(Blog) Tour of Marsden, Stop 2

A Blogger? As a Main Character? Don’t They Just, You Know, Sit There and Type? It’s the second stop on the (blog) tour of Marsden, NY! We started our trip yesterday at Ripe for Reader (RipeForReader.blogspot.ca). If you’ve just joined us, welcome! If you’ve been on the bus since yesterday, a public service announcement: Please do not bogart the toilet paper rolls. There’s plenty for everyone.
So! Are we read for the next stop? Yes? Great! Today we’re going to talk about Georgiana Down, the main character in Down on Love. She runs her own blog, Down on Love (are we detecting a theme here?), an anti-relationship blog where readers can follow the twists and turns of her love life (or lack thereof), ask for relationship advice, or share their own Tales of Woe—the best/worst dating and relationship horror stories to be found on the intertubes.
What made George decide to be a blogger? Well, she needed a place to let it all out—all her frustrations and eventual disgust with her ex-boyfriend, whom she calls Lucifer (for obvious reasons). She doesn’t have any besties to meet for drinks and sympathy, so she created a virtual diary on the internet.
What she didn’t expect was for other unlucky-in-love Web surfers to find her blog. But they came in droves, and now she’s kind-of-sort-of famous. Readers especially love her snark—if you write to George for advice, she will most likely tell you to “dump his (or her) ass”—as well as her stories of how she managed to escape from, and overcome, an emotionally abusive relationship.
Yes, there’s more to George than snark and bitterness, but she’ll murder you in your sleep if you point that out, so we’ll just keep it on the down low, all right?
By the time she ends up moving back to her hometown of Marsden, she thinks she’s healed, but healed over—as in, nothing is going to get through that impenetrable shell. What she didn’t bargain for was Casey Bowen. She was crazy about him in high school, and damned if she doesn’t feel some of those old feelings many years later.
Check out this little tidbit from George’s blog. And if you’re into it, you can read George’s whole story in Down on Love. Even better, it’s on sale for only 99 cents for the entire month of OctoberDear George,I caught my boyfriend flirting with my cousin at our grandmother’s funeral. What should I do?Love and stuff,Confused
Dear Oblivious,First, my condolences on the loss of your grandmother. Second, dump his ass.Platonic smooches,George
Dear George,I have a ? 4 U. I rly like this gurl and I think she lieks me sum, but Im not shure. How can I find out? I want 2 ask her 2 a dance soon.Worried
Dear LOLcat or Prince, but probably LOLcat,I have no idea what you’re saying. If I read you right, then my advice is to go ahead and ask her out. But don’t be surprised if she dumps your ass. Oh, wait. I should respond in your native tongue:
Dear LOLcat,WTF? Srsly? Yr ded.Kthxbai,George
Do you have a nightmare of a relationship story? What was your worst date? Who was your “what was I thinking” guy/gal? Do tell!
Next stop, tomorrow (Wednesday, October 15): Tometender.blogspot.com! See you there!


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ITUNES: http://bit.ly/10pNIpi
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Jayne Denker divides her time between working hard to bring the funny in her romantic comedies and raising a young son who's way too clever for his own good. She lives in a small village in western New York that is in no way, shape, or form related to the small village in her Marsden novels Down on Love and Picture This. When she's not hard at work on another novel, the social media addict can usually be found frittering away startling amounts of time on Facebook (Jayne Denker Author) and Twitter (@JDenkerAuthor). She’d like to say she updates her Web site, http://jaynedenker.com, quite often, but most of the time when it crosses her mind, she shouts “Can’t you see I’m writing?!” and puts it off till another day.