Featured Interview With Darcy Flynn
Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
My name is Joy Dent and I write clean and wholesome romance novels as Darcy Flynn. I’m originally from New Orleans, LA, and spent my childhood, ridding streetcars, celebrating Mardi Gras and cheerleading for the University of New Orleans. I studied music and theatre in college and after I got married, my husband and I moved to Nashville, TN. I’m a former fashion model and Mrs. Tennessee and I now live on a horse farm just down the road in Franklin. And even though I’ve spent years surrounded by a menagerie of living creatures, I’m partial to my barn cats and my beautiful English Setters.
At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
Georgette Heyer was my favorite author. At fifteen, her novel, Sylvester, was the first romance I’d ever read and from that moment on I was hooked. Since then, I’ve read every one of her books and have a collection of her hardbacks in my office. Her books were so much run, romps really, and I adored her characters so much. Even though I don’t write historical fiction, her writing has influenced the fun that’s a hallmark of my stories. I tell people there’s an F word associated with my books and it’s FUN!
I started writing romantic fiction during my son’s freshman year in college. Up until that time, under my real name, Joy Dent, I’d written several non-fiction magazine articles, authored The Home School Planner, and contributed both the art and text for the four charts on The Plants of the Bible in Thomas Nelson’s, The Woman’s Study Bible.
I’d always wanted to try my hand at romantic fiction. To ease the pain of the “empty nest,” I started de-cluttering and in the process, found a box of old Harlequin novels. I decided to re-read some of them and after each one, I’d think, I could write one of these. I made notes as I read through several of my old favorites just to teach myself the pattern or the formula for that type of romance.
I’ve always heard, write what you know, so I decided to write a novel surrounding a lighthouse in a small fishing village in Maryland.
Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
I really enjoy Colleen Goble’s books, and Mary Higgins Clark is still a favorite. I also enjoy reading Julia Quinn and Debbie Macomber. My favorite genre to read is romance. It can be mystery, historical, or contemporary. All of these authors inspire me in one way or another. I love ‘fun’ elements, clean and wholesome, lots of sexual tension is a must, and you can take me back in time or to the future… just give it to me with a generous helping of romance.
Tell us a little about your latest book?
Absolutely, I’d love to tell you about my young adult, time travel adventure, Flight Time. My heroine, sixteen-year-old Rylee Dean has grown up hearing stories about her grandfather Jaxon C. Scott. She has inherited her grandfather’s love of flying, but on her first solo flight, a strange incident throws Rylee into the past, bringing her face to face with her long-lost grandfather. Only he is a young man working as a test pilot for the US Air Force. Rylee knows she is the one who can save her grandfather’s life. But changing the past means the future will disappear, making Rylee’s existence vanish as well.
Flight Time is the story of my heart, as my own uncle disappeared in flight leaving behind his pregnant wife at the time. He was twenty-two-years-old and he, nor his plane, were ever found. As a child I heard many wonderful
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