When Gwendolyn Passmore was eighteen, she slipped on a muddy lane and broke her leg. He is the only connection between the two collaborations, though. that when we decided to team up again for The Lady Most Willing., I quickly claimed him as my hero. I loved the Duke of Bretton's dry sense of humor so much in The Lady Most Likely.There is no mention of an innkeeper, but I am sure his wife is named Rosemary. Eloisa James named the local village Parsley, so naturally I had to name the inn The Sage and Thyme.Gwendolyn's mother makes up an impromptu song called, "A House Party La La La." This was inspired by "A Weekend in the Country," from the Stephen Sondheim musical A Little Night Music.Gwendolyn is often compared to Botticelli's Venus in his seminal painting The Birth of Venus.I ended up using Marcus as the hero's name in Just Like Heaven. Since I already had an Alex (in Splendid), I figured I was unlikely to use Alec for a full-length novel. I changed it because I realized that I'm running out of good hero names. Eventually we decided that even though it fit the book very well, it wasn't very interesting, so we changed it. The original title for The Lady Most Likely.So we took a fabulous long weekend to New Orleans-we got a ton of work done (and gained about six pounds-each!) When Eloisa James, Connie Brockway, and I decided that we were going to collaborate on a novel in three parts, we knew that we would need to get together to plot the book and develop the characters.
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