Terri George
I'd discovered the whole ER genre, loved it and just knew I wanted to write one.
This sounds a bit like a box ticking exercise, but I knew the story had to have certain elements:
Mia, my Heroine: I wanted her to be feisty and independent, certainly no über-girlie pushover and she had to have a job (that she loves and would be interesting to me and readers − I certainly had fun coming up with ideas for events) that allows her a certain amount of freedom, gets her out of the office and would bring her into contact with my Hero.
Nick, my Hero: Strong, an Alpha Male when he wants to be, drop-dead gorgeous (well duh); a man with a past and again he needs the freedom to come and go as he pleases so he has to be a self-employed businessman.
Once I'd got the outline of Mia and Nick, I built on the storyline, additional characters and plot from there.
I had intended it to be a duology, but I was 100,000 words into Beguiled and realised there was just too much story for 2 books. Beguiled ended up at 161,000 words as it is and if I'd kept it as 2 books they would have been unfeasibly long. So I changed where I had planned to break the story and it became a trilogy.
This sounds a bit like a box ticking exercise, but I knew the story had to have certain elements:
Mia, my Heroine: I wanted her to be feisty and independent, certainly no über-girlie pushover and she had to have a job (that she loves and would be interesting to me and readers − I certainly had fun coming up with ideas for events) that allows her a certain amount of freedom, gets her out of the office and would bring her into contact with my Hero.
Nick, my Hero: Strong, an Alpha Male when he wants to be, drop-dead gorgeous (well duh); a man with a past and again he needs the freedom to come and go as he pleases so he has to be a self-employed businessman.
Once I'd got the outline of Mia and Nick, I built on the storyline, additional characters and plot from there.
I had intended it to be a duology, but I was 100,000 words into Beguiled and realised there was just too much story for 2 books. Beguiled ended up at 161,000 words as it is and if I'd kept it as 2 books they would have been unfeasibly long. So I changed where I had planned to break the story and it became a trilogy.
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