Barbara Delinsky has been entertaining me and educating me, making me laugh and cry for years now and St. Martin's Press is re-releasing some of her earlier novels in digital format for the first time.If you've read her and couldn't find her early works this is your chance, if you've never read her this is a perfect time to start.
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Barbara Delinsky
Please welcome #1 NY Times Bestselling author BarbaraDelinsky to the General Fiction forum. Barbara is one of my favorite, most prolific authors, and, since lateMay, a number of her early romance novels have been re-released digitally. Here is a listof these books on her website, and these are all available in Nook format too.
Debbie - Barbara,it is good to have you visit us here at the General Fiction forum. Tell us a little about the re-releases,how many are being re-released, whether they only being released in e-form, andwhy now.Barbara - Thanks,Debbie. It’s great to behere. I am really, really excitedabout the rerelease of these early romances. All told, there are sixteen of them, and they’re beingreleased in clusters, starting with the four on sale now, and continuing oninto the summer. These twelve willappear only as e-books for now, but knowing that many of my readers still loveholding a physical book in their hands, there will be two 2-in-1 print editionsof others of my oldies in fall and winter.
I was reading your bio and something intrigued me – it saysthat your writing career started as a fluke when you saw an article profilingthree female writers. Who werethey, and did they have more of an impact on you than just their being femalewriters?Honestly? I don’t remembertheir names. The sole significanceof their being female was that they were raising families and writing at thesame time. They made it sounddo-able, which was important to me, since I had a young family, too. Beyond that, the impact these writershad on me was what they wrote – romance. I had never read the Harlequin-type romance, but I did then. I read dozens, literally, in the weeksafter reading that piece. Ioutlined the ones I liked best, sat down and wrote my own, and it sold!
Tell us a little behind your only non-fiction title Uplift,what’s it about, and what led to your writing it.The full title of this bookgives you a clue to its contents – UPLIFT: Secrets from the Sisterhood ofBreast Cancer Survivors. It iscomprised of short little hints from more than four hundred survivors, allupbeat and practical, on ways to deal with a breast cancer diagnosis andtreatment. The inspiration forthis book? Katherine Evans. She is a secondary character whoappeared in my novel, Coast Road, in 1998, and she’d had breast cancer, just asI have. She was attractive andartistic and sexy. Readers lovedher and wrote so many notes that I realized they were hungry for a positive, upbeat,can-do role model like Katherine, perhaps even like myself. I conceived of UPLIFT as a supportgroup in book form, and that’s just what it is.
Many writers are also readers. Are you? Who doyou like to read?Sadly, I read minimally whenI’m writing. The danger is beingdrawn into someone else’s book so deeply that I confuse voices when I return tomy own! That said, I am in a bookgroup, and our list runs the gamut from fiction to non-fiction, literature topopular fiction. I gotta say – Ilove the latter. I’ve been havinga ball with Fifty Shades …
What’s the longest research trip you ever took, and for whatnovel was it?I went to San Francisco forCoast Road, which, since I live in Boston, is a haul. Funny, though, San Francisco didn’t work for me – maybebecause it’s a romantic city and my husband wasn’t there, so I felt totallyalone. He did join me afterwardfor several days in Big Sur, one of our favorite vacation spots. So that’s where I ended up setting mybook, with only the occasional, foggy San Francisco scene.
You describe yourself as a character-driven author. Can you explain that to us?Interesting choice ofwords. I’ve always thought of my plots as being character-driven, since the actioninvolves people and their emotional growth. But I guess I’m a character-driven person, too – i.e., Ilove observing people, love interacting with them, love seeing their growth.
What are you working on next?I am in the final fewchapters of Sweet Salt Air, the story of two friends who reunite after tenyears apart. One is a foodblogger, the other a journalist, and their plan is to compile a cookbook ofrecipes and local lore from the island where they spent childhood summers. Once there, the details of their lives duringthose ten years apart clash in unexpected and heart-wrenching ways. Talk about character-driven? Sweet Salt Air explores thelimits of marriage, friendship, and love.
I know a lot of fans here would love to meet you in person. Do you have in-between release eventsat B&N stores?Since I’ve been burning themidnight oil working on Sweet Salt Air, my personal travel schedule has been limited. That said, I am always availableonline, whether at my website, www.barbaradelinsky.com, on Facebook at www.facebook.com/bdelinsky, or on Twitter.
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