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:
No
sooner had I placed my half-empty mug on the counter than I heard a
distantly familiar hissing sound. But before I could remember when
I’d last heard it there was the unmistakable groan of old wood
followed by an explosion loud enough to rival cannon fire and then
the sound of splintering wood.
Olivia
looked at me, eyes wide with shock. I looked at Sam. We both looked
at Nettie, who sat with her eyes wide and one hand over her mouth.
“Oops,” she squeeked.
Mama
just sighed and kept washing dishes.
Sam
and I hurried to the front door. He got there first and shoved it
open with one massive shoulder. I stared out in stunned disbelief.
The right side of the porch had been reduced to a pile of splintered
boards, sprinkled here and there with, broken glass. One of the posts
and collapsed and the other dangled from its gingerbread trim.
The
usually fresh morning air reeked of fermenting apples.
“A
tad too much yeast.” Nettie tsked from somewhere near my elbow,
before turning to toddle back toward the kitchen lost in thought.
Well,
it was official. We were home and had just survived another of Aunt
Nettie’s homebrewing explosions.
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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
Ellen
Dye will be awarding a $25 Amazon/BN GC to a randomly drawn winner
via rafflecopter during the tour.
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