The result of that desire of mine to succeed and be acknowledged for my accomplishments, together with my creative nature, prompted me to start writing Love Once In Passing. It took me two years to sell it through a believing agent, Chris Tomasino, but then, after it was sold to Avon, it had its original cover assigned to a best selling book by Kathleen Woodiwiss, wherein the artwork for my cover was transferred to hers, and the release of my book, Love Once In Passing, was delayed for months since a new cover had to be designed.

The book I wrote, whose cover went to Kathleen Woodiwiss, became a best seller when it was finally published in November, 1981.

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Between the two books, I wrote and published another book, Hold Fast to Love, which featured a modern day woman suddenly finding herself in early 19th century London--sort of a reverse of what happened to Christopher and Jessica in Love Once In Passing.

That book did well, but it never created the fervor that Love Once In Passing did, and before it was even published, my publisher asked me to write this sequel to Love Once In Passing.

I did, because in my writer's heart I never wanted to let Christopher and Jessica go, and in my more material mind, I desperately needed the money to raise my two children whose father refused to pay me child support.

I did a huge amount of research on old New York in preparation for writing Love Once Again, and a lot of research into the Connecticut area in which Jessica finds herself, some of it based on my own memories and experiences having grown up there.

My mother, who hadn't read my first book until my agent embarrassed her, read this book, called me and told me she'd cried during parts of the book. That was the first admission my mother ever made to me personally that she respected my talents. (I had three younger brothers, you see, that she doted on--such was the life of a girl in the 50's and early 60's.)