![]() ![]() I wrote two books, one of which was based on the bookstore, but wasn’t quite right. I ended up going to Santorini without even knowing what my story would be about. ![]() It was so charming and immediately captured me. ![]() I ended up doing a Google search for cool places on Earth and found a little bookstore called Atlantis Books on a Greek island called Santorini, in this tiny village called Oia. Italy was an easy one and Ireland, too, but this time around I wanted to choose somewhere I’d never been. ![]() with this third book, I knew I’d be spending a mental year in whatever place I chose for a setting. How did you develop the idea for your new book, Love & Olives? What comes first: the destination or the main character?ĭefinitely the destination! It’s funny. is something that I really like to bring to books for teen readers because I think they’re already in that mindset: excited about what their lives could look like. It was so exciting to me to see the world and how much I didn’t know. I had grown up in a bubble in Salt Lake City, so moving to Europe expanded my world in such huge ways. When I was 15 my family moved to Florence, Italy, where I lived for two years. What inspired this series of companion novels? This is your third armchair travel romance for teen readers. ![]()
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