Julia Justiss: When Characters Drive the Story
First, thanks for inviting me to your blog. It's always great fun to chat about my favorite thing--my characters! For me, characters drive the story; their goals, motivations and conflicts form the heart of all my books.
For my AAR Favorite Book winner, "A Most Unconventional Match," the main character, Hal Waterman, was the best friend of the hero of my very first book, "The Wedding Gamble." Hal was unusual; having suffered from a stutter as a child, he grew up saying very little and being thought by many to be not too intelligent, although he actually rather brilliant. A "man's man," he is ill-at-ease with ladies. Having him fight a hopeless battle against his attraction to Elizabeth and eventually finding his way to a happy ending was so satisfying for me.
The characters in my new Italian release of "Rogue's Lady" are also dear to me. Allegra grows up in an unconventional home, secure in the love of her parents. Losing them unexpectedly brings her face to face with the reality of how precarious her position in the world really is. She thinks her savior will be the distant cousin she's always admired; certainly not the much-too-attractive Will, who's almost as destitute as she is. But love has a plan of its own...and the beautiful land of her father, Italy, plays its part in bringing that plan to fulfillment. Julia Justiss
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