DO YOU…

[James]

…FALL IN LOVE WITH YOUR CHARACTERS?

What a strange question, you might say. Maybe not, as I got the idea from an old Forbes Magazine article ( https://www.forbes.com/sites/booked/2... ).

So, as another attempt to freshen up the banal buy my book plea, why not list whether you fell for your protagonist, antagonist, or minor characters and if so why.

When creating the Native American lead heroine Luna Nightcrow of The K-Frost Caper and The Diamond Head Deception it was perhaps similar to the sculptor Pygmalion of Greek myth. While I’m not the misogynist Pygmalion was (as his hatred of women led him to create an ivory statue of his ideal woman that he ultimately fell in love with), reading many mysteries or seeing them in movies and TV depicted usually with largely white and black characters but almost no Native Americans was a little disheartening.

So similar to Pygmalion’s decision, I decided not to wait on Hollywood, Fleet Street, or any other media outlet to create a compelling detective of another color; I created one myself and endowed her with all the traits that many of the great sleuths posses: Confidence, charisma, uncanny intuition, wanderlust, a degree of world weariness, and a hang up for being a hopeless romantic in a business bent on presenting the unvarnished truth. When I finally bestowed Luna with the charms of “Charlie’s Angels,” what’s not to love?! I even went so far as to interview Luna in another Games thread called https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/... .

[Anna]

Yes, James, I have fallen in love with one of my created characters - not telling why or maybe not sure why!

Your posts are always interesting.