Kaitlyn K Character Interview Tear Sheet
Character: Meg
Book/Short Story: Nat’s Story
Inspired By A Real Person?: No. I see her very clearly in my mind’s eye, of course, and she is very real to me, but she is completely made up.

Q: Madame President, welcome…
A: Thank you. It’s a pleasure to be here. I think.

Q: Please, state your vitals and how you ended up in Nat’s Story.
A: You’re kidding? I’m one of the most famous women on the planet. Anyone who cares knows everything they want to know about me.

Q: If you please. It’s sort of like signing in on What’s My Line. A tradition.
A: Sighs, but it’s a smiling sigh. My name is Meg and I am the president of the United States. I know Nat because I paid him $5,000 to have sex with me.

Kaitlyn K Character Interview Tear Sheet
Character: Madeline
Book/Short Story: The Benjamin Chronicles
Inspired By A Real Person: No. Madeline is a composite character based on several women I have known over the years.

Q: Madeline! We’re glad you made it. Please, state your age and how you ended up in The Benjamin Chronicles, and anything else you think we’d like to know.
A: Madeline. 53 in the book, a bit older now. I was bored and wanted to have sex with another man. I love my husband, he’s a preacher, dearly and he puts out regularly, but crap, I’ve only had sex with him for 30 years. I wanted someone new before I died. 

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.

Character Interview Tear Sheet
Character: Daniella
Book/Short Story: One Plus One Equals Three
Inspired By A Real Person: Yes, someone named Daniella

Q: Daniella, welcome. Please, state your relationship with Kaitlyn.
A: I don’t really know her all that well, actually. I would run into her from time to time at the bank and we were friendly and that was it. We were not, are not close. In fact, I had completely lost touch with her because she stopped coming into the bank. It was the only time I saw her.

Q: Were you surprised when you turned up as a character in One Plus One Equals Three?
A: Oh yeah. No doubt. I didn’t even know she was a writer.

Q: Now that you are, what do you think?
A: Oh, I like it. A lot. Nicole and I go way back and we both liked Brady and were hoping he would ask one of us out. Nicole is pretty foxy and, of course, is stuck up about it and she was sure it was going to be her. Brady, though, has scoped me out pretty good – I’ve got humongous bazoongas and I’m plump but not fat and he likes that I can tell – and we have some things in common and I thought it would be me. We’re both pretty funny together.

Character Interview Tear Sheet
Character: Angel
Book: The Angel and The Captain
Inspired By A Real Person: Yes, someone Kaitlyn K knows

Q: In the book, you are referred to as both Angel, the name the Captain has for you, and Biscuit, a childhood nickname first used in the book by your father, whom you meet for the first time in your late 20’s. What’s your real name?
A: I’m not telling! It was never really important to the story, so it was never mentioned so there is no reason for me to blab it here. As I recall, it was used once in an early draft, but it didn’t make the cut. The name, though, was the real name of the girl who inspired my character.

Q: What did you think of the name Biscuit?
A: Shrugging. I dunno. I suppose it’s adorable for a toddler. I don’t really remember being called Biscuit regularly. Sometimes when I was a girl, but that was mainly aunties and that tapered off after Dad left.