Yes, and… she hopes you love her new cover.
And she’s got the dreamy illustrated cover, which EW can exclusively debut below, to match.
Yes & I Love Youis the first book in a new series for Loren.
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Read more after the cover image.
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: This launches a new series for you after the very emotional Ones Who Got Away series.
This new series is set in New Orleans in a co-working space.
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If you’re running out of a co-working space, you could be doing anything.
But it will still have an emotional component just because that’s who I am.
It’s more lighthearted as a series, but there are still some things for them to overcome.
Your main characters are an actor and a successful blogger/critic who’s being faced with stepping into video.
What made you want to play more in the realm of entertainment?
My heroine has Tourette’s, and she also has social anxiety because of it.
Pretty severe social anxiety.
But when she gets there, it obviously doesn’t fix the problem.
And she doesn’t know how to explain it to people without freaking out.
Were your characters inspired by any particular actors or reviewers out there?
Or can you tell me a bit more about your research?
I did more research for him because he’s an improv actor.
Improv sounds fun, but I’m very shy so the thought of improv is like my worst nightmare.
I read a stack of books on improv.
For her, I didn’t need as much because I used to blog.
That’s what she’s doing is local things, so I felt pretty comfortable with her doing that.
Then the Tourette’s part.My son has a tic disorder, so I have personal familiarity with it.
This is a beautiful and slightly abstract cover.
Can you explain it a bit more and how you and the team hit on the design?
The Ones Who Got Away had my people covers.
I really didn’t know what to expect.
When they came back with it, I was like, “Wow that’s stunning.
It really is eye-catching.”
That’s what I see the cover as.
So did you specifically ask for an illustrated cover?
I definitely wanted trade paperback.
Those did really well in mass market and the covers were gorgeous with the people on it.
Do you have strong feelings about being part of a trend?
It’s hard to keep up with what’s the thing if you’re not first.
My very first two erotic romances actually still had people on it because it was pre-Fifty Shades of Grey.
I have mixed feelings because I love a bunch of different covers.
I did miss my people covers when they switched them to object covers.
It’s hard to catch the trend.
But these covers look like women’s fiction and like beach reads, so she’ll pick them up.
Do you think any of that is true?
As a reader, I like the illustrated covers.
I find them eye-catching and I pick them up.
I’m not turned off by them.
I think any romance cover people are gonna have feelings about.
You kind of can’t win either way.
Is that also something you’ve thought about?
It’s wonderful that you don’t have to worry about the specific model having to match the cover.
They can draw whatever matches.
It could be a positive thing for sure.
