mamiller said:
Brendan Carroll had me laughing over the recollection of a time when I sat at a seaside bar in Maine, drinking Allagash beer. Mind you, I didn't even like the taste, but one of my characters drank Allagash all the time. So just to sit there and connect with the character 'in the real world' was what I call a "crossover moment".
Has anyone experienced these? And this is not narrowed down to authors. Readers experience 'crossover moments' when they do something that's habitual of one of their favorite characters.
Well, since you say readers can join in.... I
must say that since the lead female character in Brendan's books is from Texas and seems to be like
me in a parallel universe or something, I don't even know if it is ME or her having the cross-over moment....she has MY personality....my EVERYTHING.....it is so weird, that I decided that I MUST read the entire series to find out how my life will turn out!

I am currnetly on book X (e-book) and can not wait until they are all on Kindle (much easier than lagging around the laptop) A lot, I stress A LOT of times I am in the same situation, and think OMG! This happened to
her in book... WEIRD!!!!!

Even down to a "nick-name" my boss gave me over a year ago... I knew there was a reason I felt strange about it, and recently I found the same name pinned on her in BOOK I as I was checking out the differences in the revised Kindle version and the paperback written around 2000 or something like that! I showed it to my boss and her jaw hit the floor.

I liked that. (I don't particularly care for her)
