What is the title of your latest release? WORK IT OUT What’s the “elevator pitch” for your new book? A Hollywood superhero transformation in a Southwestern Stars Hallow gym, with a chronic illness spin. How did you decide where your book was going to take place? I’m a midwestern girl with Phoenix family. Arizona is one of the few places I’ve visited that leaving feels like homesickness. And of all its beauty, I think the Coconino National Forrest haunts me most. This way at least I can visit in my daydreams. Would you hang out with your heroine in real life? Absolutely! Rayah is a badass who loves her chosen family more than anything. Combined with her sass and that ass… Who could resist? What are three words that describe your hero? Punny, adorable, relentless What’s something you learned while writing this book? I realized that I had yet to fully accept what having a dynamic disability means for me. Jake’s case is much like my own when I was that age. I pushed through things I shouldn’t have, called myself horrible names, listened to the whispers of doctors and gym teachers lingering in the…

