{"id":6032,"date":"2016-03-28T01:05:10","date_gmt":"2016-03-28T05:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kate-hill.com\/blog\/?p=6032"},"modified":"2016-03-27T09:40:57","modified_gmt":"2016-03-27T13:40:57","slug":"guest-blogger-clare-dargin-my-werewolfs-character-was-inspired-by-an-angel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kate-hill.com\/blog\/?p=6032","title":{"rendered":"Guest Blogger: Clare Dargin – My Werewolf’s Character Was Inspired By An Angel"},"content":{"rendered":"

My #Werewolf’s Character Was Inspired By An Angel by Clare Dargin #Shifter #Erotic #Romance<\/p>\n

Before I sat down to write Wolf’s Blade, I had only one thing in mind, I wanted to write a werewolf romance novel.\u00a0 My first in fact.\u00a0 But who the character was, the events that made up the main hero’s and heroine’s life or the story’s main conflict I had yet to figure out.<\/p>\n

So I did what I always do in these situations, I stressed myself by worrying.\u00a0 Yes sometimes I can be very neurotic. After pacing a deep groove into my carpet from pacing, I came to the realization that worrying was getting me nowhere. So I reluctantly set the project aside and began working on other things.<\/p>\n

Then one day while I was watching my favorite paranormal show, I saw him.\u00a0 There he was in all of his six foot something glory, the inspiration for my werewolf shifter character- who I’d later name Callum Blake.<\/p>\n

The show in question was Supernatural.\u00a0 I’ve been a fan for years and love the exploits character who are brothers– Sam and Dean Winchester.\u00a0 This particular season, season nine had a new character that added a sweet pathos to the story line, which in my opinion, had never been on the show before.<\/p>\n

The character, known as Gadreel, was an angel who was charged with guarding the Garden of Eden.\u00a0 But for some reason, either through carelessness or falling for the devil’s trickery, he allowed Lucifer to enter the Garden which caused the fall of creation.\u00a0 As a result, he was placed in heaven’s jail and was released when a fellow angel, Castiel released him because Castiel became an unwitting pawn of another angel named Metatron dubious plans.<\/p>\n

Anyways, Gadreel’s storyline though brief, was powerful.\u00a0 Not only because of the writing (which is always good on the show in my opinion) but through the acting of Tahmoh Penikett.\u00a0 I must admit, I had never seen him before \u2013 though later on I found out he was a major character on the revamped Battlestar Galactica among other shows- he made me cry as well as cheer for his tortured and damaged character.But being the good romance writer that I am, I had to admire his incredible good looks.\u00a0 Six-foot-four, with a lean muscular build, broad shoulders and a narrow waist line, Gadreel\/Tahmoh was walking sex.\u00a0 I mean the guy was hot!<\/p>\n

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But being the good romance writer that I am, I had to admire his incredible good looks.\u00a0 Six-foot-four, with a lean muscular build, broad shoulders and a narrow waist line, Gadreel\/Tahmoh was walking sex.\u00a0 I mean the guy was hot!<\/p>\n

That’s when I knew I found Callum Blake or at least the placeholder\/image I could use in my mind as I wrote the book.\u00a0 When I write, I usually I like to have a person in mind when I create the character and the world he lives in because it inspires me when I’m trying to think of facial expressions or when I’m just to trying to find out what the man or woman is thinking.<\/p>\n

Though Callum is a lot younger than Tahmoh the actor and much younger than Gadreel the angel, I made sure or at least try to make sure that Callum possessed the magnetic charm and sexy charisma that Tahmoh portrayed as Gadreel. I hope you enjoy reading Callum’s story as much as I did writing it.<\/p>\n