{"id":6637,"date":"2011-05-23T05:00:49","date_gmt":"2011-05-23T09:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theseasonforromance.com\/wordpress\/?p=6637"},"modified":"2011-05-23T05:00:49","modified_gmt":"2011-05-23T09:00:49","slug":"when-a-character-wont-let-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/23\/when-a-character-wont-let-go\/","title":{"rendered":"When A Character Won&#8217;t Let Go"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Vanessa Kelly<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3159\" title=\"vanessakelly\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theseasonforromance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/vanessakelly.jpg?resize=176%2C268\" alt=\"\" width=\"176\" height=\"268\" \/>Have you ever read a book that featured a character that grabbed you by the throat and wouldn\u2019t let go?\u00a0 One so compelling that every time you had to put the book down you couldn\u2019t wait to get back to it.\u00a0 I can name several characters like that, spanning genres.\u00a0 In romance, one that springs immediately to mind is Dain, the tortured hero of <em><strong>Loretta Chase\u2019s<\/strong><\/em> amazing book, <strong>Lord of Scoundrels<\/strong>.\u00a0 I was totally fascinated by Dain\u2019s story and captivated by the way such a seemingly hard-hearted rake could be so empathetic and engaging.\u00a0 Chase\u2019s masterful portrayal of Dain practically leaps off the page, rightly earning the book a place on many keeper shelves and \u201cbest\u201d lists throughout romancelandia.<\/p>\n<p>An author can also have this type of experience with one of her own creations.\u00a0 Every once in a while\u2014if she\u2019s lucky\u2014her muse stumbles upon a character who grabs her by the collar, shakes her around, and won\u2019t let go until he or she is fully realized on the pages of the author\u2019s next manuscript.\u00a0 It\u2019s an awesome experience and it\u2019s one that writers pray to have with every book.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6638\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6638\" style=\"width: 220px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/theseasonforromance.com\/may2011_vanessa-kelly-my-favorite-countess.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6638\" title=\"myfavoritecountess\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theseasonforromance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/myfavoritecountess.jpg?resize=220%2C353\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"353\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6638\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Click for book details and buy links<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I was lucky enough to have this experience with the heroine of my latest Regency-set historical romance, <strong>My Favorite Countess<\/strong>.\u00a0 Bathsheba, Lady Randolph, was a tough nut to crack.\u00a0 She kept me awake at nights and had me cursing on more than one occasion\u2014when she wasn\u2019t making me laugh, that is, which happened quite a lot.\u00a0 But the interesting thing about Bathsheba is that I never in a million years envisioned her as a heroine.\u00a0 Ever!<\/p>\n<p>Bathsheba started out as a throwaway line in my first book, <strong>Mastering The Marquess<\/strong>.\u00a0 She was the reputed mistress of Lord Trask, best friend to Lord Silverton, the hero of <strong>MTM<\/strong>.\u00a0 Bathsheba never even appeared on stage in that book, but already people were gossiping about her.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t think too much about it but I filed her away in the back of my head, just in case I needed a sophisticated society widow for a later book.<\/p>\n<p>Well, I didn\u2019t have to wait too long for Bathsheba to pop up again.\u00a0 Simon, Lord Trask, was the hero of my next book, <strong>Sex And The Single Earl<\/strong>.\u00a0 Much to my surprise, that book started with Simon breaking off his relationship with Bathsheba because he had decided to court Sophie Stanton, the heroine of the book.\u00a0 Bathsheba was seriously annoyed about that, and she spent the rest of the book causing as much trouble for Sophie and Simon as she could.\u00a0 In fact, she was downright nasty, and I could hardly imagine how anyone could be so mean to poor Sophie.<\/p>\n<p>But even as I was concocting all kinds of devious scenarios for Bathsheba to cause havoc in other characters\u2019 lives, I couldn\u2019t help thinking about her.\u00a0 Why was she so nasty to Sophie?\u00a0 Why was she so determined to have Simon when she didn\u2019t even love him? \u00a0Why, in fact, was she so darned desperate when she was a rich countess and one of the acknowledged leaders of the ton?\u00a0 Those questions just wouldn\u2019t leave me alone.<\/p>\n<p>I wrote <strong>My Favorite Countess<\/strong> in order to answer those vexing questions.\u00a0 And you know what?\u00a0 I had a great time doing it.\u00a0 By the time I started writing the book, Bathsheba was so alive in my head that she always took me exactly where I needed to go.\u00a0 Not that it was always easy.\u00a0 After all, she <em>was <\/em>the villainess of the previous book.\u00a0 I not only had to justify Bathsheba\u2019s past behaviour by creating a compelling backstory for her, I had to make her face some difficult challenges so she could grow beyond her limitations and truly become the heroine I thought she deserved to be.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, she didn\u2019t have to do it alone.\u00a0 I gave her a wonderful hero in the character of John Blackmore, a handsome, crusading slum doctor and a pillar of strength who assisted Bathsheba through her trials and tribulations.<\/p>\n<p>As I said, it wasn\u2019t always easy dealing with Bathsheba, but I\u2019m so glad I listened to her and gave the lady her own book.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What characters in romance have grabbed you by the throat?\u00a0 Was it a plucky 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