Goodreads asked Jo Piazza:

Where did you get the idea for your most recent book?

Jo Piazza I set out to write this book before I even got married. I was in the middle of planning my wedding and after months of receiving unsolicited advice about “the big day,” I realized I had no idea what happened when the wedding was over. I had no idea how to be married.

Sure, there are plenty of books about fixing a bad marriage, but mine wasn’t broken yet—it hadn’t even started. Besides, none of them spoke to me. With their pastel covers emblazoned with flowers, sunrises, and couples who had perfect hair, those books were talking to someone more mature, someone more refined, someone who already owned napkin rings and didn’t kill houseplants.

Nearly every romantic comedy ever made ends with the wedding and leaves out the most interesting part—the marriage.

I wanted to change that.

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