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Once
upon an EROTIC Adventure…
...with JINA BACARR
The BLONDE GEISHA and NAUGHTY PARIS
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and coming soon...
SPIES,
LIES & NAKED THIGHS
"Get caught in the act!"
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When I was a
little
girl, I wanted to look like Barbie and hang out with Uncle
Scrooge
on
his wild adventures around the world. I also loved fairy tales
and
dreamed
of being a dancing princess
and a
geisha.
I
revved up
my mojo and embarked on my madcap scheme when I was a kid,
attending
numerous parochial schools across the country and driving the nuns
crazy,
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After graduating from
college in
Languages (French and
German),
I joined the U.S. Army entertainment division.
I was stationed in
Germany and
then Italy.
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When I returned to the States, I enrolled in graduate school in the
masters
program. In grad school, I got a
job as a "companion girl" to Japanese
businessmen, but my most exciting Japanese adventures were yet to
come.
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a tour guide at Universal Studios and gave the tour in German, a fun
job
showing around German tourists, who inevitably wouldn't volunteer for
the
stunts on the soundstage.
I had to "fly" like
Superman while speaking
German.
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While
working
in radio, I was a Rams cheerleader for two weeks during the off
season
and
participated in promotions (I was a mermaid in a pink sequin
costume
during a
parade--it
was fun being carried by the players to the float!).
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I changed
my hair color
and had a recurring role on a daytime
soap.
I also appeared on local
news shows.
Here I am on the set
between takes
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consultant on
KCBS-TV LA and MSNBC's America's Talking" as well as Tech TV's "Wired
for Sex" and Sky4 British TV's "Saucy TV." |
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I also had the
opportunity
to produce, write, even do the techie stuff for my own
radio show, "On
the
Wild Side." I've
also been the lifestyles editor on "The Tony
Trupiano Show" and
appeared
on radio shows from California to Canada.
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This picture got me a
lot of modeling
work. I also did Japanese commercials.
I became the
Tofu Lady!
My commercials are
probably still running
somewhere in Japan.
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I wrote
a video game which gave me an entrée into writing animation
and
working
with the Japanese again. I'd learned to speak "male" Japanese
from
the
cameramen, so I received a lot of attention from the Japanese
directors
working
on my scripts. Those were fun days--and revved up my interest
in
Japan
and
kimono.
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Photo: Mike Elderman
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I studied the art of
kimono with a sensei, teacher, whose family has been in the
kimono biz in Kyoto
for four hundred years.
Here I am at a show
dressed in a formal
geisha kimono.
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Click
on My
Kimono to see
my Basic Steps to Wearing Kimono.
I put
together
my passion for art and fairy princesses. I decided geisha
were
fairy
princesses. If I couldn't be one, I'd write about
them.
First, I
wrote business
books about working for the Japanese--something I
knew
well.
From my companion girl days to doing Japanese commercials to
working for a
Japanese
movie studio as a writer, I understood their nuances,
way of
thinking,
even the intricacies of bowing.
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I'd
tell stories and answer questions, entertaining the audience as well
as
informing
them.
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When I wrote "The
Japanese Art of Sex: How to Tease, Seduce, and Pleasure
the
Samurai in Your Bedroom" [2005 Ben Franklin Award Winner
and September 2004 Book Sense Pick], it was only the beginning of my
geisha
quest.
I did numerous book signings
for my book, "The Japanese Art of Sex."
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photo at Borders,
I kicked off my geta and started dancing! |
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"The
BLONDE
GEISHA" became my passion. I wanted to tell the story of
becoming
a
geisha in 1895 Japan from a Westerner's point of view.
It wouldn't
have happened without my
agent extraordinaire,
Roberta
Brown, Brown LIterary Agency.
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Here I am receiving my
roses for selling
The BLONDE GEISHA and a second erotica to Harlequin at my local Orange
County Chapter of RWA.
Like the geisha
sisterhood in my novel,
the Romance Writers of America is a wonderful support group. I'm
proud to be a member.
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I'm still that little girl who wanted to be a geisha. I've never
lost that fairy tale
dream, that spiritual connection with the beauty and art of
Japan.
I've put it all into The BLONDE GEISHA.
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favorite picture
from my Borders' book signings.
Check back soon for more
pages and an
excerpt from The BLONDE GEISHA!
Domo arigato
gozaimashita.
Thank you for stopping
by!
Best,
Jina
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The story behind The
Blonde Geisha...
Did you play
dress-up when you
were a little girl? I did. I had this long red velvet cape
with a hood that belonged to my mother. I'd wrap the soft velvet
around me and off I'd go into the Pennsylvania woods or sit under the
shady
green trees in Kentucky to play out my fairy tales. I'd pretend
to
be a dancing princess in search of lost treasure to win back my
kingdom--and
the prince.
When I discovered the
world of geisha
(thanks to an old book printed in the early nineteenth century I found
in a used bookstore), I was enchanted by this tale of beauty and grace,
duty and love lost. I imagined I were a geisha, wearing a lush,
silken
red kimono, a heavy gold and silver embroidered sash, and sparkling
hairpins,
my long sleeves swinging through the air as I glided across wooden
floors.
When I grew up, I put away
my red velvet
cape and began my quest to find out more about geisha. It's been
a long and winding journey that has taken me down many different roads,
taught me about discipline and beauty, and filled me with a spiritual
longing
to know more about these independent women. All along the way, I
kept thinking: what if a young blonde girl was hidden away in a geisha
house? Could she become geisha? Could she?
It was a question that
lingered in
the back of my mind for many years as I began my quest. I was a
college
student when I got my first job with a Japanese company as an "American
geisha"…
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