1–What is the title of your latest release? SERENDIPITY 2–What’s the “elevator pitch” for your new book? A group of friends decide to rent a share house in Ocean Beach, Fire Island for three weekends over the course of one summer. Drama ensues! 3–How did you decide where your book was going to take place? After setting my debut novel in the titular community of Kismet, Fire Island, I knew that I wanted my second book to be a return to the beach. Fire Island is actually comprised of seventeen different, distinct towns, and while I spend the majority of my summertime in Kismet with my husband’s family, I had a very memorable experience in Ocean Beach in 2018, when my friends and I rented a share house in that buzzy, renter-friendly community a few towns down, for three weekends over one summer. When it came time to write Serendipity, I immediately had the idea to use those three weekends as a three-act structure for a friend group novel. 4–Would you hang out with your protagonist in real life? Yes! My protagonist Maggie and I have a lot of similarities: we both hate showing up anywhere empty handed, can find…

