The creation of the Guardian Agents started with White
Wedding.
Most authors are asked how did you come up with that idea?
Or why did you do that? So I thought I’d talk about what started me down the
path of the Guardian Agency Novel. First of all it really was just supposed to
be one book, Ross and Shanna’s story but it wasn’t long before I realized I had
3 different stories to tell starting with White Wedding.
The first thing readers should know is that as crazy as some
of the things happening in White Wedding seems, a lot of it actually happened
or close enough. I of course took certain liberties hehehehehe.
The title White Wedding was a nod to the Billy Idol song as
well as crazy frazzled brides. How many times have you watched a show where the
bride has cold feet and at the first opportunity bolts from the church just
before she says her I dos? Julia Roberts in Runaway Bride climbs out a window
to get away from her groom, at least Shanna ran through the front doors of the
church to get away after her groom after he was discovered kissing his best
man. She didn’t even stop to give him a slap, her mom did it for her. Lol
I had her run off to the island of Margarita, a real place,
it’s actually part of Venezuela. I was looking for some place exotic that
wasn’t Jamaica or the Bahamas. I spent a week in Margarita, days after a
military coup, fodder for another story. Anyway, I loved the place and that was
my setting for Shanna and Ross’s vacation fling.
Once Shanna got back to town shit hit the fan with hang up
phone calls. How many of you have gotten hang up phone calls? At the time I was
getting these hang up calls and the caller ID would flash ‘number blocked’ or
‘out of area’ so of course I used it in my story. It was a telemarketer whose automated
program had been stuck. Sometimes I’d answer and there was a recording other
times it was just static and beeping. The phone company hadn’t been much help,
I managed to write that into my story. I had also had a friend with a crazy ex who
would call her and hang up just to irate her. I use inspiration wherever I find
it. Lol
I created the dichotomy of a threesome in the story because I
read a couple of books in the genre at the time and knew someone going through
it. She accepted that type of relationship, and today talks about it quite
openly but that’s her story to tell. Anyway, in White Wedding Shanna was having
nothing to do with it, my story was about Shanna and Ross their relationship. I
decided to make her ex-fiancé have issues, he wasn’t so much a really bad guy
just desperate and lacking in judgment when it came to Shanna. And the
character Ben, just plain exercised poor judgment, not to mention jealousy over
Shanna, since Kevin really did love her.
As far as the crazy scene at the end, lol, ever been in an
earthquake? Lol I have more than once. I knew I wanted to add an earthquake
scene, how chaotic it can be, which is why I set it in LA. I used to live
there. The funny thing is since I first wrote White Wedding I could have set it
in Washington, DC. I happened to be in DC when there was an earthquake. I was
on the 8th floor of an apartment building the building began to
shake as I stood in horror staring out the window watching as bricks fell off
the side of a building. Fodder perhaps for yet another story. Hmmm.
So there you have it. The background for some of the more
pivotal scenes in White Wedding. After that Something Blue about a singer with
a stalker was a piece of cake. Lol I wanted the heroine, River to have a long standing
connection to both the stalker and her hero, Noah, to make it slightly
different from other singer bodyguard storylines. In Wine & Roses I wanted
to show that sometimes what you see is not always what you see with Eboni and Simon’s
story.
