PLAYLISTS – We make them for workouts, parties, break-ups or simply organizing our favorite grunge songs into a digital, heart-shaped box. When Harley Aberle got her first iPod, she created the kind of playlist every girl wants to keep on solitary lockdown. She called it The Exesa collection of long-lost songs that instantly steamrolled her down a memory lane of men wider than a six-lane freeway. Skeletons that needed to stay in her closet or so she thought.
THE EXES IN MY IPOD, A Playlist of the Men Who Rocked Me to Wine Country, is a no-holds-barred account of one womans quest to win the hearts of a motley crew of men during her twentiesthat golden decade of poor judgment where college, career, alcohol and romance run a crash course. With a musical time capsule of lucky 13 songs, Harley takes you on a rockin journey through laugh-out-loud heartaches and headaches, as this redneck waitress from a long line of alcoholics searches for true love and her calling in lifeonly to find both in California wine country. Grab some earbuds, pour a glass of wine and kick back with an amusing e-book that will inspire you to create your own Exes playlist and discover the hidden beauty of all that baggage.
Lisa’s book can also serve as a primer for girls ages 14-17 to help assist them to learn some valuable lessons about growing up and making the right choices.
OVERVIEW
My life has always been filled with booze and heartache. I grew up in backwoods Kansas around shotgun-toting beer guzzlers believing that Pabst Blue Ribbon was a luxury product. Before Id turned 18, my parents had broken up and reunited more times than Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown. It should come as no surprise that I’ve amassed 50 ex-boyfriends and learned how to do a keg stand before I could legally drive. The irony that my father was an alcoholic and Ive spent 16 years marketing some of the worlds most prestigious wines is still hard to swallow today.
Based on my personal experiences of struggling to find passion at home and at work, The Exes in My iPod: A Playlist of the Men Who Rocked Me to Wine Country is a novel that tracks one womans transformation from redneck waitress to refined wine maven a bewildering journey from lust to love and beer to wine told through a playlist of ex-boyfriend songs.
When I got my first iPod, I had the unexplainable urge to create the kind of playlist every girl wants to keep on solitary lockdown at least from my man and my family. Its called The Exes a compilation of songs that instantly teleported me to memories of a motley crew of ex-boyfriends. And when I listened, I didnt feel compelled to crush my iPod with a sledgehammer.
In this novel, The Exes playlist helps Harley free a labyrinth of skeletons locked deep in the closet of her psychea pot-smoking scuba diver, a bisexual cocaine addict, a military man with a top-secret wife, three Latin lovers, a divorced restaurant manager and a winemaker just for starters. Using lucky 13 songs, The Exes in My iPod: A Playlist of the Men who Rocked Me to Wine Country will inspire readers to relive their relationship failures through their own Exes playlists and discover the hidden beauty of all that baggage our relationship failures make us who we are. They pave our paths in life. They are dating assets, not liabilities. It was Harleys destiny to figure out the key to real love through mind-numbing trial and error and for her not-so-straight or narrow road to Mr. Right and her dream job to stretch from the cornfields of Kansas to Floridas beaches to California wine country.
Undiagnosed with some rare form of optimism, Harley finds the bright side in her naiveté with men by listening to music. You can too. At the heart of this journey is her hard-won struggle to learn the power of self-respect and the reward of real love where sex comes second. The Exes in My iPod: A Playlist of the Men who Rocked Me to Wine Country is a reassuring and real reminder of the powerful bond between music, emotions, and memories that continues to transcend time and technology.
