1–What is the title of your latest release? THE SEEMINGLY IMPOSSIBLE LOVE LIFE OF AMANDA DEAN 2–What’s the “elevator pitch” for your new book? Schitt’s Creek meets Love Rosie – The Seemingly Impossible Love Life of Amanda Dean is a queer love story told in a series of flashbacks, starting from the self-described bi-disaster’s wedding day, and moving back and forth in time through her past relationships as our heroine discovers herself and readers discover who finally won her heart. It’s a contemporary novel full of queer characters where their queerness is never an issue—not because this is historically accurate but because this is the world I hope for. 3–How did you decide where your book was going to take place? The simple answer is all my books are set in California. I was born there, grew up there, and it’s where my heart is. Sending Mandy to London to study abroad was challenging, as I’ve never been there myself and I do hope to one day get the chance to go. 4–Would you hang out with your protagonist in real life? Of course I would. We’d get margaritas and chips and salsa and probably bum around a street…

