Okay there are two E ticket rides in my life right now. Both monster roller coasters. The first one is every time I get into my husband’s SUT I hold on for dear freaking life. The fact that he is Bondurant trained and has the dominant Tony Stewart gene of aggressive driving gives me no succor. My blood pressure literally goes up every time we leave our safe little gated community (where he can’t go more than 20pmh, or god forbid I drive). Hubby has been retired for a few years, but he still thinks he’s in a damn patrol car and can go fast, and weave, and cut, and hell, drive me crazy!

I have boycotted driving with him. He hides my keys and tells me to walk. My idea of going to the grocery store is not an E ticket ride. He will never change. That said, we were headed out of town last month and had not Tony Stewart Jr. been on his game I would not be here to type this. My instinct in the situation we found ourselves in, a dumb ass kid cutting right into us, would have been to brake, and braking would have allowed the dumbass to slam into us at 50 mph as well as the tractor trailer behind us.

Hubby didn’t flinch. He hit the gas and expertly maneuvered us out of a sure crash. After he called the little asshole every rotten name in the book, he gave me that look that said, “There, don’t tell me how to drive anymore.” I was in quiet awe. It’s wearing off though.

So the second roller coaster ride in my life is this publishing business. Just when I am stressing at my worst, wondering how I will ever have a decent sell through, I get an email from my agent Tuesday morning. In the subject line: OH MY GOD!

I open the email thinking whoo-hoo she sold my historical for a million bucks! (hey a girl can dream) but no, she tells me an excerpt of my September release GOOD GIRL GONE BAD is going to be featured in the November issue of COSMO-effing-POLITAN!

So, now I’m not so worried about sell through. Now I’m worried about, okay, so what if after reading my excerpt people want to immediately go buy my book? Will they still be in stores? Or does my publisher anticipate a bit of a run and print more? What if when the people go to buy my book and it isn’t there, they shrug and say, oh well. And I lose the sale? Talk about an E ticket ride.

Okay, now that I have shared, I wanted to do something fun. Jake had a funny post the other day over at her place. She asked her readers to give boats, horses, and rock bands names. The responses were great. My contribution was Fore Play for a boat. So, I was thinking, how about if we came up with off the wall titles, and log lines to go with them.

Example: Title: THE KAMA SUITCASE Log line: Sex in the City meets Frommer’s Travel Guide. Okay, admittedly my mind is in the gutter, and that was a little lame, but you get my drift. There is a prize for the most original (not sure what it is) title and log line. But anything goes.