{"id":6487,"date":"2011-04-29T06:55:51","date_gmt":"2011-04-29T10:55:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theseasonforromance.com\/wordpress\/?p=6487"},"modified":"2011-04-29T06:55:51","modified_gmt":"2011-04-29T10:55:51","slug":"a-hero-should-always","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/29\/a-hero-should-always\/","title":{"rendered":"A Hero Should Always&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>by Kris Kennedy<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theseasonforromance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/kris-kennedy-trans.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3406\" title=\"kris-kennedy-trans\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theseasonforromance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/kris-kennedy-trans.jpg?resize=210%2C301\" alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"301\" \/><\/a>First, I have an admission: \u00a0I stole this idea from the lovely <em><strong>Maggie Robinson<\/strong><\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/romancebandits.blogspot.com\/2011\/01\/meet-mistresses-by-midnight.html\">http:\/\/romancebandits.blogspot.com\/2011\/01\/meet-mistresses-by-midnight.html<\/a> Stole it right away like a loaf of bread.. \u00a0But I stole it because I <em>needed <\/em>it. \u00a0\u00a0Desperately. \u00a0I love this idea, and wanted to share it today.<\/p>\n<p>Many \u00a0of us read for character, for the romantic conflict between hero and heroine. \u00a0Yes, we need a plot, some of us more than others. \u00a0And we love strong world-building, so we can get lost in \u00a0a new world, be it a fictional town U.S. town in 2011 or a medieval castle in 1153. \u00a0We need tension, tough choices, and sensual energy.<\/p>\n<p>But all this is in the service of character we can totally fall in love with. \u00a0And those become the \u2018keepers.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>To get into Keeper status, heroes and heroines have to be remarkable. \u00a0\u00a0Not \u2018remarkable\u2019 in that they\u2019re performing acrobatic feats of strength or turning on their super-powers to turn rock into molten electricity and solve our power woes forevermore. \u00a0I mean, they <em>might <\/em>be doing that, of course. \u00a0\u00a0But that I man is that they need to be remarkable insofar as their actions are worthy of being remarked upon. \u00a0They need to get our attention, then keeping it, page after page, all 350-400 of them. \u00a0They need to be fascinating, intriguing, compelling. \u00a0They need to make us sit up and say, \u201cHoly cow, what\u2019s s\/he going to do next??\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Heroes, I think, have the biggest part of that load. \u00a0\u00a0I hear readers all the time say that even if they didn\u2019t like the heroine, as long as the hero was wonderful, the story can still work for them. \u00a0Might even make it onto the Keeper shelf with a heroine that doesn\u2019t rate an \u2018A+\u2019. \u00a0\u00a0I rarely hear it the other way. \u00a0If the hero is a flop to any particular reader, then for that reader, the book generally is too.<\/p>\n<p>Clearly, we love our heroes.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6488\" title=\"defiant\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theseasonforromance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/defiant.jpg?resize=220%2C336\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"336\" \/>In my May release,<span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong> <em>Defiant<\/em><\/strong><\/span>, the hero and heroine are doing both pretty remarkable things right from the start. \u00a0\u00a0The hero, Jamie, is a chief lieutenant for King John. \u00a0The e-e-e-vil King John of Robin Hood legend. \u00a0The King John whose paranoid, cunning and mercurial leadership prompted the barons to rise up and demand Magna Carta. \u00a0And yes, the hero serves him. \u00a0The reasons are complicated. \u00a0The appearance of the heroine, Eva, who happens to want the very thing he wants, makes it even more so. \u00a0(And then Eva steals away, so Jamie has to hunt her down and capture her and&#8230;oh, it\u2019s all very complicated and involves ropes. \u00a0\ud83d\ude42 )<\/p>\n<p>The point is, Jamie has a long and winding road ahead of him, what with both being captor and protector to the one woman in all of England who can bring his world\u2014and maybe the kingdom&#8211;crashing down around him.<\/p>\n<p>Poor guy. \u00a0\ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>So, let&#8217;s do our own little Mad Libs on those remarkable heroes we love so much.<\/p>\n<p>How would you answer this fill-in-the-blank question?<\/p>\n<p>Heroes should always _________ and should never _________.<\/p>\n<p><strong>My answer: <\/strong>A hero should always <strong>be capable of mayhem<\/strong>, and never <strong>use it on the heroine<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Let\u2019s hear yours! \u00a0\u00a0One commenter wins a signed copy of my new release, <span style=\"color: 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