Are Alex, Henry or any of the other characters inspired by or based on specific individuals? I was fascinated by the worlds of both of those books, so I wanted to do something fun inside them on the backdrop of an intense election year. The idea for this book came to me while I was following the 2016 presidential election and reading A Woman in Charge by Carl Bernstein and The Royal We by Heather Cocks & Jessica Morgan at the same time. RWRB was inspired by so many of my favorite things- Pride & Prejudice, Veep, Parks & Recreation, Chasing Liberty, The West Wing, first family memoirs, the list goes on. What was your inspiration for Red White & Royal Blue? Red, White & Royal Blue is her first novel and she recently agreed to be interviewed about it by Daryl Maxwell for the LAPL Blog. She now lives in the mountains of Fort Collins, Colorado, with a collection of caftans and her poodle mix, Pepper. She studied journalism and worked in magazine publishing for years before returning to her first love: joyous, offbeat romantic comedies and escapist fiction. Casey McQuiston grew up in the swamps of Southern Louisiana, where she cultivated an abiding love for honey butter biscuits and stories with big, beating hearts.
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