1–What is the title of your latest release? TIRED LADIES TAKE A STAND 2–What’s the “elevator pitch” for your new book? During one unforgettable year in their twenties, best friends Emma, Fern, Carolina, and Andi make a pact to embrace whatever life throws at them, inspiring Fern to write a memoir detailing their escapades and the magical power of saying Yes. But fast forward twenty years, and they have reached their bandwidth of responsibilities, and must finally commit themselves to learning to say no. 3–How did you decide where your book was going to take place? Much of the book was inspired by the real-life “year of yes” my friends and I undertook in our twenties. It was the late nineties, and we were living in San Francisco, starting our careers, dating and breaking up, and simply trying to make our way through the world as young women. One night, probably over cocktails, we decided we’d had enough of waiting for good things to come our way and made a pact to say yes to adventure, regardless of the form. At bars, we bought the cute guys drinks. We took new risks at work. We traveled. We danced. We lived one…

In my latest novel, The Book Haters’ Book Club, the owner of an iconic neighborhood bookshop is known for his ability to put just the right book in the right reader’s hands at just the right moment. So, being the movie buff that I am, I figured I’d try to channel the spirit of my intrepid bookseller, Elliot, and make a few recommendations of my own.   Here is my can’t-go-wrong list of all-time favorite movies based on novels.   One Stand By Me (1986), based on the short story, “The Body” by Stephen King. This is the coming-of-age film that launched a thousand Gen-X faces: Wil Wheaton, Corey Feldman, Jerry O’Connell, Kiefer Sullivan… and the list of soon-to-be stars goes on. But the film doesn’t stop there. It also brings to full technicolor life the story of a blueberry pie-eating-contest gone horribly wrong. This one is two hours of book-to-screen perfection.   Two The Chronicles of Narnia series, adapted from the series of the same name by C.S. Lewis. Perhaps it was the decades that passed between when I read the books as a child and when I saw the movies with my own children, but everything I loved…