Stacy Finz | You never know who’ll steal the show

Dear Readers,

I’m so excited to be on Fresh Fiction today celebrating my new release, BORROWING TROUBLE. Brady Benson, BORROWING TROUBLE’s hero, first appeared in the fourth book of my Nugget Romance series, STARTING OVER. I liked him so much that I wanted to give him a book of his own. That’s the thing about writing minor characters. You never know when he or she will worm their way into your heart and beg you for their own happily ever after. I’ve had some secondary characters who would’ve taken over an entire book if I’d let them.

Brady’s a chef and I’m a former food writer so already we were a match made in
heaven. He was also mysterious. In Starting Over he’d arrived in Nugget running
from a secret. The honest truth: I hadn’t worked out his secret yet. For that
book the important thing was to give him an air of intrigue and if I never used
him again—or continued using him only as a minor character--so be it.

I like writing character-driven stories and I like writing stories where
traditional rolls are flip flopped. For instance, Brady spends his days in a
kitchen and the heroine, Sloane McBride, is a cop. A man doesn’t have to be any
less alpha if he cooks for a living. In fact, I like playing with social mores
and shaking them up.

I also like characters to have quirks and flaws, it gives them more personality.
Nugget’s ensemble cast is gossipy, judgmental and often tactless. But they all
have one another’s backs. That’s the way it has to be in a small town, or at
least the way we’d like it to be. Having grown up in several—my parents moved
around a lot—neighbors looked out for each other. In most of these towns the
nearest emergency services were at least thirty minutes away.

At least Nugget has its own police department. There’s a secondary character who
works as a dispatcher in the office and I still don’t know what to do with her.
She keeps delivering one liners that crack me up and says the most outrageous
things at the most inappropriate times. Like a lot of people in Nugget, she
doesn’t seem to have a filter. And if I let her, she’ll steal the show away from
the hero and heroine.

I may have to break down and give her her own story.

Praise For Stacy Finz

“Finz is a unique new voice. Nugget, California is a charming small town filled with inventive characters and sweet romance."--Jill Shalvis, New York Times bestselling author of the Lucky Harbor Series "Tender and touching, Stacy Finz writes romance with heart."--Marina Adair, #1 National bestselling author of Summer in Napa

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