Ciao, amici. Today I’m happy to introduce a new-to-this-blog author. Please help me give a warm welcome to Anne Miller, who’s going to talk to us about her debut novel and her WIP. Take it away, Anne.

The idea for The Last Photograph came to me back when I was in college, after I saw the videos for Garth Brooks’ songs, ‘The Dance’ and ‘If Tomorrow Never Comes’. I thought: why not write a love story that deals with loss from the man’s point of view? I mean, after all, what woman wouldn’t want to read a book that actually got inside a man’s mind, especially a man who was taught to believe real men build walls to close off their emotions?

The ideas kept flowing from there, but to get them down on paper – in a form I found acceptable to be published – was a far more…