It Ain’t Easy Writing
Hot Highlanders
I’ve spent the last year living in a Highland romance,
writing the Untamed Highlander series for St. Martin’s Press, creating my
wounded Waterloo warrior in Tarnished Honor and entertaining myself with the
Dundragon Time Travel Trilogy. I fell in love with the characters, the settings
and the mood of the work.
But I’ll be honest. It ain’t easy writing scorching
Highland romances with big, brawny, savage heroes. Here
are some of the challenges I faced in the past year.
But no worries, my darling reader. I am more than
happy to take the bullet and suffer these trials. Just remember, I do it all
for you!
The
Top Ten Challenges of Writing Hot Highlanders
#10 Incessantly
flipping through pictures of thousands of gorgeous, hunky men in kilts looking
for exactly the right inspiration
#9 Taste tasting
Scottish shortbread. You know. You make sure I "get it."
#8 Watching an endless
loop of The Highlander to make sure I get the accent (and the swordplay) right
#7 Picking a time
period in the Scottish history where my beloved characters have a chance of
living happily ever after post-story
#6 Deciding how much
dialog to "Scotify" so people get the flavor but don’t have trouble
understanding what the characters are saying.
#5 Trying to find a
location that is more than desolate sea coast and moors
#4 Keep getting stalled on the sex scenes. (Needs
more editing, or at least to be read again!)
#3 My heroes declare
their undying love for me, causing an
awkward situation with my heroines…
#2 Plotline
inexplicably veers off into a Gothic Novel with Ghosts and dour Lairds
#1 I keep getting
distracted by my hero’s hotness
I’ve loved writing these books so much, I am even planning a
visit to Scotland this fall. I’d love to hear your suggestions on things I
should see and do (but be gentle. It’s my first time!)
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Book 1 in the Dundragon Time Travel Trilogy
By Sabrina York
When Maggie Spencer is mysteriously transported to the Scotland of her ancestors, she is stunned to come face to face with him. Dominic Dundragon, the man she’s been half in love with her whole life. A man who’s been dead for 700 years.
They both have enemies aplenty. Will she have a chance to win his love, or will this adventure end in disaster?
Happy reading my
darling!
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6 comments:
I love your top ten! Thanks for joining us today, Sabrina. Best luck to you and your Highlanders. :)
Sabrina, I feel your pain in having to wade through pages of hot guys and all that research, including eating authentic Scottish shortbread. Your covers are gorgeous. Your stories sound terrific, and scorching. All that research paid off.
Sounds like a fantastic series....I think I'd better get out my fan.
:D Thank you all for stopping by!!!!
Love your books & book covers!!
Fun top ten. I might have to reread this a few times myself. Just for research.
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