Hi ho, MMMLogerinos!

A writer creates characters that hopefully become as real to the readers as they are to the writer. You want the reader to fall in love with the hero as the heroine of the story does, and as you have as you created him. I love the hero of my The Eternal Trust trilogy, Michael Gabrielli. He's a 747 captain, former officer of SEALs, a former psychic spy and adept remote viewer. He collects ancient weapons and has been searching for the legendary Tsuji samurai sword (Sword of Balance) that bestows vast power upon the wielder. Michael finds the sword and his soulmate lover from many lifetimes and instead of happily ever after, the terror escalates. The tag line from the book is "The love of a soul mate may be the death of you, again and again." And so it has been for poor Michael Gabrielli and Dorel Everly as they struggle against an Eternal Trust that has locked them in a battle for love and life over eons.

Imagine my surprise when I heard from the "real" Michael Gabrielli last week. He didn't just materialize on this plane nor project his astral body, as he can do, into my office. Michael Gabrielli sent me an email from Corning, New York where he lives and works. I wondered how he'd heard that a character in my books, which he said he hadn't read yet but looked forward to doing, shares his name until I Googled it. And what should come up? Right, my Michael Gabrielli in blurbs, book stores, reviews and other web mentions.

Isn't that interesting that these days you can create a fictional character, give him a name and he can become a multi-page listing on an internet search just like a real famous person? In a way, it makes him as real as any other "name" you'd search, doesn't it. Who'd have thunk it?

Ciao, ciao, MMMMMMMMMMelinda