by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
Since I’m determined to query this damn novel as early as this fall, I feel comfortable talking more directly about some elements of it. My heroine for the first novel (of a planned four) is a 32-year-old Amerasian woman named Union Pang.
She is obsessed with owning a small town newspaper and that is the throughline of the novel which turns into a “murder in a small town” novel at the beginning of the second act.
I keep mulling in my head what I imagine her looking like and these days I think she probably looks like Pom Klementieff. But, alas, Ms. Klementieff has a very thick French accent. But at this very moment I think she probably looks closer to Shay Mitchell.
I fluctuate all the time as to what she looks like, but in general, she a darker skinned Asian-American. I suppose she literally looks like Nicole Scherzinger, but Ms. Scherzinger is too old.
If, hypothetically, a movie were to be made from this thriller, I suppose an Asian-American woman in her late 20s, early 30s would be chosen.
Anyway, I really like, in general, the characters I’ve come up with. The novel isn’t perfect and I have a few more months before I have to absolutely lock things down.
