January 2019: Fact in Fiction
~ Gwynn Morgan ~
CTR asked:
How much of your real life bleeds over into your books? And do you worry that someone will be able to tell the fact from the fiction?
Gwynn Morgan said:
All of my novels have a great deal of ‘reality’ in them, even the most far-out one, a time travel. The old saw of “write what you know” comes to play here plus my great love for the southwestern region in which I grew up, horses and dogs, and unusual experiences of my first twenty five years each have a place in grounding all my fiction.
I prefer to write characters as near to reality as I can.They are all composites of people I have known or been close to but I try very hard to give them traits, accents and quirks that make them come alive.The same is true for most of my settings, which I tend to almost make secondary characters.I want my readers to be ‘right there’ in terms of their senses because the southwestern region of our diverse country is so vivid, vital and compelling. See, smell, hear and taste it!
I write a lot about cowboys and cops. My late husband was one of the latter and had been a bit of a cowboy too in his youth. He would get livid about film and TV shows with 200 car chases across the whole state and other totally off the wall stuff. He was my tech adviser for many scenes and definitely kept it honest. I myself was a cowboy girl–which is a bit more real and intense than a cowgirl–and made sure I kept these characters and their lives as close to real as fiction could handle.
As a reader I most enjoy the realistic contemporary romance. Now for SF/paranormal/fantasy, anything goes and I love it too but even there I like characters I can identify with and larger-than-life only in their passions and determination to win through. So I tend to write what I like to read. It may not be everyone’s cuppa and that is okay!
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January Gets Her Gunn
[Contemporary Police Romance]
January Farrell comes to Riverton, Arizona to follow her dream of working in law enforcement. Little does she guess her training officer will seriously ruffle her normal level-headed manner as well as her libido. Can she tolerate his quirks and resist the tug of lust long enough to get through probation?
Although a good cop, Thad Gunn carries some heavy baggage. When he is assigned to train January, all he can think of is making her quit to get her out of the line of fire, clear of the danger zone. He isn’t sure he knows what love is but he knows he desperately needs to keep her safe. Both individually and together they confront a welter of challenges before January gets her Gunn.
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