Who Challenged Whom?

I've noticed I start a lot of my blog entries with the phrase "If you're my friend on Facebook...". Here's the thing: my Facebook page is my personal page. It's not a fan page because, seriously, I'm just me. If someone says something about "an author", I still look around to see who they're talking about, and am surprised when I realize they mean me. So anyway, if you're my friend on Facebook, you know I'm pretty much an open book. You have also most likely figured out I'm a disgustingly positive person. When I wake up each morning, I'm certain that something amazing will happen. But even I was ... well, amazed when I woke up a few days ago to some messages on Twitter.

See, "they" tell me I should follow other authors on Twitter in order to promote my work. But I've discovered that I really do hate self-promotion. Sure, I'll tweet when I release a new book or story, and I'll tweet when I run free promos on Amazon. But that's it. Many Most other authors on Twitter, however, seem to have one or two tweets, which they roll out over and over. Those tweets consist of, basically, "I wrote a book" and "Please buy my book". If I'm following you, I know you wrote a book. Anyway, authors can be a surprisingly boring group, considering that most of us have random characters walking around in our heads most of the time. So I only follow a handful of authors. Instead, I follow musicians, specifically, Red Dirt artists. One of those musicians is a guy named Chris Perry (no, not the rapper).

I can't even remember how I "found" Chris on Twitter - I actually think he followed me first, which says something about him (you can decide exactly what it says). I give him a hard time about his questionable taste in sports teams and a few other things, but he's a pretty great guy. I'm even FB friends with his wife now (she's a photographer - I'll give you the link to both their pages at the end).

Now we have to backtrack some. Remember a few weeks ago (months? I'm not sure), when I was so excited that one of my favorite artists gave me permission to use the lyrics of one of his songs? It's one of my favorite songs, and it just seemed to fit L'Amour and Delaney's story. Well, I mentioned it to Chris, went to bed, and didn't think anything more about it. I woke up the next morning to discover Chris had propositioned me. Not like that, we're both happily married. No, he wanted me to "challenge" him (although, I'm not sure who challenged whom, to be honest). He wanted me to give him a story line and he'd write a song for it.

Well, let me tell you, friends, I did a little happy dance while I brushed my teeth. When my husband came upstairs with my coffee - because he's amazing and brings me coffee every morning - he thought I'd lost my mind. I was beyond excited - still am, actually. So I presented Chris with two possibilities, and he immediately picked one. Within a few hours, he'd emailed me a chorus. So now I'm working madly on a story that has rattled around my head for years.

Now I can't wait to hear the song, and I can't wait to finish the story and I'm still just stupid excited about this project. Can you tell? I think this venture could open up new avenues and fans for both of us, but mostly, I'm just flattered and excited (I really need to hit my thesaurus for a word besides excited) about this.

Okay, so enough about the insanity that is me. As promised, here are the links to Chris' page on Reverbnation and Jenna's page.

Jenna's FB page: https://www.facebook.com/HarmonicPhot...

Chris's music can be found at: www.reverbnation.com/chrisperry4

Go look and listen and spread the word. They're both really talented, and I'm so happy I stumbled across them both.