How did you come up with the idea for the Lord Meren mystery series?
When I first started writing I quickly realized I’d have to concentrate on historical writing because that’s what interested me. Ancient Egypt was my first love, the period about which I read the most. However, Bantam Books, my historical romance publisher, was reluctant to let me leave my successful Tudor, medieval and Victorian time periods, so I looked around for another avenue. One day I found it in a book store mystery section. I love mysteries, and I was looking at one set in the Victorian period. Next I saw one set in the Elizabethan period, and one in Roman times. That’s when the idea clicked-if people can read about the Romans in mysteries, they can go back a few thousand years earlier and read about ancient Egyptian mysteries! The Lord Meren series seems like an especially difficult series to write because of the time period in which it was set. It’s not difficult for someone with my background. I think writing a contemporary mystery and dealing with all that technical and sc
