Featured Author Sarina Rose

Featured Interview With Sarina Rose

Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
Biography:
Sarina Rose was born to first generation Italian-American parents in New Jersey. Her childhood memories of living in the four family apartment house with extended family decorate her books. Two cousins living in the house and two uncles on her mother’s side were drafted and served in Europe and Japan. One was killed in France. Her father’s family occupied the four apartments throughout her childhood into her late teens. The families took their meals together and she wandered through the apartments at will.
She attended local public school and learned to use the public library as a youngster. She graduated from the College of Saint Elizabeth in Morristown, NJ armed with a B.A. and a certificate to teach Spanish grades K-12 and ready for the career of her dreams, teaching and having fun in high schools. Sarina taught seventeen years in several New Jersey school districts spaced out with raising four children and working as a tutor and insurance service representative.
Sarina continued studies at Kean University graduate school accruing credits in computer usage, reading, liberal studies, science, art history, music history, and cooperative education courses. Along the way I enrolled in an on-line creative writing class and began what I love to do now which is writing stories full time.”
Sarina says she is lucky enough now to live near the beach on the Space Coast in Florida with her husband and their two loveable dogs, Andy, a Labradoodle, and Cici, a Shih Tzu.
Sarina Rose is a member of Space Coast Authors of Romance and Romance writers of America. She is also a member of the Melbourne Women’s Club. “I enjoy the Women’s club where I am the Arts Chairperson and contribute to the monthly newsletter. She quilts children’s blankets for local hospitals and wheelchair bags for nursing homes. Sarina is a docent at the Ruth Funk Center for Textile Arts at the Florida Institute of Technology and leads a lively discussion of publishing at S.A.I.L. (Senior Adventures in Learning).

At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
I have always had books around me stacked on a very large steamer trunk next to my mid-childhood bed, in the clothes closet, in a book case in the living room. My mother was a good readers. She loved mystery stories from Cherry Ames and Nancy Drew to Hercule Poirot. We sometimes went to the library together. I started writing at the age of ten. My fifth grade teacher posted a silly poem I wrote under the pencil sharpener on the window sill. I think most students probably looked out the window instead of at my poem. Nevertheless, I thought I felt famous.

My writing career began when I took Creative Writing 101 on-line after having spent years and years in graduate school trying to decide on a major. I started writing with the intention of publishing a book after retirement. I am fascinated with the whole business of writing and publishing.

I have been successful at having been offered contracts by two publishers for my first book. Although I chose to self-publish, the offers were a validation of my efforts.

Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
I love books with strong heroines who discover something about themselves in the course of uncovering their own and their heroe’s emotions. My favorite genre is historical fiction with romantic elements. I love Phillip Gregory and Hillary Mantel for their takes on history. I have never read about the War of the Roses and the White and Red Queen. Henry VIII and Cromwell are also a few of my favorite historical characters.

The World War II ear is one of my favorites perhaps because I was born during that time. My new novel THE RELENTLESS BRIT is set during the war. See my latest book below to learn more.

Tell us a little about your latest book?
THE RELENTLESS BRIT is The Relentless Brit is an historical romance,. It is a tale of sex, romance, and betrayal during World War II. History, romance, spies, espionage, intrigue, love, sex, war, peace, and the happy every after ending you love.

War rages in Europe. Hitler’s troops have occupied all countries except Great Britain. Nevertheless, bombing from German aircraft have scorched London and other parts of the British Isles. Peace is elusive. Hitler has betrayed the Prime Minister of England. Spies and espionage are rampart on all side.

Marie Gentile is a young widow working in her brother’s law office investigating divorce cases. Life had betrayed her by taking her husband to an untimely death. She longs for adventure, maybe romance and the chance to work on criminal cases for a change of pace. As she sits in a diner waiting for a friend, a handsome man comes through the door and attracts her attention. Can he give her a happy ever after, she muses? She would mind making a new history for herself.

Charles Stanhope is a handsome strong British secret agent who is married to ending World War II with a promise of peace. He is in the United States to recruit Marie to assist him in preparing propaganda to thwart the German Occupation and the rule of Mussolini. He succeeds and the two spend evenings working together. It is love at first sight for him. He wants her to love him as much as he loves her. He foresees love and romance, buy does Marie. .

Marie likes Charles well enough to sleep with him, but after she joins the spy movement, goes to spy camp in Canada, takes a troop ship to England. From there she is to go to her assignment with the Americans in Italy, she has second thought about a happy ever after ending. She believes gossip that Charles a cad and womanizer and sparks fly when she meets him again in England..

Charles travels for weeks at a time penetrating a German sympathizer cells in England and taking dangerous espionage missions into Germany. For Marie the war plays itself out in an office. She becomes despondent until she befriends Molly.

Marie and Charles are relentless in their fight against Hitler. Will the war determine a romance? Will they survive World War II? Will they find the happy ever after in the end or will Marie return to the United States in peace time and find true love.

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