All the Love featuring Jasmine Guillory in conversation with Kennedy Ryan

251 North Spruce Street,Winston-Salem NC 27101

05 May, 2022

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We are ecstatic to have Jasmine Guillory and Kennedy Ryan join us for an in-person All the Love event on Thursday, May 5 at 6:30 pm! Join us on Thursday, May 5 at 6:30 pm for All the Love featuring Jasmine Guillory in conversation with Kennedy Ryan!This is our first in-person All the Love event and we are so excited to have Jasmine and Kennedy here to kick it off. Jasmine will be chatting about her new book By the Book which is a fun retelling of Beauty and the Beast. The reimagining of a beloved fairy tale is a romantic triumph of love and acceptance and learning that sometimes to truly know a person you have to read between the lines. She will be in conversation with romance novelist, Kennedy Ryan. Following the event, there will be a wine recpation and book signing. Active All the Love members will enjoy reserved seating & front of the signing line passes. All the Love is our monthly conversation series and subscription that features romance authors that the Bookmarks team is excited about. Unlike a book club, there's no pressure to read the book! Join us to discuss everything from consent and kissing to feminism and friendship. Our spoiler-free discussions will delve into the author's journey to writing romance as well as questions that focus specifically on the ideas explored in the month's featured book. At the time, masks must be worn for the duration of the event. About Jasmine GuilloryJasmine Guillory is a New York Times bestselling author of novels including The Wedding Date, the Reese's Book Club selection The Proposal, and While We Were Dating. Her work has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Cosmopolitan, Bon Appetit, and Time, and she is a frequent book contributor on The Today Show. She lives in Oakland, California About By the BookSometimes to truly know a person, you have to read between the lines. Isabelle is completely lost. When she first began her career in publishing after college, she did not expect to be twenty-five, still living at home, and one of the few Black employees at her publishing house. Overworked and underpaid, constantly torn between speaking up or stifling herself, Izzy thinks there must be more to this publishing life. So when she overhears her boss complaining about a beastly high-profile author who has failed to deliver his long-awaited manuscript, Isabelle sees an opportunity to finally get the promotion she deserves. All she has to do is go to the author’s Santa Barbara mansion and give him a pep talk or three. How hard could it be? But Izzy quickly finds out she is in over her head. Beau Towers is not some celebrity lightweight writing a tell-all memoir. He is jaded and withdrawn and—it turns out—just as lost as Izzy. But despite his standoffishness, Izzy needs Beau to deliver, and with her encouragement, his story begins to spill onto the page. They soon discover they have more in common than either of them expected, and as their deadline nears, Izzy and Beau begin to realize there may be something there that wasn’t there before. Best-selling author Jasmine Guillory’s achingly romantic reimagining of a classic is a tale as old as time . . . for a new generation. About Kennedy Ryan A RITA® Award Winner, Kennedy Ryan writes for women from all walks of life, empowering them and placing them firmly at the center of each story and in charge of their own destinies. Her heroes respect, cherish and lose their minds for the women who capture their hearts. She is a wife to her lifetime lover and mother to an extraordinary son. She has always leveraged her journalism background to write for charity and non-profit organizations, but enjoys writing to raise Autism awareness most. A contributor for Modern Mom Magazine, Kennedy’s writings have appeared in Chicken Soup for the Soul, USA Today and many others. The founder and executive director of a foundation serving Atlanta families living with Autism, she has appeared on Headline News, Montel Williams, NPR and other media outlets as an advocate for families living with autism.