On the 7th Day of Blogmas We Have Sabrina Darby

On The 7th Day of Blogmas We Have Sabrina Darby! Author of the Romance " On These Silken Sheets"

Lets give a Warm Welcome to Sabrina * woo hoo, clap,clap,clapYAY*

Thank you for being here today Sabrina! I'm so glad you could join us, And Thank you For the awesome Interview!!!

Now head on down to the interview, meet Sabrina, and get to know a lil more about her and her new romance " On These Silken Sheets" She is such a sweetie!!!

Sabrina has also Offered 1 signed copy of "On These Soilken Sheets" for me to giveaway to a lucky fan , and will also be stopping by throughout the day to chat and answer any questions! Sabrina has also offered the MOST EXCITING gift for the extra bonus!!!! but i'm not teliing what yet!!! You'll have to wait and see, but it is a totally awesome item !!!!

JJBC~Do you read any reviews on your books?

SD~If google alerts picks up a review, I do end up reading it. I like reading reviews because as much as I think I know all the strengths and flaws of my works, I am always learning more about the craft of successfully telling a story.

JJBC~Do you read your own books after they make it to final print?
SD~Yes. Of course, I’ve only had one opportunity to try this out ;-) I’ll let you know what I opt to do in the future.

JJBC~What do you like to Read? Your Favorite Genre?
SD~I tend to like regency romance, historical fiction, and early 20thc fiction.

JJBC~Do you have a favorite book /series?
SD~I don’t actually but I do love The American Woman in the Chinese Hat by Carole Maso. For pure romance, I really liked Elizabeth Boyle’s His Mistress by Morning, Meredith Duran’s Duke of Shadows, and then some real oldies that the reality of haven’t so much held up to my current standards but the memory of them has.

JJBC~Did you always want to be a writer?
SD~Pretty much. But I thought I might be a Doctor/Writer for a while, a la Crichton.

JJBC~Is writing your full time job?
SD~Not yet ;-)

JJBC~Do you set a daily writing goal?
SD~I do if I have a deadline. I like to write between 1000-1500 words a day. More of course if I can’t help myself, but with all the other stuff I do, this is a manageable amount.

JJBC~When and where do you like to write?
SD~ I mostly write at home, in the room that has been temporarily serving as an office. Sometimes I sit on the floor. Sometimes in the living room. I wrote all of On These Silken Sheets sitting at the kitchen table in a hard wooden chair.

JJBC~Are there any processes you use when writing? Do you keep journals, sticky notes, chicken scratch on the back of receipts?
SD~I have been known to write on the back of receipts. However, the majority of my writing gets done on the computer or sometimes if I am in revisions, on a printed out hard copy. All but one of my manuscripts was first written in writer isolation. However, after I discovered Romance Divas and joined RWA, that changed a bit. My sister used to be my only beta reader. Now, I’ve expanded that circle a bit.

JJBC~What is the hardest / easiest part of writing for you?
SD~Committing. If I am going to spend 3 months on a 90k novel, I need to be in love with the idea and committed to actually doing the work. I love starting the next project while finishing the first so that I have a seamless transition. Otherwise, I end up spending a few weeks or months fiddling around, unable to commit to a project.

JJBC~How long did you write before you became a published author?
SD~Most of my life? But I started writing romance a year and a half before my first romance sale.

JJBC~Who’s your favorite hero/heroine?
SD~Ok this is hard. Do you mean of my books or of fiction in general? Maybe the heroines of Frances Burney’s Evelina, or Cecilia...and for hero, I’ve said this elsewhere before but my current fave is one of AJ Chase’s. One of her unpublished manuscripts, is a romantic suspense about a hot, secretive, British choreographer and believe me, that man can move!

JJBC~Do you have any advice for aspiring writers?
SD~I recently wrote a post to my aspiring romance author self of three years ago. And in the comments, other authors and aspiring authors posted their letters to themselves. It was so wonderful to read those other letters as well. I think there is a wealth of advice in that post. (http://romanticinks.com/2009/12/09/letter-to-an-aspiring-romance-author/)

JJBC~Is there anything else you would like to share with your followers today?
SD~ I love hearing from people. Also, please do join my mailing list or stop by the website in the week before Christmas because there will be a few holiday surprises!


