For some odd reason, this photo of Hugh Jackman is one of my favorites. When I first saw it, I thought that was a sword in his hands. Later - much later - I realized it’s a golf club. Duh.  

Anyway, this photo actually inspired the addition of Rick St. John - a main character in Davin’s Quest - though I’m not usually one of those writers who keeps photos of hunks around for inspiration. Honestly, I usually prefer to imagine my characters in a very nebulous sort of way. Attaching a famous person’s face to them kind of ruins it for me. Especially when said famous person turns out to be a jerk in real life.

But for whatever reason, every time I think of Rick, this photo comes to mind. I think it’s the grumpy look on his face, the definition of those muscles - like he’s lived a hard life (which my charater, Rick, definitely has) - and the devil-may-care attitude of appearing in public in a canary yellow towel. The whole thing just says, “I’m gonna do what I want and wear what I want. What’s it to you? Now get out of the way.”

So for those of you who are interested in such things, this is where the character Rick comes from in the second book of my Resonance Mates series. The first book (Hara’s Legacy) is due out in print any minute now, and Book 2 (Davin’s Quest) is now available in ebook and will be in print in late December/early January.