Costumes & Killer Flowers ❄️📚🎄

Playing Dress Up

I never really liked having to wear a costume for Halloween when I was a youngster. Maybe it was having to be the same old witch several years in a row while my younger sister got to be the cute black cat. That’s what happens when you grow too tall for the cat costume!

Nowadays I have a collection of fun costumes—Little Red Riding Hood, a Go-go dancer with white boots, a Harem Girl, and Ray from Star Wars—not a witch amongst them! It’s definitely more fun to dress up and pretend to be someone that I’m not when I can be one of those characters.

It’s a little like when I’m creating characters for my books. Sometimes I use a person I know, or knew at one time, and borrow his or her personality, and/or looks, and something unique that makes him just right to play a part in the story. Basically I put them into a “costume.”

When I wrote Killer Flowers, as an example, I based my character Anita on a real life friend, who continues to be one of those BFFs from high school days. It’s so much easier to picture her facial expressions and mannerisms, or how she would manage a situation than if I had totally made up this person.

Perhaps you’ll picture someone you know in one of my characters when you pick up a copy of Killer Flowers and read it for yourself.

Until next time, happy reading!