I may have blacked out, Guillory recalls of receiving the news.

I was really excited.

My editor was very excited and asked me if I was sitting down before [they] told me.

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I hope it makes people talk about all the romances that do that great kind of work.

I was much more nervous about the second book than I was about the first book.

I wasnt anticipating anything, whereas withThe Proposalyou anticipate everything a month in advance.

So that is something that is very personal to me.

But it does just really come naturally to me.

All of these businesses are basically passion projects.

So I have a go at come up with backstories where they got the money to have their business.

I would definitely pick the cupcake shop.

It was very fun for me, by the way, to come up with all of Courtneys cupcakes.

I spent a lot of time thinking of all the different cupcakes Courtney would have in her shop.

Part of the thing about the gym was I always really hated gyms.

So I wanted to come up with In your fantasy gym, what would it feel like?

And thats really what Natalies gym was like for me.

Whats your favorite Reese Witherspoon movie, and why?Legally Blonde.

That is a very easy answer for me.

Especially since the bookLegally Blondewas set at Stanford Law School, where I went to law school.

There are a lot of different layers there.

But I also adored the movie, and I distinctly remember the first time I saw it.

I saw it with a bunch of my friends from law school, and we had a great time.

Of course, Reese also loves to make books into movies and TV shows.