Surviving
So I’m almost finished with the first draft of Surviving, and then I’ll lend it to my new crit group Rumored Romantics for the shredding of said novel.
Here’s the characters, at least what they look like in my head.
Adriadna Ivonovna Sidorova a.k.a. Drew
Talmage LeGrand Shell
Benjamin Carr
Sonja Abilhão
Steve Jameson
Angela Hansen
There you have my characters. At least the one’s I’ve found pictures for. 
I will put up some scenes and such over the next little while.
Hi Sarah,
I was two comments behind you on SITS today so thought I’d stop over. You’re a writer…cool! I fancy myself a bit of a writer (don’t all of us who blog??) but clearly you are an ACTUAL writer. I’m intrigued by your casting here, will need to hear more about your novel.
BlogBaby’s BabyMama
I’m just curious. Have you gotten any flack about almost all your characters being white?
In this novel, Drew is Russian and Greek, Sonja is Portuguese, and Angela is half Hispanic.
In Legend of the Protectors, most the characters are Cherokee.
And I have a few black guys in Devin McKenzie.
I write who my characters dictate they are.
But to answer you’re question, No, I haven’t.
I wasn’t criticizing, just curious. I’ve read some publishing websites that emphasize diversity in fiction. My own WIP has mainly white characters with a few other ethnicities thrown in (as you, that’s how the characters identified themselves to me).
It’s interesting, because I don’t normally pay attention to race. Half my friends in high school were black guys. (Most my friends were guys.) And it isn’t until I go to do the descriptions the second go through that I put in skin color, unless it’s my main two characters. Then I describe them pretty well, if I know what they look like already.
But in Surviving, I knew that Drew was Russian and Greek, it plays into the story, I knew that Sonja was from Brazil, it plays into the story. I didn’t know what the others looked like (except Talmage) until I went looking for people to play them. I found pictures and thought, oh, that’s what so in so looks like. So when I say Angela, I thought she looked part middle eastern or Hispanic, and being in Miami, went with Hispanic.
All your characters are good looking! Mine look like they jumped off the set of a Carol Burnett skit. I like frumpy, clumsy characters. But the main character and narrator is a dead ringer for a blond Sandra Bullock.