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1 of the showtime questions I get when people detect out that I write hockey romance is—why hockey? First and foremost, considering I love the sport. It'due south more than than that, though. I was a freelance journalist nigh of my career and covered a lot of NHL hockey for different publications. My hometown of Ft. Lauderdale got a team in 1993—the Florida Panthers—and I fell in love with everything hockey. I married a homo who played through higher, and all the same plays in men's leagues, and we're a large hockey-loving family. I've always been told to write what you know, so that's what I do!

I try to find a skilful residual in my books betwixt the romance—the actual relationship between the hero and heroine—and the hockey, to brand hockey lovers and non-hockey lovers alike find something to sink their teeth into. Gritty, sexy, loyal, loving characters brand up my 2 hockey series and my readers say they keep coming back for more than because they like the family unit saga experience through recurring characters, even though near all the books are stand-lonely.

The second question I oftentimes get is where practice I become my inspiration for my players. That's an easy one because I go it right from real life. While zippo in the stories depict the lives of any of the players who inspire them, pictures of them out of the hockey world ignite my imagination and things go from there, and so I've fabricated a list of players around the league and the 10 characters they've inspired to give yous an idea on how to write strong male leads – whether in their skates or under the sheets.

one – Karl Martensson from "Las Vegas Sidewinders: Karl."

Karl is my hunky Swedish goalie and he'due south a 6'4" fictional combination of the San Jose Sharks' Erik Karlsson and the New York Rangers' Henrik Lundqvist. Karlsson is a defenseman and Lundqvist is a goalie, but they're both Swedish like my graphic symbol. I used Lundqvist's fair coloring and playing style between the pipes along with Karlsson's long hair and sense of humor every bit a starting point. The rest was all my whacky imagination!

2 – Sergei Petrov from "Defending Dani."

Sergei is the hero in my second spin-off series, the Alaska Blizzard. He'due south the younger, hotter brother of Toli Petrov (#3 below) and in my listen'south eye his looks came from my own version of an older, more than mature (but super sexy) Elias Lindholm from the Carolina Hurricanes. Sergei'southward bulked up physique was modeled afterwards legendary player Rob Brind'Amour (retired in 2010), who was known for his intense workouts. Sometimes, a tiny snippet of information like that is all it takes.

With Brind'Amour's body every bit my starting bespeak, I made Sergei bigger and more muscular than a traditional hockey player, which led to the heroine in the story. My plan all along was to have strong, independent women in this serial, so it fabricated sense to make her strong and athletic as well. Making her an Olympic champion was a departure for me—none of my other books had female athletes—so the stronger I fabricated her, the stronger Sergei had to be every bit well!

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3 – Toli Petrov from "Las Vegas Sidewinders: Anatoli."

Toli is probably one of my favorite characters and I had and so much fun writing him. He'south Russian, with a crooked smile, smokin' hot abs, and quirky personality, which includes often talking virtually himself in third person. I drew his inspiration from the Washington Capitals' quirky Russian captain, Alex Ovechkin, and Hollywood hottie Alexander Skarsgard.

Initially, Toli was going to be the older, reliable friend everyone went to for advice. His grapheme, however, took on a life of his own and information technology quickly became obvious he was going to need his own volume. The one thing I wanted to go along was his quirky sense of humor so I devoured all kinds of videos of Ovechkin doing crazy things, like belongings up a sign at the 2015 All-Star draft that said "I want to be final—I need a car." The more than I read near Ovechkin's antics, the more Toli began to take shape. Merely looks-wise, he was blond and completely different, which is when I found pictures of Alexander Skarsgard that instantly spoke to me. Combining ii totally different men in pictures would be hard—but doing information technology in your head is amazing. And fun. 😉

four – Drake Riser from "Las Vegas Sidewinders: Drake."

Drake is a large, tough softie who falls in love with a female person Marine who's got burns over forty pct of her body. His character was some other interesting combination—one hockey thespian and one TV graphic symbol. His looks are mostly based on the character of Marty Deeks from "NCIS: Los Angeles." I fabricated him big, strong and tough—with an equally large heart—like John Scott, who retired from hockey in December of 2016.

Sometimes these ideas fall into your lap. Though the plot of the book was already in place, when John Scott was voted onto the 2016 NHL All-Star squad, his story was all over the sports networks and he was foremost in my heed as I did final edits. I gave Drake elements of the big-hearted Scott while still retaining the original grapheme traits. Though Drake's looks remained 75% based on Deeks' grapheme (played by role player Eric Christian Olsen), his personality evolved with the influence of Scott'southward public persona.

