1–What is the title of your latest release? IN THE EVENT OF DEATH   2–What’s the “elevator pitch” for your new book? When The Great Recession of 2008 crushes their splashy event business in Silicon Valley, Liz Becker and Gabbi Rossi realize that parties are on hold—but funerals must go on. Planning a memorial with flowers, music, and food isn’t that different from a wedding, right? But Liz has had a crippling fear of death since losing her younger sister decades earlier.  Will she be able to face her fears to save her business and keep her family afloat?   3–How did you decide where your book was going to take place? Since this is my first novel, I followed the old advice of “write what you know.”  So, I set my book in the suburbs of Silicon Valley, where I grew up and raised my children. It was fun to include some of my favorite haunts, as well as Stanford University, where I met my husband.   4–Would you hang out with your protagonist in real life? Liz is a chronic worrier, so I’d like to hang with her and help her chill out. Gabbi is the opposite, a…