Today my guest is Nina Harrington, who writes contemporary romance for Kiss and Modern Tempted and has just added crime (with tons of romance) to her oeuvre!
Welcome, Nina...
One of the delights of creating romantic fiction is
exploring how your fictional hero can encapsulate all of the qualities you are
looking for in your ideal man.
Is he dark, fair, tall or stocky? Perhaps he is an
adventurer, a cowboy or a sheik, sinewy and athletic, or a powerful company
executive resplendent in designer suits with a private jet on standby to whisk
your away to a tropical island?
And then you have to create a heroine which will match
your hero and make him work past the instant attraction to recognise the one
woman he needs more than he wants.
But now it is time to let you into a secret many romance
authors share. A passion which involves “inspirational” head and body photos of
celebrities, actors, sportsmen and women from TV, stage and most of all cinema
Yes. I am talking about movie casting!
Do
you create visual impressions of the characters as you read a book? I do.
And
how often are you disappointed when that book is filmed and the actor is
nothing like the person you had imagined?
Who
would you chose to play the parts of your hero and heroine in the movie of the
book that you are reading or writing?
I had such fun choosing actors to play in my romantic
mystery set in an Italian delicatessen.
