Thisfortieslife: It can happen

This summer my girlfriends were enthralled with this book titled 50 Shades of Grey. They kept telling me how I had to read it. It was a must read- they said. You'll love it- they promised. You won't be able to put it down- they explained. Succumbing to peer pressure, I read the book, and I thoroughly enjoyed the naughty bits. All of them. The many, many, many pages of them. But what I enjoyed more was reading about the author.

E L James wrote this wildly successful novel along with two others: 50 Shades Darker and 50 Shades Freed. She is a wife, a mother of 2, and 49 years old. She didn't lock herself away somewhere and write. She still lived her life with all of its responsibilities, and she wrote and completed her book. She owned her dream and made it her reality in a gigantic life- altering way. She did this while cooking dinner, chauffeuring kids, going to work, and taking care of home.

Did I mention that this is her first book? 49 years-old and starting a whole new chapter in her life story- a fun and exciting one.

50 Shades of Inspiration, indeed.

Author E L James- making all the money

With the movie coming out, here are my two choices for who should play Christian Grey.
I would love to be the casting agent with this one. Ryan Gosling or Alexander Skarsgard.
I could care less who is Ana. I will be too busy looking at either Ryan's or Alexander's naughty bits. Yes, that is a smile you hear.