More Bards Rest
b'Novelist Jessica Martin returns to her fictional town of Bard\\u2019s Rest, NH, for her second Shakespearean romcom, The Dane of my Existence. Her first book, For The Love of the Bard, focused on the character of Miranda Barnes, but the new book focuses on Miranda\\u2019s sister Portia, a high-powered lawyer who\\u2019s about to land the role of her dreams: becoming the youngest managing partner in her law firm\\u2019s history. But during her summer sabbatical at her family\\u2019s annual Shakespeare festival in Bard\\u2019s Rest, she encounters hunky hotshot developer Benjamin Dane, and hilarity, romance, and legal hijinks ensue.\\xa0Jessica talks about how a single book has become a series; the importance of puppies in romantic fiction; how to construct a compelling romance while adding a soup\\xe7on of John Grisham; the difference between enemies and rivals; how fully fleshed-out all the supporting characters are, and which ones may get their own books; unintentional echoes of Taming of the Shrew; adjusting the amount of steam and the danger of writing non-gross sex scenes; and the important lesson of making room next to the work you love for the people you love. (Length 19:21)'