Interview with Author Sofie Darling

Let bliss steal upon you.

Today I’m talking to writer Sofie Darling, the author of Three Lessons in Seduction and Tempted by the Viscount, her latest book, which will be released on June 27th.

We talk about what it’s like to be a newly published author, the weather in Iceland, and how a Krispy Kreme donut can bring on a moment of bliss.

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Notes

• Three Lessons in Seduction by Sofie Darling
• Tempted By the Viscount by Sofie Darling
• Love's Hidden Treasure by Carol Finch
• Kathleen E. Woodiwiss
• Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
• Thunder and Roses by Mary Jo Putney
• Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman
• Longbourne by Jo Baker (I love this book. here's a review I wrote a few years ago.)
• Beverly Jenkins
• Master of None, “New York, I Love You,” season 2, episode 6

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The music you are listening to was provided by Jamendo and this is Ambient-M by Antony Raijekov.

Thanks for listening!

What's your idea of bliss?

Interview with Sarah Wendell of Smart Bitches, Trashy Books

This is the first episode of the Bliss Tour! And I’m so excited!!

Thanks so much to Sarah Wendell of Smart Bitches, Trashy Books. We talk about her transition from Cube Life to blogger, expectations of work life, and a little bit of romance.

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Here are links to some of the things we chatted about in the interview:

• Smart Bitches, Trashy Books - Sarah's most excellent site!
• Lighting the Flames: a Hanukkah Story by Sarah Wendell
• Paris Letters by Janice MacLeod - I read this between putting my house on the market and accepting an offer, a 4-day period. Totally an inspiration for my sabbatical
• What stands between you and where you want to be? - Fear, the answer is fear
• Grammar, Identity, and the Dark Side of the Subjunctive - I'm obsessed with this TEDx Talk by Phuc Tran
• The Heiress Effect by Courtney Milan - my first historical romance!

The music was provided by Jamendo and this is Possibilities by Jasmine Jordan.

I hope you enjoyed this interview because I am planning on doing more. Woo! Hoo! With better audio! (Sorry, my fault).

Let me know what you think in the comments. Thanks!

Trial Run

I’m headed to the RT Convention in Dallas in less than 12 hours. RT is a conference of booklovers, mostly romance and young adult readers, mostly women who are excited, ney, passionate about reading and books. So passionate that they travel thousands of miles just to gather with others to talk about books they love and meet the authors who write them.

I’m using this as a trial run for the Bliss Tour, when I hit the road in my little Subaru and seek out the blissed out. It’s not far away (Dallas is only about three hours from Austin, in theory) and I don’t have any interviews scheduled. But I still feel like it’s the Bliss Tour. I’ll be surrounded by people whose eyes roll back in their heads at the mention of a book they love.

I keep picturing these women as book-holding whirling dervishes in an ecstatic dance of faith and joy. I have no idea why I see that. Weird, right?

But I like it. I’m excited to go, excited to see everyone, hoping their book bliss will rub off on me so I can whirl too.