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5 – Jamie Teller from "Temptation's Inferno."

Jamie is a bisexual grapheme struggling with life, love and his sexuality, but I based his looks on the uber-hunky Roman Josi from the Nashville Predators. Jamie isn't a big guy, but adept-looking and an excellent play-maker for my Las Vegas Sidewinders equally well as the (too fictional) Ottawa Generals.

Inspiration came a niggling backwards for this book. The first typhoon was written in 10 days because it was a story that needed to be told and information technology came pouring out. However, after the first typhoon was done, I started thinking about who Jamie had become as I wrote it. He had brown hair and dark optics, and role of his struggle is the fact that he'south not as large equally many other players around the NHL. Roman Josi came to mind and as soon as I found pictures of him, I knew he was the Jamie in my listen'due south eye. Naught is ever exact—Roman is Swiss, Jamie is Canadian; Roman has light eyes, Jamie'southward are night. But there was no doubt he was the visual depiction of the Jamie I'd created, and when I went back through the story, I tweaked parts of it to make him a chip more like Roman looks-wise equally well as his with his playing mode.

six – Brock Lassiter from "Las Vegas Sidewinders: Brock."

Brock's concrete appearance was modeled later on the ane and only Brent Burns, who plays for the San Jose Sharks and is known as much for his crazy fashion sense and long bristles as he is for his offensive defensive playing mode. Though my grapheme'due south troubled background and reluctance to settle downward in no way follows Burns' life, I had a lot of fun creating a hero with an out-of-control beard and a fun-loving personality. Since I sentry hockey daily (yes, we take the satellite hockey package), it was piece of cake to keep Burns on my heed as I developed my character.

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7 – Kane Hatcher from "Holding Hailey."

Kane was modeled after Pittsburgh Penguins player Kris Letang. Kris' Instagram account is total of pictures of his wife and son. Letang'due south obvious love of his family inspired me to create a similar character-blazon. I wanted someone who resembled Kris physically. But I likewise wanted someone who steps into the role of a family man, dedicated husband, and loving male parent.

eight – Vladimir Kolnikov from "Las Vegas Sidewinders: Vladimir."

Vlad is some other Russian player on my Sidewinders team. His imaginary good looks came from (yet another Swede—I remember I take a thing for them) Oliver Ekman-Larsson.

Vladimir had been a side graphic symbol from the very beginning book of my Sidewinders series. Although I knew he would eventually become a volume, I didn't take a feel for the character yet. That is, until I saw Oliver Ekman-Larsson in a suit. That was Vlad. And I immediately started stalking Ekman-Larsson online for non-hockey pictures to help me build up his physicality. Emotionally, the story had been brewing for years, but Ekman-Larsson gave me all sorts of imaginary prompts.

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9 – Viggo Sjoberg from "Temptation's Inferno."

I needed Viggo's character to be strong both physically and emotionally. To practice that, I drew his red-headed ruggedness from the Philadelphia Flyers' captain, Claude Giroux. And I picked his Swedish skilful looks from (Finnish player) Saku Koivu, who retired in 2014.

x – Royce Lenahan from "Las Vegas Sidewinders: Royce"

Coming in 2019! I had the opportunity to interview Erik Gudbranson in 2014 when he played for the Florida Panthers. I knew immediately I would someday model a graphic symbol after him. He was strikingly handsome in person. And told me he was a big concert-goer, which will exist characteristics Royce volition have. Although I didn't accept a histrion in listen when I met Erik, when I started adding Royce as a side graphic symbol in later books, I went through some of my favorite players in my mind. When I got to Erik, information technology clicked like two pieces of a puzzle. Now, I'one thousand currently plotting out Royce'southward character with well-nigh 400 pictures of Erik open up on multiple tables on my computer… no meliorate style to stimulate the imagination than photographs of good-looking hockey players!

Information technology's so much fun dreaming up these characters' stories (and romances!) with a real-life confront in your head. Since most of them are combinations of multiple players/celebrities, information technology'southward like two for the price of i. I promise you bask my stories as much every bit I savour writing them—hockey hunks for the win!

And check out my newest release WINNING WHITNEY available now on NOOK! For more information on me and my books head over to www.katmizera.com.

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