Please welcome Ellen Dye author of Relatively Crazy
Ellen Dye will be awarding a $25 Amazon/BN GC to a randomly drawn winner via rafflecopter during the tour.
Relatively Crazy
by Ellen Dye
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GENRE: Women's Fiction/Romance
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BLURB:
On her
fortieth birthday housewife Wanda Jo Ashton is expecting her husband's standard
gift of an E and E from T-that being Elegant and Expensive from Tiffany's.
However, what she gets is the news that her formerly successful, dependable
corporate attorney husband is leaving her to pursue the rich life of a kept
man. Left with nothing she has no choice but to escape the San Francisco area,
with her sixteen-year-old daughter in tow and head toward the mountains of West
Virginia and the quirky family she left behind twenty years ago. Here Wanda Jo
must carve out a future, complete with career and home in the midst of family
feuds, computer phobias and the occasional homebrewing explosion before she
finally figures out life can indeed being again at forty.
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EXCERPT:
Okay,
there is was. Looking no different than twenty-two years ago. A small opening
in the woods marked by a gray, metal, utilitarian mailbox and a graveled trail
that passed for a driveway in these parts.
I
was home. Oh God help me. Please.
I
depressed the brake pedal, leaving behind the paved surface and tried not to wince
as what sounded like millions of tiny gravel bits pinged against the underside
of my car.
The
azaleas lining the drive still looked the same. The one at the very end caught
my attention, I could have sworn it jiggled. Oh no, it couldn’t be. Surely it
was impossible now.
Suddenly
the bush jumped in front of the car.
I
slammed on the brakes, pinning Olivia to the seat with my outstretched arm. In
the fashion of mothers everywhere I was protecting my offspring from flying
through the windshield by crushing her windpipe while invoking the Maternal
Arm.
I
looked toward the hood and the half-dozen bobbing azalea twigs in front. I sat
resolved as they rose and wre followed by an old pith helmet and a face which
looked a bit older than I’d remembered, although it was hard to tell precisely,
given the layers of green and black greasepaint. A body followed, dressed in a
set of ancient Army –issued fatigues.
“Gun,”
Olivia croaked, pointing.
I
simply nodded, there would be plenty of time later for my daughter to find out
exactly what was swimming around in the waters of the gene pool from whence
she’d sprung.
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AUTHOR Bio and Links:
At the age of nine Ellen Dye
decided she was going to be a writer when she found her Aunt Nettie’s trunk of
True Confessions magazines and spent untold hours reading the lot, a bag of
Munchos potato chips and a frosty RC Cola at her side. Then, being nine, she
promptly forgot all about it as she got lost in the pesky business of growing
up, And then one very lucky day she spotted a confession magazine on the
grocery store shelf and began to tap out her own stories which were a delight
to see published. Now she spends her days tapping out her characters’
happily-ever-afters for The Wild Rose Press.
Visit anytime at
www.ellendye.com
Ellen is always up for
meeting new friends at Ellen Dye Author on Facebook
Amazon sale link
https://www.amazon.com/Relatively-Crazy-Ellen-Dye-ebook/dp/B076GNYR8X/
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GIVEAWAY INFORMATION and RAFFLECOPTER CODE
Ellen Dye will
be awarding a $25 Amazon/BN GC to a randomly drawn winner via rafflecopter
during the tour.
http://www.rafflecopter.com/rafl/display/28e4345f2536
Thanks for hosting!
ReplyDeletecongrats on the tour and thanks for the chance to win :)
ReplyDeleteGreat excerpt!
ReplyDeleteMany thanks for having me, Christine! It's been a great tour so far :)
ReplyDeleteHi Victoria and Lisa, it's great to see you both again. I hope you're having a great holiday season, and thanks for stopping by!
ReplyDeleteSounds like a fun book! Hope your tour goes well. :)
ReplyDeleteThanks so much, Genene!
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