LOIS CAHALL is the author of Maybe Marilyn: A Novel (Post Hill Press); The Many Lives & Loves of Hazel Lavery: A Novel; Court of the Myrtles; and Plan C: Just in Case, a runaway No. 1 bestseller in the U.K. that remained in the top-three fiction books for 2012. Cahall spent her early career writing women’s, men’s, food and culture articles for Hearst and Conde Nast publications. She is the former creative director of development at James Patterson Entertainment and the founder of the Cape Cod Book Festival and the Palm Beach Book Festival.