Sabrina Jeffries

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Sabrina Jeffries | Rakes Are Just Hell on a Writer
February 19, 2008
I don’t write many rakehell heroes. The hero of my upcoming book, Let Sleeping Rogues  Read More...

Sabina Jeffries | Why Write Series?
August 28, 2007
Why NOT write them? The connected series is a staple of most genre fiction. Mystery series have abounded for decades, as have fantasy and science  Read More...

In the last 10 years, New York Times bestselling author Sabrina Jeffries has penned 17 Regency romances and four novellas — becoming a regular on both the New York Times and USA Today bestseller lists and winning more than a dozen industry awards in the process.

New Orleans-born, Thailand-reared, Jeffries attributes her success to listening to what peers, her publisher and her own common sense told her she should be writing: "I write what I enjoy reading: lighter, sexier historical romances, with more dialogue and more sensuality."

Writing about 19th-century English life comes naturally for Jeffries. Not only is she a lifelong Jane Austen fan, but she has a doctorate in English lit from Tulane and a specialty in Early Modern British literature. Yet the impetus for her stories, Jeffries says, is always "what if" — not what if her hero likes this or that, but what if this happened and this happened ... what would it do to a person?

And she writes, she says, because "I can't not write . . . I have stories in my head, and I have to get them out."

Today, the novelist has more than 3 million Sabrina Jeffries books in print, and plans are under way for what is being called: The Summer of the School for Heiresses.

That will see Pocket reissue the first four books in Jeffries' New York Times bestselling School for Heiresses series April 28 for a special price of $5.99 each—just in time for newcomers to the series to be brought current as Book 5 (Don’t Bargain with the Devil) debuts May 26 and Book 6 (Wed Him Before You Bed Him) arrives in bookstores June 23.

As part of the fun, Jeffries will launch a new website in April – full of contests and parlor games fit for an heiress.

Meanwhile, you can find the author writing at her home in Cary, N.C., where she lives with husband, Rene, and their son, Nick. When not answering e-mails as she logs miles on her treadmill or doing jigsaw puzzles (“my reward for finishing a book”), Jeffries can be found championing the cause of autistic children in the name of her 20-year-old son.

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