I enjoyed organizing my and my husband’s “big day,” and I helped a law school friend plan hers. The “something different” that I always envisioned was wedding planning. Oh my goodness, you’re right! Well, here’s what I’ll say about that: I was a lawyer in my former life, and I often experienced the burning need to walk away from my career and do something completely different. What keeps bringing you back to this setting? Weddings are a theme in your books: Crashing into Her kicks off with a one-night stand at a friend’s wedding, Pretending He’s Mine involves a fake-dating duo traveling to a wedding. My favorite detail is the way the best man Max’s shoe is sinking into the frosting as he’s falling I smile every time I notice it. The illustrator, Nathan Burton, took that concept and ran with it, ultimately depicting the best man falling off the cake. My older daughter, knowing it was an enemies-to-lovers story, suggested an illustration of the hero being kicked off the cake. We quickly came up with the wedding cake topper idea, which we thought would emphasize the fun and flirty nature of the story, but we were stumped when it came to figuring out what the figures on that topper would actually be doing.
Can you tell us more about that?Ībsolutely! Early on in the cover planning process, my agent, Sarah Younger, and I brainstormed ideas during a call. In your Acknowledgements, you mention that your daughter contributed to the cover concept. The cover of The Worst Best Man is so fun and unconventional! Usually romance covers show an embrace, but here the heroine is shoving the hero away and off the edge of the cake. Cue the enemies-to-lovers trope, the shenanigans, and ALL THE FEELS.
So I took my germ of an idea and tweaked it, this time around making the brother partly responsible for the demise of the wedding planner’s own marriage. When I sat down to add meat to the concept, however, I realized that my catchy premise lacked a sufficient purpose behind the conflict needed to support a full-length book. I envisioned a story filled with sabotage and pranks and a hate-to-love vibe. Several years ago, I wrote a blurb for a romance novel tentatively titled ‘The Wedding Disorganizer,’ in which a man objects to his sister’s wedding and vows to stop it, putting him squarely at odds with the woman helping the bride to plan the nuptials. What first sparked the idea for The Worst Best Man ?
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