1–What is the title of your latest release?
A TEMPEST AT SEA, Lady Sherlock book 7
2–What’s the “elevator pitch” for your new book?
Like Agatha Christie’s Death on the Nile, except on the high seas.
3–How did you decide where your book was going to take place?
I wanted my characters to go away somewhere for a bit and the idea came that perhaps they could be on a steamer, on an ocean voyage.
4–Would you hang out with your protagonist in real life?
With Charlotte Holmes, Lady Sherlock? I would. We can just eat cake and each do our own thing side by side.
5–What are three words that describe your protagonist?
Gender-bent Sherlock Holmes.
6–What’s something you learned while writing this book?
I learned that on a London-Bombay voyage in the 1880s, one typically stopped only in these following places along the way: Gibraltar, Malta, Port Said, and Aden.
7–Do you edit as you draft or wait until you are totally done?
I edit as I draft, but not daily, only when I think I’ve gone as far in a particular draft as possible, then I start another draft.
8–What’s your favorite foodie indulgence?
Ooh, probably loaded fries/loaded tater tots. I will always order those if they are on the menu.
9–Describe your writing space/office!
A very Spartan space with a Christmas tree that no one has bothered to take down for at least three years, and way too much stuff for my bullet journal. How many packages of stickers, washi tape, wood and acrylic stamps, mulberry papers, and wax seal stamps does one woman need? Approximately one cubic yard!
10–Who is an author you admire?
I don’t know if I admire him, per se, but I’m always flabbergasted by the fact that Nabokov’s most famous novels are written in his third language.
11–Is there a book that changed your life?
Yes, the less-than-thrilling historical romance that made me decide in the space of a single afternoon that I would take up writing too. Never has a book so immediately and directly changed another person’s life.
12–Tell us about when you got “the call.” (when you found out your book was going to be published)/Or, for indie authors, when you decided to self-publish.
I was sitting in my classroom. I’d just gone back to graduate school to get a master’s degree in accounting and the call came within the first week of class! It was very thrilling, but also very terrible as I had to go to school and write my second book at the same time.
13–What’s your favorite genre to read?
I’m not sure I have such a thing, but I tend to gravitate toward exciting books that bear little resemblance to what I write.
14–What’s your favorite movie?
I’m not sure, but one can never go wrong saying The Matrix.
15–What is your favorite season?
It used to be winter, not because I like real cold but because it’s so hot the rest of the year in central Texas, where I live, that winters were a nice respite. But now we have these bad winter storms every other year—with a really unreliable electrical grid—and I have grown apprehensive of winters too. What to do?
16–How do you like to celebrate your birthday?
I would like for my birthday to be roundly ignored—that way I don’t have to do anything for anyone else’s birthday either. Alas, people insist on doing stuff for my birthday and I have to keep on buying balloons and making cakes for theirs too.
17–What’s a recent tv show/movie/book/podcast you highly recommend?
The most recent story to blow my socks off is actually a long-form Harry Potter fanfic that is a cross between HP and The Handmaid’s Tale. It is called Manacled, by senlinyu. You are welcome.
18–What’s your favorite type of cuisine?
Chinese, of course. I’m deeply attached to Americanized Chinese food—even bad fried rice is good fried rice.
19–What do you do when you have free time?
I’m very fond of playing casual games on my iPad.
20–What can readers expect from you next?
Up next will be Lady Sherlock 8, which I need to go back to writing right now!
A TEMPEST AT SEA by Sherry Thomas
The Lady Sherlock Series #7
After feigning her own death in Cornwall to escape from Moriarty’s perilous attention, Charlotte Holmes goes into hiding. But then she receives a tempting offer: Find a dossier the crown is desperately seeking to recover, and she might be able to go back to a normal life.
Her search leads her aboard the RMS Provence, sailing from Southampton for the eastern hemisphere. But on the night Charlotte makes her move to retrieve the dossier, in the midst of a terrifying storm in the Bay of Biscay, a brutal murder also takes place on the ship.
Instead of solving the crime, as she is accustomed to doing, Charlotte must take care not to be embroiled in this investigation, lest it become known to those who harbor ill intentions that Sherlock Holmes is abroad and still very much alive.
Mystery Historical | Romance Historical [Berkley, On Sale: March 14, 2023, Trade Paperback / e-Book, ISBN: 9780593200605 / eISBN: 9780593200612]
Female Sherlock Holmes confronts a twisty plot of love, jealousy, and betrayal
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About Sherry Thomas
Sherry Thomas writes both historical romance and young adult fantasy.
On the romance side, she is one of the most acclaimed authors working in the genre today, her books regularly receiving starred reviews and best-of-the-year honors from trade publications. She is also a two-time winner of Romance Writers of America’s prestigious RITA® Award.
On the young adult fantasy side, there isn’t much to report yet, her debut book, THE BURNING SKY, book 1 of the Elemental Trilogy, has received a starred review from Publishers Weekly and been named to the Autumn ’13 Kids’ Indie Next List.
Sherry writes in her second language. She learned English by reading romance and science fiction—every word Isaac Asimov ever wrote, in fact. She is proud to say that her son is her biggest fanboy—for the YA fantasy, not the romances. At least, not yet…
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