She works at a business strategy consulting firm. Poor Adair, always narrating romance novels but being bad at dating.

I had friends I would apartment- and cat-sit for in that part of Brooklyn and I love the neighborhood. One of my favorite Italian restaurants is there. I’ve set a couple scenes in different books in that restaurant.

It depends. Sometimes I have a very clear picture in my head of what my MCs look like and what they might like to wear. Sometimes I look through Pinterest for inspiration.

No I haven’t. Though the epilogue of my wip happens on Thanksgiving.

Once I figure out the story I want to write: set in turn of the century, post-revolutionary Philippines there would such fun holidays and fiestas to use as settings.

My MMC Adair LIVES for Halloween (or any excuse to dress up, really). He and his roommate George probably host parties every Halloween and start decorating as soon as it’s officially fall. My FMC Kit would probably just buy a pumpkin spice candle, a ghost pillow and some gourds and call it a day.

I, too, aspire to be a bookshop owner 😊

Kit’s close to her dream job—to be promoted to Director of Strategy at her firm. Adair’s current job is adjacent to his dream job. He’s doing well as an audiobook narrator but would love to have an acting role on TV or a movie.

Kit’s dream house would be one of the brownstones in her neighborhood of Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn. She loves living there, though not in the apartment she shares with her roommates. Adair’s dream house is more like the one he grew up in in suburban Pennsylvania, Craftsman-style with a big yard.

My FMC wears a uniform of pant or skirt suits in dark colors during the week because she doesn’t want to think too hard about what to wear every day. On the weekend she usually wears jeans and a tee but since she started kind of fake dating, she’s been adding sundresses and lighter colors to the mix

I’d love to do one but haven’t yet. I’m very much the person who doesn’t mind being around other people as long as I can be heads-down and focus.

How exciting Heather!!!

Hello! I’m Melissa, mom of 2, from the SF Bay Area currently working on my contemporary romance. 💘

Love that all three of you are wearing the same colors! ❤️

Yay for long cafe stretches! My daughter’s winter ballet recital auditions are this week then we’re in rehearsal season so she’ll be in studio Saturdays from noon to 5. They’re doing The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe. 😊

Thank you! It’s pushed me to polish my draft as I go, which I don’t usually do, but I’m motivated to really get this thing in shape.

All the time. Recently, “If the World Was Ending” by JP Saxe inspired a sci-fi idea I might write next.