Love Actually . . .

So, getting involved with my current hero is hard work - there are lovely authors offering me parties. (Hi Sue!) . Writing friends and ex-virgins to say goodbye to (And Amanda - I wasn't being polite about your NWS script - I like to think I can spot potential - and you always had it!) New Presents authors to meet (Hi India - and Ruby!) - but I need to get back to work.

So to get myself into the right mind set I did a little research - thanks to my son who last year gave me a copy of Love Actually. L A has plenty of research potential - and no I don't mean Hugh Grant !
There's Liam Neeson who was once the model for Evan in a long ago book called Flirting With Danger. I once saw him on stage too in London and whatever charisma is, that man has it.

But also in LA is the role model for my current hero - Raul aka Rodrigo Santoro - aka Karl in Love Actually. So I did some heavy duty research - hard work but someone has to do it and that helped.

And while I was doing the research, I found a brilliant quote by Richard Curtis, director and screen writer of Love Actually - and it's one I'm going to remember to use the next time someone asks me why I writer those ' trashy novels' when, as someone with an MA, I should really be writing 'proper books' - one that might win me critical acclaim (maybe!)

In response to critics, Curtis said at the premiere,

"I'd rather make a film that most of the audience liked and some critics didn't, than a film that critics loved and nobody wanted to
watch."

Substitute books and read for films and watch and yes, that'll do for me.

Why do I write Romance? . . . It's all about Love, actually!