DURING INTERVIEWS, I OFTEN GET ASKED HOW I CREATE MY MALE CHARACTERS. IT’S A TRICKY QUESTION AND ONE THAT I DON’T HAVE A SOLID ANSWER FOR. MANY AUTHORS WILL SAY THEY PLAN THEIR CHARACTERS OUT DURING THEIR PLOTTING OF THE STORY. NOT ME. HUH UH. MINE COME TO ME ON A WHIM. OF COURSE, I WANT THEM ALL TO BE QUITE DIFFERENT. EVERY BOOK I WRITE, I WANT EACH MALE LEAD TO BE DIFFERENT FROM MY LAST ONE.
IT WAS A BIT TRICKY WITH THE GUARDIANS BECAUSE FIRST OFF THEY ARE BROTHERS. THAT MAKES THEM GENETICALLY CODED TO BE ALIKE IN SOME RESPECTS. THEN THERE IS THAT VESTURION THING WHERE THEY ARE PROGRAMMED TO BE RULE FOLLOWERS AND DO GOODERS. THEY INHERENTLY WANT TO PROTECT AND DEFEND. I STRUGGLED A BIT WITH THAT BECAUSE I’M A FIRM BELIEVER THAT, LIKE IT OR NOT, WE ALL HAVE A LITTLE BIT OF BAD INSIDE OF US. I BROKE THE GUARDIAN MOLD WITH XARRID. YOU’LL BE ABLE TO READ ABOUT HIM IN REEMERGENT, WHICH WILL BE RELEASED IN LATE MARCH. HE’S NOT EXACTLY A BAD BOY, BUT HE’S BEEN DEALT A BLOW THAT TURNS HIM INTO THE NEXT BEST THING.
MY SUPER BAD BOY, JUREK, IS PROBABLY MY MOST COMPLEX GUY I’VE EVER WRITTEN ABOUT (WITH THE EXCEPTION OF PRESTON, BUT I CAN’T TALK ABOUT HIM YET *WINK*). JUREK HAS HAD THE MOST DIFFICULT LIFE OF ANY OF MY CHARACTERS. HE WAS RAISED MOTHERLESS. HIS FIRST WIFE DIED SHORTLY AFTER GIVING BIRTH AND HE LOST HIS NEWBORN SON TOO. HE HAS POOR COPING MECHANISMS AND IT SHOWS IN THE WAY HE TREATS OTHERS...UNTIL HE MEETS THAT ONE WOMAN WHO SETS HIS WORLD ON ITS BACKSIDE. WHEN I CREATED JUREK, I WANTED TO WRITE ABOUT A MAN THAT HAD EVERYTHING IN THE PHYSICAL SENSE, INCLUDING MASSIVE AND ULTIMATE POWER, BUT SCORED A ZERO ON THE EMOTIONAL SCALE. I WANTED TO TAKE THIS JERK (HENCE THE PLAY ON HIS NAME) AND MOLD HIM INTO A DECENT GUY THAT FINALLY WANTED TO MEAN SOMETHING TO HIMSELF AND SOMEONE ELSE. SO YOU SEE HIM EVOLVING IN DARK WALTZ AND YOU’LL SEE EVEN MORE OF THAT IN DEATH WALTZ, THE SECOND BOOK.
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With love,
Margaret
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