Good morning Sandy, and welcome to Fallen Angel Reviews. We would love to learn more about Sandy Blair and all her releases.

If I may say, you strike a lovely pose of someone in your picture that makes friends easily and is easy-going, and enjoys life. And you actually fell off a cruise ship?

Yes, unfortunately.

I hope you weren’t hurt.

My backside and pride were bruised for awhile, but other than that...

Oh wow, Sandy, I noticed on your website you are an award winning author of Highland paranormal romance. That is great. I noticed that A Highlander for Christmas is out. Why not tell us a bit about this book?

A Highlander For Christmas is a light-hearted, fish out of water tale and my fifth novel. As the story opens, Boston antique dealer Claire MacGregor is fooling around with an ancient puzzle box. When it springs open she’s shocked to discover that she has brought forth from 1745 an equally surprised, irate, and decidedly naked Sir Cameron MacLeod into her world of computers, planes and Victoria’s Secret.

Do you write on a schedule or as inspiration hits?

Being a morning kind of gal, I start writing around 5:00AM each day and keep at it until 2:00PM.

What would you like to accomplish with your writing career?

I’d very much like to bring as many hours of escape and joy into people’s lives as God and time allows.

Do you have any bad writing habits?

Hmm...I really dislike re-writing, so I do a good bit of ruminating before I ever put words down on paper.

Can you tell us something about you that makes you unique?

Does writing as clearly backwards as forwards yfilauq?

You have 3 wishes, what are they?

That every woman who longs for a loving relationship finds it.

That every man who longs for fulfillment finds it.

That the man in my life continues to think that I’m the sexiest, funniest and greatest female cook alive. (Should he ever take off his rose-colored glasses, my goose is cooked. )

Do you see yourself in any of the characters in your books?

Authors do tend to write what they know. The tale that A Man In A Kilt heroine Lady Beth tells of her childhood paralleled my own.

While writing, how does the story develop for you? Do you go from start to finish or create scenes as they come to you?

I often have one character in mind. Once he/she is totally fleshed out, his/her perfect match (love interest) takes shape. Once I know their goals and greatest fears, I can then see their blackest moment. Everything in between is as much of an adventure for me as it is for the reader.

Congratulations! You just won a year off from work to travel anywhere in the world and write the story of your dreams. Where do you go, what type of book do you write, and what’s the title?

Well, aren’t you the sweetest thing! Thanks!! Where would I go? County Kilkenny, Ireland, to write a classic Celtic gothic.

One of the biggest directors in Hollywood contacted you today and is giving you the chance to have one of your books released as a film. Which book would you choose and of course why?

That’s a hard choice, but I think it I’d go with A HIGHLANDER FOR CHRISTMAS. It’s a reverse Kate and Leopold kind of tale, one well-suited to audiences looking for a fun escape (and to perhaps shed a tear or two.)

Which room in your home would you say is your favorite?

My office with its big, comfy green leather chair, the bookcases loaded with research books, my new L shaped desk and loads of windows. It’s the perfect place for my muse to take flight.

If you were to replenish your cabinets with one junk food, what would it be?

Oh, definitely Turtles...Those pecan, caramel and chocolate blobs that come too few to a box.

Have you ever been close to a rattlesnake or any snake? Or seen a snake charmer?

Yes! Once upon a time, our 10 yr old son was playing along a pasture fence. Hearing sudden screams, I looked out our kitchen window and found Alex, a hand pressed to his neck, running toward the house. By the time we met in the front pasture, he’d covered two acres at a dead run. When he gasped out what happened all I could think seeing the large puncture wounds in his neck was, “Please, God, please, please don’t let it be from a venomous snake.” Terrified, I sat Alex down, told him not to move a muscle and took off at a dead run back to where he‘d been playing in hopes of finding the snake. (The ER physician would need to know what kind of snake he to administer the right anti-venom.) I found the snake--green and yellow, about 2 and 1/2 feet long--hiding in the brush. The snake never knew what hit him. Before he could blink, the three of us—-son, dead snake and yours truly--were racing for the ER, where we discovered the snake was only a common arboreal garden variety that had probably been more frightened than my son when Alex had inadvertently knocked him from his perch.

Do you have a household chore that you really hate doing?

Ironing. I really do loath it and wish "permanent press" was really permanent.

Do you have another website, other than www.sandyblair.net that you would like to share?

www.romanceunleashed.com, featuring several wonderful Zebra authors is a big favorite, along with my Golden Heart authors group site .

Sandy, I am glad that we were able to share some time with you today. We look forward to reading more of your great works.

Thank you ever so much for this opportunity. I really enjoyed speaking with you.

Interviewed by: Linda L.