Watts' New Book Earns Four Awards

Marie W. Watts is pleased to announce that her book, “Tough Trail Home,” starring Fayette County, has won four awards.

• Winner Of The 2024 Pencraft Seasonal Book Award Summer Competition For Fiction - Women’s Genre

• Winner In The 2024 Stoiytrade Book Awards “Regional Fiction USA Southwest”

• Speak Up Talk Radio International Firebird Book Award Winner 2024

• Outstanding Creator Award for Best Fiction Book Of Summer 2024 (2nd Place) Additionally, the book has garnered reviews from readers such as “inspiring,” “fantastic read,” “beautiful scenery, heart, and hope,” and “a wonderful stoty about resilience and resourcefulness.”

The book, set in the 2008 Great Recession and published by Black Rose Writing in March 2024, had a long road to publication, Marie explained: “I started the book in 2010, completed it, threw it in a drawer, wrote three more novels, and then removed it from the junk pile.”

Her other writing credits consist of three nonfiction books, including La Grange (Images of America: Texas).

In the fiction arena, she has published four other novels, counting the award-winning trilogy: Warriors for Equal Rights. Her short stoty, The Monster, appears in the 2024 historical anthology, Feisty Deeds: Historical Fictions of Daring Women.

Her upcoming work will be a historical fiction trilogy tracing her mother’s family from the Puritans who helped found the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630. The saga ends with her grandfather being forced off his land by the Tennessee Valley Authority during the Great Depression.

Her great-uncle, the Riverboat Captain Simp McKee, who owned a house of ill repute and a pig that drank beer, will be featured.

Marie is available for book clubs and speaking engagements. Additionally, she will be at the Round Top Library Book Fair on Sunday, October 6, 2024, from 1-4 p.m. The event will be held at the Bybee Campus, 206 W Mill St, in Round Top.

“Tough Trail Home” is available at your favorite online bookstore or the Fayette County Record, 127 S. Washington St., La Grange, Texas.

For more information or to contact Marie, please visit her website at www.mariewatts. com.

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