Romance Authors Dish on Which Hot Celebrity Men Inspire Their Writing

Updated on 9/23/2015 at 8:30 PM

Christina Lauren is the combined pen name of longtime writing partners/besties/soulmates/brain twins Christina Hobbs and Lauren Billings, the New York Times, USA Today, and No. 1 international bestselling authors of the Beautiful Bastard and Wild Seasons series, Sublime, and The House (out Oct. 6). Their latest book, Dark Wild Night, just published Sept. 15. You can find them online on their official website, Facebook, Twitter, and at XOXO After Dark.

We rarely look at a celebrity and say, "Whoa, that dude is 100 percent [fill in the blank for current male protagonist]," but we do find inspiration from the bounty of pretties that fill our Tumblr dashboard. (Honestly, may God and Beyoncé bless Tumblr.) Tumblr is like pizza delivery but with hot guys instead of carbs and on the Internet instead of your actual house.

Which . . . let's be real, is probably for the best.

So here goes our list of Dudes That Definitely Inspire Us to Write Sexy Stuff.

Stephen Amell

Not only is Mr. Amell gorgeous, but he was on Lo's flight from Atlanta to LAX and she will testify in court that he was just as nice in person as he seems online. A nice guy and all those muscles, too? Not fair. We're not even sure all that flexing is legal.

Robbie Amell

It's clear that good looks are in this family's DNA because Robbie is every bit as hot as his cousin Stephen. We love love loved him in The Duff and can't wait to see what else he does. We'll just leave this here for your consideration (and by "consideration," of course, we really mean "ogling").

Sam Claflin

We've loved Sam Claflin since the first time we saw his dimple in Pirates of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides. We nearly lost it when he played Finnick in Catching Fire, but when we found out he would be Will Traynor in Me Before You which just happens to be ONE OF OUR FAVORITE NOVELS OF ALL TIME??? *lights candle* Our poor fangirl hearts nearly imploded.

We will never make it out of that movie alive. Nope, never. RIP CLo is anticipated June 2, 2016.

Tom Hardy

OK, there are about a thousand reasons why Tom Hardy inspires our writing mojo (face, abs, smile, Mad Max and the fact that he laughed and was completely unapologetic about an old MySpace pic of him in his tighty-whities), but he's got a puppy kissing him in this pic and that pretty much destroys anything coherent we could type here, anyway.

Charlie Hunnam

Sons of Anarchy might be over but BLESS that the Internet lives on. Is there anyone alive that doesn't think this man is gorgeous? We know there were mixed opinions when he was cast as Christian Grey, but we think he would have knocked it out of the park and were shaking our pom-poms for him. We mean, we were definitely shaking something. Here, have some muscles!

Henry Cavill

So everyone knows that Henry Cavill is a work of art. We agree he is very, very pretty. (And muscly. And tall. And British. And he talked about getting boners in an interview. What? Anyway.) The thing is, one doesn't exactly realize just know exactly HOW pretty he is until one sees him on screen. You know, actually moving. When we first watched the Tudors, and then Man of Steel, and then The Man from U.N.C.L.E. . . . we needed a moment. Or five.

Harry Styles

We can't let a list go by without mentioning Harry Styles, because not only is he gorgeous and adorable and talented, he also has a heart of gold. We'll fight anyone who disagrees. Harry brings rainbow flags on stage in support of LGBQT fans and equality, he checks in with parents of small children in the audience to see if they need ear protection, he finds the dads in the crowd and makes sure they're having a good time. We almost lost it when he pulled a fan's poster on stage and corrected it, changing HARRY YOUR NICE to HARRY YOU'RE NICE.

GOOD GRAMMAR IS VERY IMPORTANT TO US, OK? And dimples. Dimples are very important, too. And thighs. And biceps. And flowing hair. And . . .