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Step Down, Facebook

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on August 17, 2018. Posted in General, Writing. 14 Comments on Step Down, Facebook

Facebook, I don’t like your tone. You’ve taken to sending me messages declaring, “The (insert current number here) people who like Ellen Morris Prewitt: My Very Southern Voice haven’t heard from you in a while. Write a post.” Note the arrogance. Not “Perhaps it’s time to write a post” or “Are...

In Mississippi, We Pull Over

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on August 14, 2018. Posted in General, GRIEF. 2 Comments on In Mississippi, We Pull Over

For all its fun and foolishness, TRACKING HAPPINESS: A SOUTHERN CHICKEN ADVENTURE is a story of a young woman coping with grief. Lucinda Mae’s dad died two years before the novel opens. Losing her dad threw Lucinda’s life off track, as it were, and the cross-country train trip hopefully will set it to rights. As I’ve shared...

Given Where I Started From

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on August 8, 2018. Posted in General, Writing. 5 Comments on Given Where I Started From

Kind folks keep congratulating me on the release of my novel TRACKING HAPPINESS: A SOUTHERN CHICKEN ADVENTURE and inside myself I think, I self-published it—where is the congratulations in that? I did successfully get an agent for the novel (a long time ago), but he wasn’t able to sell that half-baked version. Later I had another agent...

All the Way From Canada!

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on August 7, 2018. Posted in General, GRIEF, LOVE, Writing. 2 Comments on All the Way From Canada!

Please enjoy this kicking review of Tracking Happiness: A Southern Chicken Adventure found on Susanne Fletcher’s Wuthering Bites blog. I am thrilled Susanne compared the comic dialogue to P.G. Woodhouse, whose Jeeves collection I long ago fell in love with and read in its entirety (how one gets so lucky as to be compared to a beloved writer,...

Uncultured Smells

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on August 5, 2018. Posted in General, LOVE. 5 Comments on Uncultured Smells

MEMPHIS AS BABYLON Traveling North Parkway with the windows open, I drive through a scent, and my head jerks in memory: a cracked sidewalk with weeds springing tall; a blossoming hedge that smelled so sweet. That’s all I remember, but it’s enough to keep me searching for the bushes all spring. Along roadways, on vacant lots, in other untended...

Poll Greeter, Not Pole Dancer

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on August 2, 2018. Posted in General. No Comments on Poll Greeter, Not Pole Dancer

I showed up without a clue. I’d never been a poll greeter before. (A poll greeter, a person who hands out campaign literature on election days, not a pole dancer, as my husband kept saying). I had a candidate I really supported, but I’d messed up my absentee ballot so I couldn’t vote in the election (we weren’t going to...

Now, Now, Now!

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on August 1, 2018. Posted in General, GRIEF, LOVE, Writing. No Comments on Now, Now, Now!

Today, today, today! Time to buy TRACKING HAPPINESS: A SOUTHERN CHICKEN ADVENTURE AUGUST 1st: Time TO BUY TRACKING HAPPINESS: A SOUTHERN CHICKEN ADVENTURE has arrived! E-BOOK PAPERBACK BOTH ON AMAZON For you go-getters who’ve already bought into Lucinda’s antics, TODAY IS THE DAY TO POST A REVIEW! Join others who’ve found Lucinda’s...

Happy Heat

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on July 30, 2018. Posted in General, Writing. 2 Comments on Happy Heat

It’s July. In Memphis. Ask most folks and they will tell you that Memphis is in Tennessee. It’s not. In the geography that counts—the geography of the heart, body and soul—Memphis is in the Delta. The rest of Tennessee may dilute the summer with the shade of mountain trees or rocky-faced roadways or blue-hazed vistas. In Memphis, in the...

What Makes a Good Book?

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on July 29, 2018. Posted in General, GRIEF, LOVE, Writing. 2 Comments on What Makes a Good Book?

A good book should remind you of another book you really loved. Ellen’s incredible imagination, keen wit, perceptive knowing, and spoofy style is reminiscent of John Kennedy Tooles’ “The Confederacy of Dunces,” as she captures the delightful craziness of small-town Mississippi life. Amazon review It should have values you share. gritty...

Don’t Buy My Book

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on July 27, 2018. Posted in General. No Comments on Don’t Buy My Book

If you haven’t yet bought TRACKING HAPPINESS: A SOUTHERN CHICKEN ADVENTURE, don’t do it. We’re gonna have another big online push AUGUST 1st (of this year.) That’s this coming WEDNESDAY. Five days away. So hold off ’til then. Why August 1st? I don’t know. It’s right after my sister’s birthday, and...