Bathing & the Single Girl

Christine Elise McCarthy

Jan 2014 · Multum in Parvo

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The life of an actress in LA isn’t all glamour, money, and bedding rock stars. 

 Sometimes it’s more about humiliation, red wine hangovers, and the bad decisions they fuel. Ruby Fitzgerald has barely worked in years, not that anyone remembers her for anything but her short stint on a long-canceled but iconic TV show. But that was back when her career prospects seemed on the upswing -- longer ago than Ruby cares to admit -- and awkward sex with regrettable partners is doing nothing to take the edge off. Everything once functional in her house is going on strike, but the unemployment checks barely cover the mortgage, and a self-respecting girl needs to be able to pay her bar tab -- so repairs are on hold. One more bubble bath and a few more cocktails. A gal can always get responsible tomorrow.

With everything mounting against her, a cranky and increasingly despairing Ruby will have to find out if her life’s larger indignities are the result of bad luck, or a chronically bad attitude. What follows is a walking tour of the hilarious depths you can sink to if you stop exercising your best judgment.

Ratings and reviews

Loved this book, I couldn't put it down. Christine Elise McCarthy's writing is the perfect mix of humor, pushing the boundaries and sapience. So well written, it had me laughing with tears, I could feel the relevance to my self through the vulnerability and insight she displayed with her characters and their weaknesses/bravado, and cringeworthy choices. I can't wait until she releases the next book in this series.. The real Sex in the City? Could be.

Born before 1984? Getting back out there after a long relationship? Trying to figure out everything under there and out there while you hunt for love in a world that works in a social media, internetherworld, and anyplace Cougars are the new sex symbols? Christine Elise McCarthy charms you with her biting and dead on charismatic tales of beauty and the lusty-beats. She is both the vulnerable beauty stepping into the dating and sex world eagerly waiting for her AND she is sassy, classy, bawdy, brassy.

Read it and weep...in a good way!

About the author

Christine Elise McCarthy has been acting professionally for 25 years and is recognized primarily for her roles as U4EA-popping bad girl, Emily Valentine, on Beverly Hills, 90210, as Harper Tracy on ER, and as Kyle, the gal who killed Chucky in Child’s Play 2. She has also appeared in recurring roles on China Beach, In the Heat of the Night, and Tell Me You Love Me. Among her other film roles are Abel Ferrara’s Body Snatchers and two films starring Viggo Mortensen: Vanishing Point and Boiling Point.

As a writer, she has written three episodes of Beverly Hills, 90210 as well as characters and storylines for the series, a pilot that was optioned by Aaron Spelling, and comical true-life essays that she performed at the Upright Citizens Brigade and Naked Angels theaters in LA. She maintains an irreverent food porn blog called www.DelightfulDeliciousDelovely.com for which she provides recipes, photographs and sometimes shares details of the triumphs and, more frequently, the humiliations of her own life. She has a great passion for photography (www.MyPinUpArt.com) and has shown her pin-up and decaying Americana imagery in the United States & Paris. She has been on the selection committee of Michigan’s Waterfront Film Festival since its inception in 1999, she is co-director of the Victoria Texas Independent Film Festival, programs for the Self-Medicated Film Festival and The Lady Filmmakers Film Festival, and consults & judges for many others. Her directorial debut, Bathing & the Single Girl, was accepted into over 100 film festivals and won 20 awards.

Bathing & the Single Girl, based on the short film, is her debut novel.