The real Richard Castle as an author Ask Question. Asked 6 years, 10 months ago. Active 10 months ago. Viewed 5k times. Improve this question. MycrofD MycrofD 3 3 silver badges 7 7 bronze badges. I am pretty sure the books in the TV show are just props. Yes, they released Nikki Heat books after the show became popular, but in your question it's not really clear if you are talking about them, or the actual books shown in the show?
Books with the same titles are available for purchase online. So I am asking about the authors of those books that are available for us.
I had the best of both worlds: blockbuster sales plus work I was deeply proud of. Did I dare spin in my chair and put things right for these two strangers? But I was afraid of messing with karma, and let it go. The very next day I was in a bookstore and wanted to buy a copy of Heat Wave for a friend. They were sold out. In writing the Nikki Heart novels, Straw had to follow certain guidelines, to a point. Castle creator Andrew W. Marlowe set out a foundation of characters and the world they lived in.
It freed me to create my own plot, which I pitched to Andrew at that first meeting, and he accepted. At the same time, [I could] poach some of the rich jewels he had mined in the series. Never the same plots or events. The fun was in the wink. It was about taking the Castle TV reality and bending it 20 degrees. Dammit, I was his spin doctor! And loved every moment. But too often these novelizations were more gimmick than substance. But each Nikki Heat novel had a solid plot.
Writing, for me, is a calling. I love storytelling, have a blast doing it, and am honored to make a living at it. Even decades later, Castle still gets choked up as he recounts the story.
Richard also claims to have been kicked out of New York's finer academic institutions at least once. In his junior year of high school, Richard had a sweet girlfriend named Lizzie, whom he broke up with.
Over the years, Castle was kicked out of many private schools. One of the most memorable was Faircroft Preparatory Academy where he spent more time outside the principal's office and in detention then he did in class.
He eventually got expelled for putting a cow on the roof of the school which required a crane to remove. Many others took part in the prank, but Castle didn't have the wealth or connections that they did so he was the only one who got expelled. When asked where he got the cow years later, he only says that he knows a guy who can get him one.
He also got expelled right before prom which he regrets as he had a date with a beautiful girl. During his first year of college, Rick fell in love with a girl named Allison at a party, but never saw her again, even though he spent a year trying to find her. He still thinks of her often.
During his college writing career, he has held the Old Haunt in high regard, seeing it as the legendary pub with the aura that helps him write. He wrote his first book, In a Hail of Bullets , in a stall in the bar. A photo of him was since then hung on the wall of fame over the booth. In a Hail of Bullets was first rejected multiple times before Black Pawn finally published his book. Soon enough, it became a bestseller.
Apparently, he blew through all the money he got from his book in a matter of just six months. Also, he kept his first rejection letter and had it framed in his home office as a reminder and for motivation. Rick then embarks on a relationship with Kyra Blaine , Castle's apparently first true love. Although Kyra's parents strongly disapprove of Castle's relationship with their daughter, their relationship goes on for three years until Kyra decided she needed space and went to London.
She apparently expected Rick to follow her, but he never did. It is evident that even years after their last encounter, they still harbor feelings for each other. Richard with young Alexis. After college, Richard met Meredith , an impulsive and free-spirited actress.
Richard suggests that he married the red-headed Meredith because she reminded him of his mother. After their whirlwind romance, they have Alexis and get married. A little into the marriage, Meredith cheated on him with her director and moved to Malibu before asking for a divorce between them. Richard gained custody of Alexis, due to her mother's spontaneous lifestyle, and has since been raising her while Meredith travels, looking for her next career ventures, and occasionally visits to stir up trouble as Richard's deep-fried twinkie, a guilty pleasure who is over-all bad for him.
Meredith thinks of Richard as a "deliciously sweet souffle" but says sooner or later souffle always fall. Although they had both agreed to no nannies, she did have the occasional babysitter, one in particular is Rina. While writing his Derrick Storm series, he shadowed Sophia Turner , a covert operative for the CIA and his first muse ever that became the basis for the character, Clara Strike.
