(EMAILWIRE.COM, October 31, 2018 ) Madeline Avery has her hands full with the residents of the Orchard Pines retirement home. From sit-ins, food fights, resident romances, an English lord, and a killer on the loose, this manager faces a constant barrage of challenges. Kay Rickenbaugh’s new novel, Dear Tallulah, takes a humorous look at aging gracefully—with a sense of adventure! The book has been published by Outskirts Press—the fastest-growing, full-service self-publishing and book marketing company.

Orchard Pines Residence and Spa is not your typical group retirement home. Located in the small community of Slocum, Georgia, it provides a variety of apartment styles and ameneties, including gardening space for those who want it, and residents are free to come and go as they please as long as they check in with the receptionist. Orchard Pines is a nice quiet, comfortable living facility for senior citizens.

Most residents, however, still have a mind of their own and are not ready for peace and quiet. Madeline, the manager, tries her best to keep control of things, but there are constant challenges—food fights in the dining room, a sit-in demonstration (complete with chains) over a demand for poached eggs for breakfast, a resident who is almost murdered, wine disguised as cranberry juice, romances among the residents and a questionable activities director.

In addition the men have formed an organization, The Macho Men, and the ladies have retaliated with The Ladybugs, leading to an in-house rivalry between the sexes. All of this is recorded daily in a journal by Emily Saunders, a new resident who soon finds that life at Orchard Pines is more than she bargained for!

Dear Tallulah will bring the reader to laughter and tears… The over-50 crowd, especially, may be inspired to start looking for their own “Orchard Pines Residence and Spa” for their golden years. It’s also a great blueprint for a chain of retirement communities.

For more information, visit the author’s website at outskirtspress.com/DearTallulah.

At 460 pages, Dear Tallulah is available online through Outskirts Press. It is also sold through Amazon and Barnes and Noble for a maximum trade discount in quantities of 10 or more and is being aggressively promoted to appropriate markets with a focus on the fiction category.

ISBN: 978-1-9772-0030-3 Format: 5.5 x 8.5 paperback Retail: $20.95 eBook: $9.99
ISBN: 978-1-4787-5117-5 Format: 6 x 9 hardback Retail: $33.95
Genre: FICTION

About the Author: Kay Rickenbaugh had a successful career as an insurance executive. Now retired and living in Florida, she has had time to act on comments made to her by a professor in a college English Lit class that her submitted papers were the funniest and best he had ever received. The result is Dear Tallulah, her debut novel.

About Outskirts Press, Inc.: Outskirts Press offers full-service, custom self-publishing and book marketing services for authors seeking a cost-effective, fast, and flexible way to publish and distribute their books worldwide while retaining all their rights and full creative control. Available for authors globally at www.outskirtspress.com and located on the outskirts of Denver, Colorado, Outskirts Press, Inc. represents the future of book publishing, today.
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