Your all-time favorite hero? Better than Matt? Better than Ian? Your two former favorites? I am shocked to the core. Matt and Ian are two of the best heroes written of all time, and I am just dying with curiousity as to how you will top them.
Thanks for spending time with us, Judith. You are still the most amazing lady.
Karen
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I echo Karen's sentiments. I don't see how anyone could surpass Matt and Ian, my two favorite heroes. But I'm always willing to try something new!
Lynda
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I always thought Royce was you favorite Judith? lol
I agree with Drea. This now makes the wait nearly unbearable. I guess I should look at it like the anticipated build up of something fantastic. (like a cruise...lol)
Jennie
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Sorry--I specifically meant to say my favorite "Contemporary" hero. I must have deleted the word "contemporary" when I wrote the message.
I would never be able to pick a single favorite hero to encompass both groups. The criteria is just so different.
I adored Clayton and he's such a close runner-up for first place, but Ian Thornton meant something more to me.
I realize as I write this that I evidently have a very special affinitity for one element that sets a man apart. Until STWOM, Matt Farrell was the closest contemporary hero to possess that element. Matt Farrell takes a back seat to no man, in my opinion, but if you asked me truly what man I would most want...it's the hero of STWOM.
I can't explain why now, and even after the novel is out and we can discuss it here, it's going to be tough to explain, I think.
It will be fun to see how many of you instinctively "lock on" to his special charisma and exactly when it happens to you.
My favorite memory about the creation of this novel was sending my editor a particular scene by fax in the middle of the night. In that scene, something he says catapults him to another level completely, a level she wasn't expecting. The next morning, my editor called me from her cell phone in a taxi cab with the scene in front of her, and I think her exact words were, "I've read this three times already. Oh my God..."
And from then on, he just gets better.
Now, I have to stop doing this because I'm afraid I'll raise your expectations to new, and impossible, heights. And that would be very unfair to the people your going to meet in STWOM
Have a heart. You're going to have us salivating like dogs. LOL I have a smile upon my face that is spread from ear to ear as I'm reading every bit of insight you are graciously giving us. *sigh*
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Most beautiful book, most exciting book, most unforgettable book you've ever written? Oh my! And just when I had almost convinced myself that I could be the perfect picture of patience if I only had to wait until February 25th for STWOM to be released.
I guess I'm going to have to settle for a much less perfect picture now. ;)
And I'm very interested to see how this hero will affect me, as my favourites seem to follow along very closely with yours. Ian is my favourite historical hero (as well as all-round hero), and in the world of JM contemporary novels, Matt could not be any more wonderful, IMO.
Come on February 25th!
Lyn
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Reading your post about why certain heroes are your favorite has got me thinking - you and I have something in common. Ian Thornton is my favorite historical hero bar none. No other author has created such an amazing hero as Ian. There is no other hero for which I would give up sleep and sanity to prepare for a soul stretching competion in order to win the priviledge to call myself his BB wife. There is no other hero which I would even contemplate a BB marriage.
Knowing that we share such wonderful taste in men *wink* I am all the more excited to meet your new hero in STWOM. He sounds like an amazing man, though I will never leave my Ian for him. Not in a million years.
Thank you, Judith, and I hope you have a wonderfully blessed New Year!
Naomi Thornton
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I've been lurking here on and off, because it seems that the ladies here tell more about what's going on with the release dates etc than anyone else. Thanks for the update Judith. By the way, I only read your contemporaries.Can't seem to like anyone elses. I absolutely love your historicals!
Chrysanthe
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