Last week I shared photos of my dreamcasts, should any of my novels ever become movies [hey, a little dreaming never hurt anyone]. Today, I want to share the true inspirations behind some of my characters.

From Salvaged and Rise, "Tammy", "Anne" and "Jennifer" are all my true world best friends. So, I took their personalities and their descriptions (and aged them down quite a bit, lol) to create "Attie's" friends.


(For photos of these people from my life, go to the post on my website, here: http://wp.me/pFinG-uk)

Now, for Rise, I wanted to thank some special supporters, so I added their names as cheerleaders - sort of a secret shout out! Mandi, Brandi, Jina, Blair, Trish... all named. None of them knew it until they read the book.

And last but certainly not least. The character of "Cabot" from Collision is loosely, loosely, loosely based on Robert Pattinson. I used his overnight rise to massive celebrity and what I imagine his life to be like - as the jumping off point for "Cabot/Cab".