The home of my "Dream Cast", a collection of actors who play the characters in my head, as I'm writing the books.
Casting a Novel: Fortune’s Renny Boucher
When You Least Expect it, Expect it… Words to live by, or at least they are for one Renny Boucher, who we meet in The Longest Shard (now availabile on Kindle Unlimited). To avoid spoilers, I dare not say…
Casting a Novel: Fortune’s Horatio Alva
All the World’s a Stage At least it is to Horatio Alva, ex-con, grifter, and actor-manager of The Queen’s Rogues. Horatio’s presence on the Fortune stage has been ancillary, so far, but his time is…
Casting a Novel: Fortune’s Lekan
In Fortune’s Fool, Gideon is faced with a number of adversaries, but one in particular shares a lot of formative DNA with Gideon, which makes him the most dangerous of Gideon’s enemies. For such a…
Casting a Novel: Fortune’s Colin
Heavy for Hire Colin (no surname at time of writing) first appears in Outrageous Fortune as the partner-in-crime to Mary (also no surname), a grifter. Where Mary is all charm and effervescence, Colin is more basic.…
Casting a Novel: Zodiac’s Fayla Szado
Szado Play Where do you go when you need a powerful woman? A woman with secrets? A woman with poise, cunning and an exquisite level of control, both physically and psionically? Where do you go…
Casting a Novel: Fortune’s Tariq Al-Karim
Smooth Criminal Casting shadow trader Tariq Al Karim for Outrageous Fortune was one of those rare cases where the actor informed the character. I mean, I knew I was writing someone with intelligence, charm and…
Casting a Novel: Fortune’s Freya Ohmdahl
From Stolichnaya, With Love It’s possible that when the Ohmdahl triplets made their first, rambunctious appearance in Soldier of Fortune, I was thinking of casting this actress. For sure, whenever I’m writing them now, this…
Casting a Novel: Fortune’s Mia
Finding the perfect dodger, a foil for Gideon and a vibrant character in her own right, was tough. I don’t watch a lot of shows with 12-to-14 year-olds in them–Mia, like most dodgers, has at…
Casting a Novel: Fortune’s Tiago Hama
Step Aside Dr. McDreamy Sometimes casting comes as a surprise even to me. Take the case of Tiago Hama, the medical student who makes his first appearance in Soldier of Fortune. It was a surprise…