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Chandra Hoffman WHAT PRETTY GETS YOU, my newest upmarket women's fiction novel, releases next month. That means I'll be busy with shouting it from the rooftops for a …moreWHAT PRETTY GETS YOU, my newest upmarket women's fiction novel, releases next month. That means I'll be busy with shouting it from the rooftops for a few weeks, and then right back to work on my next novel, a widow/widower love story with a twist set in the Cayman Islands. (less)

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Where did you get the idea for your most recent book?

Chandra Hoffman The idea for this story formed twenty-three years ago. I had a friend who was incredibly gorgeous, so stunning that people thought they’d had a celebr…moreThe idea for this story formed twenty-three years ago. I had a friend who was incredibly gorgeous, so stunning that people thought they’d had a celebrity sighting when we went out together. The trouble was, she had a seriously undeveloped moral compass, and so I watched in horror and fascination as she bulldozed through lives, stealing/lying/cheating, leaving chaos and broken relationships in her wake.
But because she was beautiful, there was always a new group willing to welcome her in. It started me thinking about how beauty without substance could make life both easy and lonely. I wondered what someone who used their looks as currency might bump up against that would stop these destructive patterns, what would be bigger, more sacred than the surface? Of course, the answer was a family.
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	Chosen 3.41 avg rating — 1,290 ratings — published 2010 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	What Pretty Gets You 4.35 avg rating — 141 ratings — published 2021 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Is 51 the 2/3 point?

Thank you for all the birthday wishes. 51 is causing more introspection than last year’s typical milestone of 50. In part this may be that in 2024 I was in Arizona, distracted by the captivating depths of the Grand Canyon and the perhaps more terrifying prospect that my baby would choose a college on the other side of the continent.

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