Goodreads asked Nicole Galland:

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

Nicole Galland My most recent book, STEPDOG, was inspired by my real-life surprise romance with my Irish-actor friend Billy. Because of his immigration status, we decided to get married immediately - which meant he was suddenly living with me and my dog-from-my-first-marriage, to whom I was extremely (extremely) attached. Our life then became so merrily chaotic that I didn't have the luxury of hunkering down into another time period, as I do with my historical fiction. It felt like we were living a semi-comic novel... so I decided to write it.

That's just the set-up of the novel of course. The second part goes off in an extremely different, entirely fictional, direction!

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