We don't want to do this too much while we shop this book around, but we thought it would be nice for our followers to get a sense of what this book we're writing is all about. So here's a short sample section where Sarah meets a cute surfer named Tojo and hooks up with him. This is taken from near the end of Chapter 3, on Sarah's second trip to Tokyo:
Tojo:
Anne and I had a
casting together. She and I had the same look – skinny, white, blonde – so we
ended up at a lot of castings together. We pulled into the parking lot a bit
early, and as we waited I bit into a Nutri-Grain bar. I had a thing for candy
bars at home and now that I’d gotten to know Tokyo I’d found the westernized
spots in town where I could go to buy North American stuff.
“What is that?” Anne
asked.
“Just a granola bar,”
I said.
“Gran-no-la,” she
enunciated each syllable. “That word funny.”
“Hey,” I slapped her
and pointed out the window. “Who’s that guy?” A Japanese guy had gotten out of
a separate car in the lot with a model and was heading into the casting ahead
of us. He was medium build, dressed like a skater, but he immediately looked
familiar. “I swear to God, he looks exactly like Pharell Williams.”
“The rapper?” Anne
said. “He does, too.”
“What’s his name?”
“Whatever, Sarah. He
is another DTA," my DTA Masahiro said from the from the front seat. "Who cares?”
“Serious, though," I said. "I want to know his name. And what agency he works for."
“He's called Tojo,” Masahiro said. “I’ve seen him around. Are you girls
ready to go in?”
“Ready to get his
number, more like,” I joked. Anne rolled her eyes. "Yeah, I'm ready," I said, more seriously.