Their relationship began much like how his and Beckett's began apparently, filled with tension and immediate intense attraction. After months of fighting the urge, the two give in eventually, but the relationship barely lasts as they realize that the only thing that could have held them together was the tension that was keeping them apart in the first place.
Sophia stated that she wished she had never slept with him so that they could have at least kept that longing. Even after the breakup though, the pair still somehow cared for each other. Eventually, Rick meets Gina Cowell , his book publisher and former agent. Martha introduced them. The divorce settlement was costly for Castle.
Meanwhile, as a family man, Richard Castle has proven himself to be a great father and son to the beloved women in his life: his daughter Alexis, who, due to her own evident maturity, acts like the parent among the duo, and his mother Martha, who Richard takes in after she is swindled by her recent ex-husband.
They currently live in his large loft apartment at Broome Street in Soho. Castle also plays regular poker games with fellow best-selling authors James Patterson , Stephen J. Cannell , Dennis Lehane and Michael Connelly. He is also good friends with the mayor, Robert Weldon , who, because of their friendship and Robert's love for Castle's books, often heeds Castle's many requests. Evidently, Richard Castle gained universal acclaim as a mystery writer for his Derrick Storm books, amongst his 26 bestsellers, and as a rich socialite known for his parties and rather wild lifestyle.
In , Richard Castle was arrested for disorderly conduct and resisting arrest. During the incident, he stole a police horse while he was naked. The charges were dropped because of his friendship with the Mayor. Castle recalls it as a "fun night. At one point just before the series began , Richard realizes that he no longer enjoys writing about Derrick and he kills him off, thus ending his "Storm" book series, resulting in several disapproving comments among his readers and peers, many of them stating that he could have just crippled Storm instead of killing him.
During the party celebrating the launch of Castle's latest Derrick Storm novel, his publisher, Gina, pressures him with a deadline for his next book. As much as he tries to hide and deny it, Rick was suffering from writer's block. Coincidentally, a 'copy-cat' killer begins murdering people based on the way Rick's victims are killed in his books.
This draws the attention of the NYPD Department, particularly Detective Kate Beckett, a reader of his novels who immediately noticed the pattern, so they interrogate him.
This, however, sparks the curiosity of Rick, who then decides that he wants to be involved with the case since the killer is copying deaths from his books. After the wrong suspect is arrested, Rick is still convinced that he can figure out who the true killer is, so he steals police evidence, which gives Kate permission to arrest him for a while. Rick's theories, however, begin to make sense to Kate and she begins reinvestigating, with Rick following her again.
After somehow helping solve the case, he continues to be intrigued by Kate Beckett. Using his friendship with the Mayor, he is given permission by Captain Roy Montgomery to shadow Kate for research on his new series of novels about a new detective based almost entirely on Beckett, except a sluttier version with a "stripper name" Beckett does not approve of: Nikki Heat.
Eventually, after Castle's theories and stories begin to become helpful, she, along with the two other detectives on her team, Detectives Ryan and Esposito, begins to consider Castle as sort of her partner and a consultant for the police, although he chooses not to help with paperwork. For the first few months, the partnership is often strained by Castle's habit of taking police evidence, or at least pictures of them, and his luck in personally encountering the suspects and sneaking in behind breaching teams, even after Beckett constant ordering him to remain behind.
More than once, his attempts to follow them have played a part in the jeopardizing a bust. Despite this, Castle's familiarity with numerous obscure subjects has allowed him to continue working with Detective Beckett on what are classified as "unusual" homicides, Castle often being able to provide further assistance and information about the current case due to his wide range of contacts assembled during his writing career and the research he has carried out during that time.
He and Beckett also began thinking in sync; they both tend to call out a theory at the same time and finish each other's sentences. Although Beckett must often step in to stop him from getting carried away with his theories when they threaten to obscure the search for the facts, his writing career has given him a knack for noting minor details in the situations they investigate. Alexis and even Martha somehow play a part in helping Rick solve some cases. When he gets stuck, Alexis and Martha sometimes throw in some ideas for Rick, sometimes even unknowingly, which in turn gives him clues or new paths to follow in a case.
At one point, after realizing how bad the precinct coffee is, Richard buys the station an espresso machine, which everyone loved.
