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And the winner is...

Submitted by ShirleyJump on Sat, 2008-10-11 02:11.

Kaelee! congrats on winning the copy of MIRACLE ON CHRISTMAS EVE! Send me your snail at shirley@shirleyjump.com and I'll get it right out!
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Clothes Make the Character

Submitted by Samantha Hunter on Mon, 2008-10-06 15:51.

"Clothes make the man." Mark Twain said it first, but it's also a quote from one of my favorite movies, Joe vs. the Volcano. That I love that movie probably tells you more about me than my clothing choices, but clothes are a big issue in who we are, and in who our characters are, too.
My characters are often basic jeans and tee-shirt people, as I am, though I think in romance fashion is as much a part of the fantasy as setting, careers, beautiful people, etc. However, not knowing a Chanel from a Milano (wait -- that's the Pepperidge Farm cookie, isn't it?... I meant the designer shoe guy...Manolo...yes), I am frequently challenged to dress my characters up. Honestly, how I get their clothes off in a book is usually more interesting than what they're wearing at the time.
It's difficult if I have to get any more descriptive than the basics in a book, so I usually search the internet looking for catalog descriptions of certain outfits so I can adequately describe an article of clothing. (When you do this for sexy lingerie, btw, you get some very interesting spam in the weeks afterward...)
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