When a new book is nearing completion and the release date is close, contemporary self-published authors often want to boost their brand by putting their product into a video trailer. It usually includes music, cool graphics, text, and maybe a voice-over to entice audiences. This ISN’T one of those times.
Tricked you.
This post is all about a new BOAT trailer. Although I’d love to show you a doozy video of my latest offering, I don’t have one. (You’ll just have to download a free copy from Smashwords instead.) It’s not all about writing dark fiction and social media ads this way, anyway. Sometimes, I like to put the words away and just go fishing.
I took possession of a new boat trailer this week, one to replace my old one. It was better to buy a brand new one than refurbish the old one.
There’s also political motivation behind not refurbishing it. It has to do with the family we bought the boat from.
It is our family.
Our boat’s registration notification arrives each year in the mail. The boat was properly transferred to us, but the trailer wasn’t. You see, we’ve been towing an unregistered vehicle around for years. We’ve been breaking the law!
“Did you ask your son Dave (not his real name) about it when you saw him last?”
‘Yes and no. I started to, but Jane (not her real name either) was in one of her moods again.”
Jane is Dave’s schizoid wife. She’s sensitive to everything he does or doesn’t do and says. Anyway, her family once owned the boat and trailer. The young couple bought the pair when they were newlyweds. When they sold them to us, they said they’d look into completing the transfer documents. As I said, the boat was sorted, but the trailer remained in limbo.
Margo wanted to ask her son about the trailer, but her fear of upsetting you-know-who was greater. Besides, we’re sounding like a broken record now.
“Can we do a transfer without the previous owner’s signature?” I asked the motor registration department.
“No,” they replied.
Well, that was that. We were stuck between a rock and a hard place. Since we didn’t control the paperwork, we didn’t have proof we actually owned the trailer. And we still need one to take our boat to the water.
Take a look at the old beast. It’s seen better days. Most people would say that it’s time to update it anyway.
Well, we did.
I say, to hell with the family’s politics and navigating someone’s fragile ego. Let’s start over. Dump the old trailer for a shiny new one and be done with the nonsense. Let’s go fishing and forget her!
We will go anywhere we want to!
–Michael Forman (Author of some seriously dark fiction)
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