Title:
Welcome to Fat Chance,
Texas
Author: Celia
Bonaduce
Published: July
21st, 2015
Publisher:
Lyrical Press
Genre: Romantic
Comedy, Women’s Fiction
Synopsis: For
champion professional knitter Dymphna Pearl, inheriting part of a sun-blasted
ghost town in the Texas hill country isn’t just unexpected, it’s a little
daunting. To earn a cash bequest that could change her life, she’ll have to
leave California to live in tiny, run-down Fat Chance for six months—with seven
strangers. Impossible! Or is it?
Trading her
sandals for cowboy boots, Dymphna dives into her new life with equal parts
anxiety and excitement. After all, she’s never felt quite at home in Santa
Monica anyway. Maybe Fat Chance will be her second chance. But making it
habitable is going take more than a lasso and Wild West spirit. With an
opinionated buzzard overlooking the proceedings and mismatched strangers
learning to become friends, Dymphna wonders if unlocking the secrets of her own
heart is the way to strike real gold.
Excerpt from
Welcome to Fat Chance,
Texas
The
man stopped about three feet in front of them. He didn’t smile. He thrust out
his chin at Thud.
“That
your dog?” he asked.
“Yes,”
Professor Johnson said.
The man now
thrust his chin at the WELCOME TO FAT CHANCE, TEXAS sign in Professor Johnson’s
hands.
“That’s my
sign,” he said.
Dymphna
noticed the man had his right shoulder angled back at an unnatural angle. She
wondered if there was something wrong with his arm, but as the fog started to
clear, she saw that he was resting his fingertips on the butt of a gun. The gun
was in a holster buckled across the man’s hips. At a distance, the hostler had
blended in with the loud board shorts, but as he got closer, there was no mistaking
it.
The man
suddenly whirled on the RV. He yelled
out:
“Throw your
weapons down and come out with your hands
up.”
“Sir, this
RV is coming in from Los Angeles,” Professor Johnson said. “We don’t have
weapons.”
One of the
windows opened slowly and a man’s hand appeared, palm up. In the palm was
resting a pistol. The hand dropped the gun to the ground as the door hissed
open. Powderkeg came down the steps into the open with his hands locked over
his head.
“Good
Morning, Viet Nam,” the old man said. “I know that
gun.”
As Powderkeg
moved towards the side of the RV with his hands clasped over this head, another
gun hit the dirt – this one a semi-automatic handgun in a dark gray and
alarming pink - also hit the dirt. Old Bertha heaved herself down the stairs,
glaring at the old man.
“A lady
can’t be too careful” she said, putting her hands in the air and moving towards
Powderkeg.
A
switchblade was next out the door, followed by a glowering Wally
Wasabi.
“Dude,”
Wally said. “You suck.”
“Move along,
Sonny,” the old man said. “And get those hands in the
air.”
“Whatever,”
Wally Wasabi said, but he moved down the RV with his hands
up.
“How
did they get all those weapons on their planes?” Dymphna whispered to Professor
Johnson.
“You
can put a switchblade in checked luggage,” Professor Johnson whispered back.
“And if you let TSA know you’re bringing a firearm - ahead of time in writing
and you have a permit - you can bring it in checked baggage, as well.”
“Wow,”
Dymphna’s voice was so soft she could barely hear it herself. “Who
knew?”
“I did,” the
professor said. “And every TSA agent in
America.”
About the
Author:
Celia Bonaduce
is an award-winning producer whose credits cover a lot of ground – everything
from field-producing ABC’s Extreme Makeover: Home Edition to
writing for many of Nickelodeon’s animated series, including Hey,
Arnold and Chalkzone. If Celia Bonaduce’s last
name is any indication, she is proof that TV talent runs in the
family.
An avid reader,
entering the world of books has always been a lifelong ambition. She is the
author of the Venice Beach Romances, including The Merchant of Venice
Beach, A Comedy of Erinn, and Much Ado
About Mother. The first book in her new series, Welcome to
Fat Chance, Texas, releases in July
2015.
There is a tour wide
giveaway. Prizes include the following:
Giveaway is
International.
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