Part #3 of our chat with author @angelique.migliore.author LUV: Which of your novels do you wish a producer would adapt onto the screen? Angelique: As of right now, I’ll narrow it down to two: ONE NIGHT IN SEOUL and ONE NIGHT IN TAMPA. Going back to the importance of settings in my works, these cities are fantastic! ONE NIGHT IN SEOUL has “Mr. & Mrs. Smith” vibes to it, and Stormy Smith and Jordan Black make their way around Seoul so that Jordan is not a sitting duck as a hit has been taken out on him. He’s a white-hat hacker, and he’s angered the wrong government or mega-corporation. It’s Stormy’s job to protect him. This is a second-chance romance as they were fellow cadets in ROTC in college eleven years earlier, but instead of being a grumpy/sunshine couple, they’re actually a grumpy/grumpy couple and they were SO MUCH FUN TO WRITE! And who doesn’t want a tour around Seoul that includes a Buddhist temple and the Night Markets? ONE NIGHT IN TAMPA is my subverted Cinderella retelling. Salvatore Convivio “Viv” Ricco is my Cinder-fella, and he’s met his princess in the middle of Tampa Bay’s Gasparilla festival. Mariposa del Pilar Fuentes is committed to attending her family’s Krewe Ball, so she can’t spend the evening with him, but she agrees to show him around the bay before the ball. Their chemistry is undeniable, and Viv is not content with just a day, so he sneaks into her exclusive, “heritage-only” ball that he holds no invitation for. Throughout the story, we get to learn the history of Tampa Bay and how the Cuban and Italian communities grew up together. (All three of my ONE NIGHT stories feature military-related characters, by the way.) Okay, I fibbed. I’d love to see MY WEEKEND WITH DEATH on the screen, too. But that would require some CGI. I mean, who doesn’t want to spend Halloween weekend flying around Chicago with an animated gargoyle and a haunted girl of Polish descent? [These are all steamy romances but can easily be toned down for the screen.]

Posted by LUV Team at 2023-03-08 20:00:01 UTC