{"id":226,"date":"2020-09-13T18:37:07","date_gmt":"2020-09-13T18:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ww2.sophiebarnes.com\/sb\/?page_id=226"},"modified":"2023-03-24T08:53:45","modified_gmt":"2023-03-24T08:53:45","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.sophiebarnes.com\/sb\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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USA TODAY bestselling author Sophie Barnes writes historical romance novels in which the characters break away from social expectations in their quest for happiness and love. Having written for Avon, an imprint of Harper Collins, her books have been published internationally in eight languages. With a fondness for travel, Sophie has lived in six countries, on three continents, and speaks English, Danish, French, Spanish, and Romanian with varying degrees of fluency. Ever the romantic, she married the same man three times\u2014in three different countries and in three different dresses.<\/p>

When she’s not busy dreaming up her next swoon worthy romance novel, Sophie enjoys spending time with her family, practicing yoga, baking, gardening, watching romantic comedies and, of course, reading.<\/p>

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  1. She took tap dancing lessons from the age of six until the age of ten.<\/li>
  2. As a child, she used to dream of becoming a gymnast or a figure skater.<\/li>
  3. She loves board games \u2013 especially Carcasonne, Bohnansa and Puerto Rico<\/li>
  4. Her favorite \u2018costume movie\u2019 is\u00a0Gone with the Wind<\/em>.<\/li>
  5. As much as she\u2019s always enjoyed writing, it was never something that she thought she\u2019d make a career of, but rather something she imagined would make a good hobby one day. Fortunately, her opinion about that has changed.<\/li>
  6. She used to love acting and has played both the wicked witch in a\u00a0Snow White<\/em>\u00a0pantomime, Adriana in Shakespeare\u2019s\u00a0A Comedy of Errors<\/em>\u00a0and an old, dying woman in\u00a0Oliver Twist<\/em>.<\/li>
  7. Of all the countries she\u2019s ever traveled to, her favorites are New Zealand and Mallorca. She hopes one day to visit Greece, Norway and Japan.<\/li>
  8. She loooooooooooves Tiramisu and Creme Brulee.<\/li>
  9. Her favorite art museums are, Musee D\u2019Orsay in Paris and Glyptoteket in Copenhagen.<\/li>
  10. She spent ten years of her childhood in the south of Spain.<\/li>
  11. As far as theatrical performances go, her favorites are:\u00a0The Phantom of the Opera<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0The Magic Flute.<\/em><\/li>
  12. Her favorite movies are:\u00a0Sabrina<\/em>,\u00a0The Princess Bride<\/em>,\u00a0To Catch a Thief<\/em>,\u00a0Somewhere in Time<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0My Fair Lady<\/em>.<\/li>
  13. Sophie loves Christmas, especially in Scandinavia where it\u2019s the biggest holiday of the year.<\/li>
  14. While quarantined during the 2020 pandemic she taught herself how to knit socks.<\/li>
  15. She writes a minimum of 2000 words per day. Except on weekends which are reserved for family.<\/li><\/ol>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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    USA TODAY bestselling author Sophie Barnes writes historical romance novels in which the characters break away from social expectations in their quest for happiness and love. Having written for Avon, an imprint of Harper Collins, her books have been published internationally in eight languages. With a fondness for travel, Sophie has lived in six countries, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-226","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t