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Jenn P. Nguyen

Home Featured Authors & Panelists Featured Participant Lineup 2025 Jenn P. Nguyen

Jenn P. Nguyen (The Boyfriend Contract, Fake It Till You Break It, Just Another Meet Cute) was raised in New Orleans, Louisiana (Go Saints!), where she lives with her husband/high school sweetheart and two wonderful/slightly crazy kids. Nguyen spent her school years reading through lunchtime and giving up recess to organize the school library, partially because the weather was always scorching, but mainly because she loved to be surrounded by books. Now she spends her days reading, dreaming up YA romances, and binge-watching addictive Korean dramas all in the name of ‘research.’

Schedule

1:30 pm to 2:15 pm
A.Z. Young Park, Author Tent C
Royals & Romance: Contemporary Young Adult Fiction
Lindsey Duga, Royal Heirs Academy
Jenn P. Nguyen, Just Another Meet Cute
(ages 12 and up)

2:30 pm to 3:15 pm 
Cavalier House Books Tent
Book Signing

Just Another Meet Cute

A Junior Library Guild Selection

Boy saves girl stuck on a disastrous hike. What could go wrong? So. Much.

Just Another Meet Cute is the joyful and funny story about what happens when you realize you're dating the wrong twin.

When seventeen-year-old Nina Riley gets saved by a super cute Knight-in-Faded-Khakis just as she lands in an embarrassingly sticky situation during the most disastrous hike known to man, she wasn’t exactly looking for a meet cute. She really just needed some peace and quiet from her complicated family. Unfortunately, he disappears before she can properly thank him or get his number. All she has is his name (Ian Nguyen) and a navy jacket with a dog keychain, a gym card, and laundromat receipt. But a meet cute is a meet cute. And armed with years of watching Veronica Mars and a techy cousin, it should be simple enough for Nina to find the boy of her dreams, right? But when she finally tracks him down, he's different than she thought ―right down to his name. Ryan is just as cute as she remembers, but the chemistry isn't there like it was before. After a few dates, she meets Ryan's family: his sweet grandma, his enthusiastic sisters, and his twin brother ――Ian.