Kathy Reichbach asked Lauren Willig:

I just read the first Pink Carnation book, actually listened to it on CD during a road trip. I earned a J.D. a few years ago at a very competitive law school, but nothing like Harvard. How on earth did you find time to also write a terrific historical novel, requiring no small amount of research? I'm impressed!

Lauren Willig Kathy, that is so kind of you! The truth is that Pink was already done and the manuscript in the hands of an agent by the time I started at HLS (I got my first book contract my first month of law school, which was both disconcerting and wonderful). So it's not nearly as impressive as it looks! I did write "Black Tulip" and "Emerald Ring" in law school, but by then I already knew the world and the characters, which made it easier. And nothing makes law school less stressful than being distracted by something else!

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