Apart from people asking how I came up
with an idea for a book, I get asked about my characters the most. I’ve been
asked if they are based on me or people I know or if they can be a character in
one of my novels.
All of the above are true to some extent.
One of my main characters, September Gale, happened to be a real person I met
at a restaurant. The name intrigued me and I later told her I had used her name
as the lead detective in my novel Threads
of the Shroud.
Sometimes I have a personality in mind
when I develop a character, as if did with Trick, a support character in
Yellowstone Brief. A longtime friend had just the personality I needed for the flamboyant,
yet reckless and carefree geologist.
My latest series starting with Crater
features Scott Tanner a former Navy SEAL. He’s middle class, handsome, rugged,
and slightly introverted man who is suffering PTSD. Scott has taken up treasure
hunting as a business. His partner is a polar opposite, David Stafford, a
former UC Berkley nerd who happens to be a genius and uses his inherited fortune
to push the envelope of technology. They are an unlikely pare who have formed a
symbiotic relationship that gets them into and out of trouble. I haven’t a clue
where these characters came from but they were necessary for the adventures.
Check out Crater, the first book in the
series featuring Tanner and Stafford.
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