(Original Post appeared on my website blog on January 4th.)

This week, I'm stepping away from Conversations with Characters to explain why Joey's such an important character to me. When I decided to write the Woods Lake series, I decided that a couple of friends who are no longer with me deserved the happily ever after (HEA) that they didn't get in life.

I based my character Joey on a friend from college. Joe and I met when I was 19 and he was 23 and we had a few Criminal Justice, Government, and History courses together. He dreamed of law school and Judge Advocate General's Corps. He was already in the military when I met him. He was in the reserves and went full-time military as soon as he finished college.

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