First Draft to Published

Blogger has new backgrounds! Can you believe it? For the longest time the wordpress blogging platform has been leaving blogger in its dust. So, with some very COOL backgrounds I started a new blog. It's called Family Daze - We Shook the Family Tree. I think it's mostly about family history, family issues, topics from the 18th, 19th, 20th, 21st centuries and maybe some author interviews and whatever else comes along. It's just getting started so, bear with me while its still under construction. Check it out here; Family Daze - We Shook the Family Tree .

Good Morning, Writing Daze Readers, Thanks so much for asking me to blog on your site about the following questions: Tell us about a day in the life of you the writer, what's your writing day like? Do you balance family and writing, or writing and a job outside the house, or writing, a job and family? What was it like for you to write this book along with your busy life? First, let me introduce myself. I’m Kathryn Shay and I’ve been published by Harlequin and The Berkley Publishing Group for the last fifteen years. THE PERFECT FAMILY , which will be released from Bold Strokes Books in September, is my thirty-seventh book. It’s about a typical family whose seventeen year old son tells them he’s gay and the ensuing struggle the family endures. My typical writing day is different from what it was when I initially published, so I’ll start with that. When I sold my first book, I was a full time high school English teacher. My goal was to publish one book a year, which I thought I could ...

Join Dr. Harry Saranchak, author of the mystery novel, Betrayals of Hippocrates: Crimes Against Innocence (Xlibris), as he virtually tours the blogosphere in August ‘10 on his first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! About Dr. Harry Saranchak Dr. Harry J. Saranchak earned a B.A. degree cum laude from Georgetown and followed it with an M.D. from University of Connecticut School of Medicine. For 30 years he was a vascular and general surgeon in three Connecticut hospitals, and for 25 of those he was also educator and mentor to medical students, residents and colleagues—while receiving eight Golden Scalpel awards for teaching excellence. A Fellow of the American College of Surgeons, Dr. Saranchak co-authored seven medical journal articles from 1974 to 1984. After retiring from his private practice at Grove Hill Medical Center in New Britain, CT, he wrote Betrayals of Hippocrates: Crimes Against Innocence. You can visit his website at http://www.harryjsaranchak.com About Betrayals ...

ABOUT COLD LONELY COURAGE An assassin born of death and violation is the most dangerous of all. Cold Lonely Courage tells her story. The action begins during the German Blitzkrieg attack on France in the opening days of World War II. The heroine, Madeleine Toche races to the front to find her brother dying after his unit is destroyed as the Germans advance. Crushed, Madeleine returns his body to her parents. In the months that follow, Madeleine is raped by a Nazi officer. Seeking revenge she kills him and flees to England to volunteer for duty with Britain's shadowy Special Operations Executive. Trained as an assassin she clandestinely returns to France with Captain Jack Teach a veteran of the SOE 'Dirty Tricks Department'. They find themselves in love but are torn apart by duty and the insurmountable odds of survival. Madeleine fights on terrorizing the murderous Nazi elite always only one step ahead of capture and torture. Thirteen Things about Cold Lonely Courag...

About the Book: The Scene: Aspiring screenwriter Lelaina Zane finally lands a Hollywood break, but it’s cut short when her dad has a heart attack and she has to return to her hometown. Now that she’s back, her parents want her to stay, show some responsibility and join the family law firm. Her Ex: Her first love, first kiss, first… you know, and first guy she caught with another woman. Full of apologies and a proposition, he wants her to stay and be with him. Her Dilemma: With one embarrassing disaster after another, a devastating blow from Hollywood and four weeks until the Bar Exam, Lainey has to decide if she’ll stay and have it all — career, love, money — or return to LA to pursue her impossible dream. 13 Things About Escapades of Romantically Challenged Me’s main character Lelaina Zane by Maya Jax 1. Lelaina's first name is a tribute to the main character from Ben Stiller's film Reality Bites. I wanted to be Lelaina Pierce when I saw this movie. I carried around a video ca...

In a Chance to Say Yes with author Tina Murray the drama will keep you on the edge of your seat with its twists and turns. In a story that Murray supplies with plenty of characters we see an abundance of greed, deception, love interests, cheating spouses, jealousy and much more. Reading this book you will either find you love or hate these characters. Heston Demming - is at the peak of his acting career—a Hollywood heartthrob, his handsome face on every tabloid. When he comes home to Naples, Florida, his opulent lifestyle is declaration of victory over the poverty and hardship of his youth. But his triumphant return is a sham, a lie he’s told himself to keep from facing the truth. Poppy Talbot - The woman left behind in Heston’s quest for money and fame. Poppy still has the same sweetness as she did when they were love-struck teenagers. She could save him—if he could get her to forgive the past and win her trust… Inez Demming – Heston’s first wife, if that doesn’t say it all, but did s...