Annabel Monaghan

New York Times bestselling author Annabel Monaghan has captivated readers with her uplifting and emotional romance novels. Monaghan is the author of It’s a Love Story, Summer Romance, Same Time Next Summer, Nora Goes Off Script, and the upcoming Dolly All The Time (May 2026). Her books have been named to numerous book clubs and reading lists, including Real Simple’s Best Books of the Year, Cosmopolitan’s 30 Best Romance Novels of the Year, Katie Couric Media’s Book Recommendations, LibraryReads Picks, Reader’s Digest Best Beach Reads, and The Today Show’s Best Summer Reads. 

A warm and thought-provoking speaker, Monaghan discusses the themes she explores in her bestselling novels—themes that stem from personal experience but feel universal. She shares her insights on raising kids, why we write (and read) romance, writing craft, and how to become the best version of yourself. Monaghan inspires with her hopeful and moving stories, often sharing that she wrote her first hit novel at 50 years old. 

It’s a Love Story, published in May 2025, was Monaghan’s first novel to become an instant New York Times bestseller, and with its release, she became a Library Reads Hall of Famer. The book follows Jane, a former adolescent TV actress-turned-producer, who is striving to gain respect in Hollywood. Adopting the mantra “fake it till you make it,” she soon realizes she may have faked it too far. Now, Jane’s forced to confront her past and spend a week with the last man she thinks might make her believe in love. 

Monaghan’s highly-anticipated next novel, Dolly All The Time, is set to publish in May 2026. The story follows Dolly, a hardworking single mom who’s forced to return to her Rhode Island hometown. As she stumbles into a fake dating situationship with a wealthy, annoyingly handsome, workaholic scion, Dolly thinks: if they start by pretending, can they end with something real?  

Monaghan’s books are favorites of booksellers, librarians, and readers worldwide, and her novels have been translated into 22 languages. Nora Goes Off Script was an Indie Next Pick, LibraryReads Pick, and Amazon Top 10 Best Books of the Month Pick for June 2022. It also garnered starred reviews from Publishers Weekly and Booklist, and was included in top media roundups in the Wall Street Journal, Southern Living, Country Living, and BookRiot. Same Time Next Summer was also an Indie Next Pick, and a national bestseller.  

Monaghan has a BA in English from Duke University and an MBA in Finance from The Wharton School at The University of Pennsylvania. Her books have been covered in People, The Washington Post, USA Today, Real Simple, Woman’s World, Southern Living, and more. After twenty-five years in the suburbs of New York City, she now splits her time between Connecticut and Florida. 

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