The Muffia
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—Becca Petersen, Amazon Verified Purchaser
“A great read, couldn't put it down. The Muffia should be required reading for every book club in America. It's fun, sexy and smart. Hope this is the beginning of a series. Loved it.”
—Susan Hito Shapiro, artist, filmmaker and attorney
“I didn't know what to expect when I bought my wife this book on the basis of the Godfather style font on the cover. The blurb on the back sounded sort of fun--a story about a bunch of wacky women in a book club (my wife's in a book club). I started reading it on my flight home and I have to say it held my attention (I'm usually reading Malcolm Gladwell or the Wall Street Journal). The Muffia is well written and that vibrator shopping chapter cracked me up. Now I'm wondering what else my wife's book club gets up to beyond reading books.”
—Jeffrey Malibu, An Amazon Verified Purchaser
“The Muffia Book Club babes may talk like sailors when they meet, but they are sensible, condom-packing ladies. Soon enough, you're reading about vibrators and female sex aids, as discussed by a group of "cliterati" (the author's term, not the reviewer's), as if it were a gardening club comparing the virtues of daisies and sunflowers. The literary proposal is that of a "whodunit?" and both in flavor and presentation, The Muffia is urbane, erudite, and ironic.”
—Stephen Siciliano of Sidewalk Smokers Club, Highway Scribery, Vine Voice
“Best serious love/thriller/comfort read ever! Wish I could go back in time and be those women! Their lives are serious and dark and fun!”
—Linda Mohan, Amazon Verified Purchaser
“I live in LA, where The Muffia takes place, and these women are spot on. They're so realistically drawn, that I could swear I even know a few of them personally! Very enjoyable.”
—Amazon Kindle Verified Purchaser
“Ann Royal Nicholas writes in a breezy style making this the perfect beach or airplane read when you don't want anything too demanding or heavy. The Muffia is the first in a series and I can't wait to read what the smart and wacky Muff women will get up to next. I also really liked that the author and her book club are giving 10% of sales to women's causes. That's cool!”
—Amazon Kindle Verified Purchaser
About The Author
Ann Royal Nicholas is an author (Homegrown: The Terror Within, published under the pseudonym Cialan Haasnic), Royal Mack’s Teeny Tiny Wine Guide; a journalist (LA Times, Vine Times Magazine), an essayist (“Of Wine and Men,” printed in Penguin’s In My Mother’s Kitchen) an award-winning filmmaker (Univers’l), screenwriter (Big Bang Theory), playwright (Villa Thrilla, Petting Zoo Story) and actor. She’s a graduate of the UCLA Writers Program, former Managing Director of the Ojai Playwrights Conference, a mediator and single mom.
Find out more at annroyalnicholas.com and annanicholas.com
The Muffia By Ann Royal Nicholas
This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and events are products of the author’s imagination; historical names and information, should either appear, are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, locations or events is strictly coincidental.
Copyright 2007 by Ann Royal Nicholas
Published by Bournos 2015
Los Angeles, CA
Paperback and Kindle editions first published by Water Street Press 2012
Printed in the United States of America
Cover Design by Fred Baxter
Interior format by The Killion Group
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