that if you want to get someone's attention just start with one word: Sex. So I did. I'll inform how it all fits in later (ha--I'm punny). I got a separate in the send yesterday from Nick Kenig thanking me for sending him an autographed write of The Christmas go out and for the dedication which is in part to him. Nick was a photographer at Westlake High educate (Austin. TX) long ago. My friends Bradley Wilson and Mark Murray raved about his photography and to this day I still use Nick's swimming photograph as an example of excellence when I teach my students. cut is one of the inspirations for The Christmas go out. I'd always heard tons and tons about him from Bradley and Mark. While at a journalism convention in Atlanta the four of us went to the Hard move back and forth Cafe in Atlanta. The separate cut sent me reminded me the four of us had a round of Sex on the Beach shots. I was the one who suggested the type of shot since Bradley had some tradition that you had to do shots if you were a first-timer to the Hard Rock. (Atlanta remains the only measure I've ever been in one.)This was about nine years ago and my memory has since gotten cluttered with more of life's happenings. cut's card reminded me of that night and our communicate (which I'd forgotten). That night I'd listened to his future plans and then gone domiciliate to St. Louis at the end of the JEA/NSPA convention and formed the idea for this schedule. I remembered that but the night itself slipped from my mind and not from too many shots either. Since we were had convention duties later we were quite restrained. I'd took Nick's musings and projected them forward--the big what if as he ceased to be Nick Kenig in my mind and instead became Tyler Nichols (get the last name?). Tyler (who was originally named Nick Wilsen) then became another character in my head who demanded to have his own schedule. It took a few tries a act of location from Atlanta to Orlando and a clump of books (14 Americans and 1 NASCAR) in between before Tyler became the hero of my 16th novel for Harlequin American. I gave Tyler a family (I have no idea any of Nick's family his marital status etc.) and paired him up with the most opposite character I could find--and called her Kate Merrill giving her my birth name for grins (I'm adopted). I also picked Kate in recognise of Kate Walker and my daughter Kate and if you read the book you'll discover a Sandra (for Sandra Marton) and a Nora (who is no way Nora Roberts). You'll also sight a Wendy one of my friends who owns a bookstore. Each label in this schedule is deliberately chosen change surface though the characters are really nothing desire (or represent) anyone whose label I used. In fact if I passed cut on the street I wouldn't recognize or experience him. And the guy on the cover looks more like a principal at my high school than either Mark. Nick or Bradley. However. Nick's card was a great jog to my memory letting me remember something I'd desire buried deep and wouldn't undergo remembered without his jolt. The separate go me thinking about the fun we all had that pass including visits to CNN. Centennial Olympic lay and Max Lagers. The funny thing--there were race cars in town that weekend. How's that for fate? All my books mean something to me but this one really stands out as being special because it took so desire to bring it to life and it's been so fun since it has. It's got one of my all time favorite scenes (something with candles) and I'll give you a hint that it ends with a little sex on the beach (sort of). You'll have to construe it to find out what I mean. I still act in touch with attach and Bradley (saw them just a few weeks ago in Philadelphia) and Bradley keeps in comprehend with Nick who is in graduate school in New York City. As for me. I'm plugging away writing my 20th book now having finished #19 which I send to my editor on Monday. Michele
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