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Fried & Convicted: Rehoboth Beach Uncorked
As the author of four humorous memoirs, activist and comedian Fay Jacobs returns with her newest tall tales, Fried & Convicted, Rehoboth Beach Uncorked. And, as you’d expect, It’s chock-full of Fay’s signature witty, wise, and often laugh-out-loud commentary about the craziness of contemporary life in the diverse and welcoming resort town of Rehoboth Beach on the Delaware Coast.
This time, though, everyone’s favorite “Sit-Down Comic” grapples with the insanity of a high-tech bra, cartoon bladders in prescription advertising, and refusing to act her age . . .
Fried & Convicted was written over the last few years and culminates with Election Day, 2016. It chronicles the joy of gaining equal marriage rights for same-sex couples, tales of Icelandic lagoons, Provincetown adventures, and much ado about lesbians of a certain age. It tells a few harrowing personal stories, such as Bonnie’s unnerving medical diagnosis, the time Fay went kayaking with alligators, and how she came up with a public relations scheme to rescue her pal’s purloined pooch. And through it all, she finds a way to make it provocative, political, occasionally heartwarming, and reliably hilarious.
Featuring Fay’s latest magazine columns plus new, never before published material, Fried & Convicted is a pleasure for longtime fans and new readers alike.
Come along for the ride—you’ll be happy you did!
Fay Jacobs spent thirty years in Washington, DC working in journalism and public relations. Her latest project is a one-woman show, Aging Gracelessly: 50 Shades of Fay, which is being performed in theatres around the country. She lives in Rehoboth Beach with her wife of thirty-four years and a Miniature Schnauzer.
- GenresHumor
250 pages, Kindle Edition
Published March 20, 2017
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About the author
Fay Jacobs
12 books10 followersFay is a native New Yorker, who spent 30 years working in journalism and public relations. Her first book, As I Lay Frying a Rehoboth Beach Memoir (2004) is in its 3rd printing. Her second, Fried & True Tales from Rehoboth Beach won the 2008 National Womens Press Association Book of the Year for humor. Fay is the publisher of A&M Books a small feminist press. Fay has contributed The Advocate, Baltimore Sun, Delaware Beach Life, Sussex Weekly and the Wilmington News Journal. "
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December 4, 2017
2017 Rainbow Awards Honorable Mention: Fried & Convicted: Rehoboth Beach Uncorked Fay Jacobs
1) I loved her humorous style. Also, I think this book has great market potential for two reasons. First, it's hilarious, and second, it fits nicely in a popular and neglected genre: bathroom reading. As some character (don't remember who) said in "The Big Chill," she writes the perfect length for the "average reader to read during the average crap." That is not to demean her talent. She has real skill, and in a genre that, frankly, may be the only literature that far too many people ever read.
2) Superb! Except for her wife's bout with cancer, I wish I had written this book!
3) Come along for the ride—you’ll be happy you did! -- this tag line is very true! This book was a delightful humorous (and at times, a bit somber) memoir. I enjoyed the book from the very first, and it kept me laughing, snorting, and giggling thorough the subsequent situations and stories. I love Fay Jacob's story telling--it's on point and makes the time fly by.
1) I loved her humorous style. Also, I think this book has great market potential for two reasons. First, it's hilarious, and second, it fits nicely in a popular and neglected genre: bathroom reading. As some character (don't remember who) said in "The Big Chill," she writes the perfect length for the "average reader to read during the average crap." That is not to demean her talent. She has real skill, and in a genre that, frankly, may be the only literature that far too many people ever read.
2) Superb! Except for her wife's bout with cancer, I wish I had written this book!
3) Come along for the ride—you’ll be happy you did! -- this tag line is very true! This book was a delightful humorous (and at times, a bit somber) memoir. I enjoyed the book from the very first, and it kept me laughing, snorting, and giggling thorough the subsequent situations and stories. I love Fay Jacob's story telling--it's on point and makes the time fly by.
May 4, 2017
It's Fay's latest and as the expression says, she leaves it all on the court...or the page :)
Fay Jacobs should be in every college and university sharing these stories. I've read every book, laughed right out loud AND followed the entire history of gay rights told with love, warmth, frustration, tears and triumph by someone who didn't just witness it, but lived, fought for it and created it. Humorists from Erma Bombeck to Andy Borowitz teach us so much with their pen and their wit and Fay Jacobs is every bit their (lesser known) peer.
Fay Jacobs should be in every college and university sharing these stories. I've read every book, laughed right out loud AND followed the entire history of gay rights told with love, warmth, frustration, tears and triumph by someone who didn't just witness it, but lived, fought for it and created it. Humorists from Erma Bombeck to Andy Borowitz teach us so much with their pen and their wit and Fay Jacobs is every bit their (lesser known) peer.
April 4, 2017
‘I promise to practice better cell phone etiquette. Is there an app for that?’
