Day 1
Characters
2. Heroes, Heroines,
Villains. Which are your favorite to write?
I love writing my villains.
They are everything I’m not, so it’s interesting, and fun, to walk on the dark
side in their shoes. I especially enjoy writing female villains as they are
often more cunning and scheming than their male counterparts.
3. Heroes. How do you
find them? Do pictures, real life or plain imagination create the man you want
every reader to love? Do they come before the plot or after you have the idea
for the story?
I don’t do pictures. My
heroes aren’t perfect men, but they have many nice qualities that women
appreciate, and flaws that make them more relatable.
If I create my hero from
plain imagination (his physical attributes, his emotional baggage, his age, his
job...), everything about him will be designed to fit the storyline.
If my hero is based on a
real man, he will share some resemblance with his real counterpart, and the
storyline will be weaved around him.
In most of my stories, the
storyline came first...and the hero second.
4. Heroines. How do you
find them? Do pictures, real life or imagination create the woman you want the
reader to root for? Do they appear before the plot or after you have the idea
for the story?
Your favorite
book?
Again, I don’t do
pictures. My heroines are strong women with unusual jobs and challenging pasts,
who learned to rely on themselves.
My heroines fit a
different pattern than my heroes when it comes to creating them.
If my heroine is based on
a real woman, she will share some resemblance with her real counterpart, and
the storyline will be weaved around her.
The difference comes when
I think up a new storyline. Most of the time, the ideas popping in my head will
come with a female character attached to them.
In most of my stories, the
heroines are created from plain imagination at the same time as the storyline.
One doesn’t come before the other. Heroine and storyline are weaved together
from the start, and they both get constantly adjusted so they keep on fitting nicely
with each other until the end.
5. Villains or
villainesses or an antagonist, since they don’t always have to be the bad guy
or girl. They can be a person opposed to the hero’s or heroine’s obtaining
their goal. How do you choose one? How do you make them human?
The storyline will dictate
the antagonist(s). Quite often there are more than one antagonist, males and
females.
My antagonists aren’t all
created equal. Some are annoying but harmless, others are charming but
dangerous...they have qualities that makes them relatable, and dark sides that
they can’t always control.
There will usually be a
dead body or two in my stories, but quite often my killers will be victims of
circumstances or sudden emotions, rather than just being evil persons.
6. What is your latest
release? Who is the hero, heroine and or the villain?
My latest release is The
Red Quilt. It’s a sweet mystery/romance novel that takes place on
Prince Edward Island during the Christmas holiday.
My heroine is Lana, a
retired military nurse who lives on a potato farm with the ghosts of her
husband and son.
My hero is Eli, a retired
submariner who raises his five-year-old granddaughter alone.
My antagonists are a
scheming woman, a shady neighbor...and Mother Nature.
The Red Quilt was released three weeks ago, on November 15, 2021. Books
are easy to wrap and they fit in stockings. They make great Christmas gifts.
7. What are you working
on now?
I’m working on The
Blue Ribbon, a sweet mystery/romance surrounding a wedding in the mountains.
It will be the second book in the Fifteen
Shades Series, but it will be a stand-alone.
I may borrow a minor
character from The Red Quilt and turn
him/her into my hero/heroine. You can expect a bear or a
cougar, a dead body, maybe snow, lots of twists and turns, and a happy ending.
8. How can people find
you?
My Website -> https://sites.google.com/site/jsmarloauthor/home
Facebook -> https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100005715001393
Amazon -> https://www.amazon.com/J-S-Marlo/e/B071PBFDN8/
Goodreads -> https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/2079858.J_S_Marlo
Twitter -> https://twitter.com/jsmarloauthor
9. Who are your favorite
authors?
I like Dan Brown, Ken
Follett, Maureen Jennings, J. K. Rowling, Peter David, Nora Roberts, Danielle
Steel, and many, many more authors.
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