Fun Facts for “Never Has She Ever”

Factoid One
Jenna is the youngest main character in the Carlsbad series, displacing Amber.

Factoid Two
Stephanie is the second youngest main character in the Carlsbad series.

Factoid Three
First time a main character (Jenna) is related to one of the main characters (Grace) in the book which immediately preceded it.

Factoid Four
This book marks the latest appearance of Vanessa in the story.

Factoid Five
Only the second time in which a book opens with an MC who was only mentioned in the previous book, but who didn’t have any spoken lines. (Seven Days to Forever was the first.)

Factoid Six
Because I wrote an early portion of this book over my father’s birthday in March, and he’s a big New York Yankees fan, all of the surnames used in the book are those of former New York Yankees baseball players.

Factoid Seven
Like Stephanie, my favorite architectural style is Modernism.

Factoid Eight
Stephanie’s former roommate, Mayla, is the name of one of my beta reader’s goddaughters.

Factoid Nine
Saltine crackers are actually one of my favorite snack items. I can eat them plain, with nothing on them, and be perfectly happy.

And…
Factoid Ten
The only book in the series with only one woman on the cover.


Bonus Factoid
SPOILER ALERT
One of my beta readers warned me that others might not like the fact that in the post-epilogue, it is mentioned that Jenna and Stephanie eventually break up. But in my mind, that was the only way their story made any sense.
I just couldn’t have ended the book with a standard HEA ending because Jenna and Stephanie are simply too young for that to be plausible. I understand that it happens, but it doesn’t happen more often than it does.
With so much still ahead of them at the end of the first epilogue—finishing school, starting their careers, beginning all that “real adulthood” mentioned in Chapter 26—I felt it was asking too much of my readers to believe that they would remain together “ever after” at that point.