What if Jack hadn’t been written as a movie star?

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    • July 28, 2023 at 1:30 pm #948
      Jodi
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        @jodifoxx

        In the author’s notes at the end of the book, Katherine Center mentioned that she initially wrote Jack’s character in another career besides a movie star.  She changed his career to a movie star because it seemed to work better for the storyline.  What do you think? Is there another career that would have worked for Jack? Or did the story work best with him as a movie star?

      • July 28, 2023 at 5:28 pm #950
        Kimm
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          @shemostomper

          I like the book as is and I don’t know if there is another career that would work for the story.

          • July 29, 2023 at 6:05 am #964
            Jodi
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              @jodifoxx

              I agree!  Makes me curious what career he had in her first writing!  My first thought was some kind of CEO maybe…has to be something that would warrant hiring a bodyguard.  Maybe an oil tycoon of some kind?

              • July 29, 2023 at 7:09 pm #994
                MelissaFromBookGirlsGuide
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                  @melissatest

                  Oh, that would have made sense for having family in Texas. Either an Oil or Tech CEO from Austin could have worked. Normally I would have found that more relatable than a movie star, but I think the movie star career was 100% the right call for this one.

            • July 29, 2023 at 12:08 pm #970
              Anna Hagen
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                @bcmom

                I think he had to be an actor. If he hadn’t been, I don’t think Hannah would have started questioning his feelings toward her. After all, he could create her favorite kiss ever with someone he didn’t even like! Of course, he could fool an ordinary person.

              • July 29, 2023 at 10:36 pm #1011
                AngelaFromBookGirlsGuide
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                  @angelarathbun

                  I think making him a movie star was really important to the story because he needed to be a widely recognizable public figure that people would have a lot of preconceived notions about.

                • July 30, 2023 at 12:17 pm #1020
                  Melissa Whitaker
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                    @melissa

                    I did read where he was initially from another profession.  I would be interested to know what that was, but I believe a movie star fits well. Even though we all realize that famous people really are just people too, we typically don’t treat them the same way we would treat anyone else that we just met. Fame gives them the distinction of being different than the rest of us. That was a critical element in this particular story.

                    • August 4, 2023 at 7:33 am #1085
                      Jodi
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                        @jodifoxx

                        I really liked how this book highlighted that celebrities are real people, as you mentioned.

                    • July 31, 2023 at 1:29 pm #1053
                      Pam Fleming
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                        @pamf

                        I think it was great he was an actor.  This made him a good candidate for a stalker/someone being obsessed with him

                      • August 2, 2023 at 6:54 am #1066
                        Laura DiBacco
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                          @ldibacco

                          Good question!  I think it would have to be someone “well-known” enough to be recognized to make the story work.  I wonder what else she was considering.

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