My new novel, KINDRED SPIRIT, revolves around a fictional TV news station. The main character in the novel, Hallie Moore, is a news reporter doing “best of” type segments for NBN7 News called Hallie’s Comets. I’ve created a related Web site for the new station that is up and running already. HOWEVER, I want to add more content to the site, including a page for the NBN7 News Team. This is where you come in…
I’m asking interested fans to send me a photo of themselves to post on the site to list those chosen as some of the stations reporters. In the book, I mention some reporters and anchors by name, but some reporters (the sports guys/gals, the health reporter, the consumer reports reporters, the investigative journalist types, etc.) are unnamed. To fill those employment gaps I’d like to use fictitious names with your photo, and give a tiny bio. You can even list a few towns where you’ve lived (or enjoyed visiting) and I’ll look for rated news station markets near those towns to give your reporter character some backstory. Reporters on the rise move from lower rated markets (smaller cities) to higher rated markets (big cities), but reporters at the tail end of their careers may have an opposite progression.
Pose in business wear if you want to be a serious reporter, something casual if you’d like to be part of the sports team, etc.
Additionally, I will create some fictional local stories of the man-bites-dog variety, but maybe not that silly, and I can use pictures for the people invovled in those stories — just in case you don’t want to be all dressed up in your photo.
If you have an idea for the type of story you would like to be in, let me know. Hot dog eating contest winner, multi-car pile-up victim, principal of a school involved in an asbestos clean-up, etc. I’ll use fictionalized towns and streets and institutions but the idea is to set these local stories in the Philadelphia metropolitan or suburban area, but as far south as Dover, DE and as far east as the Jersey Shore.
Let me know and send in those photos!
Until the next one,
-Jack
