The Evelettes | Brava Authors

September 14, 2007 • Print This Post

Lately I’ve been pondering how nice it is to have good girlfriends who you can always count on. And recently I was inducted into a very exclusive group…the Evelettes. Now I can’t tell you too much about the group (remember it’s exclusive!) but they are a bunch of romance writers who are inclined to sit up late at night at conference and talk and laugh and cry. They are the kind of woman who you can count on whatever the situation is.

I’ve been working on a series of books for Brava that are loosely inspired by Charlie’s Angels. I’m sorry I’m 30 something and grew up with the t.v. series which wasn’t campy at all. And showed these really pretty girls saving the day. Back then I wanted to be Kate Jackson when I grew up.

In the series I’m working on the women of Liberty Investigations share that same bond that I do with the Evelettes. They know they can count on each other no matter what. The ladies of Liberty Investigations also know that they can save the day like Kate Jackson and the other Charlie’s Angels did.

It’s a lot of fun to take something I loved so much as a girl and that really influenced the woman I became. Seeing women take on a “man’s” role really was empowering back then. My daughter (she’s 15) has grown up thinking that women can kick butt. She’s used to seeing Lara Croft or Sydney Bristow on Alias or even Lois Lane on Smallville. And I think it’s because of those early women like Charlie’s Angels that we have that today.