about the author
Shellie Rushing Tomlinson
Author of Suck Your Stomach In and Put Some Color On and Sue Ellen’s Girl Ain’t Fat, She Just Weighs Heavy
Shellie Rushing Tomlinson lives in Lake Providence, Louisiana, with her husband, Phil. They have two children and three grandchildren. Shellie is the author of Lessons Learned On Bull Run Road, ’Twas the Night before the Very First Christmas, Southern Comfort with Shellie Rushing Tomlinson, and the Penguin Group USA release, Suck Your Stomach In and Put Some Color On, voted nonfiction finalist of 2009 by SIBA, the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance. Sue Ellen’s Girl Ain’t Fat, She Just Weighs Heavy will hit stores May 3, 2011.
Shellie is owner and publisher of All Things Southern and the host of a daily radio show and weekly video segment by the same name. You can listen to Shellie’s All Things Southern live talk show each Monday evening from 5-6 p.m. CST on TALK 540 KMLB. The show streams live and podcasts are available so everyone can join Shellie’s southern celebration! You can find Shellie’s podcasts here.
Shellie writes a weekly inspirational feature in The News-Star, a Gannett-owned paper serving parts of Arkansas, Louisiana, and Mississippi, and a monthly print and online column for Louisiana Road Trips.
When Shellie isn’t writing, speaking, taping her show, answering email, or writing content for the next deadline, you can find her playing tennis with Dixie Belle, the chocolate Lab who thinks she is in charge of running Shellie’s life.
Learn more about this speakerPress Links
"Have You Found Yourself, Yet?"
The News Star
"Tomlinson's Southern Wit Shows in New Book"
The News Star
Shellie Rushing Tomlinson's Weekly Porch Chat
All Things Southern
Shellie Rushing Tomlinson's Radio Archive
All Things Southern Radio
Featured Book
Sue Ellen’s Girl Ain’t Fat, She Just Weighs Heavy
"As a Yard Bubba (You'll have to read the book for an explanation) living in a house full of Southern Belles I am here to tell you that Shellie Rushing Tomlinson is laugh out loud funny. For anyone that has an ounce of Southern blood flowing through their veins or those that wish they did, this book is going to be a treasure!"
—Jeff Foxworthy
Speaking Topics
- Why Manners Still Matter
- Winning the Game of What If
- Love Him Like a Girl
- Lessons Learned On Bull Run Road
- Peace in a Pressure-Cooker World
- It’s Never Too Late to Be Who You Were Meant to Be!
- Mirror, Mirror, In My Hand
- How to Have Mountain-Moving, Mulberry-Tree-Throwing Faith!
- Choose one, or supply the topic of your event and let Shellie give it a Dixie twist.
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