How I rediscovered 💚The Mask💚

Published: Thu, 08/26/21

Dear Reader,

With a new book comes a lot of research. Don't get me wrong, I love doing research. It's fun peering into industries and ways of life I don't know and figuring out what makes the people tick. But with this research come certain... perils.

Have you ever found yourself at the bottom of a three hour YouTube bunnyhole? Watching a 25 Things You Didn't Know About The Mask video with no idea how you got there?

Yeah, so there's been a bit of that this week. And it's lead me to an interesting realization: for a movie that is almost 30 years old, The Mask really stands the test of time.

Jim Carrey + Cameron Diaz + Superpowered Green Mask shenanigans = 💚

I'd forgotten how much I enjoyed this movie. Jim Carrey is at his most elastic cartoony best (did you know the movie actually saved money on its special effects budget because of how elastic his face is?) Cameron Diaz is absolutely smokin' as Tina Carlyle (it was her first movie role and the director threatened to quit if she wasn't hired).

Filled with dance sequences and old movie references and cartoon hijinks, this movie really made me smile. And I liked how the nice guy got the girl in the end, specifically because he was a nice guy.

So if you haven't seen it or you have and it's been a while, I thoroughly recommend you give it a watch. Or at least check out that 25 things video.

And if you're wondering how The Mask related to my book research? It didn't.

XoXo,

Edwina

BOOK NEWS

I'm almost 20,000 words into The Quiet Prince and the shenanigans are gaining steam. I can't wait for you to read the workplace I'm cooking up for my heroine. She's going to have to win the respect of a crew of cranky coders and *evil smile* it's going to be an uphill battle.

In other news, The Ice Prince audiobook will release sometime in mid- to late-September! Depending on the whims of Audible and the other distributors. The first four chapters are available as a preview on BookFunnel.

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The Wild Prince audiobook should be available in October! I'll have a preview posted to BookFunnel in the next couple of weeks.

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We all wear masks... metaphorically speaking.