No Lady and Her Tramp [Kindle Edition]

Kristie Leigh Maguire (Author), Mark Haeuser (Author)

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Product Description

No Lady and Her Tramp, reminiscent of the TV show "Married with Children" minus the children and in a different setting, will have you rolling in the aisles as you follow the exploits of the residents of President Park, the trailer park to top all trailer parks. When Beth Ann Dixon buys herself a computer and decides to write a steamy erotic novel, her husband, Billy Ray, can't do much of anything right, not even shoot a gun. Janet Higgins is the resident Peeping Tom - and Troy Finkmyer is the guy we all love to hate. Everybody gets into the act and there are showdowns all over Grapevine - Grapevine, Kentucky that is. Shirley Snodgrass is the local gossip columnist for the Grapevine Gazette and records it all in her column, 'I Heard It Through the Grapevine'. You'll laugh, you'll cheer, and you may even shed a tear as you read No Lady and Her Tramp by Kristie Leigh Maguire and Mark Haeuser.

About the Author

Kristie Leigh Maguire has chosen to follow the 'road less traveled' in her writing career. She is quoted as saying, "I am an Independent Author and proud of it. I have never been accused of being like everyone else. I guess you could say that I am a true child of the sixties - doing things my way, and just a bit of a rebel at heart. I feel that Joe Blow Public has sense enough to know what they want to read without being held by the hand and led down the garden path. And if Joe Blow Public decides that they don't like my books that I put out in the world, then so be it. That is their choice. At least I had the guts to put them out there - my way."

Kristie's novel Emails from the Edge (The Life of an Expatriate Wife) is based on the true story of her expatriate globe trotting days. She is a contributor to three anthologies: Calliope's Mousepad: Women Writers Online, Musings: Authors Do It Write! and NUW Roads Travelled. She is also a contributor to two cookbooks: Now We're Cooking! 43 Authors in the Kitchen and Cooking By The Book.

Kristie is with MyShelf.com as Romance Editor/Reviewer, columnist for Between 2 Authors, and co-columnist along with Suzie Housley for Have You Heard.

She has lived in St. Croix, Aruba, Thailand, Japan, and three times in Saudi Arabia during her expatriate years - and many regions of the United States before she started roaming the globe. As she says, "I am from the South and proud of it - but I have learned that home is where you hang your hat."

Mark Haeuser was born and raised in the beautiful farm country near Fountain City, Wisconsin. The oldest son of two loving parents, he spent most of his youth roaming the hills and valleys of the Mississippi's driftless area.

Mark began writing in 1997 after a trip to a local bookstore. After spending hours searching, he realized that no one wrote the kind of stories he wanted to read. He loved adventure stories and craved the kind of realistic action he had lived as a police officer. He decided to try his hand at writing his own books.

Drawing on his years of martial arts training, SWAT team training, and SWAT sniper training, he began writing the Battleground USA Series, an action/adventure series in which he has plans for a total of fifteen books. He has published Battleground USA - The Beginning and Battleground USA2 - Las Vegas. Mark has completed Battleground USA3 and plans to release it soon.

Mark has also published The Protectors - the first novel in The Second Coming Trilogy, Hunters of the Shadows, The Fourth Horseman and Western Justice.

Mark is currently working on completing the remaining books in the Battleground USA Series and The Second Coming Trilogy. His novel Memoirs of a Rogue is scheduled for release in 2003.

Product Details

• Format: Kindle Edition
• File Size: 221 KB
• Print Length: 268 pages
• Simultaneous Device Usage: Unlimited
• Publisher: Blue Leaf Publications/Indigo Blue eBooks (February 1, 2009)
• Sold by: Amazon Digital Services
• Language: English
• ASIN: B001R4CPFG
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #566,736 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)

More About the Author

The Affaire de Coeur Magazine named Kristie Leigh Maguire Best Up and Coming Author of the Year and her novel Desert Heat as Romance of the Year in their 2004 Reader/Writer Poll. Her novels Cabin Fever and No Lady and Her Tramp placed in the Top Ten in the Preditor & Editor's Poll (2005).

