Romanticizing Reality

Last week for #MondayBlogs , I introduced you all to  Elizabeth Ashton , the heroine in my upcoming novel, HEMLOCK VEILS. I thought since these characters will be released to the public soon, I would do another post, this time introducing the hero. So everyone, meet Henry Clayton: Henry Clayton's inspiration: Joe Manganiello 1. Is he a fictional or historical person? Like Elizabeth, Henry is fictional. Though I feel that doesn't really need to be pointed out. 2. When and where is the story set? As explained in Elizabeth's character post, the story is set in our current time, in a small forest town, Hemlock Veils (a fictional place), located in Mt. Hood National Forest about an hour southeast of Portland, Oregon. 3. What should we know about him? There are lots of layers to Henry. And the discovery of some of those layers is part of the surprise of the story. But what you should know about Henry is that he isn't what he presents himself to be. He has about ...

I was tagged last Monday in the Meet My Main Character blog tour by the lovely and sometimes hilariously inappropriate Sonya Craig , and of course jumped at the opportunity. Sonya is the author of the Outbound sci-fi series, and you can check out more about her and her  kickass protagonist here . If any of you are regulars here (hello, crickets!), you probably know that Sonya is one of my dearest Twitter BFFs, and one of the most real, down-to-earth, amazing, beautiful, caring, and funny people I know. My main character? As most of you know, my paranormal romance coming next month from Swoon Romance  ( HEMLOCK VEILS ) is a modern-day Beauty and the Beast retelling for adult audiences. In this adaption, the Beauty of this story is twenty-nine-year-old Elizabeth Ashton. My inspiration for Elizabeth: Kate Beckinsale (image from Everybody's Fine).  And she is drinking coffee, of course. Because...Elizabeth. 1. Is she a fictional or historical person?  A...