Thanks for having me here today, Melissa. It’s always a pleasure to
visit The Snarkology.
Is there any such thing as the perfect heroine? Or is the concept
of perfect like beauty—in the eye of the beholder?
When I started writing my first novel, my heroine was perfect. That
lady could do anything. She was smart, beautiful, courageous—she could stowaway
on a Regency era merchant ship, not shower for weeks, and come out smelling
like a rose. Yikes, she was annoying.
That didn’t last. Thankfully, I came to my senses and she
eventually became real to me. (Bathing was actually necessary when she wanted
to get clean. She wanted to do the right thing, but doubted whether she was
capable. Some of her actions were a bit hasty, but she did the best she could.
She had to get past her insecurities in order to overcome the challenges her
story threw her way.
