Julie: My husband used to tell me when I would get frustrated with that manuscript, he would say, “Don't write that. That's not you. You should write what you're writing in your emails.” I had a number of emails about mom life that were funny. They were kind of going viral in our social group. He was like, “You need to tap into that. That's what resonates with you. You're a funny writer.” I was trying to write a serious novel, but I think I'm more for humorous novels. He said, “Write what you write in your emails.” Then I remember thinking, that is the craziest thing, looking at email and saying, how do I take an email and build that into a whole storyline? There was a kernel of something in there. I think it was a kernel of truth, the truth that I was living and my friends were living in motherhood that needed exploring. Then I set the other manuscript aside after many, many years and started with my twenty-six letters and set of punctuation marks, black ink on white paper. I started letter by letter, word by word building out the story that eventually became the first book in the Village of Primm series, Holly Banks Full of Angst.