Tricia’s Comments (group member since Nov 08, 2012)

Tricia’s comments from the Q&A with Tricia Andersen group.

I think you ladies may have provided the spark for Bartholomew. I think I have a bigger plotline for him and Wow - it will be good. Thank you!

He just might. He's learning persuasion well from the other three guys.

They won't be getting their own seperate book but Gordon and Robert take on a larger plotline with their own romances (Gordon's hits pretty close to home with Abbey). Bartholomew as of right now will probably remain a secondary character unless he changes his - and therefore my - mind.

Certainly! Sloan is from Belfast - tall with black hair and ice blue eyes. He is an artist, making is fortune brokering his art and the art of others. He is tall, well built and sinfully sexy - "a Greek god with an Irish bent".
He is accompanied by three men, his chauffer Gordon, his best friend Robert, and Bartholomew. All four men are world traveled and sophisticated.
Sloan is instantly intrigued with Abbey the second he meets her but his good looks and sophistication spook her (since she has a boyfriend back home). Sloan does the only thing he can think of - he lies and tells her he's gay. Throughout the book he does everything in his power to show Abbey his love and to keep her safe - including sacrifice his own life.

The original spark of my stories can come from anyplace. One of my novels originated from a really crazy dream. From there my characters personalities take over and create the rest. I knew I wanted to have Sloan to withhold one large secret from Abbey - one that could make her run screaming. I had to learn his personality to figure ouy what that secret would be. And in the same I learned enough from Abbey that by putting her through the emotional wringer she would be able to handle it. She could handle Sloan's secret but not handle possibly losing him.

Hi Edith! That is a fantastic question! Unlike my other two novels Black Irish was sort of a patchwork quilt. It started as another story entirely with just one random scene written. It morphed into the plot of Black Irish as I was publishing my first children's book. I developed a plotline of a children's author and her illustrator falling for each other. Then I began roughly modeling my hero after my grandfather.
And I am definately a pantser. I write notes to remind myself of things I want to write. But if I try to plot my characters just laugh at me and do their own thing.

Hi Maggie! Thanks for joining!

Currently I am working on the sequel to Black Irish (still untitled). The first question I've been asked by readers who have finished Black Irish (other than were they can find their own Sloan) is when the sequel is coming. It's been a slower process than I had hoped but it is coming along.

Welcome to the Q & A with Tricia Andersen!