Kara Loo and Jennifer Young became friends in high school when they discovered a shared love of the same books and a passion for writing. After graduating from Stanford and UC Berkeley respectively, Kara and Jennifer both worked in the mobile gaming industry on the hit interactive fiction games Surviving High School from Electronic Arts and then High School Story, Hollywood U, and Choices: Stories You Play from Pixelberry Studios. They're excited to bring Kara's reality TV expertise and Jennifer's love of romance together for their debut novel, Alice Chen's Reality Check, available June 3, 2025.