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You name it and multi-talented, award-winning, best-selling novelist Peggy Webb has written it – magazine humor columns, romance,
quasi-literary women’s fiction and now comedy/mysteries. The first book of her new Callie Valentine & Elvis mystery series will
be published in the September of 2008 in hardcover from Kensington. She likes to describe herself as “Southern to the bone and a pillar of the church and community,” but her friends say she is as down-to-earth and zany as the characters in her books. She readily admits to being part Callie in Elvis and the Dearly Departed (2008) and part Maggie in her Pulitzer nominated novel Driving Me Crazy (2006), which also features the delicious Rainman. But she denies being the model for characters in Flying Lessons (2006), Late Bloomers (2007) and particularly Confessions of a Not-So-Dead Libido. “I am compelled to write,” she says. “My muses won’t let me remain idle.” Peggy’s body of work is a stunning testament to her muse: more than 60 novels, numerous blues songs, 200 magazine humor columns and a screenplay (co-written with Charlene Keel) based on her bestselling novel, Where Dolphins Go. The book has been optioned by Hopeful Romantics. In a career than spans 22 years, this native Mississippian has seen millions of her books in print in more than 17 languages. Acclaimed by both fans and reviewers, Peggy’s novels consistently appear on bestseller lists and garner awards. Dubbed Queen of Comedy by her fans, Peggy is credited with writing the first true comedy/romance. She went back to her comedy roots with her mystery series and her novels in the quasi-literary NEXT imprint. Her fans say “to read a Peggy Webb novel is to howl with laughter.” Her classic romances are also big hits with her fans, especially the groundbreaking Westmoreland Diaries Trilogy. Although Peggy says she’s “just a farm girl who loves music and words,” to fans she’s the writer who makes them laugh, makes them cry and makes them ask, “Who is Rainman?” To register for Peggy’s email list click here. |