True Confessions about Made-Up Things
Karin’s favorite sarcastic-inside-voice heroine is Leslie from Embrace in Motion. Marian the Librarian (One Degree of Separation) thinks that’s a load of crapspackle but would never say so out loud.
Admiration for strong women in history was one of the reasons Faith Fitzgerald in Wild Things is a history prof and biography writer. Plus that’s what she explained were her studies, so it’s not like Karin had a real choice in the matter.
Cowboys in Russia (Love by the Numbers) were inspired by the rollicking “Bulgarian Cowboy” from pianist Paul Halley, which in turn was inspired by his travels in Russia with the Paul Winter Consort.