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The blurb asks if Ayumi can do it again, create a J-Pop sensation with a brand new band.
Well, Melanie Brown certainly can!
Moxie, the sequel to Texas Belles is on Kindle, the story of the beautiful bass player who used to be a boy. It'll take all of her grit, determination, skills and Moxie to make a success of her new band of misfits, malcontents and rejects.
The book has all the characterization and narrative magic Melanie brings to all of her books for DopplerPress, so don't miss it!
And please, leave a review on Amazon.
Hugs,
Erin
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Moxie
That must have been one heck of an ad campaign around 90 years ago, that turned Moxie from a regional soft drink into a nationally-known word. I'd thought it was post-WWII, but online sources say the word's been in print since 1930.
(It didn't make my late uncle's 1951 American College Dictionary, though. Even further off the subject of Melanie's story, "movie" is in there as a one line entry: Colloquial U.S. - Motion picture.)
Eric
The drink
Wikipedia says the word "...likely derives from an Abenaki word that means 'dark water' and that is found in lake and river names in Maine, where Thompson was born and raised." Although it has never been widely available outside New England, at one time it was the best-selling bottled soft drink in America back when Coca Cola was something you got at Southern drugstore lunch counters and Pepsi was mostly mid-western.
I think the ads featured a guy dressed as a pharmacist pointing out of the picture and commanding, "Drink Moxie." :)
Hugs,
Erin
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I recall
Hearing it in early gangster movies as in ' ya got a lotta moxie kid.'
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Moxie
It's also the name of Alfred E. Neuman's girlfriend...