"Annabelle and Beth"
Dana Schwartz, #1 NYT-bestselling author of ANATOMY and IMMORTALITY, serves up a tale of unrequited love set at a charming Oxford pub.
Hannah says:
When I was twenty-two, a girl I sort of knew from Twitter moved to New York. Her name was Dana Schwartz. We met for the first time at a cheap bar in the East Village, and confided in each other that we wanted to write books someday. Soon, we were real friends. Looking back, it’s a blur of bottomless brunch, karaoke, wandering into lingerie stores we couldn’t afford and trying on the most ridiculous items, and long conversations about the guys we were dating and the careers we wanted to build. We wrote a few chapters of a YA novel together and went to book signings, including a panel featuring Heartbeat’s very own Georgia Clark — but back then, Georgia and I were strangers and I was too shy to say hi!
Not all of our mimosa-fueled dreams came true, but the most important did. Dana was the first friend I knew to land a book deal. I signed mine a year later. Dana is now the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of Anatomy and Immortality, among other excellent books, and on Mon…
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