1–What is the title of your latest release? CHRISTA COMES OUT OF HER SHELL   2–What’s the “elevator pitch” for your new book? A reclusive marine biologist discovers her father isn’t dead after all, and comes back to Los Angeles to help her family, deal with the social media fall out of fresh fame and fall in love. Unintentionally.   3–How did you decide where your book was going to take place? All of my books are set in Los Angeles, which is where I live. Until now they’ve all been set in Larchmont, my personal neighborhood. For this one I spread my wings and headed over to the west side, Santa Monica, Venice, the ocean. Pretty adventurous of me, I think.   4–Would you hang out with your heroine in real life? Yes, but she would find me woefully ignorant about marine biology. She would hide it well, but I would know.   5–What are three words that describe your hero? Intelligent, bad-ass and flawed.   6–What’s something you learned while writing this book? That violet sea snails hold themselves at the surface of the ocean on rafts made of their own spit.   7–Do you edit as you…

Thanks for stopping by Fresh Fiction! Can you tell us a bit about The Bookish Life of Nina Hill? TBLONH is about a millennial girl who works in a bookstore, loves her cat, her planner and her trivia team, and whose life is ticking along nicely until suddenly it all gets complicated. Nina Hill is wonderfully nerdy, and as the title suggests, bookish! We’re big fans of bookish people – real and fictional. What made you decide to make Nina so ensconced in books? Did this make her easier or harder to develop?  Nina was inspired by all the lovely young bookstore women I met while touring bookstores to promote my last book, Other People’s Houses. They were all incredibly well-read, super smart and slightly quirky. I wanted to make them the hero for a change. After Nina’s estranged father dies and includes her in his will, Nina finds herself with this new family of very outgoing, very eager people who want to get to know her. After spending most of her upbringing with her live-in nanny while her photographer mother was on assignments around the world, this is a huge and unexpected adjustment. How does this newfound family change her perspective…