“Even your name is boring” were her last words to him before she walked out.

Six months ago, John Williams’s wife left him because she was bored. Everything except that special someone to love him. He has everything he really needs: the clothes on his back, a house to squat in, a sweet dog. I had no idea that one day a minor character would rise up to get his own novel! Who knew the pretty little boy could stand so high and proud?īlue McCoy has lived on the streets for a long time, surviving by his wits and doing what he must, and he’s not above using his youthful appearance and air of innocence to his advantage. It was the first time I had ever done anything like it before. So, with the approval of the Powers That Be over at Dreamspinner Press, I finally wrote his story. And they wanted this sad boy/man to find love….

If, as I had suspected, he was more than meets they eye. And instead of satiating my readers, they demanded more than cameo appearances. Blue showed up again for another small scene or two in my Seasons of Love series. Once more his part was small, but there he was and to my surprise, the readers loved him. Then when I was writing one of my favorite novels, Hound Dog & Bean, who should pop up but Blue! It was as if he gave me no choice but elbowed his way in, just as he did when he burst through those Christmas trees in Bianca’s Plan. And that maybe he was a little smarter than I realized…. He was more than a pretty little space cadet. And I saw that he was much more than meets the eye. He was a secondary character and his role was to be a bad date so that Bianca’s father could open his eyes and find the perfect man who had been there all along.Įxcept it wasn’t the end! Blue wasn’t done. That should have been the end of Blue’s story. Bianca’s dad goes out for a few drinks with the pretty lad only to find out that Blue just isn’t his type. While shopping for a Christmas tree, they meet a beautiful airheaded young man named Blue-and yes that is his real name. Sadly, these dates turn out to be…well…not so good. I was writing what has turned out to be one of my most popular Christmas stories, a tale called Bianca’s Plan, a story tale about a little girl who starts setting her father up on dates because she doesn’t want him to be lonely-and she wants a family. Thomas joining us today to talk about his new release “Blue”.

It Had to Be You by B.G. Thomas