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Fiction/Humor/Romance

Gingersnaps
Selected by the Literary Guild, Selected by the Doubleday Book Club

Fiction/Satire

Ladyfingers
An eccentric assortment of Americans on the French Riviera all converge on an attempted kidnapping at the Wedding Banquet of a famous film director.

Humor/Satire

Almond Cookie
A hilarious account of romantic reunions and career ambitions which culminate in cult suicide.

MY WORKS: The Cookie Quartet

"There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed."
— Ernest Hemingway

The hilarious National Bestseller, GINGERSNAPS.

Gingersnaps
"In this extremely hilarious novel, Delorys Welch-Tyson delves into the psyche of six saucy, sassy, ambitious black women whose lives are turned upside down in the endless escapade of truth or consequences. So, it you get a craving for something sweet, hard, and downright irresistible, Gingersnaps is for you."
--Charlene A. Berry
Author of Love's Deceptions

"Sure to take its place alongside bestselling contemporary African-American women's fiction -- like Knowing and Trying to Sleep in the Bed You Made."
-- the publisher
The Random House Publishing Group

The debut novel, Gingersnaps makes the cover of Publishers Weekly!

The sequel to GINGERSNAPS takes place in the South of France where a motley group of wealthy Americans search for personal and social fulfillment, giving new meaning to American foreign relations under the new millineum Bush administration!

Madame Arthuretta Bozell is the owner of a discreet
lifestyle makeover service called Ladyfingers. Needless to say, in today’s world, this business has made her fabulously wealthy.
Meet some of her clients:

Amelia Jackson: The internationally famous Pop Diva, who after ending her tumultuous romance with the record mogul, Paxton Cummings, begins a new life on the French Riviera. She becomes embroiled in a passionate affair with her handsome, but mysterious, and much younger Belgian lover.

The Heiress Leslie Vanderhoven:the sole scion of a media dynasty, who has fled her fireman lover for a new life and romance with her East Somarian Sheik in France.

The Countess Sara Haggener: After spending 5 years in the state prison, simply because she had the wrong boyfriend, is finally able to begin life anew.

The Baroness Kitty Von Denmarke: An untimely injury has forced her to end her career as a ballet dancer for the Los Angeles Ballet Company. To make matters worse, a series of humiliating occurrences compel her to flee the country.

Lolly DaLilla, the celebrated Queen of the Las Vegas Strip, has finally landed the man of his dreams…the billionaire shipping magnate, Janus Daropopolis;

With such flamboyant personage populating the French Riviera, it is no wonder that a group of East Somarian kidnappers emerge to lay in wait, for the right moment to take hostages for the political and financial demands of their anti-Sanction Society.
Ladyfingers gives new meaning to American foreign
relations!
(Available in Hardcover and Trade Paperback)

Ladyfingers
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A Reviewer (Paris, France)
Verrry humorous, with an erotic touch!,

The character Amelia Jackson, the international pop star brings to mind Diana Ross. I am not sure if that was the author's intention, but the idea certainly held me throughout the story.
The author created a new type of American expatriate story, taking place in an unexpected place, with an unexpected and riotous cast of characters. Sexy yet mis-matched couples, gallant opportunists, and eccentric artist types parade through this tale of American misadventures abroad. I thorougly enjoyed this novel.

Paris

Almond Cookie
Almond Cookie is a humorous tale of ethnic identity, political correctness, sexual deceit and manipulation, culminating in cult suicide. The novel takes place in Paris and the South of France.
To Be Released

The South of France

The Author, in Egypt, on a research expedition for the fourth installment of the Cookie Quartet entitled, Macaroons.

Saint Jean Cap Ferrat mixed media 24" X 36"

Haitian Image oil on canvas 48" X 56"

under the Moroccan Sun Oil on Canvas 4' X 6'

Nude Oil on canvas 5' X 3'

Untitled Oil on Canvas 24 X 48

Advance Praise (358.7KB)

A review by the Serendipity Book Club(Hanover, Germany)
The Wackiest Christmas Season Ever!!!
Six women who live around the New York Metropolitan area are facing another Christmas...STILL SINGLE!!! One, the famous talk show host Aletha Brown is so frustrated with her relationship that she ends up shooting her boyfriend just two weeks before Crhistmas. In the meantime, her producer, Veronica McPhereson has just had a baby, and is fired by the jealous Aletha. There is a writer who writes a book she is not qualified to write and is on a book tour while her son is seaching (behind her back) for the father he never knew. Aletha's sister and her husband, the Simon's are so sick of being surrounded by out of control sistahs and brothas that they are planning to flee the country. The piece de rsisitance, though is the outrageouly funny Christmas party in the Connecticut mansion of Desiree and Aletha's parents house. This book has to be about the funniest book I have read in ages...perhaps ever! It is a brilliant satire using BLACK WOMEN to illustrate what you can call an abuse of power! Clever!!!!

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Reviewer: A reader

TO THE RESCUE!!!

I've decided to comment because I found the book to be thought provoking and a personal challenge to me. I have been primarily attracted to and committed to Black men. However, their lack of reciprocal commitment to Black women has always baffled me. I admit that African-American men and women are going to have to work very hard at building positive relationships and if this book helps us get any closer to that goal then I applaude the author. I admit the author sort of goes a "little" over-board with her depiction of the female characters and their neuroses, problems and prejudices but after all it is FICTION. I commend the author for her effort and courage to challenge sisters to re-think our struggle (for power/control) with our men. (And if this shoe doesn't fit you, then ....)
This book also made me question other girlfriends and some of my male friends, literally, engaging them in conversations about what is wrong and what do they desire from their relationships. This is the first romance novel that made me search myself for why my "tall, dark and handsome" is still in paperback and not in my bed.

THE AUTHOR AS ARTIST