Linda Breaux Bay grew up in a beach cabin converted from a glass-bottomed boat. She rode her first surfboard, tandem, with her step-father Felix at the age of 4. Felix “The Cat” Seidler was an Olympic swimmer and lifeguard, who learned the art of wave riding from Duke Kahanamoku, the father of modern surfing. The family beach house was the epicenter of the 60’s surf phenomenon on the Northern California coast. Mavericks - A Love Story, her award-winning first novel, is a fictional tribute to that lost place and time. Bay is currently at work on novel #2, Serial Bride, the fictionalized story of her chameleon-like mother and her many husbands. In addition to writing, Bay is a prolific water-colorist and an accomplished needle-felter. The author and her husband live on the Marin inter-coastal with a menagerie of pets.
Mavericks - A Love Story
Lana Strauss can coolly face a 20-foot wave at Mavericks, but is knocked off balance by an unlikely gaggle of conspirators trying to grab her newly inherited beachfront home. With precious little help from her dueling lovers, her two dysfunctional brothers and her father’s very cantankerous ghost, it’s up to Lana to save the beach. By turns erotic, magical, suspenseful and laugh-out-loud hilarious, Mavericks is a wild ride from start to finish.
The language in the book fizzes and sparks. The characters are intense and life-loving. Funny and tragic, with a dose of magical realism thrown in, the book is in a class by itself. —Connie Kronlokken
Awards for Mavericks - A Love Story
Alice Phelan Jason Award - best native California novel
Bay Area Writers Workshop / Mills College - best novel
Northwest Writers Conference - 3rd place novel
Maui Writers Conference - top 10 fiction manuscripts