What I hadn't expected was the narrator to ask me what TV or movie characters did I think best represented my characters. ??? It's rare that I base a character off a character from a show. I usually see, especially my main characters, as an independent person. Not a caricature of someone else.Granted I have used a few- Holt, the hero in Bridled Heart, has some resemblances to actor Simon Baker. And the hero, U.S. Marshal Beck Harlan, in Improper Pinkerton was a composite of a football player I watched on Dancing with the Stars.
But when the narrator of Marshal in Petticoats ask me for TV and movie characters to stylize my characters after...I drew a blank. And now thinking back, I should have told her Darcy Duncan, the heroine, was like Sandra Bullock's FBI characters, instead I told her Zoey Deschanel- a cross between her TV character and the one she played in Failure to Launch. And I told her a young Tom Selleck in a western for Jeremy Halsey the hero. She already had the mayor figured out- Boss Hogg from Dukes of Hazard only not as goofy.So now as I think about the next books in the Halsey series, because the plan is to get them all in audio, I've got to do some better thinking on the characters I believe my characters are like.
Outlaw in Petticoats-Maeve Loman - She's going to be hard. She's stern and set in her beliefs.
Zeke Halsey - is more the young Tom Selleck. Kidding and then getting down to business when it needs to be done.
Miner in Petticoats-
Aileen Miller - a fiercely loving mother, who has been through a lot and doesn't want a man.
Ethan Halsey - Head of the Halsey clan. Feels the weight of his family rests on him.Doctor in Petticoats-
Rachel Tarkiel - Funny but I think she is a good Keira Knightly character. She came easily to me when I saw Keira on a movie trailer. Everything she's been in speaks to me as Rachel.
Clay Halsey - Stubborn, independent - Almost a Rocky Balboa, nothing is going to keep him down. But not so silent.
Logger in Petticoats-Kelda Neilsen- Strong, doesn't see herself as pretty, enjoys her loving family.
Hank Halsey - All business, out to prove himself. Probably Sam Elliott in his usual western portrayal.
So anyone out there have any ideas either from my descriptions or from reading the books?