Over the next few weeks, I'd like you to meet some very wonderful and talented authors that I have the privilege to launch with--the Spring 2007 Kunati authors. I hope you will check out their books. ~CKT

Part 1: GET REAL READY FOR SOME SOUTHERN FRIED GOLF MISCHIEF ... IN THE HILARIOUS NOVEL, TOONAMINT OF CHAMPIONS, BY TODD SENTELL

"Hilarity for adults . . . perhaps the funniest novel of the year." —Films and Books Magazine

Todd Sentell is an Atlanta native and award winning golf writer whose wildly comic novel, “Toonamint of Champions: How LaJuanita Mumps Got to Join Augusta National Golf Club Real Easy” will be published in mid March, 2007 by Kunati Publishing. The book has already been hailed as a social satirical masterpiece and its style and tone has been compared to Mark Twain's. In other words, those who scream for attention really get a lot of it.

BOOKLIST LOVES THE TOONAMINT

Reviewed by Bill Ott, Senior Editor

Golf inspires its share of mystical celebration, but it also provides fertile ground for low comedy—take Caddyshack, or the novels of Dan Jenkins and Rick Reilly. When it comes to over-the-top slapstick, though, golf journalist Sentell makes Jenkins and Reilly look like somber social realists out of the Emile Zola school.

Summarizing the plot of a farce filled with fart jokes is treacherous, but here goes: Waymon Poodle, the best damn bank teller in Mullet Luv, Georgia, dreams of playing a round of golf at Augusta National Golf Club, home of the Masters. Sentell’s novel purports to tell us how Waymon tries to achieve his goal, but its real purpose is to expose “what goes on behind the gates of ootsie tootsie private clubs.” Are we really expected to believe that the chairman of the ootsiest-tootsiest private club in America goes by the nickname of Huge Pecker? Well, not exactly, but thousands of otherwise sensible, workaday golf fans will jump at the chance to pretend it’s so.

There’s no explaining why golf slapstick is funny, just as there’s no reason why anybody should like licorice ice cream.

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Check out Todd's novel Toonamint of Champions!