What do women want?

I adore that photo of Daniel rising out of the ocean - it's totally hawt! I think the thing that makes Daniel Craig a good Bond has nothing to do with his hair colour and everything to do with a face that looks like its been punched around a bit. I mean really, how many agents of 007 calibre truly go through their careers without a single mark? I also think its why guys like Daniel, he looks like he's a bit bruised and battered, like he may have lost a fight or two, like he's falliable - not all perfect straight teeth and roman nose.

Blondes. Hmm, well as I married a blonde I can hardly refute their appeal  but I can say the first blonde I wrote I was asked to make dark haired as blonde haired heroes didn't sell as well on covers  Go figure...

Amy 

As the mother of two red -headed heroes in the making, my debut novel had' Huon of the red hair.'My editor never said a word about hair colour. The book sold well and I didn't get any complaints from readers about hair colour at all ;-) Huon had every charateristic trait of a hero...Tall, handsome, caring, gallant, slayer - of - dragons and I reckon that is the key. I've had blonde, brown, red- headed and black haired heroes and one heroine with pink hair.  IThanks for the pic of Clive there, Emily. And Simon Baker, yes I can see that. Me? I'm a sucker for the eyes....

PPS,  LOL, Amy...my debut book had a heroine on the cover !

I've been all over the place in my books.  In real life I've tended toward the dark and swarthy, but married a blond/blue eye Norwegian.  Go figure.  I think the color of the package doesn't matter as much as what's in the package.

Molly

I married a man with dark hair and dark eyes and a quick audit of my heroes shows that, yes, there is a preponderance of men with his colouring.

But then, as there's always a little bit of DH in every one of my heroes, sometimes he appears with blond hair, too.

To me, it's a bit like chocolate... those of us who like it (waving both hands madly!) have our preference for dark or milk, etc, but very few of us would say no to chocolate of a different colour if it were on offer.

My mom's sister, a nurse married a hair challenged rancher. My uncle was the first younger bald man I'd seen. He was very good looking and had a wicked sense of humor and could tell bald jokes with the best of them. It helped that Yul Brenner was starring in The King and I shortly afterwards. Talk about a strong visual of a really hunky bald guy. Bring on the bald heros!

Can I just point out that I'm married to his double? Seriously  - how lucky am I?? 

I have to admit that dark hair and blue eyes usually does it for me. (I make an exception for Mr Banderas's gorgeous brown eyes.) But the hero in the second part of the duo I'm revising now is blond and utterly gorgeous.

 And me too with a heroine on my debut cover. 

Nope Nancy, they're redheads. Just trying to help Emily out with her probelm of trying to find one from a few commetns back. 

Amy

Inspires this romance writer, too!  :)  My second Medical featured a blond hero named Daniel.  And yes, I was inspired. :)  Of course that book was also inspired by Dr Travis Stork and my good friend Lindsey Brookes who wanted a story with Dr Travis, but that's another story.  And for the record he's another gorgeous blond hero who impressed me way much in real life when I met him in 2006. 

I'm married to a dark haired, brown eyed man, but I do appreciate blond & blue-eyes, too.  :)