Do you have questions for the authoress? 

Do you ask them frequently?

Wow, are you going to love this page.

Q.  What is wrong with you?

A.  Obsessive-compulsive disorder, chronic depression, irritable bowel syndrome, low blood sugar, iron deficiencies, sorbitol allergies, and ownership of four (4) New Kids on the Block cassettes.

Q.  That aside, are you available for speaking engagements and readings? 

A.  Yep.  Here's what's going on now.  You should totally come, and say hi, and give me money.

Q.  Will you autograph a book for me?

A.  As long as you buy one. 

Send your copy of Drink to the Lasses and the name to which you'd like it autographed here:

Morning Works Media

ATTN:  Mary Beth Ellis

P.O. Box 3174

Leesburg, VA  20177

Autographs are free, but Morning Works Media does plead for a self-addressed stamped envelope.


Q.  We need to have a talk about your hair in these college pictures.

                           


A.  It's OK.  It doesn't look like that anymore.  Much.

Q.  Where did you get the title?
A. As a senior, I was working on a research project in the SMC library archives and came across the student scrapbook of author and former college president Sister Madeleva Wolff, who attended Saint Mary's at the turn of the century.  One of the pre-printed pages contained a poem with the phrase "drink to the lasses"; it's actually, I believe, a toast.  I wrote it down, figuring it would come in handy at some point.  Friggin' took long enough.

Q.  I'm a new student at Saint Mary's.  Any advice?

A.  You can never have too many quarters.  Or crackers.

 

Q.  Have you written other books?

A.  Well.  One-twenty ninth of one.  I have an essay in Random House's Twentysomething Essays by Twentysomething Authors:  The Best New Voices of 2006.  You should totally read it.  My part is almost as long as the title.  I've also appeared in Grotto Stories:  From the Heart of Notre Dame.  Yes, give me an anthology with a colon in the title, and I'm there.

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