Strengths and weaknesses:

Aubrey’s strength is overcome controversy and extreme heartache. Her weaknesses is she’s hidden some part of her heart of reality. She doesn’t drive. She makes wrong romantic choices.

She’s also extremely generous, and kind. I saw her as a careful celebrity, but one who really loves her fans and people. Country artist Sara Evans is a lot that and it’s how I pictured Aubrey.

Scott. . . he’s just fun. Ambitious but caring of others, especially Aubrey. He’s a family man, a tender heart, and all sports!

Quirk (if any):

Maybe that she didn’t drive. And she kept beat up boxes of her parent‘s things in a really nice library instead of the attic or garage.

Scott does this weird thing where he plays baseball or something in his head while his boss is talking to him. 😉

Rel:~ I chose this pic because No.36 is the hubby of a dear friend of mine who plays for the Tokyo Giants! Hi M & M!

Your inspiration for the character:

Aubrey is a compilation of celebrities. I read a lot of biographies and tried to create someone believable but “large” enough for the reader to buy that the woman on the page was famous. She was actually really fun to write even though the veil of not being able to see up close into the life of a celebrity was frustrating.

Scott is me, my brothers and every sports enthusiast rolled into one. But since he’s an anchor, I didn’t want him to be the slick haired, capped tooth type, so I tried to create a man with weaknesses and one not so “pretty.”

Background to the story:

Diva Nashvegas inspired my first “Behind the Scenes” on my blog. It was a hard book to write. The idea to write about a singer came out of a conversation with my editor after we worked on the first Nashvegas book.

I’d originally thought of an “American Idol” or “Nashville Star” type of but in the end decided to start with a character already at the top of her game but is exhausted and unable to keep hiding from her past.