![]() ![]() ![]() Regarding the paranormal element of my story, apart from my heroine Aida’s talents as a spirit medium and the ghosts haunting my hero, there’s a bit of folk magic used by auxiliary characters: some hoodoo spells and a nod to traditional Chinese magic. Once I began dreaming up my 1920s story there, everything clicked into place. I scrapped that first version and started all over again, this time as a romance set in San Francisco. A year or so later, though, my mind kept wandering back to it. My agent hated it, so I put it aside and never intended to revisit it again. The first draft of Bitter Spirits was actually not a romance, and it was set in an alternate Baltimore. ![]() I guess it was waiting on the shelves for me to use it. Since then, I’ve amassed a small library of 1920s books and research material. My personal love affair with the 1920s started way, way back in my teens (a dog-eared copy of The Great Gatsby+ a French bob + long strings of flapper-friendly beads inherited from my grandmother). And the answer to that is simple: I wrote what I wanted to read. I’m often asked what inspired me to write a romance between a spirit medium and a bootlegger in a haunted 1920 San Francisco. ![]()
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