TJB trivia answers

I can’t believe only four people attempted the TJB trivia quiz. Brave souls! Thank you, Gene, Lisa, Mark, and ‘Nathan.

1. In an early draft of IT HAD TO BE YOU, with a bunch of unused chapters, Daniel’s love interest was his old nemesis, Adam Wilson. Though we ditched that idea and those chapters, the four writers realized we had a crush on Adam. That’s how he came to get his own book, HE’S THE ONE.

2. Everyone got this right, though I don’t know how you knew. There was never a character named Suzanne Suzannadana. Susan Breslin was in an outtake. I don’t know if any of Jonas’s scenes made it into any novel. And Bill Hamilton is only seen in a Daniel flashback; he never appears in “real time.”

3. Linda, Mark, and Joanna are all cousins of Daniel. Crystal is his aunt, and it’s Daniel’s mother who’s a dental hygienist.

4. The Big Cup and the Screening Room are both Manhattan businesses that are now closed. (It’s not our fault!) Fisher’s White House is an Eau Claire, Wisconsin restaurant. But Drayden’s exists only in the TJB world.

5. Aunt Jen is Jennifer Stephenson Wright Taylor. She was married to one of those husbands more than once. And she may have some other last names we don’t know about. But Parker is Lillith’s last name.

Thanks for playing!