You Can't Drink All Day If You Don't Start in the Morning by Celia Rivenbark

She asked me if I had another humor collection in the works and I said, 'I do now.' That night, I started working on We're Just Like You, Only Prettier, which she sold in about a week as I recall. When she told me she was Jill Conner Browne's agent, I nearly fainted. No conferences, no queries, just a really great stroke of luck that Jenny happened to see my first book on the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance(SIBA) best-seller list and decided to give me a call.

On the last page of your latest book you thank your agent and describe your meeting as, 'Lana-Turner-discovered-at-the-soda-fountain lucky that she found me.' So tell us how you became the Lana Turner of the literary world.Ĭelia: When I said that, I meant that it was incredibly lucky that Jenny discovered my work precisely because I'd never worked at finding an agent.

I have so many questions I don't know where to start. We're delighted to launch your blog tour for your book, You Can't Drink All Day if You Don't Start in the Morning. We will randomly choose a winner from those who comment. So, grab a cup of coffee, pull up a chair, and enjoy the chat, and share your thoughts, and comments, at the end. If you received our Events Newsletter, remember, we are holding a contest to win a copy of Celia's book, You Can't Drink All Day if You Don't Start in the Morning, to those that comment. This one's for anyone who likes their humor shaken, stirred, or straight up! Filled to the brim with belly laughs, Drink is topped off with a collection of genuine southern recipes to comfort your soul and cure your hangover. Whether she's trying to convince her mama to be her senior bingo 'beard,' flying on the fictional (or is it?) One Hot Mess Airlines, contemplating Action Figure Jesus or trying to convince Clay Aiken fans that he'll never marry their glandular daughters, Celia's having some fun now. So new it's got puppy breath, this fifth collection of funny stuff covers it all: From religion to recipes, from car-pooling to cat-whispering, Rivenbark dishes up hilarious new essays for anyone born south of somewhere. Martin's Press).Ĭelia lives in Wilmington, NC, with her husband and daughter.įind out more about Celia by visiting her website: You Can't Drink All Day If You Don't Start in the Morning Her latest collection, You Can't Drink All Day if You Don't Start in the Morning, was released in September 2009 (St. Thompson.Ĭelia has won national and state press awards and is the author of four humor collections: Bless Your Heart, Tramp (2000, reprinted in 2006), We're Just Like You, Only Prettier (2004), Stop Dressing Your Six-Year-Old Like a Skank (2006) and Belle Weather: Mostly Sunny With a Chance of Scattered Hissy Fits. Celia Rivenbark is an award-winning newspaper columnist and freelance journalist whose work has been compared to a cross between Erma Bombeck and Hunter S.

You Can't Drink All Day If You Don't Start in the Morning by Celia Rivenbark