The journey behind how we met and started working together is a very unique one; can you recap it for the readers? AB: It was years in the making, and I truly think it was meant to be! I originally found you through your Outer Banks fanfiction. I read a throuple fic series you wrote, and I fell in love with it, which actually became very relevant to our work together years later. I discovered I had also read and admired your original fiction. In 2020—at the height of lockdo

1. We originally met through a query letter critique giveaway! Do you want to share that story with the readers? I had actually discovered your books in my local library before finding you online! In 2022, I was preparing to query a new novel, after my unsuccessful attempt with a different project the year before. I was hopeful that my new story might have a fighting chance, but I didn’t want to blow it. I was absorbing every tip I could find and had edited my query let