LONE STAR LADIES — Ken Johnson

Product Description Birdie Mae Maxie, a feisty young woman (think Holly Hunter) falls head-over-heels for the handsome face on a WANTED poster. Her dogged pursuit of the charismatic Ray Carl Emmons, aka “ Wife Killer,” a jail house marriage, a single conjugal visit under the watchful eyes of a horny Huntsville Prison guard, and the execution of the love of her life leaves Birdie Mae alone, pregnant and the owner of “The Watering Hole” she inherits from Ray Carl, a run-down bar in the small town of Texhoma, Texas on the Texas Oklahoma border. The novel follows the efforts of the LONE STAR LADIES who frequented Birdie Mae’s bar, affectionately called “The Hole,” in their search for sex, romance and a better life. The stories, both poignant and humorous, shift back and forth between Birdie Mae’s story in the 60’s and the present. “I wrote LONE STAR LADIES in memory of the various women (good and bad) I met growing up around my mother’s bar in Port Arthur, Texas.” Author K.O. Johnson resides in Austin, Texas where he has directed theater for over forty years. A prize winning playwright and filmmaker, Mr. Johnson’s plays and films have played all across the United States and on PBS. His Spanish/English film EL ABANDONADO can be rented on Netflix. A filmscript of another novel of Johnson’s, A KILLER WAITS, placed in the top ten percent at the Austin Film Festival out of three thousand entries. His novels, A KILLER WAITS, a detective thriller, and CRIME SCENE/SEX SCENE, a novel of explicit sexual awakening, are also available on Kindle.