Taste of Cyn

Family (Including Pets) Of Book Characters

By Cynthia Sax on August 1, 2020

My Awesome Mom is a cozy mystery reader. Many heroines in cozy mysteries have pets.

My Mom worries about these pets. This was a recent conversation I enjoyed with her.

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Awesome Mom: (on the phone) The lady in this book has been away from her border collie all day. She’s going to return to an ‘accident’ on the carpet. That’s for certain.

Cynthia Sax: (grins) Dogs in books don’t tend to have ‘accidents.’

Awesome Mom: They might not say it on the page but you and I both know that border collie is leaving a ‘gift’ in one of her shoes.

LOL

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We, as readers, tend to care about a character’s family members, including fur babies. As a writer, I care about them also.

It is one of the HUGE considerations when writing stories. The heroine might have found love with a hunky cyborg but what happens to her loving parents? Will THEY be happy with her daughter living on a faraway planet? Will the hero’s being-eating ‘pet’ be happy living on a crowded ship? Will the hero’s brethren accept the heroine’s newborn human female?

I not only look at their current happiness but I also consider their future happiness. What happens when the newborn becomes a toddler or a teenager or an adult? What happens when the parents get older or need help? Will the being-eating pet want a family of his own?

The hero or heroine would consider the happiness of their loved ones. As a writer, I do the same.

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Testing Truth

A fun-loving cyborg gets serious about love.

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Truth lives each moment as though it were his last. The cyborg warrior rushes into danger, teases beings he shouldn’t provoke, accepts every call of adventure he encounters.

When a prissy little human princess floats into the Rebel structure Truth is occupying, seeking a mercenary to assist her and her unusual entourage, he volunteers to be her warrior. She claims their assignment is dangerous, warns him he might not survive the task.

That is exactly the type of fun he has been seeking.

Princess Nanette of the planet Royaume must rescue her estranged brother from an enemy prison ship. That is her duty, and she has been trained to always place the needs of her planet and her subjects before her own. Nancy doesn’t have the freedom to indulge her passions for a certain dark-haired, gray-skinned cyborg. Not permanently and not publicly.

But she is unable to resist the warrior. Truth, with his laughing eyes, smiling lips, and rough hands, tempts her as no one else ever has. He could be her one fleeting act of rebellion before she’s matched with the powerful ruler her planet requires.

If they survive their current mission.

Their love is doomed. Their lifespans are at risk. This cyborg and his princess will need the help of every ally they have if they wish to see another sunrise.

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