What about Mike? He’s so different than your other male characters. How did you come up with the idea for his character?

Mike was a fun character to write, and to be frank, I liked writing about someone who wasn’t completely comfortable with the opposite sex. I think Mike is a lot closer to reality than most of the major characters people come across in novels. Most seem too good, too confident to be real. Mike, on the other hand, was entirely believable, and I wanted to create a character that seemed like many people of the people I know.