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People often ask me where I get the ideas for my stories, but the truth of it is that I usually get the ideas for my characters first and then tailor the story around them. With SINS OF THE FLESH, my thoughts kind of went like this:
Heroine:
Needs name that can be one syllable – Cat. Catherine is too common, but Caterina is just right. Exotic and elegant like the heroine. Caterina is talented. She makes beautiful music. A sensual instrument like the cello. She has no family, few friends and no love interest.
Hero:
Needs name that can be one syllable – Mick. Mick is creative also – he likes to make things go boom! Lots of friends and family who think he’s a hero. Many female conquests, but no lover. Mick is a really bad boy – the kind who walks a very fine line to earn his livelihood.
Mick and Cat seemed like an unlikely pair to put together and yet I love having very different
characters find common ground and of course, love. I’m an eternal optimist who thinks love can conquer all.
Did I mention that Cat is dying? Or at least she was before she signed onto a radical gene therapy that saves her life, but makes her something other than human. Something that Mick is paid to hunt down (or kill if necessary).
Or at least that’s how my evil mind started writing SINS OF THE FLESH. The characters and their basic traits, what brings them together and what may tear them apart. Then it’s time to expand on the ideas, do some research into the nitty gritty of the genetic engineering that is going to help/change Cat, the things that go boom for Mick and of course, making sure there is enough romance and suspense to keep you flipping the pages until the very end.
Some think that it’s a tough job to go from those simple beginning thoughts to a finished book, but it’s a job that I love doing. There is amazing satisfaction in being able to craft a story that people will hopefully enjoy reading and I couldn’t imagine not writing.
Thanks for dropping by!
~Caridad
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