Romance novelist Jane Porter was recently divorced, 40, and on her own in Hawaii when she met Oahu surf school owner Ty Gurney. That meeting became the start for a novel (Flirting With Forty), a made-for-TV movie (staring Heather Locklear), and a child who is due in May.
“There was this surfer guy walking by — oh, my God!” Porter recalled. “He was tattooed, with a bulldog just above his board shorts. He was very young. He was incredibly good-looking. He was exactly the kind of person I am not attracted to. I was a little afraid of him.” . . . Porter had her novel’s final plot element — the alluring surfer and the dilemma he would present: “Should a woman stay on the road previously traveled? Or be brave enough to follow a road not traveled?”
Apparently, that whole Waikiki beach boy thing still can pay off for everyone involved.
[Link: Seattle Post Intelligencer]
