A Secret No More

The other day my husband let "the cat out of the bag" to a few people. What cat? 

Well, the one about me writing my very first book. Yup...you saw that right, I said book.

Now, you're probably imagining me writing about the tales of a PTA mom with a gaggle of kids and a couple of crazy dogs, not to mention some incredibly horny sea monkeys. No, that, my friends would be boring compared to the goods I am writing about....

I am writing (drum roll please....dang, I got to get my own late night show) a hot, steamy romance novel. 

Well, maybe just a luke-warm one with a hint of some catch-my-breath action. But goodness give me a break...I got kids who are old enough to read them and the last thing I need is for my son to be asking me...you know, about...the...(cough, cough)...love scenes. WHICH you should only do WHEN you are married as I always preface any type of conversation that involves "love"...including sea monkey love.

Everyone who knows about sea monkeys knows that they get married straight away, right? I mean because they are really loving on each other right now, and my nine year old has got a lot say about that. 

Now, ask my daughter about babies and she says she has to get married to have a baby...good, now we're talking...A to Z. Marriage first, babies much, much later....

Now, let's get back to me shall we? Book...

So here we go, I want share a little about my book which I am still in process writing....and hoping to get out to a few contests in a couple of weeks, and who knows...maybe talk publishing later this year? Maybe another book, by summer...oops, dreaming again....

Okay, so here is the "jist" of my story:

Nightmares have been plaguing Maggie for months.

She is just getting used to having her sight back after fifteen long years of darkness. And, just three months ago, her husband Evan died from Hodgkins Lymphoma, leaving her and Gracie, her three year old daughter, alone. 

Evan had made DVD's for Gracie...to be played during special events in her life. One of those events....meeting her father for the first time. Evan had asked Maggie on his deathbed to promise him that she would tell Gracie's father the truth and give them the opportunity to have a relationship.

She finds out she needs to go to Fair Port Harbor to do that...

Garrett has come home to Fair Port Harbor, a small island off of Maine. He has taken over the Harbor Medical Clinic and is trying to offer the island's citizens some more clinical and trauma services. It has been his quest ever since...that day fifteen years ago. That day changed not only a beautiful young girl's life, but his too.

Garrett is constantly haunted by the memories of a night of passion between him and Maggie which they shared after the death of her best friend and his sister four years ago. A night where they lost themselves and their pain from Emily's death to each other...but the next day she was gone, with a note that said the night had been a mistake, asking that he forget it ever happened...

The journey back means different things to both of them...but to both, it is a journey where they will both have renewed vision.

So want to know what happens? Like what character says "boom-chicka-wow-wow" (thanks Phil)? Or how the Beatles songs play a role?

Stay tuned....

This book will spawn (talking "love" again) three additional books (naming it the Fair Port Harbor Series), one with Eleanor and Billy, Lucy and Logan, and Matty and ? (name TBA)...

Top This Letterman...

Letterman always does his "Top Ten" lists...and to be honest, they aren't that funny to me. I love to laugh too, and want to so bad when he does them! I try really hard, I devote my full attention to them, lean in close to the TV and mull over each one...but I still don't get them. I even give myself a little "pre-laugh primer"...I watch Jay Leno for a little bit to warm up my laugh muscles. (Only kidding Mr. Letterman...)

Now, I have always wanted to do a "Top Ten" list like Letterman (don't ask me why, I don't know)....but unlike Letterman, I hope my Top Ten of 2010 gives your laugh muscles a bit more of a workout...(if you don't laugh, please don't go and blog about how "not funny" my list was, it will hurt my feelings and probably end up on my Top Ten of 2011)...

So, you all ready? Let's do this....

10.  Lady Ga-Ga's meat costume...She really got beef'd up! (har, har, har...) Seriously, she got "fried" for that (get it, fried?), but I give her props...I would be thinking E-coli the whole time, not to mention the fact that the meat had to start smelling...Blah...Good thing this is not one of those scratch-n-sniff blogs...

9.  Saw XXVVIII (Saw 28)....in case you want to lose your dinner and your date, take her to see a Saw movie. I can't even watch the first few minutes of them....not sure what scares me the most, that this can happen or that someone keeps thinking up ways to torture people or the people that are entertained by these movies. Hmmm...all of them? Some of my closest friends (got to keep them as friends, if you know what I mean...) are Saw fanatics...

8.  Jessie the Jerk...Need I mention a last name? Who the heck cheats on Sandra Bullock? He obviously doesn't deserve her...The Outlaw should be Outlaw'd...Oh, Sandy...(say it with a John Travolta voice from Grease...go ahead, OOOh, Sandy...)...There is only one team...Team Sandy.

7. Lucky number seven...Josh Taylor's Christmas Lights. We don't have money for food to feed our kids, but dang, our Christmas lights look sic! (Sic is not misspelled, it actually doesn't even mean under the weather, but in 2010 it means "good" or "uber good"....)

6.  Roots are okay to show...not the roots in the ground, my friends, or the book "Roots", but the "my hair isn't really blonde" roots. So apparently the fad of going to get your hair colored every 4-6 weeks so you actually "look" like a natural blonde is out of style...it is now cool to show the world that you are indeed a brunette in disguise. Hmmm, so I guess I should have laughed when my daughter asked me why my hair was black and blonde and not run to the phone to call the salon to get my "do" adjusted....Take a look at Drew Barrymore...rock on sista! Embrace your roots...all of them!!!

5. Electric Cars....not sure when these bad boys actually surfaced, but in 2010, I saw a few around town, here in tiny old Stow, Ohio! Now, every time I see them, I imagine two things (not in any particular order)...first, I imagine the owners feet protruding from the bottom making the tiny car go--like the Flinstones. The second thing I imagine is that I am running next to the Flinstonemobile and actually beating it...and I ain't that fast of a runner! Well, at least they make me smile every time I see them....

4.  Quitness... yea, you knew it was coming, I bet you thought it was going to be number one...but sheesh, I am not that much of a sports fan. I could get carpal tunnel syndrome just by naming all the jokes associated with Lebron James...so I won't go there. Okay, maybe just one...Why did Lebron head down South? Because his mother went West! (And I say this with the utmost respect to the West family...)

3.  Hugh Hefner engaged to a 24 year old hottie....The man is like one day older than dirt! Like is Viagra even strong enough for that. It makes me get the heebie jeebies just thinking about it. It is also making my husband think he is going to be able to get a 24 year old hottie when he is ancient...keep dreaming honey! I don't get it...but I won't spend too much time trying....

2.  Ooooh, we're getting close to numero uno....the runner-up is: The Gulf of Mexico oil spill...I heard about it all summer long, shared my concern with the folks down in Florida and the lower 48....now I can't even find out how they fixed it, or did they? Whatever happened to it? Is the oil contained...someone let me know! What about the birds, and the turtles...how are they doing? I get more information on Britney Spears love life than I do on this issue...

1. The number one Top Ten of 2010 is (drum roll please...oh wait, I need my own late night show for that...maybe next year!):  Bieber Fever...Baby, Baby, Baby...oh! He started to gain popularity in the end of 2009, but exploded to superstar status in 2010.....and is now a household name! I got the Bieber Fever too, is that wrong? Hey, I am not as old as Hefner...okay?

Well, there it is...my "Top Ten" list of 2010...hope you got a few laughs from it. 

Let's hope 2011 brings some good material and when I mean good, I mean non-tragedy good. I would love some feel-good stories like the Justin Bieber story....a you-tube sensation becomes a huge star. That's what I want more of in 2011!!! 

Oh, and Letterman, your "Top Ten" list can kiss it....