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Colleen Coble writes romantic suspense with a strong atmospheric element. A lovable animal of some kind--usually a dog--always populates her novels. She can be bribed with DeBrand mocha truffles.
Denise Hunter writes women's fiction and love stories with a strong emotional element. Her husband says he provides her with all her romantic material, but Denise insists a good imagination helps too.
Diann Hunt writes romantic comedy and humorous women's fiction. She has been happily married forever, loves her family, chocolate, her friends, chocolate, her dog, and well, chocolate.
Cheryl Hodde writes romantic medical suspense under the pen name of Hannah Alexander, using all the input she can get from her husband, Mel, for the medical expertise. For fun she hikes and reads. Out of guilt, she rescues discarded cats. She and Mel are presently taking orders from four pampered strays.
16 Comments:
Colleen, why don't you make it something different from either. Something neither of them expected that isn't connected to his special ops or her wealth? Not sure what that might be, but the rest would make great red herrings.
Cheryl might have something, there. That would be a neat spin. And I'm sitting her groaning. My current wip's hero's name is Clay. (grin) He's a PI. Looking at publication in the spring of 2012.
I always develop a complete outline before I start writing. If I know the beginning, I’m not far from knowing the ending. It becomes more important to plot when I know the ending but I don’t have a starting point. I outlined one book backwards because I didn’t know what kind of situation the characters would be in that would get them into the given situation.
I’ll admit that I find your story idea intriguing, but I really have a hard time reading stories in which a couple is going through marital problems, especially when one of them has already found someone else to marry. I don’t have as hard of a time writing them because I know they’ll get back together, but I never know if I can trust the other author to do the same. With that in mind, if I were writing this story, I would have the guy this woman’s about to marry be the guy who kidnapped the baby. Why? Because he is obsessed with this woman and saw it as a means of separating her from her husband. If things go well, he plans to someday “find” the child and reunite mother and child, but the child’s father is getting too close to discovering the truth.
Could the person who kidnapped the child be some crazy obsessed woman that was an acquaintance of the couple and she really wanted a child. Now 5 years later, the child she loves is sick. Needs a kidney or something and she's trying to figure a way to find out if one of the parents is a match or something. :0/
Or maybe it was a woman that was obsessed with him. She was in love with him. She was so delusional that she thought if she "had" his child he'd want her. Now that time has passed and she thinks he's over Angel then she comes out of the woodwork to woo him to her and his child. When he unknowingly rebuffs her she goes back into hiding and now they have to find her.
I was thinking along the same lines of Sabrina, that the kidnapper was someone who could not have a child and decided to "acquire" one through kidnapping. I was thinking the kidnapper would be someone totally unknown to the main characters.
Good ideas here! I'm not going to tell you which way I end up going though. I want you to be surprised. LOL
Timothy, there is no right or wrong way to write a book. I didn't want to imply that plotting is wrong. It's just wrong for me and the way I write. Many love plotting and knowing the destination. It kills my creativity.
Peg, you've sold a book?!!!! I hadn't heard!!! My hero's name isn't carved in stone yet. LOL
So intriguing. What about a kidnapper that has such a pure hatred for Angel-for whatever reason, that he/she wanted to destroy her happiness by taking her baby and keeping it for their own. Sort of like a serial killer holding onto "trophies" from their victims. Every time the kidnapper looked at the child, they'd get a rush thinking of what Angel was missing out on.
Ooh, Katie! Wow!
The only thing as a reader that I'd really want is that the child hadn't been harmed in a huge way.
Of course stealing them from their parents is harming them but if the kidnapper was a psycho and did something horrible to the child I'd hate reading it. Just my two cents. :)
I would NEVER harm a child in one of my books, Sabrina. Shudder!
no suggestions,
but will be waiting for it to come out . :)
Cheryl, does have a good thought!
safe trip,
Colleen,
I'm not sure where the setting of your story will be, but I happened to remember something from when we were stationed in Germany.
It was common practice for the parents to go shopping in department stores and let their baby buggies, (with babies inside) sitting outside the store. My husband and I were always amazed at this. There would be lines of baby carriages and nobody around.
I guess a scenario could be that they were visiting Germany and only left there child for a few minutes when someone took their baby. Could even have been by mistake, but person was too scared to come forward. Perhaps they already had problems in the past with the law or something like that.
Happy plotting,
Jodie Wolfe
P.S. Forgot to add some information. German buggies (strollers) are much larger than here in America, and store aisles are narrow, hence why babies are left outside.
Could have that they vacationed in Germany, rented a stroller and one parent stayed outside, happened to be distracted for a few minutes and when looked back, baby and stroller were gone.
Perhaps five years later the kidnapper died and in his will it states what he did and that child should be returned to rightful owners/parents.
Just a thought,
Jodie Wolfe
The wealthy grandparents took their own grandbaby and are paying someone else to care for the child. They did it in hopes that it would break up their daughter and her husband who was in a dangerous occupation and they didn't like the idea of the child and grandchild living with the danger and instability of spec. ops life. They were planning on 'finding' the child once she remarried.
Oooo! Can't wait to see what you do with Angela and Clay!
I like the looks of the girl in the picture. She looks like she could tackle the world with good sense and a good sense of humor.
My recommendation is that you research the Delimar Vera story. It was made into a movie called Little Girl Lost. Perhaps you can get some ideas from this story.
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