Hi, Bill, I haven't thought about Ig Lov for a long time, so
your mention of a couple scenes brought me back to it with
such a new feeling that I hardly recognize it as my own. I
guess I had already been kind of a gym rat for several years
before I started that book, as well as a dive master, so of
that training was great fodder for scenes, only requiring a
touch of imagination to get gritty. I also had a pet iguana
at the time, and the fact that iguanas are so aloof, and as
the pet book said, "An iguana will never return your love"
gave me the idea for Ramona's character. I think she awakens
or matures when the obsession with scuba diving and Enzo
occur, and becomes a truly cold-blooded, challenge driven
person, who can't live in a "normal" marriage. She evolves
into the hardest woman she can imagine because it's a goal, a
challenge, but it's really an empty life. I see both Ramona
and Enzo as iguanas, too alike to connect in any way but
physical. It's a creepy book, I'm thinking. And Serpent's
Tale strongly suggested that I cut the two most sexual scenes
in the book, at the beginning and end, where Ramona sits on a
detective's face, smothering and taunting him. The detective
got cut, which I don't miss, but I do miss those scenes, and
another murder from the end. Maybe someday the uncut version
will be published someday. Doubtful! Vicki
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