Fun facts about Naomi from Deadly Intent

6 reasons why you will enjoy Deadly Intent:

1) It's set in a SPA!

2) Devon (the hero) is totally HOT!

3) Did I mention the SPA?

4) Naomi (the heroine) is cute and fun

5) Naomi is a massage therapist!

6) Naomi is a massage therapist in a SPA!

Naomi is 27 years old, and half-Japanese, half-Caucasian, so she looks a little exotic, but not too much so. I pictured her to look like Natalie Portman.

I admit I named her after a girl in the youth group at my church because I honestly couldn’t think of a name. Also, the real-life Naomi is half-Japanese and half-Caucasian just like my character.

My character Naomi’s personality isn’t based on anyone I know, but I always thought being a massage therapist would be a cool job, so I did a lot of research for Naomi’s career and for the spa.

Naomi’s a maiden or Persephone archetype. They tend to be easygoing and carefree, but Naomi has been thrust into a more responsible role by her father, who just had a stroke. Worried about the future of his spa, he puts Naomi in charge as acting manager and is grooming her to eventually take over the spa when he retires. Naomi does it to please him, but she doesn’t really want to take over the spa—she’s happy as head massage therapist, because she likes giving massages, not managing a business.

There’s always a little of me in all my characters, because I use my own spiritual struggles as a jumping-off-point to write my characters’ spiritual struggles. However, most of the time, I write my characters to be how I wish I could be. For Naomi, her close relationship with her sisters is something I wish I’d had, since I never had a sister.

Bonus random trivia! If Naomi were to meet any of the Sushi cousins, I think she’d get along with Trish the best. The two of them would know how to have fun, but at the same time, both of them know what it’s like to have responsibility thrust upon them.

Naomi is all into relaxation and reducing stress, so for example, if she went shopping with Trish, she’d be more likely to buy Crocs because they’re so comfortable and they reduce strain on the back and feet. However, she’d get a cute color combo like baby pink and gray or red and blue.

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Writing Progress

I am rejoicing at the moment because I finished my taxes! Wahoo! I don’t know why, but I really dread doing my taxes every year. It’s partly the tediousness of finding all the bits of paper I need in order to fill out all the lines of the form my accountant sends to me.

Thank you for praying for my health! My IBS has been okay for the past week. I had a flareup on Sunday which was totally my fault. I can usually eat 2 pieces of sourdough bread without problems, but this time I had 4. (They were sourdough buns filled with chocolate! It was too hard to resist!)

Luckily I only had a day of pain and nausea, and I was able to get back to work the next day without problems.

I’ve been working on Sushi and Suspicions, a Christian contemporary romantic suspense which will be releasing in June in the multi-author box set Summer Suspicions. Here’s a snippet of what I wrote last week:

"I do feel terrible asking you to work while you'll be on vacation," Mr. Harstad said, "but I am more than willing to pay generously for your time." He named a sum that made Liv cough. She couldn't blame it on the air, hazy from the nearby fires.

"Would you give me a few days to think about it?" she asked.

"Of course," he said. "I spend most of my time in Hawaii, and I have no trips planned for the next two months at least. If you decide to take my offer, we can arrange a time convenient for both of us. My schedule is quite free."

Liv thanked him and disconnected the call. As soon as she looked toward her brother, she yowled and jumped in surprise to find him much closer than she expected.

"I think you should take it," Linc said before she could say anything.

"I haven't even told you about it."

"Even I've heard of Adrian Harstad. And the only reason I can think of that would make you cough like you were hacking up a fur ball is that he offered to pay you some obscene amount of money."

"I'm not certain I like the fact that you can read me faster and easier than a billboard."

He grinned. "The reason you always lose when we play Psycho Hamster Poker is because you think you’re better at hiding your emotions than you really are."

She scowled at him.

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