"I'm A Good Wife…Most of the Time" Refreshed and Launched as E-Book

Author Dorothy Givens Terry relaunches her self-published effort as an e-book on www.amazon.com. End Quote

Washington, DC-MD-VA-WV (1888PressRelease) March 22, 2011 - When Dorothy Givens Terry wrote and self-published "I'm a Good Wife, Most of the Time," in 2005, Twitter was just taking its first chirps and My Space was still king over Facebook, and hardly anybody was using either site for much beyond public navel gazing.

But despite the rapid swoosh forward in technology over the past six years, Terry's says her book - about an African-American woman in the throes of a mid-life crisis who writes about it all in her journal only to have her personal business put on blast via the Internet - has withstood the test of technology and time.

Terry says that rapidly changing technology has prompted her to refresh and launch her book in e-book format on www.amazon.com.

The book is written entirely as journal entries, in the spirit of "Bridget Jones' Diary." Over the span of a year, Shelby Freeman writes of her boredom in a marriage gone stale, her career stagnation, quirky co-workers, her wayward sister, her "angry teen" stepson and his free-spirited mother, her struggles with infertility and her growing attraction to a new, younger co-worker. The bulk of the journal entries mysteriously find their way to the Internet, goes viral and wreaks havoc on Shelby's life. She runs away to escape the intrusion, but quickly finds out that, with the Internet, there is nowhere to hide.

"The story's overarching themes remain basically the same," says Terry, "relationships, mainly, but also how the Internet can almost instantly give anyone their 15 minutes of fame, whether they want it or not!"

Terry says she's made some minor changes to the book, including changing the story's timeframe to the present and updating some pop culture references.

"In my book, Shelby ruminates about Pamela Anderson and her now infamous videotape exposure. And does anyone remember the light saber kid who was secretly recorded brandishing a pretend laser sword only to have the video clip put on the Internet for all to see?" Terry says a quick search on You Tube reveals that the "light saber kid" clip is still out there. And she has added to the book a reference to Kim Kardashian, who rose to fame based entirely on her own videotape exposure.

"It's interesting that the entire Kardashian family has embraced the notoriety of that tape and made millions. I wonder if the light saber kid, an adult now, wishes he had handled his unwanted fame differently. Maybe, instead of dropping out of school, he'd have accepted lucrative endorsement deals, a reality show and bit parts in movies!"

And what about Shelby Freeman in Terry's novel? Does she stopping running and learn to deal with her unwanted fame? Terry says, "You have to read the book to find out!"

"I'm a Good Wife…Most of the Time" is available on www.amazon.com in e-book format. Check out a page from Shelby's journal at http://mysite.verizon.net/resysc92/.

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