After being born and raised in the suburbs of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Lauren Thoman eventually moved with her husband to live outside of Nashville, Tennessee.

Although her degree was in music education, Lauren quickly realized that the life of a band director was not for her. After exploring various other fields for a few years, she started working on her first novel when her second child started preschool. However, those early manuscripts never made it all the way to publication, and after a few years, Lauren decided to try her hand at pop culture writing, combining her passion for writing with her lifetime love of watching and analyzing movies and TV shows.

It didn’t take long for Lauren to become a frequent contributor to a number of prominent online pop culture outlets, such as Parade, Vulture, POPSUGAR, Looper, and Collider, leaving little time for writing books. For a few years, Lauren took a break from creative writing as she focused more on freelancing, enjoying the opportunity to get her writing in front of a wider community of readers. (Including The Rock. Three. Times.)

Eventually, though, in between article deadlines, she managed to finish another book, one that she’d started years before and then set aside. She called it I'LL STOP THE WORLD. And a few months later, much to her delighted surprise, Mindy Kaling decided to publish it.

Lauren still lives outside of Nashville with her husband and two children in a chaotic household that also includes an assortment of rescue and foster dogs and an ever-increasing quantity of fish. When she's not writing, she's probably on the hunt for tacos or coffee, or buried underneath a pile of dogs.

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