For fans of Judith McNaught, its been a long wait for a new release.

The romance author hasnt dropped a new book in 12 years.

Corey is the creative brains behind the magazine, designing and envisioning its look.

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Credit: Simon and Schuster

The cover leans heavily on the wedding theme at play, featuring a bride holding a bouquet.

Check out the cover above, then read on for more from McNaught.

ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: This is your first new book in more than a decade.

Thats the best way I can explain it.

It was quite a historical pile-on of events.

Youve written in so many subgenres: historical, suspense, contemporary.

Readers clamored for a longer version of that one, and of another short story I did.

So this time Im getting to do it, and I really enjoying spending time with characters.

And Im not only expanding it, Im radically rewriting it as well.

So we definitely wanted a wedding theme.

So this company does things like film the wedding ofBachelorcontestants?Yes and no; its the opposite ofBridezillas.

Thats her speciality, is unusual things like that.

Theyve done a pilot.

Obviously, its going to have some very lush prefs.

It takes place in Palm Beach, in an estate.

Is that something youre doing in this book?No, Im not.

I did feature literacy in that novel.

Im an entertainer, and my job is to make readers have a vacation from some of these travails.

Thats what I do for women.

We have enough aggravation going on and enough dreadful issues in the world around us.

I dont even recognize it sometimes politically.

I dont want to go into that, so instead of that were going to have fun.

in the 12 years since your last title was released.

I wouldnt want them too.

All I have to do is figure out how to write one.

Can we expect this to mark a return to writing for you?

Do you have something in the works after this?Absolutely.