Causey, Toni McGee

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Causey, Toni McGee

PERSONAL:

Born in LA; married; husband's name Carl; children: two. Education: Attended Louisiana State University.

ADDRESSES:

Home—Baton Rouge, LA. E-mail—[email protected].

CAREER:

Co-owner of a civil construction company in Baton Rouge, LA.

WRITINGS:

Bobbie Faye's Very (Very, Very, Very) Bad Day (novel), St. Martin's Griffin (New York, NY), 2007.

SIDELIGHTS:

Toni McGee Causey is a Louisiana native who, with her husband, owns a civil engineering firm. Her career as a writer began with a three-book deal with St. Martin's Press. In the first book in the series, Bobbie Faye's Very (Very, Very, Very) Bad Day, Bobbie Faye Sumrall lives a life of chaos, beginning in this story with a flooded trailer, the result of a faulty washing machine. Her no-account brother Roy has been kidnapped, and the ransom is to be a tiara she inherited from her mother. She had planned on wearing the tiara when she reigns as queen of the Lake Charles, Louisiana, Contraband Festival Days, a pirate-themed celebration, but the tiara is stolen when she goes to the bank to collect it. Playing the part of a modern-day pirate, Bobbie Faye takes command of a truck and its hunky driver, Trevor, and they embark on a wild ride through bayou country to avoid the police, FBI, and assorted villains who are on her trail.

In reviewing the novel on Bookreporter.com, Joe Hartlaub wrote: "There are many things to love about this book—the plot, the pacing, the dialogue—but my own favorite element is the characterization…. But if you want a short description of this great novel, think Die Hard in the swamp." "Causey doesn't miss a beat in this wonderful, wacky celebration of Southern eccentricity," wrote a Publishers Weekly contributor.