I was recently reading some of the reviews for Opening Act (breaking Rule No. 1 of
Authordom, I know) when I stumbled across someone calling the hero a “clueless
idiot.” I wasn’t mad. I really couldn’t be mad. In fact, I cracked up laughing!
You know why? Because he is a
clueless idiot. Alpha heroes who are completely confident of their abilities to
woo and win fair ladies are all well and good, but sometimes you’ve just got to
write a beta hero…and, not only that, but a a doofus-y, has-no-idea-what’s-in-front-of-him beta hero. Adam Harper, 25-year-old blue-collar bartender and bass player certainly fits
that bill.
