A: I'm very picky about Tess ideas. I had been thinking about doing a novel about Tess' parents, but I decided to do something different. My next novel is about another woman who walks out on a marriage and re-invents herself as a cub reporter at a newspaper. It's set in Baltimore in 1966, which is a little bittersweet for me, because that's the year after my dad (columnist Theo Lippman Jr.) started at the Sun. He died in 2014. There are so many questions he could have answered.