ON THESE SILKEN SHEETS

JJBC~Can you tell you tell us a little bit about ON THESE SILKEN SHEETS?
SD~If you want the more traditional synopsis, there is always the back of the book ;-). However, since I am here and chatting, I’ll give you my personal take. It’s 1808, London. England is at war but within the walls of Harridan House, a private club for those gentlemen and their ladies in search of amorous pursuits, the only battles are fought between the sheets. There are four interconnected stories that all feature the club in some way. And though these are hot stories, with explicit language, they are very much love stories. Each of the novellas shows a different facet of the journey to love and together depict a world in which there is a soul mate for everyone, even the least likely. While each novella has its own arc, I also structured the entire collection to have an emotional arc similar to a full length novel. So, in a sense, novella one “Against the Wall” is the first lusty explosion of a love affair, novella two is the deepening of the relationship, novella three, “Roses are Rouge,” is the dark moment, and novella four is the maturation and happily ever after. Of course, there is also a little epilogue at the end.

JJBC~How did you come up with the idea for this book? From a dream, from watching TV, while reading another book?
SD~Hehe. The very first image in my head was the opening scene of “Against the Wall,” the first novella in On These Silken Sheets. Only, the scene was happening in a present-day night club. I started transposing it to the past and wondering if a happily ever after could happen between two people who had essentially an anonymous one night stand. The conceit of Harridan House came up during the creation of that novella and then the other three novellas just unrolled––almost inevitably––from there.

JJBC~Did you have to do any type of research before writing this book?
SD~I had been working on another book set in the same year before I wrote On These Silken Sheets and did extensive research for that story. For the novellas, I mostly did additional focused research on specific topics that arose, such as what issues were being discussed in Parliament during May of 1808 and the layout of Brighton prior to the Prince Regent’s redesign.

JJBC~Who’s your favorite character and why?
SD~Robert, the hero of the last novella, because by the time you get to him, he’s been seen through the filter of six other protagonists. And when he is seen through the eyes of the right woman...he’s his own man and a worthy hero in his own right.

JJBC~Can you tell us a little bit about the characters?

“Against the Wall”
Carolina, debutante and erstwhile virgin
Harry, male slut

“The Education of Lord Oakley”
Oakley, staid but sexy parliamentarian
Maggie, frustrated widow

“Roses are Rouge”
Diana, Not just another Regency widow
Jason, A man with a history of lusting after Diana

“A Maid for the Taking”
Lucy, A maid
Robert, A lord doing the forbidden––dabbling in trade
JJBC~ Is this book going to be a series?

SD~I would love to write more Harridan House stories.

JJBC~Do you have any idea how many book are going to be in this series?
SD~If I had my way, there would be at least four more. Possibly 5.

JJBC~Do you have a favorite scene?
SD~Sigh. It would have to be the moment that Lord Oakley realizes he is in love in “The Education of Lord Oakley”. It’s just...well, I don’t really want to give it away for those who haven’t read it yet.

My Bonus Question:

JJBC~If you could be trapped in any series/book which would it be and why?
SD~Room With A View because both the movie and book are good, and every other book I can think of is too angsty for real life. But Room With A View, with Freddy and Cecil and George Emerson, has so many great men. I mean, am I trapped in the book as an existing character or as a random person, because that might really mess up the plot, a la Lost in Austen. If it is just about living in the world of the book, it becomes more difficult, because rather than just thinking about being a hero or heroine, I have to think about details, like hygiene of the time, and legal issues, and... Yeah, I see why this is a bonus question! ;-)


Thank you so muh for being here Sabrina, and for this wonderful interview!

You can Also Find Sabrina:
SabrinaDary.com
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On These Silken Sheets Excerpt

***Don't go away, Sabrina is stopping by through out the day. to chat, and answer questions. She has also given me the opportunity to give away a personally signed copy of On these Silken Sheets to 1 lucky winner!!!
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