Fun Friday: More Character Casting!
Last week, I posted the templates I was using to help me write the proposal for my new historical series proposal. This week, I’m posting the templates I’ve chosen for my next contemporary series proposal.
Hearts Cove, Tennessee.
The place where even the hardest heart can find love.
Is the legend of Hearts Cove, Tennessee, true? Is there something mystical about the town that makes people fall in love? Or could the answer be a little more down-to-earth?
Book 1—A Love to Remember: Two people struggling with the upheavals of life are determined to keep their relationship professional as they both try to rebuild their identities after tragic losses—but they could be passing up their last chance for love.
Vincent d’Onofrio as Thomas Bechert.
A Jupiter Images model as E.D. (Edie) Maclaren.
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Book 2—Romance Realities: A former football star agrees to appear on a reality dating show only to discover it’s not one of the young women vying for the attention of the two bachelors but it’s their counselor whose heart must be won to grab the million-dollar prize . . . oh, and she just happens to be his ex-fiancée. Will the realities of money and fame ruin another pass at romance?
Adam Baldwin as Carleton Fuller
and Kate Dillon as Aubrey Peyton.
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Book 3—Playing at Love: Brought in to save a struggling community theater group, a former teen heartthrob decides to entertain himself by wooing the director—but what starts as an act turns into reality when he does the unthinkable and falls in love with her.
Eddie Cibrian as Matt McCormack.
A Lane Bryant model as Lyric Donner.
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Now all I have left to do is get those synopses written!
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They all sound great, Kaye! Get busy on those synopses….I wanna read ’em! Is Heart’s Cove fictional? Glad you’re using Adam Baldwin. One of my faves. 🙂
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Heart’s Cove is fictional. After writing a couple of books set in Nashville (and, of course, the real settings in the historicals), I decided I much prefer working with a fictional setting. Of course, that means building/populating the town, but I enjoy that kind of thing.
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Oh—and I’ve been searching for a story in which to use Adam Baldwin for years now. I’d had one idea that I worked on for a little while about thirteen or fourteen years ago inspired by two things: my going back to Baton Rouge “five years later” for a friend’s wedding and seeing all of those people who inspired my epic-word-count, unfinished manuscript based on my college best-friend’s saying “I wonder where we’ll all be in five years”; and the short-lived, syndicated TV series The Cape—starring, you guessed it, Adam Baldwin (well, Corbin Bernsen was the top-billed actor, but Adam’s character was next). So, naturally, Adam was the hero. And I didn’t even remember until just now that the template for the heroine was, wait for it, KATE DILLON! I thought I was doing something new last night when I put the two of them together! 😀
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Can’t wait to hear how this turns out! 🙂
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Me, too!
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The model playing E.D. could have a lucrative career as a double for Julianne Moore!
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At first glance of the hair, that’s who I thought it was!
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In this picture she does look like Julianne Moore—and in others, she looks more like the British actress (and wife to Matthew MacFadyen) Keeley Hawes.
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I LOVE these looks “behind the scenes.” They’re so much fun.
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This was the kind of thing I did in secret for years, thinking there was something mentally wrong with me because the first thing I did whenever I got a new story idea was search out images of people who looked like the characters (much harder to do in the mid-1980s than now). I don’t want anyone else feeling like that, so it tickles me to share these kinds of processes.
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Will Hearts Cove be in east Tennessee or middle Tennessee? Looking at the photo, I can see the mountains off in the distance. It actually reminds me a little bit of the non-tourist areas of Sevierville.
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Um . . . the easy answer is yes. It’s in East-Middle Tennessee. 🙂 Actually, it’ll be near Fall Creek Falls.
That picture is of Morristown, TN, which is actually out east of Knoxville. But that’s the kind of “skyline” I pictured for Heart’s Cove—only with the hills a little bit higher and closer to town.
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No wonder it seemed sorta familiar to me. I’ve probably driven through that area several times.
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Hahaha when do these come out I want to read them! 😛
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I haven’t even finished the proposal yet, and there’s no guarantee anyone will pick them up! But if they do get contracted, they’ll most likely be coming out in 2012 through 2014.
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These look good! When you say “there’s no guarantee that anyone will pick them up”, do you mean Barbour Books? Does your agent try to sell them to any Christian publishing house or are you specifically contracted to Barbour for these contemporary books?
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As just exhibited with Harvest House rejecting the proposal for a follow-up series to the Ransome Trilogy, just because an author has been contracted for one (or two, as with Barbour) series with a publisher is no guarantee that the house is automatically going to pick up the author’s next series. Everything depends on the company’s current business model and what their needs are at the moment they’re reviewing the proposal.
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so far so good. I will read them for sure! I like the idea behind the love matches.
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