Around the Fire Story Behind The Story with J. Arlene Culiner.

A bit of a twist to today's blog. Have you ever wondered how, what, and where an author gets the words on a page? What are the inspirations? Yes? Well here you go. The story behind the story. Enjoy!

The Turkish Affair
by 
J. Arlene Culiner
Mystery/Suspense/Romance

Love and Danger at the ancient Hittite site of Karakuyu

Priceless artifacts are disappearing from the ancient Hittite site of Karakuyu in Turkey, and the site director has vanished. Called in to solve the mystery, archaeologist Renaud Townsend is hindered by both his inability to speak the language and the knowledge that the local police are corrupt. His attraction to translator Anne Pierson is immediate, although he is troubled by her refusal to talk about the past and her fear of public scandal. But when murder enters the picture, both Anne and Renaud realize that the risk of falling in love is not the only danger.

The story behind the story.
As a writer of romance, I like to portray real-life situations with real people. My heroes and heroines need to have activities they can share, ideas that coincide, and realistic goals. They must be interested in getting to know each other, and we have to believe that their love will last — not because they have wild and woolly sex in very strange combinations — but because they are appealing, intelligent, and kindly people, and they know how to give.
Yes, some romances don’t begin smoothly, but if there’s a good reason for that, so much the better. In romances, we can learn new ways of working out problems, or we take pleasure in seeing a loving relationship grow slowly but steadily.
In my romance, The Turkish Affair, my heroine, Anne, has run away from her former life, and come to live in a small village in Turkey. When she meets the very charming Renaud Townsend, an archaeologist at the nearby Hittite site, she is forced to acknowledge how attracted she is. However, since she has run from her problems instead of solving them, she finds herself caught in an almost untenable — and very dangerous — situation: the day’s heat was almost unbearable, and the gaudy morning sun reverberating against uneven pavements seemed to mock her fears. Maybe it had been her imagination at work, after all. What about the intensity between herself and Renaud? Had she imagined that? No, she hadn’t. Which is why she’d avoid any further contact with the man.
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About the Author
Writer, social critical artist, and impenitent teller of tall tales, J. Arlene Culiner, was born in New York and raised in Toronto. She has crossed much of Europe on foot, has lived in a mud house on the Great Hungarian Plain, in a Bavarian castle, a Turkish cave dwelling, a haunted house on the English moors, and on a Dutch canal. She now resides in a 400-year-old former inn in a French village of no interest where, much to local dismay, she protects spiders, snakes, and weeds. Observing people in cafes, in their homes, on trains, or in the streets, she eavesdrops on all private conversations, and delights in hearing any nasty, funny, ridiculous, sad, romantic, or boastful story. And when she can't uncover really salacious gossip, she makes it up.
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