Delaware author Fay Jacobs easily aligns with those humorists current and past who are astute observers of the human condition in general, unafraid to discuss aging in a humorous manner, tell whopper tales that are in truth actual observations, and at the same time insert enough compassion that she deserves a big hug. She is a champion for the LGBT community, especially the microcosm that inhabits Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, but she doesn't limit her keen insight to her own special collective society: this is a book of her journalistic tirades and exposés and commentary on everyday life that comes from her years as an astute journalist.
This is Fay's sixth book (they sell like crazy because they have the appeal of a Mark Twainism brand of humor) and each of her books is a reproduction of articles she has published in the Delaware Beach Life and Letters from CAMP Rehoboth - along with some added padding that make the book like a comfy curl-up in a comforter, big enough for two to share while giggling and guffawing. Not that her articles are limited to the hometown newspaper in Rehoboth: she also writes for The Advocate, Curve, OutTraveler, The Washington Post, Delaware Beach Life, Baltimore Sun, Chesapeake Bay Magazine, Delaware Today and Wilmington News Journal. This lady gets around.
One of the best aspects of this collection is the emphasis on finding the humor (and embarrassment and longing and all the other emotions that accompany) in aging. Though you have to sit with this book in your lap to get the most from Fays’ signature witty, wise, and often laugh-out-loud commentary about the craziness of contemporary life in the diverse and welcoming resort town of Rehoboth Beach on the Delaware Coast, a synopsis for first timers may help – ‘This time, though, everyone’s favorite “Sit-Down Comic” grapples with the insanity of a high-tech bra, cartoon bladders in prescription advertising, and refusing to act her age.
Fried & Convicted was written over the last few years and culminates with Election Day, 2016. It chronicles the joy of gaining equal marriage rights for same-sex couples, tales of Icelandic lagoons, Provincetown adventures, and much ado about lesbians of a certain age. It tells a few harrowing personal stories, such as Bonnie’s unnerving medical diagnosis, the time Fay went kayaking with alligators, and how she came up with a public relations scheme to rescue her pal’s purloined pooch. And through it all, she finds a way to make it provocative, political, occasionally heartwarming, and reliably hilarious. Featuring Fay’s latest magazine columns plus new, never before published material, Fried & Convicted is a pleasure for longtime fans and new readers alike.’
We need a lot of Fay Jacobs around, but since she is a unique lady we must all grab her books and .... breathe!
Delaware author Fay Jacobs easily aligns with those humorists current and past who are astute observers of the human condition in general, unafraid to discuss aging in a humorous manner, tell whopper tales that are in truth actual observations, and at the same time insert enough compassion that she deserves a big hug. She is a champion for the LGBT community, especially the microcosm that inhabits Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, but she doesn't limit her keen insight to her own special collective society: this is a book of her journalistic tirades and exposés and commentary on everyday life that comes from her years as an astute journalist.
This is Fay's sixth book (they sell like crazy because they have the appeal of a Mark Twainism brand of humor) and each of her books is a reproduction of articles she has published in the Delaware Beach Life and Letters from CAMP Rehoboth - along with some added padding that make the book like a comfy curl-up in a comforter, big enough for two to share while giggling and guffawing. Not that her articles are limited to the hometown newspaper in Rehoboth: she also writes for The Advocate, Curve, OutTraveler, The Washington Post, Delaware Beach Life, Baltimore Sun, Chesapeake Bay Magazine, Delaware Today and Wilmington News Journal. This lady gets around.
One of the best aspects of this collection is the emphasis on finding the humor (and embarrassment and longing and all the other emotions that accompany) in aging. Though you have to sit with this book in your lap to get the most from Fays’ signature witty, wise, and often laugh-out-loud commentary about the craziness of contemporary life in the diverse and welcoming resort town of Rehoboth Beach on the Delaware Coast, a synopsis for first timers may help – ‘This time, though, everyone’s favorite “Sit-Down Comic” grapples with the insanity of a high-tech bra, cartoon bladders in prescription advertising, and refusing to act her age.
Fried & Convicted was written over the last few years and culminates with Election Day, 2016. It chronicles the joy of gaining equal marriage rights for same-sex couples, tales of Icelandic lagoons, Provincetown adventures, and much ado about lesbians of a certain age. It tells a few harrowing personal stories, such as Bonnie’s unnerving medical diagnosis, the time Fay went kayaking with alligators, and how she came up with a public relations scheme to rescue her pal’s purloined pooch. And through it all, she finds a way to make it provocative, political, occasionally heartwarming, and reliably hilarious. Featuring Fay’s latest magazine columns plus new, never before published material, Fried & Convicted is a pleasure for longtime fans and new readers alike.’
We need a lot of Fay Jacobs around, but since she is a unique lady we must all grab her books and .... breathe!
April 9, 2017
Great job once again!
Fay Jacobs will have you laughing out loud once again! Thank you Fay . Please keep them coming! Love to the House of Windsor.
Fay Jacobs will have you laughing out loud once again! Thank you Fay . Please keep them coming! Love to the House of Windsor.
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