Sunday, May 6, 2012

Daniel Craig Is My Mojo

To the left is why I've been successful these last few years churning out the novels and short stories at such a quick pace. I have to fall in love with my heroes a little bit, and hey, if they're easy on the eyes on the better right?

Right now I'm writing the character of Jack Harris, an undercover MI-5 agent. Originally the role was played in my head by George Clooney, only he was FBI. But that was when he was first imagined by me and his co-creator Melissa Goodman. As I was writing him in this incarnation Daniel Craig's voice came out of his mouth while talking to the bad guy who I see as Anthony Geary.  What I'm saying is in this story there are multi-heroes and ant-heroes who, depending on how you look at the situation see themselves as completely justified in what they're doing. But Daniel is my good mojo. Every time I see him as the hero good things happen for me. When I saw Casino Royale I found myself wanting to write for him. So first came Another Way To Die. Then came the trailer for Cowboys & Aliens which inspired the short No Ordinary Love. A sci-fi erotic romance. Here is a little taste of it.




Blurb:
A human rebel against the Capturian Forces, Caliope was enslaved for five years and tortured. She never expects to meet James, a half-breed too human for his own good.
Their connection is electric.
Their love is forbidden.
Their daughter may be Earth’s only hope.
Excerpt:
When I woke I was in a small room, naked except for the salves on my skin and a warm blanket wrapped around my body. I looked around. James was sleeping in a chair next to the bed with a shotgun at his side. I tried to sit up and his eyes flickered open.
“Keep still. They’ll sense you.”
His nearness was enough to make me yearn for his touch. Relationships between Capturians and humans were taboo by their very nature. But James himself was an anomaly. He was the offspring of a Capturian Master and his female human slave. He never talked about it, but I knew it left him with a bitterness and heaviness that not even the oldest of human survivors had.
He’d been a guard on the slave ship I’d originally been sent to, early on in the fighting. The ‘experiments’ had been torturous. During my first six months there, they tried to break me. Every night I was in tears. Angry, bitter, terrified tears. When I slept there was no relief, either, as I was haunted in my dreams by the things they had done to me in the day time. Eventually I lost all sense of time or place. I was about to fall on my sword when James was assigned to watch me and make sure I didn’t rally the other human slaves. Instead of plunging me into utter darkness and suspending me in air, he’d come to me, that first night, and held me through it.




3 comments:

Shadow said...

Sounds interesting. Hope James and Caliope kick butt! Better get those bad guys!

Unknown said...

It's a reunion story. And everyone wants more. Maybe. :)

Debby said...

Daniel Craig is a good choice. Your book is as well.
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