My book is out there!

I have finally decided to go the new media route and publish my book, Love Lost on Cloud 9,  in ebook format at Smashwords.com

 

 Let’s say I’m really green, and wanted to save the trees… Yeah. Let’s say that.

Anyway, the story takes place in the 90s. I wrote it a few years ago while I was pregnant with my third. I was experiencing crazy writer’s block on a different project, and just wanted to try something new. I started with a personal experience (the first day of college), created a character similar to myself (though not the same), and set her free to make different decisions than I made when starting out myself.  It was pretty interesting to mix fact and fiction so tightly, and my character, Greer Bennett, ends up taking a wildly different journey than I ever did.

To read a sample or download the entire novel, please visit:

http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/5592

Are the 80s over yet… again?

Is it safe to come out yet? Are the stirrup pants gone… again?

Now, don’t get me wrong; I have enjoyed the latest 80s craze along with my fellow Thirty-somethings. The buffalo check hoodies are even cute, though I just can’t bring myself to sport one. And I’ll never tire of quoting John Hughes movies or singing along to Duran Duran. But I was nine in 1980. I was in high school in the late 80s. It was a time of teen angst and bad hair and even worse fashion decisions. I wasn’t cool, I wasn’t popular, and I certainly wasn’t out partying.

But my twenties, now those were some fun years. The angst was charged with sexual tension and laced with legal booze. You could smoke in a restaurant, and CBGB’s was still a destination for late night road trips to NYC.  College was a world in limbo, old enough to be on my own, but not so old that I was expected to act with much responsibility.  If acting your age is an art form, my twenties were an experiment in surrealism.

So as our current decade draws to a close, and we put the cap on the eighties craze that has finally found its way into discount stores,  I for one am looking forward to a 90s revival. Bring on the flannel.