"The profile of my dentist date made it sound as if he chose dentistry
because he was obsessed with teeth- just a normal everyday desire for
everyone to have a clean mouth and pristine pink gums. Strange? Sure.
Criminal? No. Three of the five things he couldn't live without were
painfully obvious... the last two were bewildering: tarot cards and a
hypnosis kit..."
"Tales from My Hard Drive" is a
romantic comedy that follows Melissa, a forty-year-old writer who moves
from the suburbs of Los Angeles to New York City after finding her
husband doing naked yoga-type maneuvers with another woman. Trying to
find her place in a city run by the young and hip, she takes the best
job offered her: that of a paid cyber-dater for The New York Beacon,
anonymously dating and callously reviewing the myriad Mr. Wrongs who
inhabit the Big Apple. Still brooding over her painful divorce, Melissa
makes an art of exploiting her dates with New York’s not-so-finest for
her increasingly popular Beacon articles. Then she meets the last man
she wanted: the extraordinary and charismatic Ted, who just might be
everything she’s looking for in a companion. But can Melissa’s recently
broken heart accept him? She starts dating Ted, hiding from him her
undercover dating gig, leading to a covert double life—dating in the 2D
world for money and in the 3D world for love. Both lives get knocked
senseless, however, when she unexpectedly falls for an online date who
appears to be Mr. Right. Juggling two men and a secret job that requires
her to date even more, Melissa finds herself in a poignant and comedic
whirlwind that even she may not be able to write her way out of.