You know that moment when you’re watching a movie and you suddenly realize you’re rooting for someone who, in any other normal situation, would totally be viewed as the bad guy? For some reason, you either identify with his struggle or the director did such an amazing job of casting him in the role of reluctant hero, you completely accept he’s trampling straight over the line of what’s considered “acceptable behavior,” and could care less he’s willing to take down everyone who’s stopping him from achieving his goal?
Well, when I first came up with the concept to write a
romantic suspense featuring the revenge-for-hire business of Dirty Deeds, I knew a very good chance
existed I would be flirting with that same line, especially as it related to
the heroine, Eden Smith, and the subsequent characters in the following two
books in the series.
On the one hand, this didn’t bother me too much. I thought…oh,
come on. We’ve all been treated unfairly at some point or another. Who wouldn’t
identify with hiring a team of revenge specialists to get even after they’ve
been dealt a raw deal? And, on the other, I also knew I’d have to develop the
characters enough, readers would love them despite their willingness to break
the rules. I would need to relate their life-defining moments in way that would
make doling out a little well-deserved payback not only acceptable, but justifiable
to the reader. Get them right on board with all the trouble these people dish
out. (Think the movie Hitch with a
good dose of Robin Hood thrown in.)
After starting the project, I wasn’t the least bit surprised
to find the characters weren’t normal. Heck, with all they’ve been through, turns
out, most of them would probably be better off heavily medicated. Or, wait. *shifty
eyed blink* Maybe that’s me. *shakes head* Regardless, I’ll be the first to admit
these people are definitely off. But,
holy crud… Did that ever make writing them a blast. I chuckled with evil glee
from behind my laptop throughout every moment of dark humor they fed me.
What I didn’t
expect was for them to also be so…geez, I don’t know…heroic? So brave and
determined to stand up for the little guy? Or how they would go out of their
way to get the job done even if that meant risking their personal safety. *This
is the spot where I can literally hear Eden laughing in the background.* In typical
Dirty Deeds fashion, she decided not to tell me that little factoid until it
was too late.
Not that it matters. Just like in the scenario above, I still
love every goofy, screwball, backward way the Dirty Deeds team views the world.
In fact, I’ll even go so far as to say I wish these people were real—so I could
call in with the password and hire Eden and her team to exact a little revenge
on my behalf.
No, the characters in Dirty
Deeds are not normal, and they honestly couldn’t give two hoots if everyone
thinks that they are. But this doesn’t mean I wouldn’t want them as friends.
And it doesn’t mean, if Eden asked, I wouldn’t hide one of her disguises in my closet.
I’d do it in a heartbeat. Because, normal or not…man, these
people are cool.
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