In this week’s AuthorView interview, author Suzanne Enoch recalls for Michelle the simple childhood pleasure that inspired her writing and confesses to falling in love with the heroes of her novels.

MB: What or who inspired your novel?

SE: I don't know if there's ever really been a specific person or event that inspired a particular novel. The title of "Sin and Sensibility" of course, is kind of an homage to Jane Austen, the godmother of the Regency-period romance.

MB: What do you want readers to know about your novel?

SE: I would like readers to know that all four of the Griffin family books, of which "Sin and Sensibility" is the first, are full of my usual humor and silliness, though I think the more I write, the deeper the layers of character get.

MB: Who is the most heroic person you know?

SE: My youngest sister, Cheryl, is the most heroic person I know. In the last two years she's gone through a pregnancy, a brain tumor, and a second pregnancy. The tumor was removed successfully, but since then she’s had to cope with physical difficulties that are likely to be lifelong. And still she manages to keep her sense of humor and be a good mom, and is able to be optimistic enough about life in general that she’s having another child.

MB: Who’s your romance hero? A "Dark, Brooding Bad Boy" or a "White Knight in Shining Armor"?

SE: That is a very difficult question. My romance hero tends to be the one I'm writing about. I think an author has to fall in love at least a little with every hero she writes, or there’s no reason to think that anyone else would fall for him. In real life, I’m still looking.

MB: Answer the question you wish an interviewer would ask you.

SE: I suppose I would like to be asked how and why I became a writer. Not a published author, but a writer. I remember being a little kid, about 5, as I recall, and sitting down at the dining table for lunch with my two sisters. We would eat our lunch, and my mom would read us a story. She did this every day, and I just loved it. I loved the feeling of being transported somewhere else for an hour or so, even when we all had heard a particular story so many times we knew it by heart.

I love telling stories, which gives me an opportunity to escape to that magical place every time I touch a pad of paper or a keyboard, and I love the idea that what I do might give a reader that same feeling I had every summer afternoon when I was little.

Thanks for the opportunity to chat with you. I enjoyed it!

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