Kristie Leigh Maguire and her husband have lived all over the United States and many foreign countries while following his career. While living in Japan, she found it very difficult to find books to read that were written in English. This situation was intolerable as she was an avid reader and had been known to resort to reading cereal boxes if nothing else was available. Have you ever tried to read a cereal box written in Japanese? It was not a pretty picture. Ms. Maguire began writing her own books just to have something to read. She discovered a new passion in writing.

Although Kristie Leigh Maguire is originally from the South and will always remain Southern at heart, she and her husband now live in the US Virgin Islands. During her expatriate years she lived in St. Croix, Aruba, Thailand, Japan and three times in Saudi Arabia and visited many other countries.

Customer Reviews

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars "I Heard It Through the Grapevine", January 16, 2003

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Nina M. Osier (Randolph, ME USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: No Lady and Her Tramp (Paperback)

Beth Ann Dixon's life in Grapevine, Kentucky, doesn't look too bad from the outside. She's married to (and still in love with) her high school sweetheart, Billy Ray. She owns her own business, the Kut-n-Kurl beauty shop. But while the love hasn't gone out of her marriage, the physical magic certainly has; and the President Trailer Park is not where she wants to spend the rest of her days. Beth Ann has had enough of living at such close quarters with the likes of crazy Troy Finkmyer-his battered wife, Mary Jo-and nosey old Janet Higgins. She's also had more than enough of reading about the Park residents' antics in local gossip columnist Shirley Snodgrass's sensationalized weekly offerings.

So now Beth Ann is going to get out! She's got a new computer (bought with church bingo winnings), and she's writing the steamiest, sexist novel she can dream up. That book's the ticket to elsewhere for Beth Ann and her Billy Ray.

Writing it most certainly will change Beth Ann's life. Not to mention Billy Ray's, and-before all is over-the lives of everyone else in President Trailer Park. Or should I say the lives of everyone else in Grapevine, Kentucky?

This is one of the few books I've read in recent years that has literally made me laugh out loud. It also made me think that my own 10-year stint as a mobile home park resident was positively boring, compared to the adventures of Beth Ann and Billy Ray. Yet this comic novel has its serious moments, too; and many of them are quite touching.

The authors have done something I love in humorous fiction. They've taken familiar (even hackneyed) stereotypes, and then deftly fleshed those stereotypes out into genuine, believable individuals. The result is characters about whom readers can't help caring. Even while also laughing their heads off!

Don't miss this one. It is priceless.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Inquiring Minds Want to Know, December 4, 2010

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Imogen Rose "Author of the Portal Chronicles" - See all my reviews
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This review is from: No Lady and Her Tramp (Adult Romantic Comedy) (Kindle Edition)

This is not a book I would have normally picked up (I normally stick to YA fantasy), but I am so glad I did! It's amazing where the pages of a book can take you. In this case, right into the curious lives of the residents of President Park Trailer community-their actions carefully chronicled by the local gossip columnist and busy-body, Shirley Snodgrass, because as she says, "Inquiring minds want to know!"

Kristie Leigh Maguire immediately draws us into the life of the main character, Beth Ann Dixon, a hairdresser married to her childhood love, Billy Ray. One is immediately enthralled by Beth Ann's desire to become an author and we follow her unorthodox but spell binding journey into this dream. Miss Maquire has a wonderful way of fleshing out her characters, each one interesting in their own right. This was an engaging and often humorous story with some really quirky characters. I was sad when it was over and am hoping that I will encounter Beth Ann, Mary Jo, Troy, Billy Ray and Shirley Snodgrass in future publications by this entertaining author.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars FUN! FUN! FUN!, November 7, 2010

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Chloe "Chloe" - See all my reviews

This review is from: No Lady and Her Tramp (Adult Romantic Comedy) (Kindle Edition)

No Lady and Her Tramp

I have read some romance novels that were just "predictable". This book is fun to read, and I had to continue reading. I started the book at 9:00 P.M. last evening and read until I finished it at 4:00 A.M.

I really did enjoy Kristie's book. There were no boring or redundant parts, everything flowed so nicely, that I just had to find out what was going to happen next. I loved the "Grapevine Gazette", and I also identified with poor Mary Jo :(

Well, now I will definitely check out the author's other books! Thanks! That was a fun read.