Authors

Shellie Rushing Tomlinson

Suck Your Stomach In and Put Some Color On!: What Southern Mamas Tell Their Daughters that the Rest of Y'all Should Know Too

Shellie Rushing Tomlinson lives in Lake Providence, Louisiana with her husband, Phil. Their daughter, Jessica, and her husband, Patrick, live in Houston, TX. Their son, Phillip, and his new wife, Carey, live in Lake Providence. Shellie is the author of “Lessons Learned on Bull Run Road”, “’Twas the Night before the Very First Christmas” and “Southern Comfort with Shellie Rushing Tomlinson” and the recently released title from Penguin Group USA, Suck Your Stomach In and Put Some Color On . Shellie is owner and publisher of a website called All Things Southern and the host of a daily radio show and weekly TV segment by the same name. A list of the twenty-eight radio stations that carry Shellie’s southern features can be found here. You can see Shellie each Tuesday morning at 6:00 on CBS affiliate KNOE’s Good Morning Ark-La-Miss out of Monroe, LA, and listen to Shellie's All Things Southern LIVE Talk Show each Friday morning from 8:00 to 9:00 CST on FOXFM 02.7.The show streams LIVE and podcasts are available so everyone can join Shellie's southern celebration! When Shellie isn’t writing, speaking, taping her show, answering email or writing content for the next deadline, you can find her playing tennis with Dixie Belle, (the chocolate lab who thinks she's in charge of running Shellie's life).

Carolyn Turgeon

Rain Village

is the author of Rain Village, her first novel. She currently lives in New York.