Sabrina Jeffries's Blog, page 2

I am in bliss. On every black tarred pavement in every shopping center across the southwest, vendors have set up their chile roasters and spend the day roasting long green chiles for stray motorists who buy them by the bushel to take home and freeze for the long cold winter ahead.  There is nothing I […]

I miss Waldenbooks (I’m probably not the only one). They carried oodles of romances, the booksellers were always friendly and helpful, and they knew lots about what was coming out. Plus, the stores were primarily made up of books, not tchotchkes and toys and gift items. (To the right, that’s me signing with Topaz Man [...]

That’s what my husband calls cuisine that involves the chef painting various sauces on a plate or arranging lettuces in fancy designs or creating artistic sculptures out of crab and grapefruit and coriander seeds (or whatever). He’s not a fan. I like pretty food myself, as long as it also tastes good. But I think [...]

My assistant just introduced me to a phenomenon I had not encountered: mash-up songs, where someone takes one popular song and combines it with another popular song. This isn’t sampling, where people take a riff or line or something. These are two whole songs mashed together. Sometimes the songs are from roughly the same period, [...]

I’ve seen this term a good bit recently, mostly in reviews of my “Ten Reasons to Stay” novella, in which the hero and heroine meet and fall in love in the space of one day and night. Those reviewers either say they liked it in spite of the insta-love or they didn’t like it because [...]

I don’t write many dukes. As a matter of fact, I’ve written only three in my entire 35-novel career (43 works, if you count the short stories and novellas). I’m not even sure why. I just haven’t. But I notice that there are writers who write lots and lots of dukes. I assume it’s because they [...]

Okay, so I don’t play with them, but I HAVE them. Is that weird? I like having little fake people around me. My former assistant used to be creeped out by dolls, however, and I know that a lot of people are. I must confess that  for me it really depends on the doll (Chuckie [...]

Okay, you won’t understand my blog title unless you’re a Neil Diamond fan, but it fits my subject. Because, you see, I WAS a Neil Diamond fan in my youth. And then I wasn’t for years and years, and then a few years back I became one again. Why? I. Don’t. Know. I’m hoping to [...]

Yes, I know I’m behind the curve on this. Yes, I know every author and their mother (maybe even their father) has a street team. But I thought it would be fun, so I’m doing it, too. For those of you who are even more behind than I am, a street team, according to Karin [...]

 I just got back from RT, where I met lots and lots of readers (and booksellers and other authors, but mostly readers). It was so much fun! And here’s why I love it: They talk about characters as if they’re real. They notice things about my books that I don’t notice. They remind me that [...]