Intimate Interviews

Getting Saucy with Sabine

[Madhu, After Dark] Before we can get underway with the interview, just wanted to make sure whether I call you Sabi? And also, thank you for agreeing!

[Sabine Blackwood, Featured Author] Yes, I do like to be called Sabi.

Frankly, I'm surprised anyone really cares enough to want to hear what a madwoman has to say about anything, but by all means... go ahead!

[M] We're all, all kinds of mad, so that's ok :P
Sabi, I would love to know more about who you are, behind the scenes of all the drafts and edits.

[S] *lol* Well, we'll have to see how far down the rabbit hole you would feel comfortable venturing. What would you like to know, because I could probably write you an essay or two without some direction on your part.

[M] Nobody has called me Alice, yet. But, tomorrow's another day, right? Anything could happen :P
But, I'm sure the readers, along with me would love to know more about the uncut version of Sabi, outside of Wattpad!

[S] Anything is possible with the internet, surely!

I'm a bit of a misanthrope, and I say that without any false modesty. I think it comes across to some degree in my first novel, the sense of alienation Witches (especially the exiled Netta) feels. Or I could be reading too much into what I bring into my writing, who knows. I certainly tend to connect to other people through fiction, narrative, as I suspect other people do as well, to a varying degree. That's an essay I could write in and of itself, so I'll stop that line of thought here!

I'm a Walter Mitty, a consummate dreamer who is more interested in submerging myself into fiction/daydream than I am with making connections to other meat puppets. My best friend also happens to be my S.O, who I've been with since... whoo, 2008.

I have a gallows, dark/bizarre sense of humor that comes from the aforementioned sense of alienation. It might just be some kind of weird, mutant whale song I am calling out to those other rare (non-existent) beings who will answer back.

I think I had a love of cartoons, video games, and probably totally age-inappropriate horror movies, since before I started reading *Harry Potter*. I mark reading the first two books in that series as a marker in my life, when I started focusing all of the love I felt for this fictional, breathing world that was growing inside of me, stimulated my need to write.

I work a menial, low-paying job, but it affords me a chance (typically) to work, alone, on my writing, so I take this position with some degree of gladness.

Um. I have a black cat and his name is Rufio. He's the best cat and I will knife fight anyone who says differently.

[M] Well, to be frank, I'm laughing reading your reply and I have to say that my fellow misanthropes are welcome anywhere! :P
*a bit apprehensive about the gallows you own*
And cat lovers are welcome too! If you're going to start talking about Harry Potter, well, we could go on for days at a stretch!
*inhales deeply* feels like I'm talking to a more better version of myself for the interview, right now!
But, before I go about writing my whole life story here, I would love to know how you get the ideas for your books? And what's your biggest Achilles heel when it comes to penning down your thoughts in your work?

[S] Well, I'm glad I didn't bum you out, I have a propensity to either offend or bum people out, whether sarcastically with my dry sense of humor or inadvertently.

Ooh, careful now, you haven't seen the hell portal on the other side of this screen. Hot mess, hot mess.

If we're talking shop (which is the only thing I could do with actually a great degree of seriousness) I get my ideas when I watch/read/play things and I feel either disappointed with where something refuses to "go", how some element/character is handled, ect, ect, or I get this weird seed in my mind that either grows into a mountain almost immediately (a rarity, but has happened to me), or it gestates, sometimes with the smallest of signs that it's there to begin with. In the most rare of cases (Where "Until Daybreak" came from), it comes from me prodding my brain to think of something erotic that has some tie to Halloween.