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Q: First of all, your book titles are hilarious. What’s the story with you and all these punny names? And what is the deeper meaning of your title, Wild Goose Chase? 

A: Haha, thank you! I do like a good pun. The “Chase” in the title refers to my hero, Chase, who finds himself chasing after Violet (the one woman he knows he shouldn’t love) when she announces her plan to leave his employ. It also refers to him chasing the truth about how his friend, Todd, died in the line of duty. Todd, BTW, is Violet’s late husband, which is why Chase is doing his absolute best to ignore that he is hopelessly in love with her.

I've finally gone and done it. I've written the forbidden romance you had no idea you needed (but, trust me, you do). This story just would not get out of my head. My retired firefighter-turned-peach-farmer who started a famous supper club? He can't seem to fall out of love with the one woman he can't have. If you read Forrest for the Trees, you may remember him. His name is Chase.
Enter "Wild Goose Chase". I know, I know. Me again with the punny names. This one is still a rom-com, but it will give you all the feels...

Folks! If you’ve been reading my books and you don’t know that a recipe goes with every single one, you might not be paying attention. I myself love to cook (and especially to bake 😋). I’m a foodie, and a former food writer, and, no lie, if you ever want to bribe me, give me really good food.

Speaking of really good…I loved baking these cinnamon rolls. They were pretty easy, they made my house smell amazing, I wanted to eat about a million of them, and they were such a hit that I had to hide some of them from members of my household who shall remain unnamed.

It's time for another Kilby Q&A to help you get allllll your questions answered about, Young Buck, Book 5 of the Green Valley Heroes series, published by Penny Reid’s Smartypants Romance. Read on for all the hidden secrets of my neighbors-to-lovers age gap romance!

Q: What's the story behind the story? What inspired you to write this book? A: I wanted to write a character who felt past her prime

So I did a thing that I need folks to know about for a lot of practical and not-practical reasons: I changed the name of the fourth book in the Gilded Love series (the holiday Rom-Com I released in 2019) from Crazy Old Money to Loaded: A Holiday Romance. And I didn’t just do it because the latter is a better title. As I was busy doing a lookback edit of the book while I had it switched from third person to first person, my editor posed a question that I took seriously: is it insensitive—even inappropriate—to use the word “crazy” as such a central part of my book?