Interview Dalia Trevino

by

Jayme Evans

Greeting Dalia. I'm pleased to send the interview questions for your upcoming book, Voyage Of The Heart.

1. Voyage of the Heart is your third book with wings. Is it a stand-alone or is it related to the first two?

Though this story takes place around the same time period and area, Georgian England, it is a stand alone novel that can be enjoyed without reading my other two novels. However I highly recommend both my previous novels, Love’s Challenge and Love Wins to anyone who loves a historical romance.

2. What brought you to Wings?

I’ve purchased novels from many epublishers including Wings in the past and found the Wings novels authors imagination, diversity, and quality of work far surpassed any others so I knew when my work was completed I wanted it published by Wings.

3. Tell us about yourself.

I am a devout reader. I love historicals and romances. I never thought anything would be more enjoyable than reading a historical romance until I began writing them.

4. How long you've been writing and what inspires you?

I have been writing for almost ten years and am inspired by the excellent novels of Catherine Coulter and Johanna Lindsey.

5. When do you write? How long does it normally take you? Are you a mood setter?

I write whenever I can, I have a full time job so it doesn’t always leave me a lot of time to move my characters and their plot along, but when I finally get the chance I can write for hours. I don’t necessarily need to set a mood, all I require is a computer and my wall of research books.

6. Are you a by-the-seat-of-your-pants type of person or are you a plotter?

I have a general plot before I start out but invariably it will change as my characters actions affect my outline.

7. You normally write Historical Romance. Have you ever tried any other genres?

I have written a contemporary romance but didn’t find it as satisfying as the historicals so it will remain filed indefinitely.

8. What do you do to research your books?

A large part of the enjoyment in historical writing is the research. I read as many biographies and autobiographies as I can from well-known people to the not so important people of the time period I am writing. I travel to England so I can see and feel what my characters would have and hope to interject that realism into my novels. The Internet supplies some information, though it is not always accurate and there are of course period movies that help give me a sense of what it was like.

9. What is your next project?

I am currently working on a historical set in the beginning of the French Revolution.

10. What advice to give to writers just starting out?

If you can’t or don’t want to write about what you know, write about what you love. That passion will come through in the writing and no matter what genre it is, your work will be the next can’t put it down, can’t wait to turn the page, stay up all night to read, best seller.