We’ve talked about casting actors to play the characters in my books before.  I’ve had all kinds of suggestions for who could play Patience, but I saw Emmy Rossum in the preview for Beautiful Creatures and knew immediately that she would be my new choice.  She looks like how I imagine Patience, and that is because she looks quite a bit like the young lady that I used as a model when I was writing His Robot Girlfriend.  When I think about Patience, I see the tall forehead, the big eyes, and the wide mouth.  That doesn’t sound all that attractive when I say it like that, but you can see that they all go together to make an altogether beautiful woman.  Imagine my surprise when after looking up her name on IMDB, I found out that she is also a singer and I had a couple of her songs in my “Current Faves” playlist the whole time.