Welcome, Kate Everett, star of Dee Ernst's novel, A slight Change of Plan.
Hello everyone – My name is
Dee Ernst, and I’d like to introduce you all to the main character in my new
book, A Slight Change of Plan,
available this November 19th.
Kate Everett is 50-something, with grown children, and she’s decided
it’s time to start her ‘Second Act’.
That includes moving out of her family home and quitting her job to
change her career path. But what I’d like
to talk about today is her decision to look for someone to share her life with
again.
DE: Hello Kate.
Thanks for stopping in. I hear
you’re about to take the big plunge into dating.
KE: Hi
Dee. Yes, I’ve been a widow for eight
years now, and I finally got tired of coming home to just the dog and the cats.
DE: Good for you!
You must be very excited.
KE: I suppose.
You have to remember that last time I was in the dating pool, people
hung around in bars to find their soul mates.
Things are a lot different now.
DE: Yes, I
guess they are. How is it going?
KE: My
sister convinced me that on-line dating is the way to go. She helped me with my profile, and has really
been pushing – ah - encouraging me. I
was a little put off at first, but I have to say, it has a lot of advantages.
DE: Such as?
KE: Well, you can basically get all the small
talk done in your jammies and slippers.
Sitting in front of that computer screen, chatting back and forth, is
much better than getting all dressed up and driving somewhere to meet somebody
that you know, after five minutes of conversation, you would NEVER consider
dating.
DE: Are you
finding many available men in, well, your age group?
KE: Oh sure, but are they interested in me? Of course not. All
these sixty-year-old men are looking for women young enough to be their
daughters! Why is that? I suppose these poor guys have already been
through menopause with the first wife, so I guess I can’t blame them for not
wanting to go through THAT again! But
honestly – what do they find to talk about?
Or do they talk at all?
DE: But there are lots of success stories out
there, right?
KE: Oh,
yes. In fact, my oldest friend, Cheryl,
is dating three gentlemen that she met on-line.
DE: Three?
That must get complicated.
KE: That was my thought, but apparently she
doesn’t actually spend much time with them in person. She Tweets and texts a lot. All three of them are more like virtual
boyfriends, rather than physical ones.
She calls them her Tamagatchi boyfriends, like those little animated
toys my kids used to have. Of course,
Cheryl is a very unusual person. She’s
always lived in her own little world, and she really likes it there.
DE: How has
your online dating experience been?
KE: I could
tell you a few horror stories, of course.
The week of Daves, for example.
Unbelievable. But I finally met
someone who seems fairly normal, has a sense of humor, and doesn’t live on the
other side of the country.
DE: Sounds
promising.
KE: We’ll see.
DE: You don’t sound very hopeful.
KE: No, he seems nice. Really.
It’s just that I got a wave from an old boyfriend of mine. He’s on the same dating site, and I have a
feeling that things could get complicated.
DE: That sounds kind of exciting, though, to
re-connect with someone after so many years.
KE: That’s
what my sister says. In fact, she
insists that it’s fate, and we were always meant to be together.
DE: And you don’t agree?
KE: If we were meant to be together, then he
shouldn’t have broken up with me in college and broken my heart. He was the one, you know? The guy you planned your whole life
around? The one you never quite got
over?
DE: But
aren’t you curious? Even just a little?
KE: Of course.
Who wouldn’t be?’
DE: This could get very interesting.
KE: Exactly.
Just when I have a nice little plan for the rest of my life, something
like this comes along to shake things up.
Well, everyone, that’s just a
bit of Kate’s story. I hope you’re
interested enough to read A Slight
Change of Plan, and find out how it all turns out!
Website - www.DeeErnst.com
Amazon pre-order link - http://amzn.to/11Xo4VN
Your post is very catching. I like the idea of jumping into the online dating as senior woman and going through the process your interview clearly shows to be amusing, scary, and mabybe a bit heartbreaking. It sounds like a fun read.
ReplyDeleteI think this is one I'll have to add to my reading list. It's sounds really interesting!
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