Since then, the duo has collaborated on nine books.
Read more after the cover.
After the box set was finished, we hit it off, we became friends and we started chatting.
We wound up talking every single day after that.
We had always kidded around about writing something together.
It was really meant to humor her.
Im not a plotter.
Penelopes a little bit more of a plotter than me.
But when we co-write, we just basically know the beginning, middle, and the end.
Its very unstructured so its fun because we wind up being part reader and part writer.
I usually start off the book.
We never really know exactly where the other person is going to leave us off.
So, we never have to overthink it too much while we dont have the manuscript.
We just wait and see what the other brings to the table and then we take it from there.
We didnt want to have to veer too much [away] from what our readers were used to.
Our first book was about a woman who finds a note pinned inside the wedding dress.
Everything is so short-winded when youre sending it via a text or an email.
I feel like its so much more intimate.
I was an attorney, and all of my emails were always more formal.
I didnt write somebody a friendly note over email.
I picked up the phone and called them.
Or you wrote to them.
Were there any epistolary novels that inspired you?
Theyre just more candid on the paper.
We both really enjoy that aspect of writing.
They let us pick our own cover.
Its fabulous; it really is.WARD:That was one of the more important factors for us going in.
Where did the concept for this cover come from?
The hero has a certain feel to us.
Its actually much easier for us if we find the cover before we start writing the book.
