NEW ORLEANS – Author and self-publisher Deborah Burst announced the release of her third book, “Southern Fried & Sanctified: Tales from the Back Deck.”
Burst said it is a book rich in southern storytelling. “I have brought together my fondest work in my 12-year writing/ photography career,” she said. “Five chapters in all, Travelin' Time, Hit the Hills, Friendly Folk, Crazy Critters, and Country Confessions, featuring 160 pages and 85 photos inside.”
Burst said her new book measures 6” x 9” and fits perfectly on a coffee table or inside a car’s glove compartment.
In the first two chapters Burst leads readers on a trail of adventure from New Orleans to Virginia with shrouded bayous, jungles of bearded oaks, beaches flush with seashells and gold-leafed mountainsides.
Inside the Friendly Folk chapter, Burst meets the kind of people you'll never forget – from a Tennessee farm boy realizing his dream to WWII vets sharing stories of sacrifices and heroism.
And Burst reveals some of her most personal reflections of her youth, professional writing career and “the erotic beauty of nature” in the Country Confessions chapter.
“And what would a Southern book be without a chapter on crazy critters?” Burst asks. “There’s teary-eyed tales of Tyler, Bruce Mitchell’s hound dog and star of the television show, Swamp People. Charlie the blue heron, who has a love affair with a Kentucky blonde who spends her winters in Apalachicola, FL. And Spikey stories, a chow-retriever who rules his wooded kingdom along a dead-end gravel road.”
Burst’s other books include “Hallowed Halls Of Greater New Orleans” and “Louisiana's Sacred Places: Churches, Cemeteries and Voodoo” which she describes as a trail of history and mystery from New Orleans to backroad churches, cemeteries and plantations. Famed author Anne Rice said the book is “delightfully vivid bringing to life all the favorite haunts of the lively spirits both living and dead.”
