Reading, Signing, & Wine Tasting with Katherine Center!

Schedule

Thu Jun 27 2024 at 06:00 pm to 09:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Vintage Bookstore and Wine Bar | Austin, TX

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Celebrate the launch of Katherine's newest swoon-worthy novel, THE ROM-COMMERS, while enjoying a guided 5-wine tasting inspired by the book!
About this Event

Please join us to celebrate the launch of THE ROM-COMMERS by Katherine Center, the New York Times bestselling author of ten novels, including How to Walk Away, Things You Save in a Fire, The Bodyguard and, Hello Stranger!


Event Details:

  • Doors Open: 6:00 PM
  • Mingle & Wine Tasting: 6:00 - 7:00 PM
  • Author Reading & Q&A: 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
  • Signing Opportunity: 8:00 PM - 9:00 PM


In addition to the wine tasting (featuring 5 California wines to set the scene ), the bar will be open before and after the event, so grab a drink, find a seat, and enjoy a night of great conversation!


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THE ROM-COMMERS

Featuring beautiful spray-painted edges and vibrant designed endpapers.
The New York Times bestselling author Katherine Center's next laugh out loud, feel good rom-com about writing your own story.
She’s rewriting his love story. But can she rewrite her own?
Emma Wheeler desperately longs to be a screenwriter. She’s spent her life studying, obsessing over, and writing romantic comedies—good ones! That win contests! But she’s also been the sole caretaker for her kind-hearted dad, who needs full-time care. Now, when she gets a chance to re-write a script for famous screenwriter Charlie Yates—The Charlie Yates! Her personal writing god!—it’s a break too big to pass up.
Emma’s younger sister steps in for caretaking duties, and Emma moves to L.A. for six weeks for the writing gig of a lifetime. But what is it they say? Don’t meet your heroes? Charlie Yates doesn’t want to write with anyone—much less “a failed, nobody screenwriter.” Worse, the romantic comedy he’s written is so terrible it might actually bring on the apocalypse. Plus! He doesn’t even care about the script—it’s just a means to get a different one green-lit. Oh, and he thinks love is an emotional Ponzi scheme.
But Emma’s not going down without a fight. She will stand up for herself, and for rom-coms, and for love itself. She will convince him that love stories matter—even if she has to kiss him senseless to do it. But . . . what if that kiss is accidentally amazing? What if real life turns out to be so much . . . more real than fiction? What if the love story they’re writing breaks all Emma’s rules—and comes true?


ABOUT THE AUTHOR


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KATHERINE CENTER

BookPage calls Katherine Center “the reigning queen of comfort reads.” She’s the New York Times bestselling author of ten novels, including How to Walk Away, Things You Save in a Fire, and her newest, Hello Stranger. Her summer 2024 book is The Rom-Commers—a connected story to her blockbuster hit, The Bodyguard. Katherine writes laugh-and-cry books: deep romantic comedies about how life knocks us down—and how we get back up. She’s been compared to both Jane Austen and Nora Ephron, and the Dallas Morning News calls her stories, “satisfying in the most soul-nourishing way.” The Netflix movie adaptation of her novel Happiness for Beginners—starring Ellie Kemper and Luke Grimes—just hit the Global Top Ten in 81 countries, and the movie of her novel The Lost Husband was a suprise Netflix sensation in 2020, hitting number one and landing in their top 25 movies for the year. Her books have made countless Best-Of lists—at Audible, BookBub, and Book of the Month, as well as Goodreads’ Best Books of the Year, and Amazon’s yearly Top 100 books. Emily Henry calls The Bodyguard “my perfect 10 of a book,” and Jodi Picoult says of Things You Save in a Fire, “Just read it, and thank me later.” Katherine lives in her hometown of Houston, Texas, with her husband, two almost-grown teenagers, and their fluffy-but-fierce dog.


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Vintage Bookstore and Wine Bar, 1101 East 11th Street, Austin, United States

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