Jacqueline Paige

Guest Post by Jacqueline Paige

Guest Post

Recently I was asked to explain how I develop characters in my writing. There isn’t just one answer to this; it varies from story to story. Sometimes (rarely), if I’m lucky, my characters just come to me—

everything from their name and profession, their problems or ‘issues’ right down to their bad habits and eye color. These are the stories that just fly onto the page.

Of course not all stories can be this easy. Other times I’ll have a partial idea for a character, one that I think fits the part, so the first thing I’ll do is picture what they’d look like and from there I’ll discover their name. I never know everything about one of my characters until I put them in a scene with others. This is where they usually surprise me with personality traits I didn’t know they had and sometimes these traits require a little more editing and rewrites.

Quite often I will write scenes that have nothing to do with the story I’m working on, just to see how the characters fit. It’s a good way to dig a little deeper into who they are and why they are the way that they come out on the page.

Occasionally I have come across a difficult character; Alec from the Hidden Senses Trilogy would be one of those hard to write ones. In the beginning she was fairly easy to write, and didn’t present any sort of challenge but then she was only a secondary character and seemed happy enough to do what I wanted her to. When she became one of the main characters in Inner Reflections she closed up and I had a hard time dragging anything from her. It was a good thing that Ian was a strong character with some spine or the story may have just stopped. He was able to drag more out of her than I was.

For a while I had to put a story on the back burner and move ahead with something completely different because my characters would not help me out and share. A few re-writes and plot changes later I was finally able to finish Inner Reflections and the trilogy was complete.

I hope you enjoy the characters that took me on quite the adventure and emotional roller coaster as I told their stories.

Inner Reflections

Hidden Senses Trilogy
Book 3
Jacqueline Paige

Class Act Books

Genre:Paranormal Romantic Suspense

Book Description:

Detective Alec McGowan is dedicated to serving justice and will crush all that stand in her way. Long used to burying her passions after tragedy and heartbreak taught her that loving someone is dangerous, she expresses them the only way she knows how. Passion for her job has landed heron a hit list, and rather than fearing death she is annoyed and more determined to find them before they find her.

Ian MacTavish is a loner and finds it easier to stay that way. The constant barrage of other people’s thoughts is exhausting, and relationships are even more troublesome for someone with his“talent”. Using his skill has brought him considerable financial reward, and allowed him to stay uninvolved and unencumbered. When a night of harmless mind surfing leads him further into a twisted plot of chaos and murder, his appearance at the police station surprises him most of all.

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 DreamVisions
Hidden Senses Trilogy
Book 2
Jacqueline Paige

Class Act Books

Genre:Paranormal Romantic Suspense

Book Description:

Felicity has spent her life alone, moving from one place to another hiding apart of her no one has ever been able to accept, not even her own family.

Foras long as she can remember she’s had dreams that lead her to a person that’s somehow connected with her. There are no answers or cures only misery for her when she can’t get anyone to believe her.

When a child reaches out to her, frightened and in the hands of strangers she forgets the reasons why she shouldn’t tell anyone and goes to the police. She finds herself sent for a court ordered psychiatric evaluation.

It’snot the first time, it won’t be the last. She packs up once again,ready to move as soon as she’s done with another so called doctor. From the moment she steps into the office everything changes and she finds nothing she expected.

Can the child be found before it’s too late or is she facing heart ache again?

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Mystic Perceptions
Hidden Senses Trilogy
Book One
Jacqueline Paige
Page count: 224 pages

Genre:Paranormal Romantic Suspense

FOUR CUP REVIEW AT COFFEE TIME ROMANCE

Publisher: Class Act Books

Does she risk everything again?

Book Description:

Jacinda Brown keeps to her safe existence doing investigative research, avoiding people and places with people. To most, it appears she has a normal life;blending completely undetected in her lonely continuation.

She doesn’t investigate people; she can’t get that close. Through her hand she can feel emotions, thoughts. With a touch she can see what has been.

Unfortunately fate tosses her into a situation where her carefully guarded secret and her own conscience are at war when she finds herself working with detectives to find a killer. Jacinda clashes with the verystrongly grounded detective, Reid Merritt,destiny has forced her to work with.

At some point he begins to matter, making her decision harder. Will he look at herwith abhorrence, like she’s some sort of freak when she’s through?

What will be the price, this time, for the ability she doesn’t want?

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About the Author:

Jacqueline Paige lives in Ontario in a small town that’s part of the popular Georgian Triangle area. No one has ever heard of Stayner, so she usually tells people she lives “near Collingwood” and no, she doesn’t ski at Blue Mountain or at all, in fact she’s not even fond of snow.

She began her writing career in 2006 and since her first published works in 2009 she hasn’t stopped. Jacqueline describes her writing as “all things paranormal”, which she has proven is her niche with stories of witches, ghosts, physics and shifters now on the shelves.

When Jacqueline isn’t working at her ‘reality job’ or lost in her writing she spends time with her five children, most of whom are finally able to look after her instead of the other way around. Together they do random road trips, that usually end up with them lost, shopping trips where they push every button in the toy aisle, hiking when there’s enough time to escape and bizarre things like creating new daring recipes in the kitchen. She’s a grandmother to four (so far) and looks forward to corrupting many more in the years to come.

Jacqueline loves to hear from her readers, you can find her at www.jacqpaige.webs.com , www.jacqpaige.blogspot.ca or http://magicseasonsbooks.blogspot.ca