Serena Jones is my up-and-coming newest heroine, an FBI agent specializing in art crime and the following pics are the inspiration for some of the men in her life:
What would you call them? Let me know in the comments your ideas for names, occupations, relationship to Serena (colleague, relative, friend of a friend, suspect etc), good guy/bad guy, hobbies/interests, or suggest other actors.
Go wild and have fun…keeping it clean, of course. 😳
If I use your suggestion, and in the case of duplicate name or description suggestions, you’re the first one who made the suggestion, you’ll receive an advanced copy of the book as my thanks!!
This is SO fun! I’m not very good with coming up with names, but I’ll give it a shot! LOL
#3 Colleague (oh yeah he must be FBI) LOL! :0) , partner if she’s going to have one, and friend. Nathan Callahan, he’s a joker but he’s got a serious side. He can always make Serena laugh even when she’s down.
Her Handler’s name…maybe Mark not sure about last name all I can think is Higgins LOL! But I’m not sure that fits! 😀
Her boss Henry Smith! I think he should have a name as common as Smith to be head of the FBI! 😉
#1 Hacker! He’s the one she can’t catch and keeps popping up. Maybe as the series progresses they’ll become allies instead of adversaries and he’ll come and work for the FBI! 🙂 Serena will end up witnessing to him and he’ll come to Salvation when he turns from his criminal ways!
Oh I LOVE IT! 😀 LOL! Thanks for the fun Sandra!
Blessings, Amada (pronounced: a.m.a.th.a)
Love your suggestions, Amada. Thank you! I really like the name Nathan. I had a guy by that name in my last manuscript and then ended up deleting the character, so I’m so glad you reminded me of the name. I’d love to use it. I like your reasoning about Smith, too. 😀
Nathan has always been one of my favorite names! 🙂 I don’t really know why, but I’ve always liked the sound of it! 😀
Yay! Thank you; I think Smith would help him seem more elusive, and shouldn’t the head of the FBI be elusive?! LOL! 😉
Hugs, Amada
Yes, I like the idea of him being elusive. Now, all this talk about Nathan has me thinking I should suggest the name for my daughter if she has another son. 😀 I do really like it. I like Nate, too. Could be her special name for him.
Awesome! Nate it a great nick name; I’ve always been fond of it as well! I also love what the name means in Hebrew “Gift from God”! 🙂
Cool, Amada, I didn’t know it meant that. I will definitely want to use it!
🙂
Apartment Super: Ajax (Jax) Camarino
Retired cat burglar who still has ties to the underworld
His hobby is raising exotic orchids
Good guy
Guy #1: Brenden St. Regis
Friend of Ajax
Wealthy
Attracted to Serena
Art Collector, fond of Caravaggio’s works and Caravaggio-inspired artists
Heir to grandmother’s extensive baroque art collection
good guy
Possible crime victim
Guy #2: Kurt Farmington
International art dealer
Suspect
Specializes in baroque and rococo Art
Guy #3: Clayton Grant
Serena’s partner
Secretly likes Serena
Loves dogs
Can hack into any computer program and talk his way into anyone’s residence
Hates art museums
Guy #4: Hayden Sommerhurst
Partner of Kurt Farmington
Coffee connoisseur
Loves to vacation in the Virgin Islands
Suspect
Boss: Maxwell Benton
Collects ancient coins
Thinly disguised misogynist
Handler: Tanner Jamison
Good guy
Loves anything NASCAR
Rides a motorcycle
Tries to get Serena on his motorcycle, but she hates them
Thanks, Sandra. This was fun.
All the best as you create this story.
~Janet Kerr
Oh, wow, Janet, I love your suggestions. You’ve included some great names that I never would have thought of and fabulous descriptions! Thank you!
You’re welcome. It was good to stretch the bounds of creativity.
~Janet
I appreciate it…it helps tweak my creativity, too!
What a fun!
Apartment Super: Tom Cash
Her boss: Steve Arterton
Her handler: Luke Braxton
Guy #1: Jeremy Tomlinson
Guy #2: Jack Clay
Guy #3: Pete Studebaker
Guy #4: Zachary Ponk
Thanks so much, Janka! Great suggestions.
