1–What is the title of your latest release? A WISH FOR CHRISTMAS   2–What’s the “elevator pitch” for your new book? In this second-chance romance, an unhappily married couple makes a wish on an enchanted snow globe that they had never met, but when they wake up the next day in separate lives, the magic of Christmas helps them to realize that some love is just meant to be.   3–How did you decide where your book was going to take place? I knew that it would begin in NYC, because… NYC at Christmas.  But I knew they needed to spend the holidays thrown together in a small town, far from the big city, so I created a fictional town called Winter Falls, Wyoming where they grew up together but don’t remember.   4–Would you hang out with your protagonist in real life? I definitely would.  Noel is feisty, ambitious, funny, good-hearted… everything you’d want in a friend.   5–What are three words that describe your protagonist? Oh gosh – I accidentally did that above. Lol. I’ll add three bonus words—loyal, beautiful, intelligent.   6–What’s something you learned while writing this book? I learned about memory villages, created for dementia…

“You can’t leave me,” my best friend whispers into the phone, her voice urgent and filled with abject terror. In the background, I hear Lillianna Cox, the world’s worst boss, having one of her legendary temper tantrums. “Yikes. That’s at least one good thing about this whole situation. I’ll never have to hear that again.” It’s not the answer Cassie wants to hear. “Meghan Ann Julliard. Get right back onto that plane and fly back to New York. I can’t do this alone. I heard she’s making us work late on Christmas Eve, and anyone who doesn’t show up to her party on New Year’s is getting written up. Then—” She cuts off, and the phone goes dead. I can only imagine that Lillianna caught her on the phone. Personal calls are prohibited at Stitch, and since it’s the top fashion magazine at the moment, everyone will put up with any rule and the world’s worst boss to work there. I personally tried for four years to get on staff . . . and a scant six months later, here I am. Leaving it behind. So, as I sit on the El and watch Chicago’s skyscape blur past, I don’t…