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After years of independence, Cameron has to learn to live with his brothers again while he struggles with cooking, cleaning, and caring for a difficult boy. Old rivalries and new resentments flare between Cameron and his brothers, but they try to put aside their differences for Seth’s sake. In the end, a social worker will decide Seth’s fate, and as tough as she is beautiful, she has the power to bring the Quinns together—or tear them apart….
| ISBN-13: | 9781469282633 |
|---|---|
| Publisher: | Brilliance Audio |
| Publication date: | 05/07/2013 |
| Series: | Chesapeake Bay Saga Series , #1 |
| Edition description: | Unabridged |
| Pages: | 9 |
| Product dimensions: | 6.80(w) x 5.10(h) x 1.50(d) |
Hometown:
Keedysville, MarylandDate of Birth:
1950Place of Birth:
Silver Spring, MarylandWebsite:
http://www.noraroberts.com/"A storyteller of immeasurable diversity and talent." —Publishers Weekly
On Thursday, December 4, barnesandnoble.com welcomed Nora Roberts, author of SEA SWEPT.
Nora Roberts: Wonderful to be here. Thanks for having me.
Nora Roberts:
Nora Roberts: The second book, RISING TIDES, will be out in July... It centers on Ethan, who's a waterman, and continues the story of the three brothers and Seth. We'll see more of where Seth came from, more interaction with the brothers. More romance.
Nora Roberts: No, not really. I did a kind of blend of several towns on the Eastern Shore and made up my own. But I tried to be as authentic as possible.
Nora Roberts: Not at all. I love doing them! I have such fun with the futuristic stuff and really, really enjoy exploring Eve and Roarke's relationship, as well as murdering people in gruesome manners. LOL. Terrific fun for me.
Nora Roberts: Wow. Tough one. Eve and Roarke, I suppose, as I spend so much time with them. Then it's tough. Maybe the MacKade brothers. After all, they're local boys. LOL.
Nora Roberts: Another hard one. I'm a huge fan of Mary Stewart's, so right off I'll say something like MY BROTHER MICHAEL. I love that book...but I really enjoy so many, it's a tough call.
Nora Roberts: Absolutely. As long as I have ideas that fit the category framework, I'll keep writing them. I love doing category. I really appreciate the form.
Nora Roberts: Oh no. I think romance never goes out of fashion, it's fluid. It changes to fit the needs of men and women as society changes, but it never goes away.
Nora Roberts: No, he doesn't. I guess that's sort of a given.
Nora Roberts: Hmmm. I'd be more patient with my children when they were growing up.... But I must've done okay. They're great young men. I'd have started writing sooner. So many stories, so little time. LOL.
Nora Roberts: Actually, I have a Web page, and I'm pretty sure the URL is http://www.lightst.com/nora. As for a fan club, there is a marvelous group of ladies online. A couple of boards you might enjoy. On The Book Report and The Romance Realm.
Nora Roberts: I don't have any background, if you mean education and such as a writer. Unless being Irish counts. We're born storytellers. I think you have to have a love of stories, of the written word. Otherwise how can you write? You have to have a good handle on English. But formal college, classes and so forth, not necessarily. You can be taught the nuts and bolts, but not the core of storytelling. You just have it.
Nora Roberts: I have no idea. Absolutely none. I never keep track of that sort of thing. It's a game I play with myself. Being obsessive/compulsive, if I were to time my books, I'd worry if one took me longer, or shorter, than another. Besides, it's not how long that matters. It's what you have when you're finished that counts.
Nora Roberts: No. I love writing relationship books. With the Robb books, I'm able to explore a marriage. In the other books I do, I continue to explore and enjoy the process of falling in love. It's a constant fascination to me.
Nora Roberts: I do have cover approval on my hardcover and paperback originals. For my categories, I don't. There just isn't time. But I've been very happy with my covers all around.
Nora Roberts: You'll find out everything in the final book. I'd never leave my readers hanging at the end of a series. LOL. That wouldn't be fair.
Nora Roberts: Something that's close to his heart. And that's all you get until the book comes out.
