Rebecca Wells has been writing all night, every night. A devotee of the moon goddess, the Louisiana-bred author who lives in Seattle, Wash., thrives on darkness, which is when she gets her inspiration. So it’s really no coincidence that her latest novel, The Crowning Glory of Calla Lily Ponder, is set under a Louisiana moon.
The bestselling author of The Divine Secrets of the Ya Ya Sisterhood and Little Altars Everywhere spins a tale of Calla Lily Ponder, a girl growing up in the small town of La Luna, La. With a dancing teacher for a father and a hair dresser for a mother, Calla Lily knows what it means to be the town bohemian before she strikes out for New Orleans and a life that she thinks will fit her aspirations.
Well’s larger-than-life characters are custom made for summer reading. The Crowning Glory of Calla Lily Ponder goes on sale tomorrow at area bookstores.
... written by Kathy L. Patrick a.k.a. The Pulpwood Queen! , July 06, 2009 - 08:35 pm
I began my Pulpwood Queen Book Club in 2000 with Rebecca Wells and I will celebrate The Pulpwood Queens and Timber Guys Book Club Convention, our Girlfriend Weekend Author Extravaganza, January 14 - 17, 2010, with Rebecca Wells book "The Crowning Glory of Calla Lily Ponder" as our January 2010 Official Book Club Selection. As the owner of the ONLY Hair Salon/Book Store in the country, Beauty and the Book, this is the perfect book for my now 240 chapter book club that runs now coast to coast and in eight foreign countries. We love Rebecca! I was an original Ya Ya Group and even though we started this all in Jefferson, Texas, we have adopted our southern sister author as our crowning glory where our motto is "where tiaras are mandatory and reading good books is the RULE!" Besides I have a ton of Louisiana chapters who are real literary promoters and leaders! Tiara wearing and Book sharing, Kathy L. Patrick Founder of the Pulpwood Queens and Timber Guys Book Clubs Beauty and the Book 608 North Polk Street Jefferson, Texas 75657 www.beautyandthebook.com www.pulpwoodqueen.com
... written by Mother Jones , July 07, 2009 - 02:28 pm
I did pull my ya-yas out but was arrested.
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There will soon be a whole lot of shakin’ going on at Benny’s Sportshack Supplement Depot, a new concept by Opelousas native Benny Nele. Located at 2002 Johnston St., the supplement shop, smoothie bar and café, featuring hot off the press paninis and wraps, plans to open in late May.
Philip deMahy Sr., a once respected New Iberia ad exec, was sentenced May 2 to spend the next two years (he faced up to 100 years) in a state penitentiary after state and federal investigators found dozens of images depicting children engaged in lewd sexual acts on his personal computer.
This year’s Cool Town issue is all about people who are not native to South Louisiana but made a conscious decision to be here, to be among us, to participate in our culture and contribute to it.
A shelved ordinance transferring $200,000 from a northside drainage project to a south Lafayette development may not break any laws, but it stinks to high heaven.
An effort to restore a shuttered dancehall and document other vacant or razed honky-tonks could serve as a model for saving an endangered species of entertainment.
Lafayette’s gene pool has been host to a long line of eccentric characters who have blurred the lines between crazy, genius, disturbed and curiously entertaining.
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