Questions and answers

Ok, so, basically - inspired by a thread in the fantasy forum - it's fairly simple. All you do is:

1. Answer the question the last person asked
2. Ask your own question

Ok, I'll start:

1. n/a
2. What's the best thing about your MMC? And the worst?

1. He's very nice and easy to get along with and he supports the FMC in all her endeavors. He's also melancholic and has a tendency to run away from his problems.

2. What attracts your MCs to each other?

1. My MMC is attracted to my FMC originally because she is obviously not your average girl. My FMC is attracted to my MMC because he is a gentleman

2. What is the worst thing your MCs have said to each other?

I love this game!

1. My FMC called my MMC immoral because he wanted to sleep with her without getting married and my MMC said that she was just complicating things for no reason.

2. how do you feel about your FMC personally? Do you like her? Would you want to spend time with her in real life?

uh oh... watch them eyebrow wiggles.

1. Oh it's so hard to choose. They're all cool in their own ways. The other teachers are so funny, especially the sports teacher. And my MC's maid is so sneaky and she's definitely shipping her boss and the MMC.

2. what finally gets your inamorati together?

1. The whole getting together process takes about a few weeks but the catalyst is when my MMC's roommate, who they constantly joke cannot pick up social cues, simply tells him that the FMC likes him. MMC is in disbelief because roommate _cannot_ be right but he is and thus starts MMC having to decide how he feels and how he'll get FMC to talk to him again (they had a big fight).

2. Where did your couple have their first kiss?

1. On the beach of Lake Champlain.

2. Who is the first person outside the couple who knows that they're getting together or going to be together?

1. A whole pack of werewolves. MMC declared MFC as his mate in front of the whole pack (when they were ready to kill her.)

2. Which secondary character would you like to write your next book for?

1. I hadn't really considered writing any more taking place in the same universe as this book but maybe I'd write something about Miss Keys and Miss Trattles, my FMC's coworkers. They're so weird, like a couple of absent-minded professors with 'old married couple' moments.

2. are any other characters trying to get your MCs together?

1. No. My MCs are together for pretty much the whole novel. Everyone bust their chops about the other one.

2. What is the most heart wrenching moment in your story thus far?

1. My hero tells the heroine about his hard knocks childhood, including how his mother was killed in a back alley somewhere, and her body was found in a dumpster 6 weeks later. The police assumed it was a prostitution deal gone wrong, and that's an assumption he's lived with for close to 20 years.

2. What is the catalyst that leads to that all important first kiss?

1. They are stuck in a rangers cabin after their car broke down in the middle of a national park. They found the cabin, which had a working radio and cans of baked beans, so the rangers told them they wouldn't be picked up till the following day. And things get frisky. Mind you, there has been a tremendous lot of UST for years between them.

2. What is your MCs view on starting a family?

1. Well she kills a couple of people and then feels bad, so he decides she needs comforting... they are both assassins, to put that one in context.

2. What's the most romantic moment in your story so far?

1. I have *so many* couples, at all different stages of relationships (some are just starting out, some have been married for 20+ years), and my novel is set in 1872, and I have one scene where one of my 'old married couples' are getting ready for bed and talking about their children, and I feel like the 'routine' of them getting ready for bed just shows how well they know each other and how well they've supported each other over the years.

2. Do you have a Happily Ever After planned?

1. Well, as it's not just straight romance but romance/fantasy/steampunk I'm writing, not quite... I finish with a sort of Ambiguity Ever After, if that makes sense, in that they clearly love each other, but external forces want them dead, and how long they'll survive... *shrugs*. I personally know that they do get their HEA, but I leave it ambiguous at the end as to whether or not they escape from the bad guys and survive.

2. Who's your favourite character and why?

1. My favorite character has to be my MMC because he is based off of a guy I have a huge crush on.

2. What is your MMCs favorite food?

1. MMC is full blood Fae so he doesn't eat human food, but he'll drink as much black tea as his system can manage and still wish for more.

2. How quickly after your characters meet do sparks start to fly?

1. Immediately, haha. They don't like each other too much but they sure are attracted!

2. What is the biggest obstacle to your couple getting together?

1. Her job, definitely. She's a teacher at girls' boarding school in the 1920s, so it was understood, and in her case, required that she leave her job once she marries. So she can't marry him but if her students' parents thought that she was 'living in sin' they'd demand her dismissal. Basically, if she has any sense she'd have nothing to do with him.

2. are there any other genres mixed into your romance?

1. Well, I have a scene where a guy randomly drops in on his long-distance boyfriend after they've been separated for a few months because of their work. Things get all lovey-dovey and the sun is setting, and the boyfriend sees a photo oppurtunity so he takes a picture with his phone in a moment when he's sure they're going to be together forever. And then whenever he looks at that picture, he remembers what he felt then. <3

2. Are there any characters in your novel that you just can't stand?