When the BBC was at full throttle, I asked members for input on a character I was creating for my novel End Man. The character's name was Lennon, but he was a near-double for Bowie. Below is the passage that went into the novel.
“I’m kidding.” Addy tapped a tooth. “What’s your name?” “Raphael Lennon.” “Lennon, huh? You resemble Bowie. I mean the way he looked when he was young, like in the old film. The Man, um, The Man Who Fell to Earth.” He knew what she meant: skinny as hell. Narrow nose, prominent cheekbones. She tilted her head sideways and inspected Raphael up and down. “A jaw line that could cut diamonds.” Raphael shrugged. The legendary rock star was otherworldly handsome, while he was just otherworldly, yet, he got the comparison all the time. He used to feel flattered, then complacent, and now it annoyed him. She rocked her head as she considered him. “Only a little more stretched out. So what do you do?” “I work for Norval—data compilation.” “I think I’ve heard of them. What’s your job?” He swallowed the lump of uncertainty rising in his throat. “Me? I’m an End Man. Necrologist is the technical term.” “End Man, huh? What do they do?” “We, uh, work with the dead.”
“I’m kidding.” Addy tapped a tooth. “What’s your name?”
“Raphael Lennon.”
“Lennon, huh? You resemble Bowie. I mean the way he looked when he was young, like in the old film. The Man, um, The Man Who Fell to Earth.” He knew what she meant: skinny as hell. Narrow nose, prominent cheekbones. She tilted her head sideways and inspected Raphael up and down. “A jaw line that could cut diamonds.”
Raphael shrugged. The legendary rock star was otherworldly handsome, while he was just otherworldly, yet, he got the comparison all the time. He used to feel flattered, then complacent, and now it annoyed him.
She rocked her head as she considered him. “Only a little more stretched out. So what do you do?”
“I work for Norval—data compilation.”
“I think I’ve heard of them. What’s your job?”
He swallowed the lump of uncertainty rising in his throat. “Me? I’m an End Man. Necrologist is the technical term.”
“End Man, huh? What do they do?”
“We, uh, work with the dead.”
By they way, while I continue to seek out a publisher, I've posted chapters on Wattpad, a free, reading site: https://www.wattpad.com/myworks/27785...