Today's Special - - Delilah Marvelle

It's our pleasure to welcome the Delilah Marvelle Night of Pleasure Blog Tour to The Romance Dish!  Delilah Marvelle is the winner of the Reviewer's Choice for Best Sensual Historical Romance of the Year and had Booklist name her historical romance 'Forever and a Day' one of the TOP 10 Romances of the year. When she isn't writing, she's digging through inappropriate research books that include anything in history having to do with courtesans, brothels, sexual contraptions that were never properly used and other fascinating forms of dirty history that never made it into college textbooks. You can visit her at her website at www.DelilahMarvelle.com and connect with her online at Facebook and Twitter.  Sign up for Delilah's newsletter here.

Welcome, Delilah!  Please tell our readers what they can expect from Night of Pleasure. 

Night of Pleasure, which is part of my School of Gallantry series, is about the charming Viscount Banfield who is smitten with his fiancée to the point of being stupid. The fact that it’s an arranged marriage lends a different angle. Instead of taking the route of an arranged marriage where the couple can’t stand each other, I took it to the other extreme. The hero adores his fiancée to the point of him not knowing what to do with himself. It made for a hilarious, quirky relationship. The heroine, Clementine Grey, is overwhelmed by all the attention and is usually the quiet girl who prefers to be independent. His extreme adoration helps her grow her own passions while teaching him something he never quite had: patience.

What would you like readers to understand about Derek and Clementine?

That their relationship has a lot of my own relationship woven into it. Naturally, I won’t give away in what ways and how (hey, that’s personal, lol), but I draw a lot of my insights on relationships from the one I’m in. And Derek and Clementine are no exception. After nineteen years of marriage, there are a lot of stories to tell about love!

What do you like most (and least) about being a writer?

I love that my writing has allowed me to meet people I normally wouldn’t have met had I gone into a different field. From my writing friends who make up 99% of my friends to my readers who are just a joy and who genuinely love reading as much as I do. What do I like least about being a writer? The time it takes away from my family. Writing is a full time commitment and sometimes it eats into too much time from the people I love most. So I do my best to balance it.

What would readers be surprised to learn about you?

That if I had a chance to do it all over again, I’d actually be a race car driver (vroom!). Seriously. I’ve always had a thing for racing cars at high speeds. And maybe one day, I’ll invest in a car and do it as a hobby. Fortunately, I don’t apply it to my everyday driving, lol. I haven’t gotten a single speeding ticket (knock on wood). 

What's next from Delilah Marvelle?

 

Master of Pleasure, which is the final book in the School of Gallantry series that will be a bridge to my upcoming series, The Whipping Society that will further expand the world. Super excited to write Lord Brayton’s story. His backstory is intense (won’t give it away, lol) and that will lend to an equally intense relationship that will change his twisted life and make him into who he always wanted to be: the guy next door. Can’t wait to finish it!

Readers, tell us one thing people might be surprised to learn about you. 

One randomly chosen person leaving a comment will receive a $5 Amazon gift card.  

An arranged marriage is daunting, but not as daunting as seducing a spouse whose passions you do not understand...

Derek Charles Holbrook, Viscount Banfield, knew his fate since he was seventeen when his father announced his union to the beautiful but mysterious American girl by the name of Miss Grey.

To protect the troubled estate, Derek submits to his father's wishes, not realizing he's about to entangle himself in a hell of a lot more than marriage.

Miss Clementine Henrietta Grey may be worth millions, but not a single coin has ever bought her a smidge of happiness. When she marries the charasmatic and dashing Viscount Banfield, whose only strife in life appears to be the uneven seams in his coat, she finds that siring the heir he wants requires far more than her heart is prepared to give.

Unable to seduce his overly-serious and reluctant wife, Derek realizes his dreams of creating a loving family has turned into a nightmare. But with the unexpected assistance of a retired courtesan and her outrageous school, Derek and Clementine discover that passion is a language spoken not just from the body, but from the mind, heart and soul.