Nora Roberts: I live in Maryland.
Nora Roberts: It's my job. LOL. I haven't a clue where ideas come from, I just thank God for them.It's really the making of an idea into a book that separates the want tos from the does its. LOL.
Nora Roberts: For SEA SWEPT we'll be having a signing at my dh's store, Turn The Page, on Dec. 13. It's our big holiday signing. Lots of fun. Door prizes!!! LOL. Come see us.
Nora Roberts: I don't know how to answer that. I never think about changing style or sticking to style. I just write the story as it happens. I think maybe as this series is more from the male point of view, that's a bit of a change. But I often write from the male point of view.
Nora Roberts: It's set, as is the trilogy, on Maryland's Eastern Shore and centers on three adopted brothers. In the first, their father is dying, and Cameron Quinn comes back home -- he's been racing and living it up in Europe. And they find themselves trying to raise the latest stray boy their father has taken in.
Nora Roberts: That's my married name. It was a mistake, someone dropped the ball and put my married name in rather than my writing name.
Nora Roberts: I don't believe in trends. Actually, I just wrote the books. I've done men as central figures before, and I'm very lucky to have an editor who's open to trying something a little different. Also, I'd have to say I have a track record -- built-up trust, so to speak. They'll give me some room.
Nora Roberts: No, HOMEPORT is my next hardcover, out in March, and doesn't connect to the trilogy. It's a romantic suspense, dealing with art forgery and such and set primarily on the coast of Maine.
Nora Roberts: I don't think I have any real techniques.I just read and wander and now plug into the Internet and see what I can find on what I've decided will be my background. I'm totally disorganized when it comes to research. I just...punt.
Nora Roberts: I have a lot of very good and dear friends in the business. Ruth Langan is my oldest writing friend. Not that Ruth's old. LOL. But I met her first, years back. Also Marianne Willman, Patricia Gaffney, Mary Kay McComas, Julie Garwood, Catherine Coulter. Jeez. I'm leaving tons out. It would take all night.
Nora Roberts: I generally start right off, just getting the story down in a very rough first draft. I get to know my people during that time, then some time during the second pass, I know them better. By the time I'm finished, they're as real as my family. And don't ask me where's dinner. Mostly.
Nora Roberts: It's too hard. Mary Stewart is my oldest favorite, but I read across the board. Have a lot of well-loved writers I look forward to.
Nora Roberts: If you want to write, write. Make no excuses. If you want to write, read. You can't write well if you don't love to fall into a story. Study. Learn your craft. Join a writing group so you'll make friends and have company whining. Writers whine. We can't help it. LOL.
Nora Roberts: No, of course not. Porn is sex for sex's sake. Romance is the celebration of relationships, of the grand mystery of men and women. The sex in them is a human and expected extension of emotional commitment. No emotional commitment in porn last time I looked.
Nora Roberts: It's hard to say. There are places I've visited that just grab me, emotionally, visually. Other times I've set books -- most of them, actually -- in places I've never been but want to visit. It's like a canvas, I guess. I want a big, sprawling canvas sometimes; others, I want something small, intimate.
Nora Roberts: I could - -and have -- done whole workshops on this question. LOL.... But briefly, it's a difference in scope, in language, in reader expectation.... You have more room in mainstream, and you have to fill every inch of that canvas I spoke of. Category is generally more intimate, must move quicker. It can be very difficult to get a full, interesting story across in that brief time. Both are art, it's just different paint strokes.
Nora Roberts:
Nora Roberts: Oh yes. In fact, I'll probably start on it this year. I'm planning on setting another trilogy in Ireland. My favorite place in the world.
Nora Roberts: My pleasure. Thanks for asking me.
Nora Roberts: Love to. It's always fun.
Nora Roberts: Night everyone.
So you’ve read the four books I shrieked at you about, and now you want more? Give me a minute to rub my hands together and cackle with glee (another reader sucked into the salacious world of heaving bosoms!), and then we’ll move on to another round of my favorite picks for readers new to […]
