Brooke Averick

So this one's definitely...

Yeah.

For the late bloomers.

I've always been a fiction reader.

But for whatever reason, I wasn't reading fiction.

I was always desperate for the romance within literary fiction because I kind of thought the only thing I could be reading in my 20s was literary fiction.

I don't know.

I guess you kind of put yourself in a box once you turn a certain age for your reading.

And then I was like, wait, I can be reading cheesy romance as much as I want.

And then I was like,

That's awesome.

And that's so awesome.

It's me and my Kindle against the world.

It really is.

And so I think for Phoebe, I took from like every genre that I love.

Like there's part cheesy romance.

There's part like just like general women's fiction and like weird girl lit fic.

Like, yeah.

So I kind of, yeah, I drew from a lot of,

those that's amazing do you have any favorite books that like were kind of inspiring to you as you were writing did you read it all while you wrote like I know sometimes people actually did there is this author who I'm obsessed with Emily Austin okay and she writes about really unique