Many of my fears often show in my heroines. And some of my sister’s old dating stories. Vi: I use lots of little things! Often my husband’s sarcasm finds its way into books. How much of your everyday life do you use as inspiration for your writing? Penelope: The water fountain/bird bath in my parents backyard in Boston.ħ.

Though that place might be too scary for even ghosts. Vi: In the three foot crawl space under my house. If your ghost haunted a place, where would it be? Penelope: Hit Me Baby One More Time by Britney SpearsĦ. If we pulled up next to you at a stoplight, what song would you be shamelessly singing?

Penelope: To overcome my fear of flying, to build a home for autistic women, to travel the country in an RV.ĥ. Vi: Go on safari in Africa, learn how to meditate, and see the northern lights. What are three things on your bucket-list? My real life is sometimes like a comedy show, full of constant quips by my husband who works from home alongside me a lot.Ĥ.

Penelope: Anything under the romantic comedy umbrella. I wouldn’t mind living in a castle for a while. It’s a tie between The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and Twilight! I have a fifteen-year-old girl with autism and a thriteen-year-old boy.Ģ. Penelope: Probably watching reality television with a cup of tea to decompress at night or spending time with one of my two kids. So aside from working and reading, I spend a lot of time with family overall. I also have five siblings, and we have a collective seventeen children. Vi: Hanging out with my kids! I have three, Jake, Grace and Sarah. If you aren’t writing (or reading!) what can you be found doing the most? And once they really get to know each other, there’ll be no going back.ġ. Because when they meet, the mystery will be over. This time with heat.īut as playing catch-up goes from fun to flirty to downright dirty, Luca wants more. He writes her a drunken letter, an angry one, never expecting her to write back.īefore they know it, they’re right where they left off. Griffin never understood why Luca disappeared. Over the years, through hundreds of letters, they became best friends, sharing their deepest, darkest secrets. She had yet to meet him but had never forgotten the British boy who’d warmed her heart.Īs childhood pen pals, Griffin Quinn and Luca Vinetti couldn’t have been more different.

Room Seventeen by Penelope Wylde