USA Today bestselling author
of contemporary women's fiction
March 2008
I love traveling. Maybe that's why I love reading so much, it's
like a mini-vacation. But I also love getting on planes and trains
or jumping in the car and just going. Of course, if you're a writer,
every place you travel to ends up viewed through your eyes as
a setting. Which is how I've ended up with an April book set in
Paris. Yes, I know. April in Paris. What could be more magical?
French Kissing (Harlequin, Blaze) combines some of my
favorite things: Paris, fashion and an opposites-attract story.
When a trendy fashionista magazine writer ends up stuck during
couture week with a jeans-and-workshirt type of guy as her photographer,
she is not impressed. Until it turns out he's actually an undercover
PI out to solve a nasty fashion crime. He's also a very good photographer,
as she finds out one amazing night...
In April I've also got a reprint of Turn Left at Sanity,
which involved no traveling at all except the imaginary kind.
It's fun to write about real places, but the nice thing about
an imaginary setting is I can make up anything. I loved the idea
of a town that was full of harmless eccentrics, and the lessons
they could teach a workaholic New Yorker.
And, in May, my new Brava comes out, set partially in London,
and partly in Austin, Texas. The One I Want (Kensington,
Brava) is about a woman whose greatest talent is breaking up bad
relationships by proxy. When she decides to set up as a professional
match breaker, all hell breaks loose. Naturally. Especially when
she finds herself falling for her tough-guy landlord and neighbor.
