by Kathryn Caskie

I Need a Hero ~~ Send Me Inspiration (Pictures!)

I have always been a visual person.  When I sit down to write, I like to have images of the story characters pinned up next to my desk.

Okay, coming clean here, I only pin up pictures of the heroes from my books.  Why? Because, though the heroine in my story usually looks nothing like me, I always like to imagine I am her. Don't you when you read a romance novel?  I know I do.

When I was writing my new book, HOW TO PROPOSE TO A PRINCE, I knew that my hero had to look very, very similar to Prince Leopold.  Well, anyone who loves the Regency period probably has seen a picture of Prince Leopold, so I took the task of finding the perfect picture of my hero very seriously.

I found him--a perfectly drool-worthy Sumner, Lord of Whitevale.  Only in the real world he goes by the name Richard Armitage.


Sigh...Richard Armitage as Sumner.   Princess Charlotte and Prince Leopold at Covent Garden.

A Sinful Request. Right now I am working on my brand new Avon series, The Seven Deadly Sins.  The series is about seven brothers and sisters who are cast out of Scotland for their wicked ways, only to arrive in London where they all give new meaning to the word sin.

Seven stories, seven heroes.  Four are Sinclairs--meaning huge, hard muscled Scots--Sterling (greed), Grant (gluttony/excess), Lachlan (lust), and Killian (wrath).  Three are Englishmen, who will fall in love with the Sinclair sisters--Siusan (sloth/laziness), Ivy (envy), and Priscilla (pride.)

So, being a visual sort of writer, show me what sort of hero would most...inspire...you.  Post links to your hero pics under Comments, and be sure to tell me why you think he would make the perfect hero.  (No explicit photos, please.)

You know me.  I always give away prizes to the winners.
 
Kathryn Caskie