![]() ![]() So I wanted someone who was a better illustrator than I am. I have degrees in fine art and graphic design. ![]() I wrote it down, and I was like "I want Bo Feng Lin to illustrate my cover." That is what I want. When I was working on this book and knowing we were hoping for it to be in trade paperback and that it would likely have an illustrated cover, this was one my one thing. So the illustrator of the cover is Bo Feng Lin, and he is someone I've been following on Instagram for a few years now. So I wanted something that had that celebrity aspect but also very grounded in family. I was watching One Day at a Time on Netflix, and I was also thinking about other shows that I loved and how they show the family element on the show, like Ugly Betty or Jane the Virgin. In terms of television, I have always been interested not just in TV shows, but behind the scenes, how they get made, what the gossip is, what actors are thinking as they go into their roles. ![]() She's here to film a show, but she's also at this rough time in her life and isn't sure if she's going to stay or not. Because for some of us, New York City is a hometown. But I wanted to write about three Puerto Rican cousins, who are either in California or New York, and I thought, "What if one of them just came back from California, what would that look like?" That's how I ended up with Jasmine as this actress who comes back home to her hometown. I wasn't sure what that was going to look like. ALEXIS DARIA: I first got the idea to write about three cousins. ![]()
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