Your Character’s Lives

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Look Inside Your Character’s Lives by D.W. Richards

Admittedly I have weakness for the eccentric. Creating characters with all their layers, who are slightly off-the-wall, is a great pleasure.

Pairs is such a story, with an ensemble cast featuring two couples. There is Kayley the greeting card writer with Adam the carpenter and there is Alexandra the former stripper with Henry the math teacher.

Central are the two women, both of whom have their own little niche of quirks. Their complementing contrasts and offsetting eccentricities are the catalysts for what quickly progresses into a deeply caring relationship.

The story begins and ends with Kayley, a single mother who ekes out a living while raising a four year-old, who, unbeknownst to her is psychically gifted. Artistic and spiritual, Kayley is a highly intelligent woman who’s profound love of the written world has resulted in her seeming to have put every poem ever written, published or not, to catalogued memory. And after a couple of glasses of wine, she is apt to share selected passages. Although very skilled in her own right, Kayley’s creative endeavours are thwarted not only by the demands of motherhood but also her lack of confidence.

Alexandra, a tomboy at heart, is a stunningly beautiful woman who possesses a childlike pragmatism and is prone to somewhat literal interpretations of the world around her. However, it should not be construed from her simplicity that she is simplistic. For Alexandra, who had been a teenage runaway escaping sexual abuse, is more than a very accomplished survivor (in the ‘what doesn’t kill her, she will obliterate’ sense), she has thrived. But she has not done so without emotional costs.

These two women discover each other at a cocktail party, thanks in part to the men in their lives. The attraction is immediate for Kayley and carries with it a depth that starts her on a journey of self-discovery. In a story that meshes spirituality with quantum physics, comic books with pantheons, and Wicca with landscaping, Pairs follows the friendship, the love and the incredible sacrifice that binds these two very different people.

About the Author:

D.W. Richards is a member of the Canadian Authors Association and beyond being a novelist he is also a script-doctor and freelance writer. An excerpt from Pairs will appear in the October 2010 issue of the international literary PDF quarterly Cantarville as a standalone fiction piece. In addition to creative writing, D.W. Richards has a Bachelor Degree in Psychology from Carleton University and is a Certified General Accountant. He divides his time between Venice, Italy and Ottawa, Canada.

Visit his website at www.pairsthenovel.com or connect with him on Twitter at http://twitter.com/DW_Richards.

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