1–What is the title of your latest release? NO ONE KNOWS US HERE   2–What’s the “elevator pitch” for your new book? The official pitch: A spellbinding novel about a woman’s choice to sign on as an entitled tech billionaire’s paid girlfriend in a desperate attempt to provide for her recently-orphaned half-sister   3–How did you decide where your book was going to take place? I set the book in Portland, Oregon, which is where I live. I moved here when I was about Rosemary’s age, so her first apartment is in the Alphabet District in Northwest Portland, the same neighborhood I lived in when I moved here after college.   4–Would you hang out with your protagonist in real life? Yes. I already feel like I’ve hung out with her for quite a few years now!   5–What are three words that describe your protagonist? Troubled, determined, resilient   6–What’s something you learned while writing this book? I learned patience and persistence. From the book’s inception to publication, it took about eight years! On a more practical level, I learned about criminal court cases and police procedure, though some of my “research” may have been from watching The Good…