Novel about four girlfriends, a scoundrel husband in Hermosa Beach
by Erin Waldner Carrie Talick set her debut novel, Beware the Mermaids, in the South Bay because, she said, “I have so much love for the South Bay.” Beware the Mermaids is about a wife and mother in Hermosa Beach, Nancy, who discovers her louse of a husband is cheating on her. Nancy turns to her three best girlfriends for support, which sometimes comes in the form of margaritas. With their encouragement, Nancy moves onto a sailboat in King Harbor. Beware the Mermaids was published this week by Alcove Press and is being distributed by Penguin Random House. Pages: a bookstore in Manhattan Beach will host a reception for Talik at 3 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 14. Another event is tentatively set for Sept. 16 at Uncorked in Hermosa Beach. The 51-year-old author lived in Hermosa from 1995 to 2020, when she moved with her husband, Mike Ayotte, and stepdaughter, Charlotte, to Rancho Palos Verdes. Talick is a copywriter at Innocean, the in-house ad agency for Hyundai Motor America. “I knew I wanted to write a book before I left Michigan for California back in 1992, ’93,” Talick said. “My mom had just died — she was 46 — and I was sort of adrift. I didn’t know what I wanted to do. I was working in…
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