On the one hand, the heavy lifting is over, and you’re just working out the details. But that year between getting to the end of the book and waiting for it to come out is always an odd one. I think at this time last year I had finished the book itself, though we were probably still editing it. The question is just whether it’s goodbye for now or goodbye forever.Ĭan you talk briefly about the journey you’ve been on from last year (when there wasn’t even a title to the new book) to almost publication date? And no matter how the night ends, they’re both leaving for college in the morning, which means they’re going to have to say goodbye. So it’s a deeper relationship right off the bat, which means more emotion, more baggage, more intensity. But this one is about a couple that’s been together for two years, and they’re getting ready to part ways. With STAT, HAPPY, GEOGRAPHY, the characters are just meeting each other, and the book is really about the first steps of their relationships, the getting to know each other part.

Yes, it was a lot of fun to write a book that was set up a bit differently than my last few. Can you talk about the differences in writing that – how this relationship was already in full swing versus at the very beginning, etc. Last year at the Decatur Book Festival, we talked about how Hello, Goodbye is more of a goodbye versus your other books which are one big hello. So I’m going to share the love! Stick around to the bottom of the post and click over to Rafflecopter to enter to win all three paperback copies! I won the April #NOVLBox curated by Jen, which contained copies of all three of her main books ( The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight, The Geography of You and Me, and This Is What Happy Looks Like), all three of which I already owned (I LOVE Jen).

Brittany also has a fun interview from Jen over on her blog! AND I’ve got a little fortune FOR YOU. I was fortunate enough to interview Jen at last year’s Decatur Book Festival, and now I am fortunate enough to bring you a follow up interview about her latest book. Smith’s new book, Hello, Goodbye, and Everything in Between ( my review) and loved it.

Recently, my new blogger friend Brittany from Brittany’s Book Rambles and I buddy read Jennifer E.

The Storm Makers by Jennifer E. Smith