I love books about love, and what I love more than that is a real-life love story. And boy, do I have one to share with you. I had the chance to talk with New York Times best-selling author Stephen Rowley

before his release of his book The Celebrants, which I chose for my Read with Jenna

Book Club.

The novel explores all the reasons we should celebrate the people in our life while we're living.

The happy stuff, the sad stuff, those difficult and messy moments.

Celebrate it all. We chatted along with

Stephen's husband by Ren Lane, also an author who most recently published Big Gay Wedding.

The three of us discussed their beautiful relationship and careers as writers. And let me tell

you, their love story seems to have been written in the stars.

The two met online and got married after a proposal was hidden in one of their novels.

Together, the two of face life's lows, like Lane's battle with cancer, and its highs,

like the shared release of both of their latest novels on the same day.

Their work and their marriage are stories of unconditional support and acceptance. I'm Jenna Bush-Hager, and welcome to my podcast, Read with

Jenna.

Thank you. Okay, to start off with, I wonder what you thought, Byron, when you read his OKCupid profile.

I was blown away by the humor and the heart and actually reached out to him and said in the message,

I can tell you're a writer.

He said something in there like, I'm a right-ally type.

He talked about his family, his life.

And, you know, that was back in the time before swiping left and swiping right.

So you had to write these long profiles.

And I just remember thinking of all the fish in the sea,

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