Blog Tour: Gumbeaux Love by Jax Frey (+$25 Giveaway!)

Title: Gumbeaux Love
Author: Jax Frey

Series: Gumbeaux Sistahs #2

Pages: 236

Date Published: October 1st, 2020

Format: Kindle

Genre: Women's Fiction

Source: Goddess Fish Blog Tours
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Synopsis:

The adventures of the Gumbeaux Sistahs continues. Five, fiery southern women wage wars against their unique problems using their improbable friendships, hilarious evil-genius schemes, strategy sessions with oh-so-many cocktails, and a shared passion for good gumbo.

Single, Southern artist, Judith Lafferty, casually confesses to her Gumbeaux Sistahs that she is occasionally lonely and would like to fall in love again. Seriously - you'd think she would know to keep her mouth shut around these women by now. The sistahs tackle her problem along with their own with their usual unreasonable, extreme plots and schemes, including a kidnapping, a cupid costume, trying out pick-up lines at the cheese counter, and blind dates from hell. In helping out their friend, the sistahs help each other out as well and bring to light the many flavors of love in all of our lives. Be ready for twists, turns, laugh-out-loud times, and heart-wrenching moments. You'll be sure to recognize yourself and your best friends in the unstoppable sistahs.

~Standing Out in a Crowd~

...How to make each heroine unique!

In my case, it was easy because each of the Gumbeaux Sistahs characters are based on a real-life friend of mine. They are a diverse group, who shouldn’t get along at all, but somehow do. And they are fiercely loyal to each other.

Here are the five main characters; you can see how they are unique.

Bea – quietly friendly, educated, obviously the well-respected boss of the group.

Helen – spiritual, crystal-gazing, massage therapist, heavily into nutrition, self-care, health and being ultra-kind in this world.

Dawn – new-money, well-dressed from a say-what-you-think country upbringing. She formidable in her opinion and in her stature. Very unpredictable.

Lola – wiry, activist who is educated in law but works with her hands in the landscaping field. She confident, sexy, and acts as Dawn’s social filter.

Judith - the quiet, talented, wry-humored artist. She anti-social but coming out of her shell, still somewhat dazed at having been newly-adopted by the caring Sistahs.
See what I mean? They are quite unique. I know some real characters!

~Try an Excerpt!~

Judith rinsed her juice glass in the kitchen sink just as the doorbell rang.

“Who in the world at this hour?” she thought, shaking her head and glancing at the clock on the wall. “It’s not even eight o’clock.”

She walked to the front door and started to open it, but before she could swing it open all the way, a hand clutching a paper coffee cup shoved its way inside, barely missing her face.

“What?” she yelped. Then she laughed. “Oh no, are you kidding me?” She opened the door to five Gumbeaux Sistahs, including Bea, Helen, Dawn, Lola, and Trinity who stood on her front stoop holding coffee. It was especially a surprise to see Trinity there since she lived across the lake and had a long way to come. But the most unexpected thing of all was Dawn, who stood there looking embarrassed as all get-out, wearing a big, red Cupid costume.

“Not again!” said Judith, rolling her eyes and remembering that this was exactly the way that the sistahs had originally kidnapped her and become her best friends in the world.

Dawn grimaced and said, “I don’t know why I’m always the one who has to wear a stupid costume.”

~Meet Jax!~ 

Born in New Orleans, Jax came into this world with a sense of celebration of southern culture, food, family and fun. Translating that celebration into her writing and onto canvas is her true calling. Her colorful art depicts everything from her dancing Gumbeaux Sistahs paintings to her popular line of original Mini paintings of southern icons. Because over 25,000 of the mini paintings have been created and sold into art collections worldwide, Jax holds a world’s record for The Most Original Acrylic Paintings on Canvas by One Artist from the World's Record Academy. Jax art and gifts can be seen at www.artbyjax.com.

Jax is also the co-founder of the Women of Infinite Possibilities, an empowering women’s organization started in Covington, LA, where Jax lives today with her loveable, tornado-of-a-pug named Lucy.
The Gumbeaux Sistahs' series of novels is a work of love for Jax After painting the Sistahs for many years, she finally gives voice to these women characters who have something to say and constantly make Jax laugh when she writes about them.

 Jax will be awarding a $25 Amazon or Barnes and Noble GC to a randomly drawn winner via rafflecopter during the tour.a Rafflecopter giveaway