Kaitlyn K Character Interview Tear Sheet
Character: Anna
Book/Short Story: The Benjamin Chronicles
Inspired By A Real Person: Yes. A female security officer I knew whose real name was Laura.

Q: Welcome Anna. You’ve already advised me you are not going to reveal your age…
A: Yeah, don’t even start with that. No fucking way.

Q: …so why don’t you tell us your nationality? It’s not clear in the book. You are stunningly beautiful. Tall, dark skinned with long, thick black hair. Not too thin, either. What’s your heritage?
A: I have very large boobies, too. Don’t forget that. I am Puertorriquena. I was born here, but my parents are from Puerto Rico.

Kaitlyn K Character Interview Tear Sheet
Character: Emily
Book/Short Story: The Benjamin Chronicles
Inspired By A Real Person: Indeed. Ms Emily has actually inspired a couple of characters. Yes, she knows about them.

Q: Welcome to the interview! State your name, please, and your age and, because you are based on a real person, your relationship to Kaitlyn.
A: Emily, mid-20s-ish. In the story at least. That was written several years ago and in real life I’m married with a daughter now. I no longer teach, either, leaving the working life to raise our rugrat. I’ve known Kaitlyn for years, though we’ve only seen each other a few times. We adore each other very much.  

Q: You and Benjamin have a long distance friendship in the book. Is that based on real life, too?
A: Yes. Kaitlyn and I both know the man Benjamin is based on. And I tended to talk with him when I was single and having boy problems. He was funny and had a way of cutting to the chase of how his gender behaves. Neither of us has ever been sexually intimate with him, though, and talking during my boy crises is where the similarities with real life ends.

Kaitlyn K Character Interview Tear Sheet
Character: Ed
Book/Short Story: The Angel and The Captain
Inspired By A Real Person: No. Ed is completely made up, although his hair is similar to Archie Bunker on All in the Family.

Q: Ed, welcome. What is your full name?
A: I have no idea. You seldom give your characters last names, which means we can’t answer questions like this. All I am known as is Ed.

Q: Very well. You are, of course, Angel’s father. You left when she was three and you didn’t see her again until about halfway through the book, over 20 years. Did your first meeting with Angel go as you expected?
A: Biscuit. I’ve always called her Biscuit. No, it didn’t go as I thought it would but I had no expectations. The Captain had warned me not to and he’s a smart man so I took that advice.