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Lydia Sharp | A Virgin Secretly Hooks Up with Her Frenemy
Author Guest / August 29, 2023

1–What is the title of your latest release? FRENEMIES WITH BENEFITS   2–What’s the “elevator pitch” for your new book? What happens when a virgin secretly hooks up with her frenemy to learn all about sex during the summer after graduating high school?   3–How did you decide where your book was going to take place? The story is set in Trinity, Pennsylvania. It’s not like this for all stories I write, but for this one in particular, the setting didn’t have to be anything more specific than “a suburb in the Midwest” so I just made one up. I’m familiar with Pittsburgh, the big city that Trinity is a suburb of, and maybe that’s why it came to mind. I didn’t think “this place has to be near Pittsburgh” that’s just what happened to come up when I started writing, and it worked, so I kept it.   4–Would you hang out with your protagonist in real life? Absolutely. I love her. We’d have so much fun together.   5–What are three words that describe your protagonist? Shy. Snarky. Brave.   6–What’s something you learned while writing this book? While writing, I wasn’t thinking that deeply about it. It…