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Readers Poll 22: What most influenced your decision to first read my books?

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Emily

February 2, 2015 at 5:24 pm •

None of the above. It was meeting you at Waldenbooks in Cameron Village all those years ago when I stopped in to see my husband who worked there. Your personality and the brief conversation we had convinced me to try out your books, and I have been a loyal fan ever since (almost 14 years now). Thank you for taking the time.

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Regency Tidbit

I admit it. I invented the widow’s auction that is the basis for my reissued novella, The Widow’s Auction. To my knowledge, no such auction ever occurred in a gentlemen’s club. But other similarly scandalous events took place. Like the Cyprian’s Ball held in the Argyll Rooms annually during the period. There’s even a famous print from the period depicting it.

A Cyprian was a courtesan, and the ball enabled women who couldn’t attend balls and society events normally to have their own where they could scope out potential protectors and vice-versa. So my auction is a bit of a variation on that, with masked respectable widows auctioning off their favors to gentlemen for one night. After all, why should courtesans have all the fun?

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