Plumb Crazy
Release Date: 06/10/14
Summary from Goodreads:
Small town country
girl Elva Presley Hicks is about to attend her five-year class reunion with her
best friends, Shay and Margarett.
The discovery of an old fanfic manuscript stirs up memories of her summer job as a plumber’s helper in Houston the summer before senior year. She earned a lot of money that year, but was lonely as heck.
It's not like there weren't any suitors back then. Elva could have chosen between Chase, the obese pig farmer, and Wyatt, the plumber with wandering hands. But Elva yearned for something more, and found it that fateful summer, with electrician, Mitch McCall.
It was magical. Mitch wasn't turned off by Elva's name or fan fiction writing, and Elva didn't lose interest in Mitch after he cut off his nose at work.
Trials and triumphs followed including a friendship implosion, world-wide fanfic humiliation, and goat salvation. It would go down as the most memorable summer of high school.
But as these things sometimes do, the summer romance fizzled and Elva moved on to life after high school. And while she's ready to reminisce, she is unnerved when she runs into Mitch at the reunion. Can they give it another go after so much time has passed, or are they too different now to even try?
Excerpt;
The discovery of an old fanfic manuscript stirs up memories of her summer job as a plumber’s helper in Houston the summer before senior year. She earned a lot of money that year, but was lonely as heck.
It's not like there weren't any suitors back then. Elva could have chosen between Chase, the obese pig farmer, and Wyatt, the plumber with wandering hands. But Elva yearned for something more, and found it that fateful summer, with electrician, Mitch McCall.
It was magical. Mitch wasn't turned off by Elva's name or fan fiction writing, and Elva didn't lose interest in Mitch after he cut off his nose at work.
Trials and triumphs followed including a friendship implosion, world-wide fanfic humiliation, and goat salvation. It would go down as the most memorable summer of high school.
But as these things sometimes do, the summer romance fizzled and Elva moved on to life after high school. And while she's ready to reminisce, she is unnerved when she runs into Mitch at the reunion. Can they give it another go after so much time has passed, or are they too different now to even try?
Excerpt;
Come
out for the Belling High School reunion. Setups for BYOB.
The
invitation arrived by mail. Her five year class reunion.
Elva
could hardly believe it had been five years. It was amazing how fast
time burned up in a puff of college classes, summer jobs, and road
trips to sci-fi conventions (her guilty pleasure). She’d decided
not go to the reunion. A return to high school seemed like a waste of
time, but then Shay had called and after that, Margarett. Her best
friends, the Loser Girls, a name born of junior high foolishness—they
wanted to reunite, and of junior high foolishness—they wanted to
reunite, and she couldn’t say no.
She
put out the fifty dollars for the reunion boat ride on Lake Conroe,
along with barbeque and country western dancing. Next, she’d
shopped for a new dress since the planning committee insisted that
everyone wear formals.
“Elva
Presley, are you ready?” Her grandmother, Nonny, was watching TV.
Elva
headed into the living room.
“Do
you like my outfit?” she asked, spinning in a fuchsia mini with
sparkly shoulder straps, her four-inch high pumps dangling from a
finger.
“Oh,
Elva Presley, you look so much like your mama did,” Nonny said.
Elva
laughed. She was all generous curves, and her mama had been model
thin.
Papaw
came out of the bathroom. “Elva, do you have enough gas money for
tonight?”
“I’m
fine. I’ve got my internship pay. I just need my purse, and then
I’ll pick up Margarett in Jersey Village. Shay’s meeting us at
the boat.”
Elva
glanced around the living room for her clutch purse. She checked in
the bedroom. Her sequined clutch jutted out from under the bed. When
she reached down to pick it up, her fingers grazed a rubber-banded
stack of paper. Elva hooked the purse over her wrist and picked up
the stack. The edges of the sheets were curled and faded coffee
stains blossomed across the cover page.
Her
breath caught in her throat when she read the title. “The Death
Incident.”
She
hadn’t seen this manuscript since she started college. Her lips
curved into her widest smile. It suddenly all seemed like yesterday.
Elva
went to her car, a yellow Yaris that she’d paid off herself last
summer. She put it in gear and headed to Margarett’s. Vivid
memories flooded back of Belling High School, a low cinder block
building hunkered down in hardscrabble grassland choked by bull
nettle and scourged by fire ants. The cafeteria doors were painted
mud-coffee to hide the dirt.
It
all started after her junior year.
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About the Author
Molly Blaisdell's first crossover YA/NA romantic comedy, Plumb Crazy, is forthcoming from Swoon Romance. She is also the author of 30 books for children, including Rembrandt and the Boy Who Drew Dogs (Barron’s), The Truth About Unicorns (Capstone Press) and The Big Fuzzy Coat (MeeGenius!). She's written hundreds of articles for many internationally known publishers, including MSN, Scholastic, eHow, Hasbro, and Penguin's Author Learning Center.Molly is a Texan and a graduate of Texas A&M in Chemistry. She is a long-time member of SCBWI, and is a former Regional Advisor of the Western Washington region, a Blueboard Moderator Emeritus and a recipient of the Martha Weston Grant.She formed her first fan fiction group in junior high school and is still a huge fan gal of all things space, Star Trek, anime and blockbuster movies. She's the mom of four, and currently lives under the wide open skies of College Station, TX with her husband Tim. Her interests include fine art, folk art, and Texas music.
Molly Blaisdell's first crossover YA/NA romantic comedy, Plumb Crazy, is forthcoming from Swoon Romance. She is also the author of 30 books for children, including Rembrandt and the Boy Who Drew Dogs (Barron’s), The Truth About Unicorns (Capstone Press) and The Big Fuzzy Coat (MeeGenius!). She's written hundreds of articles for many internationally known publishers, including MSN, Scholastic, eHow, Hasbro, and Penguin's Author Learning Center.Molly is a Texan and a graduate of Texas A&M in Chemistry. She is a long-time member of SCBWI, and is a former Regional Advisor of the Western Washington region, a Blueboard Moderator Emeritus and a recipient of the Martha Weston Grant.She formed her first fan fiction group in junior high school and is still a huge fan gal of all things space, Star Trek, anime and blockbuster movies. She's the mom of four, and currently lives under the wide open skies of College Station, TX with her husband Tim. Her interests include fine art, folk art, and Texas music.
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