Kristina Forest

What I love particularly about romance, you'll find a book that you really, really like.

And you'll be like, this was amazing.

And you'll look up the author and they've written like 50 other books.

And you're like, perfect.

I'm getting them all.

Hi, thank you so much for having me.

Yes, just in time for summer.

Yes, sure.

So I'm Christina Forrest.

I am a romance novelist, contemporary romance particularly, but I started my career writing YA romance in 2019.

I am a born and raised Jersey girl, and I'm very proud of that, even though I spent about a decade of my life living in New York City, which I also sort of feel like a New York City person still.

I worked in publishing, children's books publishing, for many years.

I love reading romance novels, which is probably not a surprise to a lot of people.

My favorite subgenre is historical romance.

That is definitely my happy place of reading.

A reading period is historical romance.

But that's what got me into reading romance novels.

I was reading Tessa Dare and Beverly Jenkins and Lisa Kleypas.

And from there, I started reading contemporary.

And it was really The Kiss Quotient by Helen Ho Wang that made me a bigger contemporary romance reader.