Dee Lagasse

Dee Lagasse uses contemporary romance to explore fandom culture, quick dialogue, and the tension between public roles and private judgment. The Comic Con brings together Birdie Yamamoto, creator of the comic character Suffra-Jette, and Atticus Cohen, the actor newly cast to play Birdie's creation on screen. Birdie doubts that he understands the material, while a staged relationship forces both of them to perform familiarity under the scrutiny of convention crowds and entertainment publicity. This 2022 novel treats its comic convention setting as more than colorful scenery. Questions of creative ownership, adaptation, representation, and fan expectation create the pressure around the central romance. Lagasse lets Birdie's authority as a creator matter even when celebrity gives Atticus the larger audience. The Comic Con sits in the Suffra-Jettes world, where women connected to the fictional hero confront changes around its growing franchise. Its playful premise therefore rests on a serious professional tension: who gets heard when a story moves from page to screen.