An Evening with Lily Womble and Amanda Matta:

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The Midtown Scholar Bookstore is thrilled to welcome author Lily Womble to Harrisburg on Bookstore Romance Day for a conversation and signing on her new book, Thank You, More Please: A Feminist Guide to Breaking Dumb Dating Rules and Finding Love. Womble will be in conversation with TikTok creator Amanda Matta. This event is free and open to the public.

To enter the signing line, books must be purchased from the Midtown Scholar Bookstore. Copies of the book will be available for purchase at the event, or you may preorder a copy of the book for pickup/shipment. Preordered copies will not be signed until after the event.

About the Book:

Get unstuck from the patriarchal dark ages and find love once and for all with this feminist guide to navigating the perils and pitfalls of modern dating.​

It’s not your fault that dating sucks, that the patriarchy has screwed up how we find love. From addictive dating apps that were built like slot machines to advice like “Stop being so picky!” (aka “don’t trust yourself”), to single women being treated as less than because of their relationship status, dating can be a hot soup of existential exhaustion.

In Thank You, More Please, dating coach and founder of Date Brazen, Lily Womble, flips patriarchal dating on its head and challenges you to ask for and get what you want. Lily, who has set up nearly 400 dates, was one of the top matchmakers in the U.S, but in her personal life she was constantly settling for toxic situationships.

After growing up in the deep south, a late bloomer who hadn’t had a long-term relationship, she’d been labeled “too much,” and her deepest fear was that she wasn’t qualified for the love and partnership she craved. She needed to learn how not to settle and to attract love on her terms. The steps in this book are exactly the steps

Lily took to create a confident and joyful-as-fuck dating life that attracted the love of her life. Then, she broke up with matchmaking to become a feminist dating coach and help hundreds of women do the same.

​This proven feminist framework will help you create an epic love life, one that attracts more than you thought possible (more, please!). She includes tips on how to:

-ditch the self-blamey, rigid dating advice and start trusting your gut,

-embrace and celebrate your singleness,

-own all your relationship preferences and be powerfully picky,

-date like a feminist and attract the partnership you crave,

-And more!

A hilarious, feminist, no BS guide with a joyful, unconventional formula, Thank You, More Please will show you how to ask for exactly what you want and find love exactly as you are.

About the Authors:

Lily Womble is an intersectional feminist dating coach and founder of Date Brazen. She has led thousands of badass, feminist women around the world to build dating lives that feel like self-care, that also lead to extraordinary love. Womble has been featured in InStyle, HuffPost, Bustle, ABC News, and Oprah Magazine. She lives in Brooklyn.

Amanda Matta, perhaps better known as @matta_of_fact, is TikTok's #1 royal commentator. Since 2021, she has provided historical context and contemporary insight on the never-ending royal news cycle. A lifelong lover of history and culture, Amanda holds a Bachelor's degree in Art History & Museum Studies from Juniata College, as well as a Master's degree in Arts Administration & Museum Leadership from Drexel University. She currently lives in Harrisburg, PA—whenever she hasn’t decided to take an impromptu European vacation.

Event Venue

Midtown Scholar Bookstore, 1302 North Third Street, Harrisburg, United States