Bonnie asked S.M. LaViolette:

I love your stories and have found myself frequently rereading them. As I was going through the Countess and the Music of Love (again), I had a question about some of the secondary characters? Is there ever any plans to tell the story about Gideon's ex-valet, Jackson? Also, what about Stacy's brother Robert - will he and Kitty have a tale to be told to resolve their past?

S.M. LaViolette Hi Bonnie:

Thanks for your lovely message, it gives me warm fuzzies to know you are doing some re-reading of my books! Especially HIS COUNTESS, which is one of my personal favorites.

I have stories started for both those characters and I am especially interested in learning more about Jackson (I'm a "discovery" writer so I never know what will happen until the words are down on the page, which means I am very curious about some of my own characters).

To make a long story short (pun intended8>) I'd hoped to write novellas for both Jackson and Kitty/Robert, but when I started writing the story quickly got out of control (a frequent issue for me...) so I had to put them on the back burner. Right now I have about 40 stories on my "back burner" (yes, a very large stove!!)

With 7 books to write this has been my busiest year, yet. Ironically, it is the ONE novella that I've committed to that is taking me the longest...

All that is to say I'm not sure when Jackson & Kitty's stories will be told.

There just isn't enough time in the day for all of them, unfortunately.

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