So much of what I write in books is drawn from real life. For instance, my character of Jamey in HOT HERO FOR HIRE was in a low budget indie film that no one expected to be a huge hit, but surprise! It was a huge hit, to his shock and that of the two indie filmmakers who’d produced it on a shoestring budget. Does that story sound familiar to you? It should if you have every seen The Blair Witch Project. I’ll admit, I’ve never seen the movie. I’m too scared. But I have a small connection to it, in a 6 degrees of separation kind of way. There were only 3 people in that movie. One of the them was Mike Williams, who was the little brother of one of my friends in high school. The Williams family had 9 children. Yes, nine! To an only child like myself, that in itself was fascinating. But Mike’s older sister Jeanmarie and I were in lots of classes together. I remember I was over their house once. We played Battleship. The family went to the local pool, where I’d also go. The township of Mount Pleasant was small. Most people […]