Goodreads asked Kaye D. Schmitz:

Where did you get the idea for your most recent book?

Kaye D. Schmitz I visited a three-hundred-year-old graveyard in which were buried signers of the Declaration of Independence and the U. S. Constitution. Those were the graves I went there to see. But I was drawn to an old section of the cemetery where I found three above-ground crypts. The husband was buried in the middle with his wife on one side of him and his consort on the other side of him. At the time, I thought consort meant mistress and was incensed that his mistress would be buried in the same plot as his wife. With research, however, I found that was simply another name for spouse. The other thing that intrigued me about the consort's grave was that she died at seventeen and her twin daughters were buried with her. That was my idea nugget and when I completed the "what if" process, I had my novel, THE CONSORT CONSPIRACY, A Covington Family Mystery.

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