Samantha Kane ~ Retreat From Love
From: Ellora’s Cave
My favorite book that I wrote: Retreat From Love (although this is a close race between ALL of them. Each one holds a special place.) I felt like I was able to really get inside the characters’ heads in this book. But what I really love about it is the letters at the beginning of each chapter and the end of the book. Bertie, who was already dead at the beginning of the book (I’m not giving anything away here, btw) was a main character to me. He brought these people together from the grave, and was instrumental in making Ann, Brett and Freddy who they were when they all came together. I think I captured him and his importance to them all in the letters. I confess that I cried over Bertie’s letters, and that’s the only time I’ve made myself cry with one of my books. And the letters revealed a side of Brett that no one knew or suspected. A side his character was unable to express any other way in the story.
1. Richard Adams ~ Watership Down The reason I became a writer. ***Teddypig ~ It’s in eBook now! Follow linky***
2. Laura London ~ The Windflower (AKA Tom Curtis & Sharon Curtis) The reason I became a ROMANCE writer. ***Teddypig ~ Not eBook yet***
3. Marion Chesney ~ Minerva The reason I write Historical Romance: Marion Chesney ~ Six Sisters series. ***Teddypig ~ Marion Chesney has some of her work in eBook on Fictionwise. Follow linky***
4. Robert A. Heinlein~ The Cat Who Walked Through Walls The reason I write science fiction. ***Teddypig ~ not eBook yet***
5. Lora Leigh ~ Surrender To Fire The reason I write menage (in a convoluted way): Lora Leigh’s Bound Hearts series (I wanted the guys to do it. It’s not that complicated.)
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Ally Blue wrote,
OMG Watership Down! I LOVE that book so, so much. I read my first copy literally to pieces and had to buy another one. And another one. That’s the kind of story I would sell a body part to be able to write. Something you just lose yourself in to the point where you forget to eat, or sleep, even forget the rest of the world is out there someplace, you know?
**happy sigh**
Link | December 10th, 2009 at 10:23 am
TeddyPig wrote,
It’s in ebook now too!
Link | December 10th, 2009 at 10:25 am
Ally Blue wrote,
OMGOMGOMG!!!!!!! For real????
I seriously need to get that. My, what, fourth? copy is falling apart O_O
Link | December 10th, 2009 at 10:35 am
AnneD wrote,
“(I wanted the guys to do it. It’s not that complicated.)”
and the exact reason I started writing menage stories too :) – no more of the slightly forbidden touches *jeeeessstttt dooo eeeeetttt, already!*
I have a block about Watership Down – involving the movie and what about 8yr old? me. I can’t even remember it all, but it was dark and foreboding and shown in the darkened school library and freaked me the hell out for some reason. Haven’t quite been able to make myself see it or read it since.
Link | December 10th, 2009 at 10:55 am
Samantha Kane wrote,
Ally ~ The first time I read Watership Down I read it three times, back to back. My copy is worn and tattered also. I’m looking at that almost thirty year old paperback on my bookshelf as we speak.
Anne~ I never saw the movie. I couldn’t. That book meant so much to me and I knew the movie would never compare. I’ll stick with the images in my head, thanks.
TPig ~ Will check out linkies to ebooks. Thanks!!
Link | December 10th, 2009 at 11:16 am
Ally Blue wrote,
Sam, you are correct, the movie does not hold a candle to the book. It’s all right, on its own merits (and Anne is right, it’s pretty dark and kind of scary for little ones). But it’s nowhere NEAR as good as the book.
Link | December 10th, 2009 at 11:26 am
ShellBell wrote,
Watership Down is in eBook! I have to get that ASAP. I love that book.
I just wish Marion Chesney’s backlist would be released as eBooks. I have a couple but the Six Sisters series (Minerva, Taming of Annabelle, Deidre and Desire, Daphne, Diana the Huntress and Frederica in Fashion) is a series that I would love to have as eBooks!
Link | December 10th, 2009 at 11:34 am
TeddyPig wrote,
Ficitonwise has some Marion Chesney in eBook. Just click where I hyper linked Marion Chesney name above.
Link | December 10th, 2009 at 11:35 am
Samantha Kane wrote,
I forgot to mention that the non-romance between Cat and the pirate Rand Morgan (my Butch and V that should have been) in The Windflower also influenced me to write m/m and m/m/f.
Link | December 10th, 2009 at 11:43 am
ShellBell wrote,
I think Marion Chesney wrote 90+ Regency romances (before the publisher canned the imprint she was writing for), plus a couple of Edwardian murder mystery books. She also writes as MC Beaton (Hamish MacBeth series). Unfortunately only 11 of her ‘Marion Chesney’ books are available as eBooks. I’ll have to stick with the dead tree, ex-library versions that cost me a fortune to buy and ship from the US to New Zealand that I have of the Six Sisters series.
Link | December 10th, 2009 at 11:53 am
ShellBell wrote,
Managed to get the eBook version of Watership Down but had to go to BooksOnBoard due to those pesky geographical restrictions that are the bane of my life!
Link | December 10th, 2009 at 12:02 pm
Samantha Kane wrote,
I haven’t read Chesney’s Edwardian mysteries, although they’ve been on my wish list for ages! The Six Sisters series was the beginning of my love of Regencies. Frederica In Fashion is my favorite.
Link | December 10th, 2009 at 12:08 pm
Angelia Sparrow wrote,
Samantha, Ditto on Cat and Morgan!
I have, somewhere in the course of numerous moves, lost my copy of The Windflower. But it did some serious shaping of my romance tastes. Devon and Merry and the wineglass totally informs several scenes in some of my het stuff.
And I totally love Watership Down. I wrote fanfic for it for a Fantasy lit class and got an A. (Retold the novel as an Elahrairah story)
Link | December 10th, 2009 at 2:57 pm
Samantha Kane wrote,
Isn’t it funny how certain books influenced so many of us? I wonder what books they’ll be talking about in twenty or thirty years? I shudder to think.
You know what I think about most when I think of The Windflower? When Merry thinks, “It must be love. I adore his feet.” lol That has influenced my writing. And it probably explains so much. ;-)
Link | December 10th, 2009 at 3:16 pm
LBea wrote,
This list looks familiar too. Sam.
::cough::
Link | December 11th, 2009 at 9:54 am
Samantha Kane wrote,
LBea ~ Of course it does! After all, the books we really, truly love never change, do they? Every once in a great while we might add to the list, but the core of inspiration never changes.
Link | December 11th, 2009 at 10:38 am
LBea wrote,
HAPPY RELEASE DAY SAMANTHA KANE.
Link | December 11th, 2009 at 12:47 pm
TeddyPig wrote,
Samantha did you post something because I think my spaminator terminated it for some reason I just caught your name on it before it went poof.
Sorry!
Link | December 11th, 2009 at 3:47 pm
Samantha Kane wrote,
I did. I’m trying not to feel rejected. :-( Actually I was wondering where it was, but lately things that I type take several hours to show up anywhere, so I shrugged and assumed it would appear later.
I said Thank You!!! to LBea.
Wow, all that for a little note. Yep.
Link | December 11th, 2009 at 4:32 pm
LBea wrote,
I am worth the extra effort.
Link | December 11th, 2009 at 4:33 pm
Samantha Kane wrote,
I’ve heard that about you.
And I agree, of course.
Link | December 11th, 2009 at 4:40 pm