Untie the Knot in Your Panties!

This is Cora Skaggs bringing you up-to-date on some happenings around here. One has to do with your jawin’ about not havin’ this book out, not being able to read about all these people already, and I’ve even heard some comments like “Why don’t you get off your butt and get that book out to the readers?”

Now, most of you know that Miz Barbara is the one who has taken down these words from Mary Margaret Butler to make up this book, “Aunt Lutie’s Blue Moon Café”. What most of you might not know is that this is a very hard job, especially when MM lived in another era—1966 was a different world. And though Miz Barbara lived them times and knew what was goin’ on around her real well—she was raisin’ two kids, seeing all those body counts in Vietnam, and trying to keep a worthless man on the right path (it didn’t work) and had her own trials to bear—that was some time ago. Do you remember everything that was around then? No? Well, Mz Barbara and Mz Regina (she’s the lovely lady publisher/editor of this book (Mockingbirdlanepress.com) ) are havin’ one heck of a time gettin’ all this timeline stuff straightened out. I know for a fact that if one of you found one mention of a lady wearin’ sweats or Willie Nelson appearin’ in a place that wasn’t there yet, these two ladies would hear about it big time. You’d never let them live it down.

Not that there might be something missed, mind you. Them big New York publishers miss stuff all the time. I’ve read it and it ain’t pretty when we find it. But let’s give these authors and their editors a break—they do not sit up there with God. They are human. You are goin’ to get a great story here, filled with love and laughter among folks in a neat community, mystery and romance—for a much cheaper price, too, than those big mucked-muck author’s books from New York City (does that sound like a salsa ad—oops, probably didn’t have that stuff in a jar back then either, did they?).

What I’m tryin’ to say here is this: Have patience. Reread “Gone With the Wind” or something with 800 pages. Go shoppin’. Have a piece of pecan pie. Or if you want me to say it like Aunt Lutie would have, here it is: Quit you snivelin’! Untie those knots in your panties! Wait!