Jennie Bennett, Romance Author

Hey folks! Today I have the privilege of not only welcoming the super talented Cassie Mae, but her editor Sue from Random House. I jumped at the opportunity to be part of this blog tour and I couldn't be more thrilled to be able to interview these ladies. Thanks for coming guys! Let's jump right into the questions - 1. Give us two truths and one lie of things that happened while writing/editing this book. CASSIE: Inspiration for this book came from a horrifying experience of yours truly, which is the first scene I wrote. I wrote most of this book in the bathroom, in between morning sickness attacks. Chase was originally named Benjamin, but that was too long to type, so I changed it. SUE:  All Flirt digital books are electronically edited, so at the very end of the book I did something I never, ever do . . . I accepted track changes – egads! Fortunately you can switch those suckers back! As I read FRIDAY NIGHT ALIBI my mind kept on referring to Chase a...

First off, a huge thanks goes to Kristina Perez and Rhiann Wynn-Nolet for putting this together. You guys rock!!  1. How do you remember your first kiss? This is super embarrassing, but aren't all first kisses like really awkward and you hate the opposite party forever after? No. Okay, it's just me then. There was this kid in my neighborhood who was a major player. Even though he had a girlfriend he totally kept making moves on me. We would hang out everyday, and since he was popular and I was not (I think I was 13 or 14 can't remember which) I thought if I kissed him he would dump his girlfriend and I would somehow become head of the cheerleading team. Not the case. Anyway. We were sitting on my washer and dryer in the dark when he asked to kiss me. It was this very quick peck on the lips which I told the whole school about. Afterwards I was ostracized further into my nerd hole. I got some new friends and realized being popular didn't matter after tha...

Monday was low day for me. I'm not going to go into the details of everything that happened, but I basically spent the day telling myself that I would never be good enough to go anywhere in this business and that I shouldn't even pursue publishing because, what's the point? My husband called me toward the end of the day, and even though I didn't say anything, he knew something was wrong. I broke down crying. I had a reason for the cry, it was a stupid reason (no, it wasn't a rejection) and I knew it was stupid. Still, I felt compelled to fade out of the writing community and forget about publishing. I mean, I like to write, so I should just do it for myself and not worry about putting my work out there. Putting work out there isn't the reason I write, so why do it? When my husband came home, he told me to read this book called QUITTER. I didn't want to. I've been putting the book off because my husband read excerpts to me and I felt like I was al...

It's the first Wednesday of the month and time for the Insecure Writers support group, hosted by the amazing Alex J. Cavanaugh ! Happy Independence Day tomorrow for those of you who celebrate :) Onto the post! Today is not so much about being insecure as it is about being distracted. Here's a prime example: Just now, when I wrote the first sentence in this paragraph I decided it was urgent to eat a graham cracker. So I got up from my chair, opened a new package of crackers, noticed the top one was broken had to open the package more so that I could get out all the pieces. Then I realized the irony of what I was doing and sat back down to write this post. Yeah, I think I would be a little more productive if I just kept my hands on the keyboard and stopped worrying about graham crackers that will still be there in ten minutes when I finish writing. If only graham crackers were the worst of my problems though. Oh no, Facebook and YouTube are HUGE distractions in my l...