Fay Jacobs 
Fried & True 
Tales From Rehoboth Beach

Fay Jacobs shares the inside story on life in the gay-friendly resort town of Rehoboth Beach. This collection of columns from the publication
Letters from CAMP Rehoboth is sometimes provocative, sometimes political, often heartwarming and reliably hilarious. In addition, Fay takes you inside the remarkable lives of two Rehoboth Beach icons, who helped her become an accidental publisher.

About the author

A native New Yorker, Fay Jacobs spent 30 years in Washington, DC working in journalism, public relations and theater. She is the former publisher of A&M Books, a successor to the legendary Naiad Press. Her first book, As I Lay Frying – a Rehoboth Beach Memoir (2004) is in its 4th printing. A second essay collection, Fried & True – Tales from Rehoboth Beach won the 2008 National Federation of Press Women Book of the Year for Humor. Her third book, For Frying Out Loud – Rehoboth Beach Diaries won a Fore Word Reviews Humor Book of the Year, a Goldie Award, Independent Publishers Award, American Library Association Over the Rainbow award and the 2011 National Federation of Press Women Book of the Year Award. Her most recent book Time Fries: Aging Gracelessly in Rehoboth Beach won the 2013 National Federation of Press Women Book of the Year for Humor. Her latest project is a reading, Aging Gracelessly: 50 Shades of Fay, which is currently being performed at GLBT events, conferences and in theatres around the country.

Fay teaches classes in humor writing, editing and memoir and has written for The Washington Post, Baltimore Sun, The Advocate, Curve Magazine and more. She lives in Rehoboth with Bonnie, her wife of 33 years, and a Miniature Schnauzer named Windsor.