As writers and/or readers often one thing – or several
things - will make a book stand out and the story stay in your mind. For me it’s
always the characters – or maybe one particular character. Maybe as writers we
shouldn’t have a favourite among our own books – that’s almost as bad as
favouring one of your children L
but I have to admit to favouring one particular character in HIGH FIDELITY and
that was the hero, Calum Stacey, and I have to admit to being in love with him
as I wrote the book. J
He was based on a literary agent I met once. He wasn’t particularly
good-looking or charismatic, but – my word! – the women just fell at his feet.
So, what if, I thought, my literary agent was completely charming, absolutely
gorgeous and impossible for the heroine, Tina, to resist! The picture I used –
I always use pictures – was of a very handsome soap star, but it wasn’t just
his looks that made Calum special, it was the way he dealt with the secret that
Tina had kept from him – the fact that she had a child as the result of their
affair – when the truth finally came out. He was entitled to be angry – and he
was very angry. However, in order to have a relationship with his teenage
daughter he had to get along with the woman who had kept them apart – though whether
he would ever forgive her was another matter. http://bit.ly/1uekNfB
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