1–What is the title of your latest release? THE SADDEST GIRL ON THE BEACH 2–What’s the “elevator pitch” for your new book? Grieving after her father’s death, a young woman seeks solace in an Outer Banks beach town of North Carolina where her best friend’s family runs a small inn. The family welcomes Charlotte with chowder dinners and a cozy room, but her friend Evie has a looming life change of her own, and soon Charlotte seeks other attractions to navigate her grief. Will she, like in some television movie, find her way back through a romance, or are there larger forces at play on Hatteras Island? 3–How did you decide where your book was going to take place? I’ve loved the Outer Banks of North Carolina since I was a little girl, where my family would camp every summer. As I started to write, I would set my stories in my favorite places as a way of writing myself into them. I began to realize the hefty metaphorical aspects of the setting the more I wrote. Where else can you write a coming-of-age story where you can actually see the physical landscape change! 4–Would you hang out with your protagonist…