Scottsdale resident Jenn McKinlay has spent the past 25 years writing romance and mystery novels, publishing her first book more than two decades ago.<\/p>\n
Now, one of those stories is getting a new life on screen. McKinlay\u2019s novel Paris Is Always a Good Idea has been adapted into a six-episode Hallmark+ miniseries, with the first two episodes premiering July 30 and a new episode releasing each Thursday.<\/p>\n
The book was different from McKinlay\u2019s other work from the beginning. She said the story came to her already fully formed and was lightly inspired by a friend\u2019s experiences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Scottsdale resident Jenn McKinlay has spent the past 25 years writing romance and mystery novels, publishing her first…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":991820,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5131],"tags":[5229,5643,1587,10799,397661,397663,397662,1589,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-991819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-phoenix","tag-america","tag-arizona","tag-az","tag-hallmark","tag-jenn-mckinlay","tag-paradise-valley-scottsdale","tag-paris-is-always-a-good-idea","tag-phoenix","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117067768706061511","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=991819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991819\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/991820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=991819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=991819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=991819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}