1--What is the title of your latest release?
THE LOST BOOK OF FIRST LOVES
2--What’s the “elevator pitch” for your new book?
Under the Wyoming summer sun, two women connected in ways they never imagined will uncover a lost manuscript, untangle family secrets, and discover the true meaning of sisterhood.
3--How did you decide where your book was going to take place?
I love the mountains of western Wyoming. I actually spent a summer working at the Jackson Lake Lodge in Grand Teton National Park and truly grew to love that area. When I was looking for a gorgeous western locale that might provide inspiration to a literary icon, Wyoming certainly matched the criteria.
4--Would you hang out with your protagonist in real life?
Yes. Definitely. I would love to be friends with either of the sisters I write about in the book.
5--What are three words that describe your protagonist?
Creative, independent, fierce
6--What’s something you learned while writing this book?
I learned a great deal about what goes into hosting a successful YouTube travel vlog! One of my heroes documents his travels around the world to an adoring fan base.
7--Do you edit as you draft or wait until you are totally done?
I draft a really ugly first draft then clean it up in a second draft, which is always the hardest one. Then I polish in the third draft.
8--What’s your favorite foodie indulgence?
My husband’s wood-fired Margherita Pizza!
9--Describe your writing space/office!
I’m lucky enough to have an office outside my home in the house next door. It’s lovely and quiet! My actual writing room is fairly barebones with a desk, sofa and TV. When I’m writing, I like to turn on YouTube videos (muted!) of live webcams around the world in beautiful places. It helps me connect with the outside world.
10--Who is an author you admire?
I really love Sarah Morgan’s books. They always make me so happy!
11--Is there a book that changed your life?
The Enchanted Land by Jude Deveraux. It was the first romance novel I ever read and compelled me to fall in love with the genre. I never would have guessed that decades later I would have more than 75 books of my own out in the world.
12--Tell us about when you got “the call.” (when you found out your book was going to be published)/Or, for indie authors, when you decided to self-publish.
Way back in the dark ages (early 90s) when I was first submitting to publishers, we didn’t even have email. We definitely couldn’t have imagined ebooks. I had to send mailed letters to editors at New York publishers and then mail the printed manuscript. They could go awry, unfortunately.
After a pretty tough rejection from Silhouette from an editor I had been working with for a few years, I submitted a query to Bantam Loveswept. An editor there liked it and asked for the full manuscript. I sent it and then waited … and waited … and waited. Nearly a year later, when she finally followed up and asked where it was, we figured out it was probably lost in the mail somewhere. I re-sent the manuscript. She responded quickly, said she liked it and asked if I had anything else. I sent her the second book I had been working on while I waited. A few months later she called and offered me a contract for both books, five years after I first started trying to write fiction. It was amazing! I can still vividly remember sitting in a restaurant with my family celebrating and thinking my life was going to completely change. I was right!
13--What’s your favorite genre to read?
Historical romance.
14--What’s your favorite movie?
Pride and Prejudice.
15--What is your favorite season?
Springtime! I love the blooming flowers, the uncertainty of the weather and the promise of beautiful days ahead.
16--How do you like to celebrate your birthday?
I’m boring. I love being with my family. This year our oldest made me a delicious French meal with ratatouille, creme brulee and chicken cordon bleu. It was fantastic!
17--What’s a recent tv show/movie/book/podcast you highly recommend?
I love A DATE WITH DATELINE. The hosts always make me laugh as they recap the weekly Dateline episodes. I don’t always even have to watch Dateline, but I love ADWD.
18--What’s your favorite type of cuisine?
Italian. Yum.
19--What do you do when you have free time?
Read or listen to an audiobook while playing mindless games on my iPad.
20--What can readers expect from you next?
My next release after THE LOST BOOK OF FIRST LOVES is SNOW KISSED, coming out in October 2025. This is the third installment in my holiday-centered Shelter Springs series, though can be read as a standalone.
From New York Times bestselling author RaeAnne Thayne comes a brand-new story about two women, a family secret and a lost manuscript that changes everything…
Raised by her literary icon father Carson Wells, Alison Wells always felt loved, even though her mother died when she was a teen. But when she takes a DNA test on a whim and discovers she has a sister she never knew about, it’s clear there are things her father didn't tell her before he died. Determined to meet Juniper—her half sister—and unravel the truth of what happened all those years ago, Ali finds herself taking a job as Juniper’s intern. She’ll eventually figure out a way to tell Juniper the truth of their relationship. But she never could have imagined what would happen next…
Juniper Connolly has always been incredibly healthy…until she wakes up in the hospital after experiencing cardiac arrest, with her new—and recently fired—intern to thank for saving her life. It’s clear June needs to de-stress her life a little, so when Ali offers her the use of her family’s cabin in a small Wyoming town, June has no reason not to go. But when she arrives, her life will never be the same.
Under the wide-open spaces of the Wyoming summer sun, Ali and June will untangle the secrets and lies their lives were built on to discover who they really are and what family really means. But even more than that, they'll build a real relationship with one another and finally become sisters.
Women's Fiction Contemporary [Canary Street Press, On Sale: June 3, 2025, Trade Paperback / e-Book , ISBN: 9781335467713 / eISBN: 9780369756794]
Stories of Hope, Healing, & Heart
RaeAnne Thayne will do anything to tell a story. In 15 years as a newspaper reporter and editor, she rode along with a motorcycle gang, took a trip in a hot air balloon and even gave a hunky country music star her home phone number (it was for an interview -- honest!).
When she wasn't working as a journalist, though, RaeAnne worked on her real love -- writing romance novels. She dreamed of publishing a book long before she ever thought it was possible. In fact, college friends used to spend hours when they should have been studying, trying to help her come up with a good pseudonym (none of which she actually ended up using, since she writes under her own name!).
After graduating from college, she took a job as a reporter at a daily newspaper, then moved to news editor. It wasn't until she was home on maternity leave after the birth of her first child in 1990 that RaeAnne seriously tried her hand at fiction writing. She sold her first book in 1995 and quit her editor job two years later to write full-time.
She is a two-time recipient of the Heart of Romance Reader's Choice award and has been a finalist for the RITA and for the National Reader's Choice award.
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