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Welcome, Brenda.

Thanks for coming on Mom's Center Time to Read Books. Thanks so much for having me. So I'm super excited to discuss the Grace Kelly dress today, which, by the way, I love this cover, and I have such dress envy of this dress. How did you even pick this cover and this image? Do you have anything to do with it? Well, I wish I could say I had something to do with it because I happened to love this cover. But, alas, no. It's really the brilliant art team at Graydon House, and I think they did a phenomenal job. I had talked with my editor and my agent about covers that I was obsessed with that I loved. I created a whole Pinterest page. Oh, cool. And, yeah, one of the things we realized we really loved was when the title was really graphic and large. And so we knew we wanted that.

But my editor pointed out, obviously, we need to see the dress. And since the Grace Kelly dress

refers to Grace Kelly's iconic wedding gown, we knew we wanted some sort of a replica. So this is actually

the second draft of the cover, second or third, but it's definitely the second dress. And I really

encourage them to use more details from Grace Kelly's dress. And so we got the comma buns in there

and the buttons going down the back. So I think they did a phenomenal

job. I'm really pleased with how it came out. Me too. The first draft was gorgeous also, though,

I have to, I have to say. So tell listeners what the Grace Kelly dress is about and then how

you came up with this idea for this book. Yeah, so the Grace Kelly dress is about an heirloom

wedding gown and three generations of women whose lives are

sort of influenced by this dress and changed by the dress. And it takes place in three different

timelines, which is something I've never done before. So in 2020, we see our modern bride. And she's sort of

under pressure from her mom to wear this heirloom gown. And in 1982, we see the bride's mother, who's really excited about wearing the dress herself,

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