Link: Nov 06 2013, 19:31Disclaimer: This blog entry is verbatim, as originally posted on LKH's Facebook. Copyright belongs to Ma Petite Enterprises.
A few clarifications since I came out on FB as poly:
1. Not all authors who write about poly and kink are either of those things. In fact, I am one of only two that I know for certain both live any part of either lifestyle and write remotely similar stories.
2. I was not poly when I first started writing about it, in fact, I didn't know a word existed for what I was trying to create on paper. My subconscious was ahead of me by a couple of years on that one.
3. The character of Jade appeared on paper before I'd ever met our girlfriend, Genevieve. My subconscious was ahead of me again.
4. I do not use real people in my life for direct correlations to any of my fictional friends. Sometimes bits and pieces of my real life get used when I write, all writers do that to a certain extent, our lives are our greatest natural resource. I will use mannerisms, or certain physical characteristics of real people as the beginnings, or jumping off point for a few characters, but most are entirely fictional, or shaped by my real world research into police work, crime, weapons, etc . . . I do not have a real live muse like Castle does on TV. I actually don't know any writers that do.