Maggie

Maggie asked Mimi Matthews:

Your novels often feature leads whom are disabled or suffer from chronic illness. As someone with both, I have found your portrayals both accurate, respectful and empathetic. It's unusual to find and I was wondering if you had lived experience either with yourself or through someone you know? Love your books, they regularly get a reread.

Mimi Matthews Thanks for your question, Maggie! I'm so glad you've been enjoying my stories. My portrayal of disability and chronic illness is inspired and informed by my own experience. I broke my neck many years ago and have had to have several cervical spine surgeries, resulting in reduced mobility and chronic pain. A lot of my characters deal with similarly traumatic injuries where they have to come to terms with a new kind of life. Some of them are initially reluctant, either to rehabilitate an injury or to accept their limitations. I can personally relate to that struggle, along with the depression that often comes with it.

Hope that answers your question! xx Mimi

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Lori Johnson

Lori Johnson asked Mimi Matthews:

Mimi, I've read ALL of your books and I have to say I get very sad when they're over. I don't like to put my book down because the stories are so captivating and the characters pull at my heartstrings. Thank you for being my "get a way" if only for a few hundred pages at a time. Will you be continuing the Orphan series after the Winter Companion or do new adventures await me? Lori

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Hi, It's mentioned that the Breach of promise suit didn't make it in A Holiday by Gaslight. Will you be writing another book based on Breach of promise? I would love to read your thoughts on that in form of a novel. A broken engagement is one thing but Breach of promise gives a different dimension to a story (with regards to a broken engagement).

May

May asked Mimi Matthews:

Hi there I recently discovered your books and have been plowing through them! They are beautifully written and I only wish there were more. I do have one question - will The Viscount and the Vicar's Daughter be released as an e-book? Or is it available as one and I've somehow missed it? Many thanks in advance Best regards May

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