Book Title: A NOVEL LOVE STORY Character Name: Anders and Elsy   What are your names, and do they have any significance? Elsy: Eileen Merriweather, but everyone calls me Elsy. (rolls her eyes) In the delivery room, “Come On Eileen” was on the radio, so my mom thought it’d be fun to name me after it. My best friend’s name is Prudence. So, I might’ve gotten the better end of the stick there. Anders: Anders. Elsy: Really, no last name? Anders: Book boyfriends need to be enigmatic, sweetheart. What fun would it be if you knew everything up front?   How would you describe your family or your childhood? Elsy: Oh, it was full of books. My mom was a librarian, so she was a huge reader. On my summer breaks, I’d hole up in a quiet part of the library and read everything. Anders: Everything? Elsy: What, do you think I just read Romance, Anders? Anders: Perish the thought, I just can’t imagine you reading about The Great Emu War. Elsy: Please tell me it was about two faction of emus warring over a farm. Anders: Ah, so you haven’t read everything. Elsy: How was your childhood, Anders? Anders:…

Book Title: THE SEVEN YEAR SLIP Character Name: Clementine West   How would you describe your family or your childhood? You know the song “How do you solve a problem like Maria?” That’s me.   What was your greatest talent? My greatest talent is somehow always being in the wrong place at the wrong time.   Significant other? There’s never been anything significant about them.   Biggest challenge in relationships? Communication and growing with your partner. You change throughout your life, right? It only makes sense for them to change, too. The trick is, apparently, growing and changing together, and loving the person they are becoming just as much as you loved the person they were.   Where do you live? In a small apartment I inherited from my late aunt in the Upper East Side of New York City.   Do you have any enemies? The pigeons, Mother and Fucker.   How do you feel about the place where you are now? Is there something you are particularly attached to, or particularly repelled by, in this place? I have… mixed feelings about my aunt’s apartment. For a variety of reasons.   Do you have children, pets, both, or neither?…