META STRAUSS : January 2016

Saturday, January 23, 2016

SAVING EL CHICO update

Thanks to so many great friends and fellow writers Saving El Chico sales are off and running. I hope that readers get a few chuckles and enjoy the time spent getting to know the town and people of El Chico, Texas.

Where to get a copy:
http://www.amazon.com/Saving-El-Chico-Tales-Texas/dp/1502479389/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1453397479&sr=1-1&keywords=saving+el+chico

Your own reviews can be posted at the above Amazon site.

Sunday, January 17, 2016

SAVING EL CHICO RELEASED

Such a personal thrill to have this story in book form. I hope you enjoy reading Saving El Chico and grow to love the make-believe characters and town as much as I do. Your comments will be greatly appreciated. Go to Amazon / Saving El Chico / comment section is below the order form.

Saving El Chico

Authored by Meta F. Strauss
Available today on Amazon and Create Space

List Price: $16.00

6" x 9" (15.24 x 22.86 cm)
Black & White on White paper
236 pages

ISBN-13: 978-1502479389 (CreateSpace-Assigned)
ISBN-10: 1502479389
BISAC: Fiction / Westerns / General

This electric, character-driven debut novel is a marvelous, laugh-out-loud funny yet revealing story of a small present-day Texas town dying from drought. Inspired by real Texans, history and geography, Saving El Chico is a story of the rugged courage, imagination, good humor and inspiration recognized as belonging to Texans since the founding of their beloved state.

From Lulu Belle Swartz, owner of Be Lovely Boutique, to Ed Hawkins, proprietor of Ed’s Salvage Yard and Golf Course, citizens of El Chico struggle to survive. The small west Texas town was once a thriving community founded at the base of a mineral rich mountain...

Entire description available on Amazon

CreateSpace eStore: https://www.createspace.com/5014288

ABOUT META

Meta Strauss moved from her life-long home, Houston, Texas in 2005 to northern California. She lives in the heart of wine country where the scenery, weather and people are so perfect locals don't like to brag for fear the entire world will move to Sonoma and spoil the small town atmosphere. Meta joins the long list of artists, writers, film-makers, chefs, gardeners and philosophers who live in the Valley of the Moon, fertile ground for growing in creativity and contentment.

Meta's writing is often published in the Sonoma Sun's Fine Art Section. Her work appears in the anthology Cry of the Nightbird and a memoir of family tales, Stories for Emma, is available on Amazon.

Meta's first novel, Saving El Chico was released in January, 2016, available on Amazon, Kindle and at local book stores.

From the owners of Ed’s Salvage Yard and Golf Course to the Be Lovely Boutique, citizens of the small west Texas town of El Chico band together in order to survive and flourish in the twenty-first century. A devastating drought appears to be the final blow to the community and Bea McPherson’s Circle McP Ranch. Taking advantage of the situation, a fast-talking Dallas businessman joins with the local mayor to swindle the residents. They don't count on the unwavering devotion to the land and shrewdness of the female rancher aided by Jake, a cowboy who was born a hundred years too late, and Silver Crow, the Great-Grandson of Quanah Parker, noble chief of the Comanche nation.