Stephen Rowley

And so, yeah, it was fun to look at romantic love 30 years in.

We write, you know, there's so much about the meet cute when we talk about romance.

And there is a meet cute in this because I did think it was very important to see this couple at the start so that we could see how different they were 30 years later.

I say the same thing.

I count on readers to tell me what the book is about.

Absolutely.

Definitely the rewrites.

It's not, well, I'm in an interesting spot right now because I am pitching a book, what I want to write next.

And I'm thinking about when that book will come out.

I was fortunate to have been contracted to a two book deal of which this is the first.

So I have a delivery date for a second book.

I have a pub date for another book.

It'll be in the year 2028.

And I approached the story, I think for the first time, thinking about what do I want to say about the world

in 2028, you know, which for better or worse, America is going to be turning the page on a really dark chapter.

And hopefully there's something brighter ahead, but that's not guaranteed.

And so, you know, I have been sort of approaching, it's not a contemporary story, but can I find a story that with some echoes of what I might imagine the world to be in 2028.

With this, I do think, yeah, the themes sort of present themselves within rewrites and reimagine the story.

But I

If I thought too heavily about theme, I would trip over the plot.