How often do girlfriends get together to talk about sex and romance? Well, we decided to do more than that…to take it a little further and write a romance novel – together. Genie had already published a number of different books including several award winning romantic suspense novels and a mystery. We’d worked together on film scripts, and we were used to collaborative writing. Linda comes from the world of television where she’s worked on everything from comedy to reality to news. And we both know a thing or two about romance, or at least we think we do. So it was just a simple matter of finding the right story and figuring out what we wanted to eat for lunch! Seriously. Many of our friends and a few total strangers have asked us why we wanted to write together, lunch aside. Actually, many of them seemed stunned, since we both have careers that have been relatively successful on our own. Occasionally, Linda’s husband still asks that after he’s come home to hear us arguing over a minor sentence. For instance – Doesn’t everyone know what a dust mote is? Debating this point took up at least thirty minutes of…