The Story Behind Dear Hero   How do two college friends end up writing a book together? The answer is sillier than you think! Way back in ye olden days (the summer of 2018) Hope Bolinger and I were just two interns working for a literary agency, nerding out about the MCU, and spending too much time on what was then Twitter. I thought it would be funny if I created a Twitter account for a supervillain and imagined what they might tweet about. Instead of #justgirlythings, what if a villain tweeted about their latest villainous activity with #justvillainthings? I tweeted out my quips to a moderately entertained audience, until who should appear but…a superhero account, vowing to defeat my villain account! It didn’t take me long to realize the superhero was, in fact, Hope. We had a fun time with our parody accounts, and it got us thinking—what if we wrote a book about Gen Z superheroes in the age of social media? And even better, what if they met on a nemesis pairing app,...

  Book Details: Book Title :   DEAR HERO by  Alyssa Roat & Hope Bolinger Category :   YA Fiction (Ages 13-17) ,  394 pages Genre :   YA Romance, Superheroes,  Chat Fiction, Humor Publisher :   Torchflame Books Release date:    October, 2024 Content Rating :  PG-13  for MCU-level superhero violence; PG when it comes to language and sexual content (kissing). Book Description: There's an app for everything--even meeting a new nemesis. Up-and-coming teen superhero Cortex is on top of the world—at least, until his villain dumps him. If he’s going to save his reputation, he needs a new villain to fight, and fast. Meanwhile, the villainous Vortex has once again gotten a little overeager and taken out a hero prematurely. Will any young hero be able to keep up with her? Maybe she should work on finding a steady relationship with an enemy she won’t kill in the first round. Enter Meta-Match, a nemesis pairing site...