Fran Thomas lives full-time in St. James City and is a former
editor of the Pine Island Eagle. She recently worked at Florida
SouthWestern State College with first year students creating and facilitating
workshops to teach them success skills. Her book Average to Awesome: How to Ace
Your First Year in College Exercising Your Emotional Intelligence is available
as an E-book (Kindle) for free. One Amazon reviewer gave the book five stars
and said, "If I had read this book during my college years, I would've
been a more productive student."
Fran has just released (on September 26) a fictional novella. It’s a
romantic comedy about a woman named Geneva Price who finds herself in charge of
the small town of Calusa when its mayor disappears in the middle of the night. Geneva
soon finds herself embroiled in a dispute between townsfolk who want to
preserve the ecology and business people who are determined to save the town
from economic ruin. A hotel developer with good hair might be the answer to her
prayers in more ways than one, but first Geneva has arrange a truce between the
local ecologists and economists. Called The Lady is a Mayor, the novella is available for free on Kindle.
The novella is a prequel to a full length book Fran is working
on. “Since I was once the editor of the local newspaper, I have lots of material to
draw from,” says Fran. “So if you need a
break from the debates, here's a lighter look at political goings on in a
sort-of fictional small town.”
The novella is not the stretch you might think it is. Not only does Fran
have a degree in English Literature, she's read
thousands of romances, edited a bunch and has started writing a handful that
she swears she’ll complete.
So come to Indie Author Day tomorrow at Lovegrove
Gallery & Gardens and spend some time getting to know Fran and her work.
She’s a wealth of knowledge.
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