WICKED WEDNESDAY
One benefit of being a writer is we're able to do things on paper we might not get to do otherwise. Be careful with writers...you might end up in their book. And to add more fun today, Kat is giving away a copy of her book to one lucky person brave enough to leave a comment. Tell us about it, Kat!
A
number of years ago I had the honor to be part of a group of out-standing
authors who created a series of contemporary romantic novellas called the Class
of '85. The series centered around a high school reunion so of course the
opportunity to create a couple of bullies arose. I dove in with a vengeance.
I like to base characters, both lead and secondary, on
people I know, like, admire or loathe. Sometimes the likenesses are only vague;
at other times the only difference is the names I choose to give them.
Since it would take a note from the Pope, buckets of
money, or weapons to induce me to attend my own reunion, I needed reasons why
someone wouldn't attend a reunion. Maybe they look nothing like they did back
in the day, such as the morbidly obese girl who has transformed herself into a
runway model doesn't want to hear the fat jokes. The former school bully, now
an advocate for the disadvantaged and disenfranchised, fears having to face
former victims but at the same time feels driven to make sincere amends. The
class bad boy, aka the Scourge of Summerville, has better things to do than be
reminded of his former behaviors.
Of course I needed to spend as much time creating the
bullies as I did with the heroes and heroines. In retrospect it wasn't as difficult
as I feared it might be. We all had a mean girl in our class so inventing
“Ready Betty” Baumgartner came easy. I even made her look like the mean girl I
once knew: tall and thin, blonde and well-to-do, and as sneeringly
self-absorbed as they came. Then came the dorky, socially inept dweeb who
ruined the grade curve. We all had one of those in our class, too. To make
Richard “Dickhead” Heade, I thought about a former high ranking police official
for the city where I live. What an opportunity to get back at a man so
ego-driven he'd never consider that the former pain in his butt would dare put
him in one of her books. Especially as a bad guy and not the white hat savior.
Gotcha, pal.
The three stories became an adventure which I'm now
thrilled to have together under one cover. It's titled Vengeance Is Mine.
For Dru Horvath, Gypsy orphan turned Pulitzer Prize
winning photo-journalist; Rafe Archangeli, the Scourge of Summerville who now
heads a multi-million dollar trust; and Fiona “Fat Aggie” Thorpe who recreated
herself into a top model with her own A-list agency, the opportunity to exact
revenge is too good to pass up.
Will
they find the vengeance they crave? Or something more valuable?
Vengeance Is Mine, a contemporary romantic trilogy by Kat Henry Doran,
can be found at:
Author Bio:
Legal nurse consultant, victim advocate, sexual assault
nurse examiner Kat Henry Doran has been there and done that--too many times to
count. She often travels to the wilds of Northern New York State, witnessing
the wonders of mother nature at her best. from the shores of Lake Ontario and
the Saint Lawrence River to the historic Adirondack Mountains. She creates
stories featuring strong women, the men
who love them, and occasionally some pretty nasty villains.
When not writing, she can be found lashed to one of her
sewing machines--or chauffeuring the four brightest stars in her life: Meredith
and Ashlin, Owen and Kieran.
For more information on
Kat, go to:
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