Writing Wednesday: Chatting with Sarah Grimm

It’s an exciting day on the blog! Sarah Grimm, romance author, is back at Believing is Seeing today! Please make yourself at home, Sarah.

SG: Thanks, Sandi, I’m excited to be back.

SS: For those readers who aren’t familiar with your work yet, in a few sentences, how best can you sum up you as a writer?

SG: I write emotion-filled journeys, stories where the characters really have to work for their happily-ever-after. I torture my characters more than most writers, whether with past traumas or a current danger they find themselves in. However, I am first and foremost a romance author, so no matter what, everything works out in the end.

SS: Tell me about a favorite hero you’ve created.

SG: My favorite hero I’ve created is Noah Clark from my newest release, After Midnight. Noah is the ideal romance hero: sexy, patient, and totally committed to the heroine, Isabeau Montgomery. However, that doesn’t mean he’s perfect—Noah is also stubborn, bull-headed and determined to save Isabeau from herself, even if it’s the very last thing she wants.

Here’s the BLURB:

Thirteen years—that’s how long Isabeau Montgomery has been living a lie. After an automobile accident took her mother’s life, Izzy hid herself away, surviving the only way she knew how. Now she is happy in her carefully reconstructed life. That is until he walks through the door of her bar…

Black Phoenix singer/front man Noah Clark came to Long Island City with a goal–one that doesn’t include an instant, electric attraction to the dark-haired beauty behind the bar. Coaxing her into his bed won’t be easy, but he can’t get her pale, haunted eyes nor her skill on the piano out of his head.

Can Noah help Isabeau overcome the past? Or will her need to protect her secret force her back into hiding and destroy their chance at happiness?

BUY LINKS:

Wild Rose Press: http://www.thewildrosepress.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=175_133&products_id=4633

Amazon:

http://www.amazon.com/After-Midnight-ebook/dp/B005QBZ0G2/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1327191610&sr=8-2

Nook:

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/after-midnight-sarah-grimm/1106102028

SS: Has one of your characters ever fought you and your creative process before? If so, who and how did you conquer them?

SG: Dominic Price, a secondary character in, After Midnight. Dominic is the hero’s best friend and band mate and he becomes a very dear friend of the heroine. It was a real balancing act to show the reader how important he was to the main characters of the story, without allowing him to overshadow anyone else when he walked onto the page. You see, to say Dominic Price is attractive would be an understatement. Add to that his great sense of humor, his big heart and the fact that he would NOT stop nagging me about getting his own happily-ever-after…well, you can see why he was a struggle.

How did I conquer him? I didn’t. We writers are a bit nuts because to us, our characters are real. So to make them act in any way they normally would not act, just isn’t going to happen.

SS: Do you have a set writing routine or do you write whenever the Muse strikes?

SG: I write whenever the muse strikes and my day job allows. Unfortunately, what this means is I’m not a fast writer. I really need to get better about setting up a routine and sticking to it. Especially if I plan to meet my self-imposed deadline for my next book.

SS: Let’s talk happy endings. In your books, do your stories have one?

SG: Absolutely. I’m a romantic, a die-hard romantic. I truly believe someone exists for each of us—a person we are destined to find. Our other half. A soul mate. That belief colors everything I write, which is romance with varying degrees of suspense mixed in.

SS: Continuing with that question, what is your favorite fictional romantic happy ending — either from a book, a movie or TV show? Why that one?

SG: This is such a difficult question to answer! If I really think about it, I guess the one romantic happy ending that I watch every time it’s on television is from the movie Practical Magic. There’s just something so magical about it – no pun intended. Aiden Quinn and Sandra Bullock’s characters just pull me right in every time and leave me smiling when it all comes together in the end.

SS: OMG, that’s one of my all time favorite movies too! Do you have another book in the works? Please tell my readers about your current or future projects?

SG: I’ve been getting such positive feedback, not just on Dominic, a secondary character from After Midnight, but also on another of the book’s characters. So what began as one book has expanded into four: AFTER MIDNIGHT, MIDNIGHT HEAT, CHASING MIDNIGHT and MIDNIGHT SHADOW. I’m a pantser, which means I’m not big on plotting, so this is a challenge for me as I’m forced to lightly plot out the next three books – making certain that specific key elements of the characters, and their stories, carry thru from one book to the other.

SS: That’s fantastic! Tell me one obscure fact about you outside being an author.

SG: I have a Diet Coke addiction, but I prefer to drink it room temperature. Not flat or stale, just take the can out of the box and pop the top on it. Weird, I know.

SS: Last question: Who are your three favorite books of all time?

SG: Another toughie! Let’s see, A THIN DARK LINE by Tami Hoag, UGLY DUCKLING by Iris Johansen, and THE COUNT of MONTE CRISTO by Alexandre Dumas.

SS: Thank you for spending some time with me today. Please tell my readers where to find more information about your books and you.

Website: http://www.sarahgrimm.com
Blog: http://www.authorsarahgrimm.blogspot.com
Group Blog: http://www.smutwriterssoapbox.blogspot.com
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/SarahGrimm.Author
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/SGrimmAuthor

On this post only, Sarah will give away an e-copy of After Midnight to a random commenter so please leave your contact information!