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	Julia Ross, a brief bio: I spent my teenage years in England in a Georgian house that had last been remodeled in 1820. There were still stone sinks in the kitchen and servants' bells in the hall when I moved in with my family. In that house, curled up in front of an original fireplace, I read my first ever Regency romance, The Grand Sophy by Georgette Heyer. Already a fan of Jane Austen, I was hooked. It was easy to imagine life in that house in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. We had no central heating, so it was an adventure in courage just to climb out of bed on winter mornings, especially when ice crystals bloomed on the inside of the windows.
EEEbook editions available soon	I had no idea then that I'd ever become a novelist. Yet simply because I loved romance and British history, one day, many years later, I decided to write a Regency romance of my own. I wrote it just for me, sure it was too "different" ever to sell. The joy of writing that story simply swept me away. Expecting nothing, I sent the manuscript to a New York publisher, picked pretty much at random. To my surprise I was immediately offered a two-book contract. That first novel was published by Zebra as Scandal's Reward by "Jean R. Ewing." Five more Regencies followed before I decided I needed to write longer historical novels with even more complexity and passion.
	The result was eight critically-acclaimed, award-winning historical romances for Berkley/Jove. All of my books are set mostly in Britain in either the Georgian or Regency periods, with occasional excursions into other wonderfully romantic places, including the Alps and Napoleonic Paris. And here's a traveling inkwell that belonged to my Great-Great-Great-Aunt Anne on the English side. Anne was a lady's companion. I like to imagine her writing letters home as she traveled around Britain and Europe with her employer. But, alas, though I have her inkwell, none of her letters have survived.