{"id":315111,"date":"2026-06-21T23:03:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T23:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/315111\/"},"modified":"2026-06-21T23:03:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T23:03:10","slug":"launch-event-with-alicia-thompson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/315111\/","title":{"rendered":"Launch Event with Alicia Thompson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tombolo Books is thrilled to host the launch event for local author Alicia Thompson&#8217;s next romance, In Every Possible Way!\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In this whimsical, whirlwind romance, one woman\u2019s luck changes in an instant when she hits her head and wakes up in Ireland!<\/p>\n<p>Thompson will be in conversation with USF English Professor, Jessica Cook!\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tombolobooks.com\/item\/7gUxL-ZFiTE-bhLX6DthNg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">PURCHASE YOUR TICKET HERE!<\/a>\u00a0Ticket includes entry for one attendee and one copy of\u00a0In Every Possible Way.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>More about\u00a0In Every Possible Way<\/p>\n<p>After yet another disastrous date where Jess is too awkward, too earnest, too whatever, she\u2019s ready to put her romantic daydreams aside. Other than an enchanting Irish accent, her latest date is no prince charming. Then the night goes from bad to worse when she\u2019s mugged in the parking lot and hits her head. Hard.<\/p>\n<p>Hard enough that when Jess wakes up, she\u2019s in Ireland.<\/p>\n<p>The first person she meets is Eamonn, a quiet, gruff mechanic. Since Jess is stranded with no passport, cell phone, or way to get home, Eamonn becomes her reluctant knight in shining armor.<\/p>\n<p>Over the next forty-eight hours, they meander through the cobblestone streets of Dublin and explore the Irish countryside, sharing their deepest fears, quiet hopes, and softest aches. It\u2019s a connection that is as electrifying as it is terrifying, because what if Jess falls asleep and Eamonn vanishes like a dream? But a love like this\u2014touched by magic and a little bit of luck\u2014is never quite as it seems.<\/p>\n<p>ALICIA THOMPSON\u00a0writes romance novels, reads whatever she can get her hands on, and plays a mean \u201cBad Moon Rising\u201d and not much else. She lives in Central Florida with her family.<\/p>\n<p>Jessica Cook\u00a0has a PhD in English Literature and is a Professor of Instruction in the English Department at the University of South Florida, where she teaches courses on everything from 18th-century British literature to professional writing to Taylor Swift.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tombolo Books is thrilled to host the launch event for local author Alicia Thompson&#8217;s next romance, In Every&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":315112,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-315111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315111\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/315112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}