If you’re an avid romance junkie like me, you know heroes
come in many yummy delicious packages. We all have our favorites. Mine is the darkly
sexy brooder - dear Lord, be still my heart. Seriously. Even as a teenager, my
ideal had dark hair and a five o’clock shadow. In fact, the only poster I ever
put on my wall was this life-sized pic of Clark Gable.
Who’s your daddy, baby? Mmm mmmm. So hot.
That doesn’t mean I don’t appreciate the other types. I
mean, who among us can resist the charming and playful blond? And hey, a mature
hero with a smooth skull can be incredibly sexy. (I know this first hand. Mr. C.
has been follicly challenged for years.)
Then there is the hulking Scot whose auburn waves bring sighs to many. While I love a man with a little fire in his hair, I avoid them for my own stories. My youngest son is a handsome, six-foot-four ginger and the idea of imagining certain sexy scenarios with a red headed hero is....
Well, you understand. *shudder*
My baby boy also has a full beard which, for some reason, is
currently a wildly popular look that does nothing for me - other than make me
think of the Smith Brothers – and that makes me cough.
(If you’re old enough to
understand this reference, you probably agree a mature hero with a smooth
skull is a total HOTTIE!)
As an author, my heroes are each distinct in my mind and on
the page. I tend to lean toward the dark-haired type like Jake, Max, and Sam,
but if you ask Tuck and Wyatt, the two remaining hotties from my Players series,
they’ll no doubt tell you it’s true that blonds have more fun. As a reader,
however, it doesn’t really matter what the author’s description tells me when
it comes to the hero. The moment I become engrossed in a story, my mind
provides its own picture of my current book boyfriend. Surprise, surprise. He
inevitably resembles a certain dreamy movie star of old.
What about you? What type is your favorite and does your
mind rewrite his image in your head to match your ideal?
When Mac isn’t imagining scenarios for her non-red-headed
heroes, she’s providing happily-ever-afters for her lucky heroines like Sophie Taylor, heroine of Mac's RONE Award winning