Breakfast In Bed, Robin Kaye – Author Interview & Book Giveaway

Rich, the epitome of “anti-domestic,” can’t cook to save his life, and his idea of cleaning his apartment is to invite his mother over. But he’s ready to settle down, and he can’t stop thinking about the ex-girlfriend who got away. When he notices that his soon-to-be-married friends cooked and cleaned their way into their women’s hearts, he asks his friend Becca to help transform him into a nurturing man to win back his ex.

Rich is the only guy who’s taken the time to know Becca for herself. She decides she’ll give him the makeover he’s asking for, though she’ll be damned if she’s going to turn him into a domestic god for another woman. She wants Rich for herself, but how can she convince him that her kitchen and her bedroom are the only domestic locales he desires?

ABOUT THE AUTHOR…Award-winning author Robin Kaye is a professional writer and winner of the Romance Writers of America Golden Heart award for her first novel, Romeo, Romeo. Once it was published, Romeo, Romeo won the 2008 Best Contemporary itRom (Italian Romance) Award by Romance B(u)y the Book, the 2009 HOLT Medallion Contest First Place Winner for Best Romantic Comedy and the 2009 NJRW Golden Leaf Award Winner for Best Single Title. Her romantic comedies feature sexy, nurturing heroes and feisty, independent heroines. She lives with her husband and three children in Mt. Airy, Maryland. For more information, please visit http://www.robinkayewrites.com/. – FROM HACHETTE BOOKS

AUTHOR INTERVIEW…Thank you Robin for taking the time out of your busy schedule to sit down with The Book Faery Reviews for an interview about your latest novel Breakfast In Bed.

THE BOOK FAERY REVIEWS: What got you into writing romance?

ROBIN KAYE: I never read romance before 2000. I used to read all my father’s books and grew up reading Sydney Sheldon, Harold Robbins, Wilbur Smith, Robert Ludlum and the like. One day my sister in law gave me Bridget Jones’ Diary. Then I got hooked on Jane Austen and started writing fan fiction. After about three chapters, I went off on my own. I learned it’s much easier to make up your own plot. Once I finished the tome, I never looked back. I took an on-line class on point of view (which I desperately needed) and began writing my first book, Romeo, Romeo.

TBFR: What was your inspiration behind your novel Breakfast In Bed?

RK:I’m from an Italian family and it always bothered me that the boys got off scott-free when it came to cooking and cleaning. They were usually treated like little princes. Many of them grew up expecting everyone to take care of them, and for the most part, they got their way. The last thing I wanted was someone who needed to be taken care of, so I always steered clear of those guys and wondered who would want to marry a man like that?

When I wrote Romeo, Romeo and Too Hot to Handle, Richie, the heroine’s brother was an Italian prince. It wasn’t his fault, it’s just the way he was raised. When he is dumped by his girlfriend because she doesn’t think he is “marriage material,” he decides to learn to be a Domestic God. He just needs a coach. Enter Becca, she agrees to coach him and then the sparks start to fly.

TBFR: Who was your favorite character to write and why?

RK: That’s not fair! It’s like asking me which of my children is my favorite. I can’t say I have a favorite but I can say that I think the characters I have the most fun writing are the secondary characters like Vinny or Aunt Rose. They provide a lot of the humor and those two just crack me up.

TBFR: If Breakfast In Bed was being discussed by a book club, or a few friends meeting over coffee, what about the book do you think would drive the most discussion? (a particular character, event, theme)?

RK: Everyone usually starts talking about Rich’s antics while trying to learn to cook and clean. All were mistakes I’ve either heard about or experienced. Though I did have to call my friend who trains Maytag repairmen to ask how one starts a fire in the dryer.

TBFR: Are you currently reading anything right now? What is it? Do you have any favorite authors?

RK: I’m reading Libby Malin’s book, My Own Personal Soap Opera and I’m really enjoying it. As for my favorite authors, there are soooo many. I hate this because I always forget someone so here’s a short list… Louis Nizer, CS Lewis, Jane Austen, Richard Adams, Barbara Samuel, Susan Elizabeth Phillips, Susan Donovan, Rachel Gibson, Maureen Child, Susan Mallery, Elizabeth Hoyt, Jennifer Crusie, Suzanne Brockmann…the list goes on and is a really long one.

For more about Robin Kaye and her books, you can find her at:
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NOW THE GIVEAWAY…Thanks to SourceBooks, The Book Faery Reviews is giving away 1 set of the Domestic God Trilogy (Romeo, Romeo, Too Hot to Handle and Breakfast in Bed).

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