Hey Folks,
In true do-it-herselfer mode, I stumbled upon ways and means to create my own bookcovers two days ago and have been madly designing ever since. Love Quest is due for release as of June 21st (right in time to get your summer love jones on).
Cover No. 1
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MEET DIVINE: female, thirty-seven, slaphappy, young at heart, self-employed; an online newbie, living in New York. She is fresh out of a long-term relationship and has completed the two-year mandatory wound-licking I-hate-men mourning period. Unfortunately for Divine, someone neglected to inform her that dating has been upgraded to new millennium level. But maybe she shouldn’t worry…hemlines aren’t the only things that have gone up.
Thirty-somethings are premium dating material now… at least for the twenty-year-olds … Divine’s experiences are the basis for the story I call Age Is Just a Number, a lens through which to view the world of online dating.
This book (or “blook” as it has been recently coined)is based heavily on my blog Age Is Just a Number, which was created to recount an extraordinary two-year span of my life. Due to my hectic work schedule and doubts about the feasibility of readership, project AIJAN ground to a halt after a mere two episodes.
9:35 p.m., Saturday, March, 2003
It was surely cold out there today! March isn’t called the windy month for nothing. In between chasing books that took to flight like birds I pictured myself somewhere hot, warm, humid even. Needless to say, business was slower than usual.
6:00 a.m., Saturday, March, 2003
Considering the fact that I love to sleep and needed to set up my bookstand in two hours, pulling an all-nighter probably wasn’t one of my brighter ideas–but it was oh so gratifying. When I felt saturated enough to tear myself away from the internet profiles, I decided (like there was really a decision to be made) to set up a profile of my own so that some of those godly men out there could find me.
“Age is just a number.” Is it really that simple?
Divine’s journey of self-discovery is an often humorous, sometimes unbelievable and at times achingly sad recounting of her shell shock upon reentering the world of dating after a fourteen year absence. Along this journey she discovers online dating websites, IM’s and chat rooms. As she writes in her journal, she reveals her bewilderment as she tries to navigate the new “dating rules” that allow twenty year olds to feel emboldened enough to approach thirty-seven year olds, with the line “age is just a number.”