Fat Is the New 30: The Sweet Potato Queens? Guide to Coping with (the crappy parts of) Life

The Sweet Potato Queens® are back and bawdier than ever in Southern belle extraordinaire Jill Conner Browne’s ninth edition of the hysterical series. Having experienced pretty much ALL of the crappy parts of life, Browne feels it is her duty to render whatever assistance she can to her fellow sufferers — and she does so in her own inimitable fashion.

Her father taught her there are very few situations in life that we really and truly cannot change, and it is up to us to figure out how to either make fun OUT of them — or make fun OF them. And fortunately for the rest of us, Browne is well equipped for both. Including the exploits of the Queen contingent and her family, she delivers applicable tidbits like:

* Thinking or talking about watermelon can save any negative situation.

* If you get drunk in Scotland, you can’t have your cow with you.

* When sanity and reason fail, you can always cheerfully resort to ridicule.

* Denial means that every situation is perfectly perfect.

More fun than a Cracker Barrel full of monkeys, Fat Is the New 30 will change your life — or at least give you ideas for making fun of your ownself.

Jill Conner Browne is the New York Times bestselling author of nine Sweet Potato Queens® books, which are being developed into a Broadway musical with Grammy Award-winning singer/songwriter Melissa Manchester, Oscar nominee and Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame inductee Sharon Vaughn, and Tony Award-winning playwright Rupert Holmes. She has been featured in such publications as USA Today, Newsweek, People, Los Angeles Times, and the Washington Post. Her books have inspired more than 6,200 Sweet Potato Queen Wannabe™ Chapter Groups in twenty-two countries. When she is not writing, hosting Jackson, Mississippi’s Annual Zippity Doo Dah® Parade Weekend Festivities benefiting Blair E. Batson Hospital for Children, or speaking at fundraising events around the country, Jill lives and reigns in Jackson with her three cats, a three-legged girl dog, a big boy dog, her daughter’s rescued mutt, and her husband. And no, he’s not the Sweet Potato King.