by Linda O. Johnston
I love creating characters for my
novels.
Or do I create them? Maybe they create me.
There is, after all, an element
of me in all of them, or at least in my protagonists. For example, Carrie Kennersly, from my
Barkery & Biscuits Mysteries, is a veterinary technician who buys a bakery
from a friend and turns half into a barkery where she sells healthy dog treats
that she created.
There appears to be very little
of Carrie in me. I'm not much of a cook,
for one thing. I've been fortunate
enough to get most of the recipes in my books from friends.
But once upon a time I wanted to
be a veterinarian, and Carrie as a vet tech has to do a lot of the things that
her vet bosses do. I realized that I
wouldn't be able to deal with being around sick animals, even to help
them. And I especially couldn't handle
cutting them open, even to save their lives.
So, I became a lawyer--and a writer. But I'm delighted that Carrie can
deal with the bad as well as the good to take the best care of ill animals.
And believe it or not, there
actually is a lot of Carrie in me--or me in Carrie. We both love animals, especially dogs. We both solve murders. Of course I happen to create those murders in
my stories for her to solve, but in a way we join forces to put together a
mystery and incorporate it into a book that will hopefully be fun to read.
Plus, Carrie owns a dog,
Biscuit. Biscuit is always in her
life. And I am owned by a couple of
dogs, Mystie and Cari. They probably
control my life more than Biscuit controls Carrie's, but that's fine with me.
Yes, there are other characters
in the books who are important to the story.
There is possibly a touch of me in all of them--maybe even the
murderers. I'll have to consider that
more and possibly write about that here sometime in the future.
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2 comments:
I don’t think I could be around sick animals either, even to help them. I would be spending more time crying than helping.
What an adorable cover!! Enjoyed this post.
Thanks, Laurie. Was out of town or would have responded sooner. I appreciate your comments and compliment to my cover!
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