I am really excited to welcome Mimi Sebastian to Illustrious Illusions!!
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My Pirate Heroine
Mimi Sebastian
The heroine of Devil’s Island, Sabine Tanner, seeks
a way to live independently after her pirate father is hung at the gallows in
London. The hanging opens the book and sets the stage for Sabine’s actions
moving forward. She sails to find his ship and hopefully a treasure that will
provide a means for her to live.
It’s hard to make historical romance heroines
more independent without being totally unrealistic. I’ve read a couple of
authors who have done a pretty good job of creating independent, realistic
heroines, and much of it depends on creating circumstances in their lives which
force them to become more self-reliant. And in Sabine’s case, after her father
was hanged, she was left to her own devices…until she met Boone, of course J. She was also exposed to many things while her
father was alive, making her seem less innocent, more worldly than most women
during the 1700s. In fact, her father often took her along when he visited his
lover, a madam, at her French brothel.
Sabine sailed quite a bit with her father and
knew her way around deck. What’s fascinating is that women participated in the
seafaring life much more than movies and literature led us to believe. The long
held myth that women were bad luck on a ship is really not true. While some
pirate crews didn’t want women around, it was more for practical reasons, to
keep the men from getting too distracted. Some merchant and British navy captains
perpetuated the myth to convince their wives not to sail with them so they
could visit a mistress tucked away on a foreign island. Yet, many officers did
take their wives on voyages, and while on board, the wives helped out quite a
bit.
I read a great book, Seafaring Women, by Linda
Grant De Pauw. She covers some famous female pirates including Anne Bonny and
the amazing His Kai Ching Yih. Ching Yih is often considered not only the most
successful female pirate, but possibly the most successful pirate, male or
female, in history. De Pauw notes that she commanded close to two thousand
ships and more than fifty thousand pirates in the early nineteenth century.
It was lots of fun writing about Sabine’s life
and journey, and with increased knowledge about women’s roles in seafaring, it
was easy to imagine her on the deck and sailing around the world, seeking
freedom from the normal lot of women at that time.
Devil’s
Island
Sea Rovers
Passion Series Book One
Mimi Sebastian
Blurb
Captain Boone
Wilder leads a cadre of powerful and notorious pirates that rule the West
Indies. He's survived the cutthroat's life, bearing the scars to prove it.
Fearless, he seeks only the freedom of the seas and an enemy he's hunted with a
vengeance for years. When Boone waylays a fat merchant vessel bound for Port
Royal, he discovers more than he bargained for in the luscious bounty of Miss
Sabine Tanner. But Miss Tanner hides more than tempting curves in her skirts.
When Boone finds her sneaking about the Port Royal taverns, meeting with
dubious captains, he's determined to learn what devious game she’s playing.
The daughter of a
condemned pirate captain, Sabine Tanner took to the seas to clear her father’s
name and locate her father’s legendary treasure. When her ship bound for Port
Royal is boarded, she's captured by the sun-bronzed, muscular Captain Wilder.
While the man is dangerously attractive, she knows from experience that Wilder
is nothing but a scabrous bilge rat. Circumstances force her to sail with the
scoundrel to find her father's ship, lost on the phantom Devil's Island. Driven
by opposing agendas, will they survive the hidden truths, or does their
greatest threat lie with each other?
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Author Info
Mimi Sebastian
raised herself on books and the strange and unusual with an unhealthy dose of
comics and swashbuckling Errol Flynn movies. Loving angst-filled romance thrown
in, she decided to blend all those elements in a steamy mix in her first Urban
Fantasy series, the Necromancer Books. The first book, The Necromancer’s
Seduction, debuted July 15, 2013, with ImaJinn Books.
Mimi spent two
years in the Ivory Coast with the Peace Corps and loves to introduce tidbits
from her experiences in her writing. She’s a member of Romance Writers of
America and the Fantasy, Futuristic and Paranormal chapter of RWA. A transplant
from the beaches of Florida, Mimi now wanders the desert in Phoenix, AZ, and
attempts to balance writing with a day career, fantastic family, and household
diva: her Amazon parrot.
Author Links
Mimi Website: http://www.mimisebastian.com
Sea Rover’s Passion
Website: http://www.searoverspassion.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/SebastianMimi
Pinterest: http://www.pinterest.com/mimisebastian/
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