Karma Deception and a Pair of Red Ferraris
by Elaine Taylor
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Pub Date May 05 2015 | Archive Date Sep 14 2015
Smith Publicity | Warm2wardU Publishing, LLC
Description
What if she was right?
As a teen mom, already ass-branded by one husband both domineering and dense as meat locker beef, Elaine stutter-stepped to independence via jobs typing letters and dialing phones for a series of mouth-breathers who believed a woman’s place was under the desk, spit-shining their assets. A couple of decades later she had, by god, scratched out a role in the corporate testicle festival where she earned fat, man-size paychecks. But her personal life was a dispiriting trail of relationship roadkill, her heart as tough as armadillo hide. Her one faithful love walked on four legs and woofed for his breakfast.
Desperate for a peek at her future Elaine consulted an astrologer-psychic. Allie B fanned out her Tarot cards, did her California woo-woo thing and prophesied unimaginable love.
Enter Jake Kingston. Internationally acclaimed surgeon with a 100-acre ranch in the wine country, two Ferraris in his several garages, and enough love-life failures to make them as compatible as a Brazilian wax and a can of whip cream.
Was Jake the key to the love she sought? Yes. But in a way no one ever could have foreseen.
KARMA DECEPTION and a Pair of Red FERRARIS: A Memoir is Elaine’s spiritual journey to believing herself worthy of love. A journey that involves a karmic pact with a lover who broke her heart, a dumpster dive into the hurts and betrayals of the past; and, finally, finding the courage to open her heart and give the kind of love she so yearned to receive.
With her sassy, Lone Star attitude and a combination of raw, honest insight and self-deprecating humor, Elaine Taylor will have you laughing out loud as often as she breaks your heart.
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Advance Praise
KARMA, DECEPTION, and a Pair of RED FERRARIS is a fast, fun, rewarding journey. One wise-ass line and sharp observation leads to another until you find the story pulling you on--not where you expect it to take you, but to someplace raw and real and heart-changing. Gerard Jones, author of Men of Tomorrow
Everyone searches for love. In KARMA DECEPTION and a Pair of Red FERRARIS, Elaine Taylor tells what she had to do to find it. With a sassy, Lone Star attitude and a combination of raw, honest insight and self-deprecating humor, her story will have you laughing out loud as often as it breaks your heart. Her ultimate discovery—that we cannot find love until we believe ourselves worthy of it—just may be the key to finding the love we all yearn to invite into our lives. Martha Alderson, author of The Plot Whisperer
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Author Bio:Elaine Taylor is a former IT headhunter and Contingent Workforce Management consultant to Fortune 500 companies. She previously served on the Board of Raphael House, a shelter for homeless families in San Francisco. She teaches Story Structure through OLLI at Duke University in North Carolina, where she lives with her husband and two highly indulged Weimaraners.
Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9780990824022 |
| PRICE | $22.95 (USD) |
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Featured Reviews
angela c, Reviewer
I absolutely adored this book. I could not get enough of it and hated when it ended. I would have loved to hear more of her story, after her journey of self-discovery. It was a little hard to follow when she is doing flashbacks of her life with Mick, but as the book went on I was glad she did as it allows the reader to understand how she went from Point A to Point B. I can't wait to read more by this author.
Bev B, Reviewer
This is a lovely read. Warm, witty, and full of self-deprecating humor, this is a memoir well done.
Even though I found myself shaking my head, disagreeing with Elaine Taylor’s take on life and its meaning, nevertheless I was more than interested in her telling of it. Most people think they have a remarkable life, some actually do, few can really write well about it. This is a rare exception. The story and the telling (which had a lot of showing, rather than telling) were delightful, insightful and entertaining.
You won’t regret the time you spend reading this one.
Kimberly F, Media/Journalist
One of the most delightful books I have read in awhile! You immediately fall in love with Elaine Taylor and her witty charm. A true, raw story of someone who comes from a life splattered with negativity and disappoint and conquers all of her fears to the fairytale ending.
Schuyler W, Reviewer
Elaine Taylor considers her book, “Karma Deception and a Pair of Red Ferraris,” to be creative nonfiction. I’m not sure how she means that, but creative to me means artistic, innovative, and inventive and a lot of other adjectives (see your thesaurus), all of which she abundantly displays. Her life is laid out for all to see and is described in superb writing that resonates with passion. Few books have grabbed my attention with such tenacity.
Taylor is a Texas girl with an attitude. Her childhood was unpleasant, to say the least, but she knows her mind, is resolute in finding her own way, and is unyielding in her convictions. In other words, she’s stubborn. She has chosen a personal journey that clambers over a childhood of frustration, three husbands who are only interested in their personal gratification, displaying a smart mouth and bawdy behavior in her travels. As I read on, I couldn’t imagine how she would ever resolve her inner turmoil and find a life that would calm her demons.
Her story is intense and filled with unbecoming conduct that, frankly, only a strong person would dare reveal. She does so openly with a wisecracking demeanor that makes the reader both cringe and laugh while, at the same time, her lyrical language showcases her tenacity and resolve. We travel with Taylor through both joyful periods of inspiration and self-esteem and episodes of depression and self-destruction that include a half-hearted suicide attempt. It’s a roller coaster that never slows to let her off and we’re along for the ride.
Her bad choices include a decision to continue a relationship with man number four, a doctor whose idea of foreplay is a surprise gynecological exam before their first coupling. She rationalizes it as something a doctor would do, considering all the bad things that go on “down there.” It turns out to be an educational, if not always comfortable, liaison.
The author has her champions who hand out advice and prophesies even as they cringe at her continued bad choices. Consider her psychic, both sagacious and enigmatic, who assures her that “when she is ready” she will be blessed with the kind of love she seeks. Of course she ignores the positive forecast and plows ahead on her pernicious course. It is not until Taylor totally surrenders her destructive self-absorbing behavior that she finds what she is desperately seeking.
Few writers can get around their egos enough to produce a truly absorbing biography. Taylor’s retrospective has nasty tentacles to evade as she struggles in a undertow for a love she can live with, and she has no qualms about displaying her underwear along the way. She is, in a way, a shameless reporter; also a brave one.
This is a must read for those of us who need reassurance that we can conquer life’s struggles. Taylor is our light and shows us how to make it shine.
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