Around the Fire New Release Spotlight. Rag Lady by Susie Black.

Rag Lady A Holly Swimsuit Novel
by
​Susie Black
Release Date November 15, 2023
Contemporary Women's Fiction
Recent college graduate Holly Schlivnik dreams of being a writer, but fate has other plans. A family crisis throws her into an improbable situation and her life will never be the same. Determined to make her own luck when things don’t happen the way she plans, the irrepressible young woman takes a sledge hammer to the glass ceiling and shatters it to smithereens. The wise-cracking, irreverent transplanted Californian takes you on a raucous, rollicking rollercoaster ride of her hysterical adventures as a ladies apparel sales rep traveling in the deep South as she ends up finding herself along the way. 

https://www.amazon.com/Rag-Lady-Holly-Swimsuit-Book-ebook/dp/B0CHG62W5V​
www.barnesandnoble.com/w/rag-lady-susie-black/1144031749

Advance Reader Copy (ARC) Review
Nanasbookreviews 
Rag Lady by Susie Black is the prequel to the Holly Swimsuit series. This is the story of how Holly Schlivnik became a successful sales executive in the ladies' swimwear industry. In this book, we saw Holly's dream of becoming a writer shuttered and how a new opportunity that was given to her changed her life. If you've read this series then you're familiar with the quirky main character and her family. So the snarky commentary and the hilarious moments aren't a surprise. We also met some new unique characters that shaped Holly's character. What I truly appreciated in this book was the life lessons. My favorite scene was at her birthday. P.S. If you're a sentimental person there is a scene that will make you tear up. If you are looking for an entertaining story then you need to read this book. I will rate it with 5 stars.

​From the author about choosing a pseudonym
Once I’d decided to write under a pen name, the search for the perfect pseudonym began. What type of pen name to choose? Something flamboyant, perhaps a clever play on words, an unforgettable name that everyone would remember. 
I daydreamed of being interviewed by Oprah Winfrey on a TV special after my debut novel Death by Sample Size became the Oprah Book Club's all-time best seller. Then, my daydream quickly became a nightmare. Oprah introduced me to millions of fans….as I stood backstage waiting for my name to be called and waited and waited until Oprah’s producer whacked me on the head with a clipboard, asked if I didn’t know my name when I heard it, and shoved me onto the stage. Yikes. There was a disaster waiting to happen. 
Now what? To paraphrase Dirty Harry, a girl’s gotta know her limitations. The most important criteria for the pen name wasn’t finding something tricky; it was choosing one I’d remember to answer to. Since I write cozy mysteries, here are two clues: The first name is a version of my real middle name. This one is a gimme. Surname is the translation from another language to English of my real last name. Let’s see how alert you are. Can you guess my real name? Write me at: mysteries_@authorsusieblack.com

About the Author
​Named Best US Author of the Year by N. N. Lights Book Heaven, award-winning cozy mystery author Susie Black was born in the Big Apple but now calls sunny Southern California home. Like the protagonist in her Holly Swimsuit Mystery Series, Susie is a successful apparel sales executive. Susie began telling stories as soon as she learned to talk. Now she’s telling all the stories from her garment industry experiences in humorous mysteries. 
She reads, writes, and speaks Spanish, albeit with an accent that sounds like Mildred from Michigan went on a Mexican vacation and is trying to fit in with the locals. Since life without pizza and ice cream as her core food groups wouldn’t be worth living, she’s a dedicated walker to keep her girlish figure. A voracious reader, she’s also an avid stamp collector. Susie lives with a highly intelligent man and has one incredibly brainy but smart-aleck adult son who inexplicably blames his sarcasm on an inherited genetic defect. 
Looking for more? Contact Susie at:
Website: www.authorsusieblack.com
E-mail: mysteries_@authorsusieblack.com
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