Today my guest is author Jax Frey. Jax is doing a virtual book blast tour for
The Gumbeaux Sistahs, a fiction humor/women's lit available now. This tour will take place from October 7th to October 11th.
Jax Frey will be awarding a $25 Amazon/BN GC to a randomly drawn winner via
rafflecopter during the tour and a print copy of the book (US ony) will be
awarded to a second randomly drawn winner. Please use the following link to place your comment and a chance to win:
http://www.rafflecopter.com/rafl/display/28e4345f3190/
Blurb
Five Southern women wage a hilarious war against the ageism
problems of one of their deep-in-trouble sisters using their improbable
friendships, evil-genius schemes, oh-so-numerous cocktails, and a shared
passion for good gumbo.
When southern artist, Judith Lafferty, loses her long-time,
prestigious museum job to a much younger man, she finds herself devastated,
alone in her sixties, and on the brink of financial disaster. Enter the
incomparable Gumbeaux Sistahs, who deliver day-old coffee to her front door as
a ploy, then go on to kidnap her, feed her excellent gumbo, and come up with
outrageous solutions to her problems. Their motives are just good excuses to
drink wine, have a great time, argue over whose mother makes the best gumbo,
and, most of all, help a sister out. Ageism, dangerous boyfriends, deep
loneliness, and any other challenges that can face the over fifty crowd don't
stand a chance against these five resourceful ladies. The Gumbeaux Sistahs is a
heart-warming, smart story of friendship and unexpected shenanigans that you do
not want to miss.
Excerpt
At 3 p.m., she found herself in the
living room, feet-up on the coffee table, sweaty, dirty and exhausted. Then the
doorbell rang. In her mind she could hear her kids saying to her, “Don’t kill
whoever it is, Mom, it’s probably just the mail lady delivering the mail as she
does every day. You need the mail, Mom. Please don’t hurt the nice lady.”
She chuckled in spite of herself,
and went to greet the mail lady, who had seen Judith looking this bad a time or
two before from doing chores around the house. So Judith was not worried about
her appearance when she swung open the front door. Before she could get it
completely open, a hand carrying a coffee cup appeared around the corner, and
came dangerously close to poking her in the eye.
“Hello, dear,” came a cheerful voice
from the other side of the door. “You forgot your coffee yesterday, so we
decided to bring it to you.”
Judith peered around the coffee cup
and the door, and was completely shocked to find the four women from the coffee
house yesterday, standing on her front steps. Stunned, she sputtered, “What the
. . . ?”
“Special delivery!” yelled Lola,
with a huge grin on her freckled face.
“You followed me home?” said a stunned Judith,
in shock and embarrassment over her appearance. She did not want to be rude,
but this was above and beyond weird. She thought, “Have they been stalking me?
That’s so creepy!” She deeply regretted opening the door.
“Don’t be ridiculous,” said Dawn
sarcastically, checking her phone as she talked. “Nobody has time for stalking
anymore. Now we just follow people around. That’s different, right?”
“What?” thought Judith. She found
herself wondering who the heck these women really were. They looked harmless
enough, but she was suddenly filled with doubt, and a little bit of fear.
Helen gave Dawn an exasperated look
and explained, “Don’t mind her, Judith. She’s teasing. We didn’t follow you. We
know where you live. Lola lives right across the street, remember?”
Lola added with a smirk, “Don’t tell
me you forgot that already.”
“No, I didn’t — sorry.” Judith took
hold of the cup, and was surprised to find that it was cold and kind of
used-looking. A thought occurred to her and she asked, astonished, “Wait — is
this actually the same coffee from yesterday?”
“Yes, dear,” said Bea, smiling
brightly, “We took good care of it for you.”
Author bio and links
Born in New Orleans, Jax Frey came into this world, whooping and
hollering, with a sense of love and celebration of Louisiana culture, food,
family and fun. Translating that
celebration into her writing and onto canvas is her true calling. Her colorful art depicts everything-Louisiana
from her dancing Gumbeaux Sistahs paintings to her popular line of original
Mini paintings. Because over 25,000 of
the mini paintings have been created and sold into art collections worldwide,
Jax holds a world’s record for The Most Original Acrylic Paintings on Canvas by
One Artist.
Jax is also the co-founder of the Women of Infinite Possibilities,
an empowering women’s organization started in Covington, LA, where Jax lives
today with her loveable, tornado-of-a-pug named Lucy. The Gumbeaux Sistahs is
her debut novel.
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