Lauren Blakely

Lauren Blakely is an American author of contemporary romance and romantic comedy, and a New York Times, USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestseller with a large, prolific catalogue of standalone novels and interconnected series. Her books are known for a light, banter-heavy tone, first-person dual narration, and a focus on humor alongside the genre's central relationship arc, a style that has made her one of the more commercially consistent independent voices in contemporary romance. Blakely is one half of the Best Men duology, co-written with Sarina Bowen. Super Hot Wingman and The Best Men follow a group of friends navigating weddings, misunderstandings and slow-burn romance with the comic, fast-paced sensibility both authors are individually known for, pairing Blakely's rom-com timing with Bowen's structural pacing from her own sports- and workplace-romance series. Outside the collaboration, Blakely continues to write extensively as a solo author across numerous contemporary romance series, publishing at a high frequency that has helped build her into one of the genre's most recognizable independently published names.