As a romance reader
for many years, I loved revisiting characters in connected novels. Essie
Summers, one of my early favourites, was particularly delightful to read as she
slipped in characters from her earlier books and you could see the satisfying
lives the characters lived after the final kiss in their own story.
Contemporary romances are so short, writing a series allows you to develop
layered stories and deeper characterization of secondary characters as well.
So you've seen Book 3 Outback Affair...here is a little bit about Book 2 Italian Affair.
Holiday Affair, the first book in the Affair series, started its life as
a standalone book. My lifelong dream of writing a contemporary romance came to
fruition with this book, and I hadn’t really given any thought to the other
characters. I am a panster through and through (although my editor is slowly
beating that out of me!) so my characters lead me along.
Tom, the middle brother in Holiday Affair needed to find his happy ever
after and I mulled over his problem and what sort of woman he would need to
fall in love with, to complete his happiness.
Now, for those of you who have read Holiday Affair, you will remember
Tom as a bit of stuffy, stitched-up, list-making man, as one reviewer of
Italian Affair described him! Tom needed someone who was free-spirited, who
could tease him, but who would also fall in love with the wonderful man he is.
Inspiration came to me through a very dear friend and I have dedicated
Italian Affair to this friend, Melissa Lulham who she told me how she had
discovered her birth grandfather on Lipari Island. Brianna Ballantine was born
in that moment. Free spirited and with an urgent need to find a husband in four
days, she meets Tom on the plane on the way to Italy. And that is where their
story begins.
Annie loves to hear from readers at: annieseaton26@gmail.com
1 comment:
I think it's great to be a combination of pantser and plotter...you can let your characters guide you to a certain extent yet keep things logical, lol.
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