T J Vertigo

I am a born and bred New Yorker, living most of my life in Brooklyn, where I live now. I didn't always want to be a writer, in fact I wanted to be a veterinarian. Part of my original dream has come true, and I currently manage a wonderful pet hotel and animal care facility. I love my charges very much.

How did I become a writer? Well, I wrote a short fan fiction based story a few years back and sent it to a friend. She in turn sent it out to a large internet list and fans bombarded me with emails for more. The rest is herstory so to speak.

I was recently married in Toronto, Ontario Canada to my long-time partner and friend Stacey Wilson.

Email: tjvertigo@optonline.net

Website: http://www.angelfire.com/tv/Vertigo

Current Works

Private Dancer

by T J Vertigo

ISBN: 978-1-933113-58-6

Price: $16.95

Release Date: March 2006

Reece Corbett and Faith Ashford life experiences couldn't be any more different than night and day.

Reece Corbett grew up on the mean streets of New York City; abused, used, and in trouble with the law. A mysterious man named Frank stepped in, pulled Reece from despair and saved her life. The obstinant, angry street thug eventually earned respect and makes a name for herself, not to mention a “reputation” despite the demons that still haunt her. When Frank dies suddenly, he leaves her his business, a Gentleman's Club called "The Lounge," which may be the only thing she takes pride in. That, and protecting her "girls," especially one freaky little dancer with a heart of gold named Cori the unspoken friend, ally and confidante of one Reece Corbett.

Faith Ashford grew up wealthy with all the creature comforts that wealth provides. Country Clubs, a house in the Hampton’s, and debutante balls with white gloves, taffeta and gardenias. There was one difference though, Faith wasn't like the other spoiled rich girls, she had no desire to follow those rather shallow footsteps, instead, she wished to follow her own dreams wherever they may lead her and those dreams lead the aspiring actress into a tenement in New York’s Alphabet City, working the night shift in a rather seedy Lower East Side bar whose denizens, a sea of oddities, freaks, and frat boys that call themselves customers.

Then one night an exotic dancer with electric blue hair wonders into Faith’s bar. Cori of the myriad piercings and tattoos has no idea, but she would become the blonde’s ultimate salvation in her moment of desperation, just as Frank was for Reece. Faith needed a break, she needed a change, and bartending at The Lounge would at least afford her something new, more new than she could possibly imagine in fact, a tall drink of water by the name of Reece Corbett who in turn had been looking for “this woman” all her life.

Hidden Desires

by TJ Vertigo

ISBN: 978-1-933113-83-8

Price: $18.95

Release Date: November, 2007

After a string of disastrous blind dates (courtesy of her two best friends) Cayden Riley has sworn off of women. A somewhat cranky woman to begin with, she really doesn’t much like people. But she does enjoy working at her pet accessory boutique “The Fuzzy Belly Deli”.

Brooke Hewitt thought she was happy in her relationship with her stockbroker boyfriend, until the day she and her dog wander into the “Fuzzy Belly Deli.” There she meets Cayden—a woman that Brooke can’t stop thinking about. Brooke has never questioned her sexuality, but there is something about Cayden that she just can’t shake free.

The encounter changes both Cayden and Brooke, disrupting both women’s lives—in some ways for the worse and yet, some certainly for the better…