TRACKING HAPPINESS: Cover Reveal
Here it is. The cover for TRACKING HAPPINESS: A SOUTHERN CHICKEN ADVENTURE. I love this cover. My sister Elli shot the photo—yep, she’s a professional photographer. That’s Goldie the Chicken as the chicken cover model. For the record, I am walking down abandoned railroad tracks. I wasn’t going to get hit by an oncoming train. The tracks run outside the Morris Ice Company in Jackson, Mississippi. As in Ellen MORRIS Prewitt. Anyway, here’s the back cover blurb. Look for a June release date.
“I personally don’t see the point of being in business with chickens if you aren’t gonna be nice to them.”
Lucinda Mae Watkins
If Fannie Flagg and Jack Kerouac had a daughter, her name would be Lucinda Mae Watkins. Single-again Lucinda—of the “Edison, Mississippi fried chicken royalty”—learns Big Doodle Dayton is blaming her dead daddy for the drug scandal exploding at the local Chicken Palace friend chicken joint. She takes off cross country on the train to clear her daddy’s name, while hopefully discovering the secret to happiness along the way.
2018 Summer Novels, 2018 Summer Reads, Best of Summer 2018, great summer reads 2018, Tracking Happiness: A Southern Chicken Adventure
Susanne
Oh my gravy! I’ll be the first to buy your book. Just you wait and see.
Ellen Morris Prewitt
Oh, how wonderful! Now, that makes me happy: to think about people I like reading my book (not that I’m struggling to decide exactly why it is I’m doing all of this ….)
Joseph Hawes
Love the cover. And the book.
You and Lucinda are on your way
Ellen Morris Prewitt
I’m so glad you like it. I may need a review from you so folks will know men can like it too. 🙂
Erin Fanning
Love it! And the blurb had me laughing out loud! Best of luck and I look very forward to reading Tracking Happiness!
Ellen Morris Prewitt
I’m so glad you laughed (that’s the point of 3/4 of this novel). Thank you for the well-wishes. I’ll certainly let y’all know when it’s out.
Ellen Morris Prewitt
I’m so glad you laughed (that’s the point of 3/4 of this novel). When I first saw it, I kept laughing at that chicken. And thank you for the well-wishes. I’ll certainly let y’all know when it’s out.
emma
Oh my Lord! Love this cover! And to immortalize the chicken and Morris – and your backside – all in one photo.
Ellen Morris Prewitt
<3 <3 <3 It was happenstance we got to Morris Ice (I told you the story on Facebook), but I'm so glad we did. And yep--I'm gonna have to instruct folks not to tell me my butt looks fat in this photo. :)
Donna Weidner
Looks like you and I also have chickens in common. Great cover…looking forward to reading it.
Ellen Morris Prewitt
Yes! Lucinda secretly works to reinstate her daddy’s “be kind to chickens” philosophy of chicken management. It’s a very pro-chicken book. <3
Cynthia Crawford
Omgoodness !!! Looks like it’s chocked full of grits of Grace !!! I’ve been dealing with severe depression lately and the blurb (which I have read a dozen times now) made me not only smile but, I got in some gut crunches with a full body laugh !!! I pray I will be blessed to read it one day !!! Thank you, Ellen, for injecting some sunshine in this dark world !!!
Ellen Morris Prewitt
I am so glad the blurb made you laugh, Cynthia, and for the encouragement on the book. I am really sorry to hear about the depression. Thinking about you—maybe we can get together when we return to Memphis.