I Do?
Author: Edwardo Jackson
Novel/Relationship - Paperback
Publication Date: May 2006
Price: $
13.95
272 Pages
Size: 5”x
7.75”
ISBN: 1-902934-43-1
Available at EdwardoJackson.com, Amazon.com, BarnesandNoble.com, and bookstores everywhere.
Synopsis: A rising Atlanta journalist throws caution – and her career – to the wind in her blind, love stalker-like pursuit of her ex-boyfriend, determined to stop his wedding in a month's time to another woman.
Themes:
- Reversed/nontraditional courtship gender roles
- unrequited love
- female self-definition
- identity with and without a significant other
- singleminded determination towards a goal
- sisterhood and female loyalty
- second chances and righting wrongs
- the pitfalls of pridefulness
- belief in destiny
- the social expectation vs. personal weight of marriage
- heart vs. head
- career vs. motherhood
- personal relationship with God vs. religious self-righteousness
- becoming a better person through experience and relationships, good and bad
- the thin line between love and stalking
- journalism ethics
Marketing: Completed online international cover model search for character of Jasmine. Viral Internet marketing via I Do? Update periodic newsletter. Jasmine's Rules tank top giveaways and online sales. Website redesign by Black Butterfly Consulting. Neo-soul, poetry, and spoken word soundtrack produced by Brash Music featuring Anthony David. DVD electronic press kit forthcoming.
Edwardo Jackson, a graduate of Morehouse College (’97), is a writer and actor originally from Seattle, WA. Also the author of several screenplays and short stories, the previous two novels in the series, Ever After and Neva Hafta, are available from the X Press. He resides in Southern California.