Pen Pals: Jenny Colgan & Mike Gayle

The friendship between novelists Jenny Colgan and Mike Gayle constantly yields inspiration and cup-filling conversations.

When they met in 2000, Colgan was an unpublished hopeful drawn to Gayle’s first novel, My Legendary Girlfriend, and their mutual reverence for romance.

Since then, she’s sold 15 million books and he’s won the Romantic Novelists’ Association Outstanding Achievement Award.

Today, they chat about the importance of friends who not only understand your craft but have your back.