I get asked about writing another historical every time someone picks up Clara's Promise and reads it. Clara's Promise was a joy to write and I never considered myself a historical novelist. I loved learning about the old West and Black people's involvement in it. I wanted everyone to know that the frontiers were boundless for Blacks too , that we played a huge role in the opening and settling of the West, and I wanted to write a love story between two of the pioneers of that time. Clara and Luke were just perfect.

After submitting the manuscript it to the Arabesque line in 1995, when the line was doing several different types of women's fiction, the editors decided they wanted to go totally contemporary. The idea I was working on for a new historical, involving the teaching of hair care and beauty products for Black women in 1890's Boston, has never been completed because of the number of contemporaries I've been writing. However, I will get to it.

I know there is are many historical stories that need to be told. At the moment I am not working on them because of contracts for other books which must be met first. In the future I hope to write many historicals.