My Brother’s
Wedding wasn’t a story I was dying to write. In fact, I didn’t have a clue
it lingered in my head until I was attending a TMP meeting. Our boss was
describing changes with our new category romance lines and she explained how
all the books within each line would have similar covers. For example, Next
Door covers would be a blue wavy design with the title at the top and the
author’s name at the bottom but the middle pictures were customized for each
book. She shared mock-ups and used me for one of them. And she titled this fictitious
book My Brother’s Wedding.
The more I stared at the cover and enjoyed seeing my
name and title on the cover, the more I hashed out a story in my head. As you
might know from my Honey Creek stories, I’m a huge fan of the boy next door
type of stories. High school loves. People who share a past. Maybe it stems
from my own relationship with my high school sweetheart or maybe I’m just a
romantic who likes to keep it close to home! Who knows. But as I began writing
the story, I knew I wanted to feature St. Louis. In fact, the coffee house,
MoKaBe’s, Ryan and Allison share lunch at is one of my favorite places in St.
Louis. And the bridal shop is the very location I purchased my own wedding gown
many years ago.
Originally, the story evolved into more of a women’s
fiction book, which never felt complete to me. I want romance. I want my
characters to have a HEA ending. So with some cutting and deleting, I finally
arrived at the sweet story we have today.
It’s funny where we find inspiration. For My Brother’s Wedding, it all started
with a cover!
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