Tuesday, July 17, 2012

On Tour and a Giveaway: Paula Takes a Risk by Randi M. Sherman

We all hope for a dream life. However, most of us are afraid of overwhelmed to make changes necessary to have a beautiful dream life. This is the reality for the lead character in Paula Takes a Risk by first time author Randi Sherman.

Paula's life is a disaster. She loses her job and boyfriend on the same day, and has no future prospects of plans. Life just isn't working our for her. Having only done what was expected of her, not making any waves, reading celebrity magazines, and believing the dream life is for everyone else but her - she now finds herself lost in her tiny, musty apartment without a clue about what to do.

Life drastically changes for Paula, when she unwittingly drawn into an adventure by her neighbor Larry, who is broke and deep in dept. She naively goes along with his plans and poses as a successful business woman to carry out an elaborate money making scheme. Too deparate, too afraid and too involved to step away, she lives a lie as she takes on a persona of the person she always wanted to be. Paula blossoms as she navigates her way through complex business and social situations until the whole plan starts to unravel. The scheme and lies are uncovered and what happens next will delight the reader.

This is a story that is certain to strike a chord in anyone who is wishing for a way out of their present life, and on to the red carpet of their imagination, but is afraid of making the change. Author Randi Sherman is a funny woman, with a history of stand-up comedy, her humor keeps the reader hooked throughout this witty and entertaining story. She eloquently achieves taking the seemingly mundane experiences of life and turning them into a laugh a minute. ~~ from author's website

My thoughts on Paula Takes a Risk ~~ 

OMG - this author is hilarious. I cracked up just reading the About the Author section at the front of the book. Check this out ~~ 'Randi maintains a trim, well toned body that is cleverly concealed beneath twenty pounds of soft protective layering and she has an appetite of a bird. (By "bird" I mean vulture) Her entire wardrobe consists of black, black and varying degrees of black, except for those items that are covered with lint because she put them through the wash with a tissue. Isn't that a hoot? I knew this was going to be a fun read.

This isn't a very long book, just 116 pages, but it was 116 pages of delight. I know I probably say this quite a lot but this story was very well written (I wouldn't say that if it wasn't) with very likeable characters. The writer has us immediately feeling for Paula, who gets canned at work ~ by her boyfriend/boss ~ who later that day dumps her as his girlfriend. Grrrrrr. What a creep! In both incidences, he accuses her of being boring and uninspiring. She decided to shake things up when a neighbor convinces her to take a chance and changes start to happen in her life. 

The author's sense of humor comes out in the story to make this a very fun read. I loved the book and am glad I got to spend some time in Paula's world. I look forward to seeing what Randi writes next!


Author Bio
Randi Sherman, a native Californian, lives in San Francisco. With her tremendous grasp of the obvious, Randi has always had the ability to find humor in the mundane and share the laughter. She dares to examine and discuss everyday foibles, which obliges people to stop taking themselves too seriously.

Developing characters and writing have been a part of Randi’s life since she was a teenager, umm-mmum-mumm years ago. She spent time performing stand-up comedy at Los Angeles club amateur nights and studied Improvisation in the Bay Area. Realizing that she preferred having an income, living indoors and eating regularly, she reluctantly put her dreams on hold and entered the corporate world, yet never left behind her sense of humor and creative storytelling ability, skills which were not always appreciated during budget and strategy meetings.

Now, after living indoors for a while and eating, albeit too much, her book, Paula Takes a Risk is here. Randi’s unique wit, writing style and candor will surely make the reader sit up, stand up, roll over or assume an interested leaning position and take notice.

Randi would never claim to have a genius IQ, the body of a super model or always have the right thing to wear. However, she can spell the words, “smart” and “supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.” Randi maintains a trim, well-toned body that is cleverly concealed beneath twenty pounds of soft protective layering and she has the appetite of a bird. (By “bird” I mean vulture.) Her entire wardrobe consists of black, black and varying degrees of black, except for those items that are covered with lint because she put them through the wash with a tissue.

Things that Randi cannot live without: people to laugh with, her car horn, a gym membership where there are chubby women who break into a sweat while putting on a jog bra, wine, waist capes, and her partner, Carol.

Randi does not like mean-spirited people, liver, left-overs, communal dressing rooms, tight underwear, and people who point.

Randi is five-foot-seven.

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