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Letter to the Future

{ Posted on Dec 23 2009 by Sabrina Darby }
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Categories : The Inclined
Many of us are still working on the Christmas ham, stuffing stockings and getting extra beds ready for relatives. But this is my last blog post for the year, so I am jumping ahead a bit. Years ago I stopped doing ...Read More »

Letter to an Aspiring Romance Author

{ Posted on Dec 09 2009 by Sabrina Darby }
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Categories : The Inclined
As I revise the first romance manuscript I ever wrote, I’ve been wondering what advice I would give the Sabrina who first daydreamed about Regency characters of her own creation. Perhaps–– Dear Sabrina, Three years from today, you’ll ...Read More »

Method Writing in Practice

{ Posted on Nov 25 2009 by Sabrina Darby }
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Categories : Regency, The Inclined, Writing
I wrote this post two weeks ago but, in the spirit of the lesson learned within, decided to save it till now. Quick history lesson: From Konstantin Stanislavski, who wanted actors to search for “theatrical truth” to the Group Theatre in ...Read More »

The Morality of the The CW’s Gossip Girl

{ Posted on Nov 11 2009 by Sabrina Darby }
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Categories : The Inclined
(Possible spoilers alert!) I don’t think I was the only fan of Gilmore Girls who upon its ending and the onset of Gossip Girl in the same time slot, on the same day of the week, was shocked by the ...Read More »

Pregnancy and Fatherhood in Historical Romance

{ Posted on Oct 28 2009 by Sabrina Darby }
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Categories : The Inclined
It’s a cliche: Practiced Rake seduces fair virgin, gets her with child. It’s a cliche but it works, because as much as we all as readers get tired of pregnancy as a means to an end, it gives our ...Read More »

What a Romance Writer Does When She is Not Writing:

{ Posted on Oct 14 2009 by Sabrina Darby }
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Categories : The Inclined
(Or what this romance writer does...) I’ve been writing straight for almost three years now.  Made a move, and a year later the home office still has unpacked boxes and not enough bookshelves. But this month, with a book ...Read More »

Erotica and the “Essence of Truth”

{ Posted on Sep 30 2009 by Sabrina Darby }
3 Comments
Tags : erotic romance, erotica, language
Categories : Regency, The Inclined, Writing
My first book, or rather, collection of novellas(On These Silken Sheets, Avon Red), is classified as erotica.  Because of its HEAs(Happily Ever Afters) and narrow scope of kink, I tend to think of it as an erotic historical, basically a ...Read More »

On the Question of “Bodice Rippers”

{ Posted on Sep 16 2009 by Sabrina Darby }
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Categories : The Inclined
I will now be blogging here at Romantic Inks every other Wednesday until the end of the year. My intention this week was to write about my fondness for the term “Bodice Ripper” despite its inescapably negative connotation. ...Read More »

Thoughts on the Virgin Heroine

{ Posted on Aug 19 2009 by Sabrina Darby }
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Categories : Regency, The Inclined
I'm so happy to be able to be here at Romantic Inks for the next few months.  It's been a crazy year: first book being released in September, first time having my writing reviewed, first time having my author photograph ...Read More »
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