Sabrina Take Five

Five Most Often Asked Questions [click the question to see answer] 1) How do your parents feel about your writing steamy romances? I get asked this when people find out that my parents areSouthern Baptist missionaries. And the answer is, they're fine with it. Really. They just don't read them. Too much sex and cussing, you know. *G* But otherwise, they're proud as punch. Sort of. 2) Are you planning to stick with historicals? As far as I know. I suppose I might wake up tomorrow with a burning urge to write a Sex Goddess Werewolf book, but until it happens, I'll keep writing historicals. I grew up devouring Barbara Cartlands (my mom disapproved, but she let me read them, thank God) and my favorite authors are mostly Regency historical writers, so I really do love the period. I know some readers are sick of it, but I never get tired of it. Then again, I eat the same cereal every day for breakfast, too. 3) Is the historical dead? Not for me. And obviously not for readers of Lisa Kleypas or Julia Quinn or Madeline Hunter or Mary Balogh or Jo Beverley . . . I'm just saying, there's a lot of authors still selling out there. But then I'm not very good with predicting trends--I wrote paranormal contemporary romantic suspense when you couldn't sell one to save your life (as Deborah Nicholas), so I sure hope somebody taps me on the shoulder and lets me know before all the readers leave the room and turn out the lights. I'm really not keen on standing alone in the dark, dreaming up stories nobody cares about. 4) Will the Scottish Scourge (from Never Seduce a Scoundrel) get a book? Yes. I'm writing it now. It's set in Scotland, and that's all I can say or I'll have to kill you. But not before you give me a spiffy title for the book. Sadly, it still has none. 5) Will Charlotte and Cousin Michael get a book? Yes, assuming they don't kill each other first. The letters between them that serve as epigrams for all the chapters of every book in this series (except the anthology) are getting downright testy. I'm going to have to slap them around a bit.

Dukes Do It Better

Okay, so I have a new book coming out. . It finishes up a secondary romance left hanging in the second book of the Royal Brotherhood trilogy, even though THIS series is called The School for Heiresses. Sigh. I can never travel in a straight line. But this time I can blame it on my publisher. I TOLD them that readers would want Simon and Louisa's book after reading To Pleasure a Prince (I sure wanted to write it), but the Powers That Be didn't believe me and they were too excited about the new series to let me waste time writing a book that was essentially an offshoot of the old series. Then To Pleasure a Prince took off and the e-mails started and . . . turns out I was right. Hah! That hardly ever happens. So I compromised. I worked it into the new series. And that's how I came to write a book that straddles two series. I'm just praying readers don't find it too weird. Only a Duke Will Do Louisa North isn't that interested in marriage. Not only would it would ruin her work with her ladies reform group, but she likes her independence very much, despite her royal father's protests. So when Simon Tremaine, the dashing Duke of Foxmoor whom she'd once loved--and had exiled from England--returns bent on making her his wife, she's resistant, not to mention skeptical. Does he truly care for her, or does he simply want revenge? Unfortunately, he still excites her as much as she does him and that leads them both into trouble, especially when his ulterior motive for marriage is exposed. But there's more to Simon than meets the eye and once Louisa unveils the deeply buried secrets of his past, she vows to make him pay…and the price will be his heart.