When his last Derrick Storm novel, Storm Fall, is finally released, Martha is skeptical about how the book will do. She makes it her duty to search for early reviews on the book and check if anyone is buying them, particularly looking for bad news, and she passes these on to Rick, who is slightly affected, until Alexis reads to him a great review of his book from The Ledger. On his reading and book signing, he is even more reassured to find that his book was a hit.
However, Meredith announces that she wants to move back to New York for good to be with her family again. Sadly, her ex-husband and daughter are not as happy as she is about her decision because as much as they love her, they know that kind of woman Meredith can be, so they prefer loving her at a distance. Martha, who like Meredith is a struggling actress, finds out that Meredith was going to try Broadway since she was no longer getting other offers, which is the reason why she is moving back to New York.
Richard, hoping to help all of them in the situation, invests in an indie feature film that was willing to offer Meredith a role, which she takes so she moves back to L. Eventually, Richard begins to worry about his daughter, especially when she begins telling her about a boy she liked. Richard then begins opening up to Beckett about his worries about Alexis, and Beckett in turn gives him advice about how to handle the issues.
At one point, particularly in A Death in the Family, when he meets Alexis' date to the Junior-Senior Prom, Owen, Castle planned on scaring the boy with a costume but with his daughter and mother's warnings, he ends up not being able to carry out the scare and just videotapes them as they leave for prom. And instead of being a normal, worried parent, Richard trusts his daughter and even demands that she have fun like other kids should.
On several occasions, Rick's contacts prove helpful and surprising to his group of friends in the precinct. One particular in this season is Sal Tenor, his connection with the mafia who he had met when he was still doing research for his Derrick Storm novels. As Beckett and Castle spend more time together, layers of their personality begin to unravel between the two. Castle sees more of Beckett's sensitive side, especially when it comes to the way she relates with the families of the murder victims.
When she finally decides to tell Castle about the unsolved death of her mother, Castle, being the curious man he is, asks Esposito for a copy of her mother's files and starts a quiet investigation of his own. Richard calls on the help of Dr. Clark Murray, a forensic pathologist he often went to for advice on the deaths in his books, to see if there was anything the previous medical examiners may have missed.
Later, he comes back to report his findings to Castle, saying that there was something he saw that the original medical examiner seemed to have overlooked. He told him that the file concluded that the stab wounds were random, but he noticed that there was one stab to the kidney that was precisely twisted inside that killed her, and that the other stab wounds are for show.
Looking into other files, Clark saw that there were three other stabbings with the similar method around that time that the ME also dismissed as random. Not wanting to hide it from her if it could lead to her mother's killer, Castle tells Beckett, despite her warnings that if Castle meddled further into her past, particularly her mother's death, their little 'partnership' is over.
In the season two premiere, "Deep in Death", it is obvious that Rick's decision to touch the death of Beckett's mom created a huge barrier between them, and Rick seemed to have kept his distance, but Kate has no choice, but to continue putting up with him, especially when the mayor has them more committed to their deal when a Cosmopolitan article about Rick's new book, Heat Wave, and the involvement of the NYPD offers good press and publicity for the police for a change.
Just then, a murder occurs and the two are forced back into action as they are shadowed by the journalist still covering their story. Richard apologizes to Kate for the disturbance and, when Kate keeps up with her bitter responses, reminds her that she should not be so angry at him since he did discover something on her mother's murder, but she shrugs this all off.
It is evident that Lanie is aware of what Castle did and is siding with Kate, until she finds out that Castle found something wrong in her mother's file. And while Esposito and Ryan know, they choose not to choose sides and just content themselves with laughing by the sidelines. After the body is stolen in Castle and Lanie's presence, Beckett agrees to let Castle work that one last case with them, and that he will leave her alone after that.
He agrees, but he also adds that he will most likely let her change her mind. Not having his own name on the books freed him up to try new things and to delve deeper into the romantic suspense genre that he wanted to pursue in his own writing. Macie is defending a client who is charged with committing a murder in the course of his work with a burglary ring.
The novel shows us that in New York a defense attorney frequently does not get access to the evidence against his or her client until right before the trial. Everyone is looking for a point of entry into a story, who they will be rooting for.
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