For starters, I feel like it’s about time! I finished writing Sweet Salt Air a year ago, and though my publisher needed these months to publish the book well – and they have! – I feel like you all have waited forever. On one hand, I want you hungry, so that you’ll race out and buy the book on the very first day it goes on sale. On the other hand, I hope you haven’t been angry with me for making you wait so long. So, a huge thanks for your patience.
Barbara Delinsky
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June 10, 2013
Snapshots of SWEET SALT AIR
Last week’s blog talked about which character in this book is my favorite, but I have other favorites here. Since Sweet Salt Air is a highly sensual book, I’m thinking see, smell, feel, hear, and taste. I’m calling them snapshots, because they’re just quick little moments from the book. I guess that makes this blog an album.
Favorite sight? A ghost ship on the ocean in the early morning mist, as seen from Charlotte’s bedroom window.
Favorite smell? Lavender. Sooooothing.
Favorite touch? Sand. Around and about the toes.
June 7, 2013
Are you imaginative?
Game of Thrones, George R.R. Martin, and writing …
I get ideas from what I read in the news. Here’s a perfect example. I logged on this morning to catch the headlines at cnn.com and saw this one, “How ‘GOT’ will end,” and immediately clicked through. GOT is Game of Thrones, and I’m addicted to it. This Sunday is the Season 3 finale, but it was last Sunday’s show that stopped my heart. The Red Wedding. Bloody. Unexpected. Heartbreaking.
May 26, 2013
Learning about the ingredients in SWEET SALT AIR
I’m talking about doing research, so that I know what I’m saying when I write a book like Sweet Salt Air. Okay. This being fiction, technically I can do what I want. But I pride myself on writing books that are realistic, and in cases where serious things are involved (like cord blood and stem cells and MS), I owe it to my readers to get it right.
March 23, 2013
To e-read or not
A totally funny thing happened to me yesterday. I was reading an actual, physical book, reached the end of a page, and tapped the right margin to turn to the next.
Have you ever done this? It wouldn’t happen, of course, if I read books in only one form. But I’m constantly switching between hardcover, paperback, iPad, and Kindle.
For me, each has a purpose. For instance, if I’m reading a serious something that I know I’ll want to add to my library, I prefer the hardcover. There’s something about its weight, about the ease of going back to reread something that confuses me, about the heft of the thing if the subject is, well, hefty.
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