stars!â
âChick Lit +
âAn excellent story that combines tons of humor, fun, and emotions. I guarantee that you will laugh, cry, squeal, and shake your head in exasperation. . . .Ace Jones is such a hoot and I could not help but fall in love with her and her sassiness and guts! . . . The perfect sassy Southern girl book that will have you rolling with laughter and your heart tugging with emotion.â
âRomancing the Book
âMcAfee manages to create a character that is over-the-top, but at the same time down-to-earth and someone you wish was your best friend.â
âNight Owl Reviews
âAce is one sassy lady for sure! . . . A great read, depicting a character almost every reader can fall for. . . .This reviewer hopes weâll hear more about Ace in the future!â
âCrystal Book Reviews
âStraight up hilarious. . . .[McAfee] has totally captured a side of the South that frequently goes unwrittenâat least as far as heroines are concerned.â
âBook Hooked Blog
Diary of a Mad Fat Girl
âThis story may be set in the tiny town of Bugtussle, Mississippi, but Ace, our heroine, is anything but a shrinking Southern belle. . . .[This] is the kind of breezy summer read thatâs perfect for wintertime, too.â
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Entertainment Weekly
âSouthern-fried Janet Evanovich.â
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Booklist
âMeet Graciela âAceâ Jones, a wildcat Southern version of Janet Evanovichâs Stephanie Plum . . . [a] hilarious debut novel.â
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Library Journal
âBawdy, sexy Southern-fried fun. McAfee makes a powerhouse debut that readers will love.â
âValerie Frankel, author of
Four of a Kind
âFresh and funny. Ace Jones is a hoot! This is what
Sex and the City
might have been if Carrie and friends were looking for love in Bugtussle, Mississippi, instead of Manhattan.â
âWendy Wax, author of
Ocean Beach
âAce Jones is my kind of girl: Her outsize appetite for life, plus a dangerously low tolerance for losers, gets her into one impossible fix after another. In addition to involving a delightfully madcap crew of friends and acquaintances in her quest for justice, Ace is aided, abetted, and occasionally bedded by some delicious Southern gentlemen. Ace prevails with humor, heart, and a speed-dial relationship with the pizza guy.â
âSophie Littlefield, award winning author of
A Bad Day for Scandal
âStephanie McAfee, in creating Ace Jones, has written a character that will grab you by the shirtfront and take you with her on her ride, and oh, what a wild ride it is.
Diary of Mad Fat Girl
is pure fun.â
âRachael Herron, author of
Wishes & Stitches
Discover Other Titles by Stephanie McAfee:
Diary of a Mad Fat Girl
Happily Ever Madder
Down and Out in Bugtussle
Donât miss other Ace Jones novels.
Enjoy these previews of
Diary of a Mad Fat Girl
and
Happily Ever Madder
On sale now from New American Library
Also, please enjoy this preview of
Down and Out in Bugtussle
Available July 2, 2013, from New American Library.
Diary of a Mad Fat Girl
All of my bags are packed and Iâm ready to go. If I had some white shoe polish, Iâd do like we did in the nineties and scribble âPanama City Beach or BUSTâ on my back windshield.
Spring break is finally here, and for the next week Iâm a free woman. No students to teach, no projects to grade, no paintbrushes to wash, and, best of all, no bitchy Catherine Hilliard riding my ass like a fat lady on a Rascal.
Iâm sick of her and Iâm tired of my job and I need a vacation worse than Nancy Grace needs a chill pill. I wish we were leaving tonight. I squeeze a lime into my beer and head out the back door with Señor Buster Loo Bluefeather hot on my heels. While Buster Loo does speedy-dog crazy eights around my flower beds, I flip on the multicolored Christmas lights,
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