Ask the Author: E. Rose Sabin
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E. Rose Sabin
Well, that's an interesting question, and the answer is rather personal. My father deserted my mother and me when I was only five years old. We never had further word of him until the internet came and made that type of investigation easier. I learned that he had died at age 73, but I also learned that within a year of leaving my mother he remarried. That would be bigamy, as he was not divorced from my mother. But through an internet search I found a half sister, two nieces and a nephew. From them I learned that while he told their mother nothing about being married to my mother, he did tell them he had been married before. He claimed that he married quite young a woman named Mary who was ill with tuberculosis. They had no children, and Mary died in a TB sanitarium just a year or two after their marriage. However, a cousin who spends a great deal of time on ancestry research has been unable to find any record of Mary's death but did find that she and my father had a son. The last record of the son my cousin was able to find was a record from his military service in World War II. It was a record of his being sentenced to a period of time in the brig for going AWOL. No death record could be found, but it is quite possible that he was killed in the war. So--what really happened to Mary? Did she live to raise her son? If not, who did raise him? Was my father a serial bigamist? I have no interest in writing a mystery, but I do believe that a mystery could easily be plotted using some of this story and perhaps being of the type that is set partially in the present and partially in the past. If anyone who reads this is inspired to write a mystery based loosely on the story, you have my encouragement to go for it.
E. Rose Sabin
C. J. Cherryh's world of the Atevi in her Foreigner series, portrayed with such vividness that it acquires reality. I'd love to visit Shejidan and meet the Aiji and his clever son Cajeiri. And I'd love to see Ilisidi's estate, though I'm sure I'd never dare attempt to ride a mecheita.
E. Rose Sabin
After much thought, I'd say Jennet Stearne and Ben Franklin in James Morrow's marvelous historical satire, The Last Witch Finder. Yes, Benjamin Franklin is a real historical personage, but in this work of fiction he as a young man has a wild love affair with the fictional heroine. I love this book and heartily recommend it for its humor, its truth, and its absolute brilliance.
E. Rose Sabin
I'm busy promoting my newest book, A Mix of Magics, and I'm writing a stand-alone fantasy titled Linked. I'm also making notes in preparation for writing the book that will follow A Mix of Magics and conclude the Arucadi: The Beginning series. I don't have a title for it as yet, but I have the basic plot outlined, character names for the new characters to be introduced in the novel, and the setting.
E. Rose Sabin
I'm always inspired to write. I get ideas from many different places, and have a long list of ideas that I need to develop into novels.
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