So every year in November I take a trip to Illinois to see my Mom for a few days. Well over the years she has been my biggest fan and supporter of my writing, granted she’s never read a thing I’ve written she’s always encouraging me and helped me with research.
Well this November when I go for my visit we have a lot of research to do. Since my paranormal erotica romance is set along Interstate 80, we plan to make a few stops and take photos of the Interstate 80 and the Interstate 180 interchange, its an off ramp to a very short stretch of interstate, only about 5 miles long, it was built 30+ years ago for a steel mill that was in the area. I think it was called JPL Steel, but don’t quote me its been a long time since I was in that area. This interchange has alot of wooded land and it makes the perfect spot for my first crime scene where our Heroine Gwen Davis(yes I changed her name) and Hero Drake Blackburn meet. The attraction these two feel on first meeting each other is instantaneous, which makes keeping things professional a bit of a challenge.
After our photo session there its off to a little known gun shop in Peru IL called, “Boomers and Blasters” Yes that is the name, I plan to get photos of this shop as well. this is also where Gwen gets her “special” weapons. Then the two of us will journey out to Walcott IA. Now your thinking whats out there, well it is the home of the World’s Largest Truck Stop. There will be lots for us to see there and photograph.
Plus I’m also hoping to do a bit of target shooting myself, why should my Heroine have all the fun. I’m really hoping to be able to get my hands on “The Judge” by Tauras, that is one gun I really want to fire. One of those could do some nasty damage to a werewolf hybred serial killer…Till next time, I’m gonna be in my writing cave for awhile plotting this book as well as a few others.
UPDATE ON THE RESEARCH TRIP:
My travels took us on two days of constant, in the car driving. The first day we stopped at a Pawn shop where I did a bit of shopping, got a ring, couldn't resist. Then we went to "Boomer's and Blaster's" gun shop. Its a very small place and if you don't know where it is you will miss it. Thier logo on the door of the shop is a gopher in the crosshairs. While there my brother and I learned that the shop was actually going to be moving next door since they were in desperate need of more space. You see the shop I was in was a shotgun style (really, no pun intended) long and narrow, and full of guns and ammo. Well with the move they will be able to have more then 3 customers in the shop at one time. Yes 3, we were there and another customer came in and it was crowded. Got to look at alot of cool weaponry and picked up quite a bit of literature on different guns, everything from pistols, revolvers, to rifles and shot guns. Such variety. Next stop was "Rudy's Liquor" store In Peru IL, Boomer's and Blaster's is located in this town as well. Rudy's has a wide variety of every kind of liquor imaginable. Day Two's road trip will be in the next post.
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