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I've written more than a dozen books set during the Regency period, but each book poses different questions. Each book requires a bit of research. Some books require a lot of research. Fortunately, Sapphires Are an Earl's Best Friend didn't require the sort of tedious research some books do. I can't even complain too much because a lot of my research involved looking at sparkly jewels. Like this necklace I sent to the cover designers, hoping they'd use it on the cover. As you can see, I think it did inspire the artists. The one they used is even prettier and more interesting, in my opinion.   At one point, I had to do a bit of research on sapphires themselves. I found out they come in many different colors, including pink!   And then there were the pretty people. Sometimes I like an image of my characters in my head, and I'd had these images of Lily and Darlington in my head from the very first book in the series. This is how I pictured...

AKA the If You Give a Rake a Ruby Launch Party My mother reads my books, but she’s pretty conservative. She’d rather I didn’t write about S-E-X so much. I think she skips those parts. In any case, she never mentions them. We can have a lengthy discussion about my new book, and you’d never know there was a love story in there. So you can imagine my sense of foreboding when I started a new series about three Regency courtesans. How was I going to pitch this to my mother? I got around it for a little while. When you’ve written a few books, you can talk about your work in generalities. No one is all that interested in what the story is about. But finally my mother realized I had sold a new 3-book series, and she asked what it was about. I mumbled, “It’s about three glamorous Regency mumble mumble who find true love.” “Courtesans?” She looked a little pale. “Aren’t those prostitutes?” “Not really. They were independent women. They chose their own lovers and could be hi...