Book Tour & Giveaway (Us/Can): Catch Blaze fever! Check out Joan’s vision for Luke, Kiera, & Mateo

I don’t visualize most characters. I usually will try to picture parts of a character (hands, hair, tattoos, etc) but rarely do I try to do the entire person. On the few rare occasions I do, I’ll usually start from movie stars or people I know in real life and make slight alterations until I get to where I’m comfortable.

I do visual the characters when I am reading most of the time. Exprctally when I really enjoy a book.

I think unless I have seen pictures of what the author says they should look like I come up with my own image of what the characters look like. I don’t usually think of them as real actor, actress, or model.

I usually visualize characters while I’m reading and I tend to make them up in my own mind. 😉

Yes, I always visualize my characters. I would have to say they are unique as far as I know.

I always visualize my characters, they are not always an actor/actress. It’s always fun to see who the author picks for their vision – sometimes, I’ve pictured the same people. The actress chosen for Keira (above) is Jessica Stroup. She is one of the girls on the current 90210 series. Don’t know what else she has done. I loved Fever and Intimate Enemies – can’t wait to read Blaze. Thanks for the giveaway.

Does anime pictures count? LOL. There is one character mostly her hair and her aloof attitude that inspired my paladin. The rest is so different. But yes, I do use visuals to help me in my writing.

Really hard to find the right fit most of the times. But I am like you the scene plays like a video inside my head.

Blaze was awesome! Here to support Joan!

Somehow I turn all the character into people I know. Like even though the hunky guy is blond, he always looks like the love of my life who has brown hair.

I try to visualize my own perfect hero/heroine when reading. Although with Joan’s books hard to do with the very good looking guys for Teague and Luke showing off… 😉

Thanks for the giveaway! Loved Fever!

I do like to fully visualize the characters which is why I love it if both the hero and the heroine are on the cover. If not that, I love it if an author posts their images on their website or here like in a blog post. I haven’t read Fever yet, so I would love to see who Alyssa and Teague look like to you, Joan! Jill Shalvis puts her character inspirations on her Pinterest page which is fun to look at and get an idea of how she sees her characters. Thanks for the post, Joan! Looking forward to both Fever and Blaze.

I never fully visualize the characters while reading. It’s funny but sometimes I’ll only see hair :). And no, I don’t associate actors or whomever as the characters.
I have been dying for BLAZE since FEVER. I cannot wait to read it!
Best Wishes Joan on the release next week!

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I do visualize characters based off of the author’s description but I don’t usually associate them with a celebrity!

LOVED Fever and I bet Blaze is just as good!!!

Thanks for the giveaway!

While I do enjoy seeing photos of what someone visualizes that a character looks like, I personally whether reading or writing prefer to go with what my imagination shows me. I suspect that I’m influenced by those that I’ve seen around me, but many times I can’t place any specific traits that match a specific person.

Thanks for the fun post! Kiera sounds feisty.

I always have a unique picture in my mind of the characters I read, they don’t look like movies stars or anything like that.Carin mawmom at gmail dot com

I like to create the characters in my mind based on their descriptions in the books. They really seem to come to life that way.

I do visualize characters in my head but they are unique images not images of celebrities or real people.

I don’t tend to picture a specific person when I’m reading. I sort of take the description that I’m given and formulate my own people in my head.

I always visualize characters in the books I am reading. Sometimes I compare them to real actors, actresses, or models and sometimes I have a unique vision in my head. Sometimes its really hard for me to watch a movie based on a book I have read because the actors don’t match what I see in my head. My husband bands me from complaining or he won’t watch it with me.

I imagine the characters as I read about them.

Thanks so much to Joan for being our guest today and having GraveTells on the tour!

Glad you guys enjoyed Fever – you’re going to LOOOOOOVE Blaze! <3

No, I don’t visualize characters though I do try to see the situation with no actual faces for the characters.

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It depends on what I am reading and how into it I am as to whether I visualize characters or not.
If I do visualize them, they are usually unique and not celebrities.

I don’t really visualize characters as much as most people seem to. I do visualize the hero to an extent (but he almost always just looks like I guess my “dream” man, who I don’t think exists, lol) But for most of the time while I am reading, I don’t really visualize, at least not like a movie or anything.

The only time I have ever “seen” a character in my mind, it was Kat Martin’s Dev Raines as Matthew Bomer. Gorgeous blue eyes, dark hair…perfect.

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Hair colour? Check. Eye colour? Check. Height & build? Check. That’s about as far as I go with my visualisations of characters– no really defined facial features, and no celebrity lookalike… even if the author mentions one by name! You definitely don’t want me on your team when playing the “Lets cast [your favourite book]” game! 😛

Stoked for BLAZE!!

I visualize characters to a certain extent and they are totally original. I can very rarely look at a picture of someone and say “yep that’s exactly how I expect so and so to look”.

finally made it! great interview!

I definitely visualize the character and setting in my mind as I am reading. If the author has done a thorough job of describing everything then I go with that. If that isn’t given, then I’ll let my imagination wander a little bit and make up my own.

I get kind of a vague mental picture of the characters. not very clear on a specific face. It helps if there is a good cover picture with physical characteristics that match the descriptions in the book.

I’ll definitely form a picture in my mind of a character but rarely do I put an actual person (actor, etc) in as that image. Every once in a while though one will pop up in my mind because of the visual created in the book.

The characters aren’t the only thing I see in my head when I read. I see what they are doing as described by the author. I don’t put other people’s faces with the characters of the book. It’s my own imagination from the description in the book as to what they look like.

I do fully visualize characters when I’m reading and often do associate them with someone usually famous that I’ve seen before. Thanks so much for the giveaway!!

I really like the cover models to represent the characters in the books I read but unfortunately that is not always the case. I don’t usually put famous faces in the place of book characters. I guess because they are famous for already playing a character.
Thank you for the giveaway!

Hi Joan! Loved Fever!

I create someone unique while I’m reading – visualize everything. Very rarely do I think of a model or actor as the hero/heroine.

Thanks for the giveaway. 🙂

I do visualize my characters, but more in the general sense, rather than specific….it is really hard to find a face to put on them for me because no one is going to fit it exactly. So, I just take the descriptions and generally come up with a compilation in my head based loosely on mainly male models I have seen here and there, but not celebs.

I visualize the characters in my head. I don’t think I’ve ever matched a book character to a celebrity or model. I think if I did, it would ruin a little of the magic for me. I like to see the characters from my eyes, it makes the story more intimate to me. Thanks for this wonderful post and awesome giveaweay!
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I always try to visualize characters in my head when I’m reading I listen to the author’s description of the characters, then try to picture them in my head. I usually end up seeing only some hair on a blank face.

I always visualize characters. I will create them with the help of the author, if they give a good description, or I will create them and use characteristics that I think fit the character of the story.

When reading, I usually create a person from my imagination according to what the author writes/describes. That’s unless that book is going to be a movie and they picked the actors who will play those characters, then I picture the characters like the actors. Since I saw the pics Joan posted of who she pictures her characters to look like, most likely I’ll be seeing them in my mind once I read BLAZE. Joan, who do you picture for Alyssa and Teague from FEVER?