Goodreads asked Laura Ellen Scott:

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

Laura Ellen Scott The Juliet (Pandamoon Publishing) should be out this year, and it's about 100 years in the "life" of a cursed emerald. My mother is a gemologist, and ever time she comes to see us we go to the Smithsonian Hall of Gems where everybody is always shoving around to get to the Hope Diamond. Mom is always, "So what, there are plenty of better specimens here than that old thing." That always impressed me, that she had no interest in gossip. Me, I'm all about gossip.

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