Creating Characters: Meet Levon Larroquette
Last month, I wrote about Arabella Carpenter, owner of the Glass Dolphin antiques shop, and a main character in my Glass Dolphin mystery series. Arabella also makes brief, but important, appearance in each book of my Marketville Mystery series.
Arabella has what could best be described as a complicated relationship with her charismatic ex-husband, Levon Larroquette. Levon is an antiques picker (think of the TV show, American Pickers). In book 1 (The Hanged Man’s Noose) we find out exactly why Arabella and Levon became “best friend exes,” in book 2 (A Hole in One), we watch their relationship get a whole lot more complicated. Book 3 (Where There’s A Will) wraps up the series and I believe leaves them both exactly where they are meant to be. No spoilers here! If you haven’t read it, time’s a wasting…
In the books, Levon is described as being “drop dead gorgeous” with “shaggy brown hair and indigo blue eyes.” As a reader, you may have summoned up your own inspiration for Levon Larroquette, but in my head, Levon resembles 40-year-old Kris Kristofferson from the 1976 version of A Star is Born (yes, the remake with Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga was fine, but IMHO not as good as the Babs/Kris version).
So, what do you think? Kris? Levon? Are you seeing it? And what A Star is Born version do you love most?
The Glass Dolphin Mysteries are available in all eBook formats, trade paperback, and on audiobook on Audible, iTunes and Amazon. Find them at www.books2read.com/GlassDolphin.
Hmm…I read your books so long ago that I don’t remember the image I had in my head of Levon. As for A Star is Born, I think I’m in the Bradley Cooper/Lady Gaga camp, mostly for Bradley Cooper. I do love Babs!
Lois, Bradley is no slouch, but if you watch the version with Kris, he was definitely better in the role and WAY sexier/tragic.
Levon and Arabella must be an intriguing couple. I can’t wait to meet them.
Arabella is my favorite character. She’s a minor player in my Marketville series too, and Levon gets a role in book 3 (A Fool’s journey). These two are so much fun to write about.
Yes to seeing him as Kris Kristofferson.
Thanks Debra! Made for fun writing!
Love Bradley, but nobody beats Kris at sexy.
That is so true Gay! A friend came to watch the Kris Star is Born version with me (she’d never seen it) and could not believe his sex appeal/charisma. The music in that one doesn’t hold up as well, but hey, it was the 70s. Not to say Bradley can’t hold his own LOL.
Too hard to decide!!!! Great post, Judy!