Today I have the honor of introducing all of you to a very busy and talented author, Ms. Liv James. Please help me give her a very warm welcome to the CMash blog!!!<\/p>\n
diet, where everything you eat and drink is grown within 100 miles of your house.<\/p>\n
So then I thought, what if an interesting couple – Josie and Jeff – with a great country inn decided to take on the 100-mile diet and all the other things that would make their inn green? And what if they did such a great job that they received fantastic publicity?<\/p>\n
And then I thought, what if that publicity backfired?<\/p>\n
That’s when things started to get interesting.<\/p>\n
At the same time I was publicizing our new green building out here in the real world, I was also reading a lot of romantic suspense books and couldn’t find any in which the love story centered on a married couple. That piqued my interest because, if we’re lucky, we spend a whole lot more time in a marriage than in the stages leading up to the marriage. So I thought, what if a married couple had fallen into a hum-drum existence and suddenly something – or someone – came along and shook it up?<\/p>\n
In the Trouble With Green, that someone is Nathan Brown, who knows Josie’s secrets and doesn’t hesitate to share them with her husband, Jeff.<\/p>\n
Finally, I heard about a father who lost his oldest son in a kayaking accident after the son had managed to save his girlfriend from drowning. I was so moved by the tragedy of that story, and by the weight of being the girl who was saved, that I brought it into the novel. <\/p>\n
I intertwined those three snippets – the green inn, the rekindling of a marriage, and being “the girl who lived” – and The Trouble With Green<\/em><\/strong> was born.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n