Where does she find such men??!!
First off Mr. Blue Eyes is not her apartment super. He’s the guy next door that helped her carry her boxes to her new apartment. His name’s Luke Spagnoletti (nicknamed Spaghetti in grade school and it stuck through high school). He’s genuinely sweet, can never come up with anything clever to say though he tries. He’s always lending a hand, makes sure she gets to know everyone in the apartment, invite her to social outings with other people in the working class community (his comfort zone), he’s completely oblivious that she’s FBI. He still works for his pop’s pizza joint but dreams of going out on his own by opening Luke’s Sports Bar (he currently works ‘in secret from his father’ nights at a sports bar and exhausts himself pulling the two jobs but can’t break his dad’s heart by quitting the pizzeria). His entire family are sports addicts, they love the ‘game’ and understand it completely. When they talk sports, they know what they’re talking about. Loves his nieces and nephews … all 15 of them.
#2 is her apartment superintendent, Frank. Recently divorced, wears any shirt that passes the sniff test, rarely leaves his own room without a beer or mountain dew, or something in a paper bag — though he’s never been seen drunk (that or no one’s seen him sober enough to tell the difference), the cops know him well and check up often though no one knows why — he takes good care of his tenants and comes off genuinely nice though he likes to talk about his good looks and how could his wife leave someone with his charm. He invites her to get a drink with him daily (he knows the greatest places in town). Often goes out with other women in the apartment and calls everyone sweetheart/sweetie. Very forgiving if Serena’s late on her payments — but very unforgiving if Luke is. Treats Luke like a younger brother (aka bullies him … maybe they are related). Pretends to understand sports. He has zilch aspirations.
Her Handler is Craig Calhoun. He’s very hardcore and knows the FBI book to the dot and the dash. He looks after his agents. He has no life outside the FBI. He’s a patriot, a sin-eater for all the innocent soccer moms and dog walkers. Nothing matters outside the walls of the FBI world. He sees Serena as being just like him, which is why they’d be perfect for each other — no one else could possibly ‘get’ them.
#1, Nolan Patrickson also works for the FBI but he’s in administration/or does all the calculating kind of stuff. He likes her but doesn’t feel he factors into her day. Craig relies on Nolan’s help for a lot of things, he couldn’t do his job without Nolan doing his job — yet somehow Craig still fails to realize Nolan exists. Unlike Craig, Nolan does have a life outside of work — well he has parents that he still lives with and an increasing yearning to fall in love and do something more than push papers for Craig.
Her Boss is Daniel McDowell. He’s the master of all things arts. He wrote the history books on art. He lives and breathes art. His house is a piece of art to display art. He lives to reveal art to the world (or at least the upper class) and make sure the whole world knows he’s got a handle on the almighty dollar. He’s been married and divorced three times with a teenage daughter he never sees. And wants to take Serena to wine and dine and ‘talk art’ often.
#4 is an art buyer who we don’t know much about. His name’s Richard Tanner (but she’s been invited to call him “Rick”). He’s got money and a house in Hawaii she’s been invited to escape to if the art world becomes too much for her. He’s got a yacht — though he prefers his jet. He buys lots of art though never knows the name of the artist. He just buys what catches his fancy whether it’s a Picasso or a no-name impressionists from the streets of LA. He’s the kind of art buyer McDowell can’t stand except for the $’s that spills from his pockets. He has a ‘few’ oil investments.
And #3 is some drunk college bum that only watches the Superbowl for the commercials, getting dragged out by security when Luke calls him out on his disruptive behavior.
Who does she end up with … well Frank’s a dead end, McDowell would add her to his trophy shelf, Tanner would lose her in one of the 45 rooms of his Bermuda mansion and forget about her, Calhoun would need a contract for them to hold hands, Nolan just needs to find someone closer to his age (like the girl that deliver’s the coffee that’s been eye-glued to him for months), and well Luke — her lifestyle would crush him…
Perfect, my editor will love this, the series can go on forever if she never finds anyone worthy of her to fall in love with.