![]() Silk & Secrets is based on a real rescue mission to Bokhara in the early 1840s. Mary Jo Putney has set several of her books in Asia. Readers seeing "Near the Baltic Sea" first thing on opening the book probably did not help. My publisher did not tag the Prologue's setting "Lithuania." Instead it was tagged "Near the Baltic Sea." I think By Possession is one of my best books, and it earned me my first contract, but it is the only book I have written that did not make national bestseller lists. ![]() Only it had a prologue for the hero, before he returns home. So I wrote the sequel instead, which takes place in England. Without saying "Are you a freaking idiot?" she managed to let me know that, well, yes, there could be a problem with a book set there. When she spoke again she gave me a friendly, professional reality check. The connection went so silent I thought she had hung up. Before I launched into my pitch, I asked, in all innocence, whether there would be a problem with a book set in medieval Lithuania. ![]() A few years before I sold my first book (so we are going back at least 15 years), I called my agent with a great idea for a new story. ![]()
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