-time baseball star, local hero, and fatal charmer John “Dix” Dixon.
Dix’s main accomplishment as a dad was finding new ways to disappoint his daughter, but even Lila knows he’s not behind this. And when they uncover a $250,000 deposit to Mattie’s bank account, and someone slips a threatening note under Lila’s motel door, they realize Mattie may be in real danger. Now they’re heading down a trail marked by unsavory Russian thugs, fat-cat farmers, and an unseen enemy who’s always a step ahead.
With crackling banter and characters that leap off the page, Get Lost is a thrilling and emotionally layered mystery. Justin Halpern tells a story that’s by turns hilarious and poignant: about fractured families, grudges that last a lifetime, and the unexpected ways we find our way back to the people we thought we’d lost for good.
“A tense whodunnit filled with so many laughs, so much heart, and so many characters you love that by the end you’ll wish they never found out whodidit.” —Phil Lord, co-director and producer of Project Hail Mary
About the authors:
Justin Halpern is an Emmy-nominated creator, showrunner and executive producer through his company, Delicious Non-Sequitur, with partner Patrick Schumacker. Series include HBO Max’s four season animated hit HARLEY QUINN, which he co-created for WBTV and DC Entertainment, in addition to its forthcoming spin-off NOONAN'S. Justin is also an Executive Producer and Showrunner on the Emmy Award-winning hit series ABBOTT ELEMENTARY with Quinta Brunson, which was twice nominated for Best Comedy Series among other honors.
Justin is the author of the NY Times best-selling book, Sh*t My Dad Says. He was also co-writer and co-executive producer of a CBS television situation comedy series based on the book. His second book, the 2012 memoir "I Suck at Girls," is being adapted for a Netflix comedy series that Halpern is co-creating and will showrun with his Abbott Elementary co-showrunner Patrick Schumacker and famed producer Bill Lawrence.
Bill Lawrence is an award-winning television writer, producer and director.
Through his production company Doozer Productions, Bill has a number of shows in various stages of production at Warner Bros. Television: Shrinking, season 3 was released earlier this year on Apple TV, and currently in production with season 4; Rooster, HBO comedy starring Steve Carell which launched in March 8, and has been renewed for a second season; Bad Monkey starring Vince Vaughn, also for Apple TV, launches its second season later this year; and I Suck At Girls greenlit for Netflix.
Additionally, Bill is a co-creator/executive producer of Ted Lasso, the two-time Emmy Award-winner for Outstanding Comedy Series, which is set to return for season 4 on Apple TV in August 2026. He is executive producing the Scrubs reboot for ABC from 20 th Television which premiered on February 25, 2026, and has been renewed for a second season.
Bill previously created and executive-produced Scrubs and co-created Cougar Town, Ground Floor, Spin City, and Clone High. Scrubs, which was twice nominated for an Emmy Award, was also named a Future Classic by the TV Land cable network and was the winner of both a Humanitas Award and an Imagen Award. Bill also executive-produced/supervised numerous shows under his Doozer banner including Whiskey Cavalier, Undateable, Nobody’s Watching, Surviving Jack, Head of the Class, and the Clone High reboot for HBO Max.
Recently, Bill was a recipient of The Paley Honors Award 2025 as well as the Writers Guild of America East’s Herb Sargent Award for Comedy Excellence at the 77th annual WGA Awards.
Bill currently resides in Los Angeles with his wife, actress Christa Miller (Shrinking, The Drew Carey Show, Scrubs).
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