Goodreads asked Laini Giles:

Who is your favorite fictional couple, and why?

Laini Giles I'm gonna have to say Gretchen Griner and Lobo from Sarah Bird's "The Boyfriend School."

It's one of my favorite books of all time. I loved it so much and laughed so hard while I was reading it, that I wanted to duplicate that feeling in all of my own novels.

Gretchen is a reporter who works for a shoestring weekly paper in Austin, and she's sleeping with her boss, who's a trust fund douchebag. When she travels to Dallas to cover a romance writers' convention (the Luvboree), she decides she wants to write a romance novel. And suddenly, her life begins changing in strange and hilarious ways, thanks to her new acquaintance, Lizzie.

Count me as one of those who was completely annoyed that the movie "Don't Tell Her It's Me," completely changed the location, the main character's name, AND left out Juanita, one of my favorite characters. But it was still cute, and I think Shelley Long did a good job as Lizzie. And Steve Guttenberg is surprisingly hot with blue contacts and a bad permed blonde-ish mullet.

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