Nothing “Amazing” About Me

Unless you enjoy looking at naughty pictures, be sure to use the middle initial “A”  when you try to reach me through the computer. The plain “Tina Bishop” is a very lively lady on the strip and soft porn circuit.

The “A” stands for my maiden name, Appleton, which I have used in my second book.  Tina Appleton Bishop sounds rather haughty and is a bit of a mouthful, but look what the name Higgins did for plain Mary Clark. So why not go for it!

         The way some people react to the idea of a 90-year old becoming a novelist, one might think that the “A” stood for Amazing.  Believe me, t’aint so.

         Funny thing, how suddenly I have become “amazing.”  For 50 years I toiled away at all kinds of scribbling – lots of it, none of it of any consequence. Now I find myself described as some kind of nonagenarian “miracle woman.”  I am not one whit more talented or witty or wise than I was before, but now that I have evolved into a “novelist” I have become a person of “interest.”

In the eyes of my long-time friends I have morphed into someone of more than ordinary importance.  Over and over, I am introduced as an “author, who published her first book at 90.” Wow!

         What’s so great about that?  To me, the real amazement is that, at 89, I slogged through a computer course and managed to learn how to cope with the wretched machine without losing my mind. 

         However, if I can con people into thinking that I’m someone “special,” so be it.  Just open your wallets and buy my books.  I could use the money!

         P.S.  My four published novels are available through Amazon.  You can read lengthy excerpts from them by clicking on the individual book titles in the Directory list in the right column.  At 94, I’m working on my fifth novel.