A Hero By Any Other Name
Cynthia Sax
As many parents can attest, naming someone
is a huge responsibility. A name can change the direction of a person’s life. A
child named Bambi will face more of a challenge becoming President. A Gertrude
in contemporary North America is less likely to be seen as sexy. John Smith is
facing a lifetime of bad jokes and “No. Really. What is your name?” comments.
Naming a character can often be as
complicated. We judge characters when we hear their names. If a hero is named
Rage, we expect him to be dominant and angry. If he’s named Orlando, we expect
him to be dramatic, almost poetic. If he’s named Norman, we expect him to be a
serial killer. Hopefully, our poor misnamed hero Norman has a killer sense of
humor.
My characters tend to name themselves. That
sounds like an easy route to character names but it isn’t because they don’t
often tell me their names. That would be too easy. They make me guess and
stubbornly refuse any other names I might give them.
Anna, the brown-eyed, brunette heroine of
He Watches Me, isn’t an Ann. Although she might see herself as unremarkable and
plain, readers and Blaine, the billionaire hero, know she isn’t. But she also
isn’t an exotic, dramatic Anastasia. Anna falls between these two extremes.
She’s an intriguing mixture of the plain and exotic.
Blaine, the enigmatic hero of He Watches
Me, is an upfront type of man. He told me his last name, the name he prefers
everyone use. He then stubbornly refused to tell me his first name, telling me
I didn’t need to know that information.
I DID need to know that information. I
opened my handy baby book (a must-have resource for writers and expectant moms)
and rattled off a long list of sexy names. Thankfully, Blaine doesn’t lie and
when I reached Gabriel, he admitted that was his name. I don’t think he’ll be
too pleased that I mentioned his name in his story but I’m not scared of him…
much.
If you could have any name, what would it
be and why?
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Title: He Watches Me
Blurb:
She desires to be seen. He wants to watch.
Anna Sampson has a naughty secret. Every
night, she slips into her neighbor’s yard and swims naked in his pool. She
fantasizes that the dynamic young billionaire watches her nightly nude
aquatics, his brilliant green eyes gleaming with lust.
She discovers this isn’t pure fantasy.
Gabriel Blaine has been watching her via his security cameras, and now that he
has returned to L.A., he doesn’t plan to stop. That’s all he wants—to watch.
Anna knows she shouldn’t allow him and she certainly shouldn’t want more, but
she craves Blaine’s attention, needing his gaze fixed on her body.
Part One of The Seen Trilogy
Author Website: http://cynthiasax.com/
Blog: http://tasteofcyn.com/
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Twitter: @CynthiaSax
2 comments:
Thank you for having me over at your online home today, NJ! (big hugs)
You are such a generous person and a wonderful writer!
Oh and I just checked this morning and He Watches Me is still at the ridiculously low price of 99 cents. Yeah, that's bonkers pricing!
It's my pleasure, Cynthia. Thanks for sharing the news about your new book!
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