When I was asked to blog on LazyDay’s site, I had no idea what to say. I couldn’t exactly blog like I do on mine. *wink*  I had to keep this entry G Rated. So, I stared at a blank page for hours. I’m not good at expressing my emotions in real life. Fiction, is a different story.  I finally decided to write about love.

My book is obviously about love. The loss of love, the desire to have love, the uncertainty of love and then finally, the wonderful feeling of love.

I think it’s hard to allow love into your life. To trust someone so much that you would trust them with your heart. At least it is for me. I think the words “I love you” are powerful and often used too often, and at times not used enough.

I’ve come to learn that sometimes you have to take a chance on love. Sometimes you have to be willing to give your heart over to someone.

I can honestly say that I am in love… and very lucky to be able to say those words. I may not have the “traditional” types of love. I love my family, I love my friends, I love my followers, I love many special people.  One thing is for sure, when I say those words…I mean them.

I do hope that each one of my readers can say that they LOVE Traditional Love. Just be warned…it’s spicy, it’s seductive and it WILL make you blush!

Anatomy of Myth

How does it all begin? For every writer of paranormal or fantasy fiction it is the question that you will be asked more than any other. It is also the one that will drive you deeper into each story you create.

For some it is threads of an idea?  Tendrils of a thought stretched tight across the mine? Perhaps it is a kernel of knowledge that stays with you long after you have shut off the light?

My idea all began with an ancient tale of a book, the devil and a large black dog. Fifteenth century German alchemist, Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim, in his quest to obtain a deeper knowledge of the occult, summoned Satan himself and bargained his soul away for the chance to create a literary record of the magical world. Haunted, rejected and left to die a lonely miserable man shadowed only by a large black dog that disappeared the day Agrippa died.

And his books?

In ancient Brittany there is record of books of such power and knowledge that they had to be kept under lock and key. Books, known as The Agrippas, that could destroy their owners, drive men insane and pull entire houses to the ground at will. These books of power were said to be signed in blood by Satan and impossible to destroy.

So here is where is began, the idea of books that contained so much power they required their own immortal guardian.

The next question?

Who would make the best guardian? Humans are too vulnerable, too fragile for such perilous work. You would need someone cleaver, unwavering and able to hold the fragile line between keeping power and being seduced by it.

A witch?

Suddenly one witch becomes four. Four immortal witches born from blood as old as time who serve to keep the books safe from those who would abuse them.

Now we have a coven.

So my myth of the SpellKeepers begins with The Rowan Witches, four sisters born from the immortal blood.

Niev Rowan, the Keeper of The Dark Arts

Brenna Rowan, the Keeper of The Craft

Keira Rowan, the Keeper of The Books of Power

Aine Rowan, the Coven Scribe and Seer.

Now we need to settle the other matter in myth building. We need a big bad wolf.

Actually the idea started with Agrippa’s dog, the one that haunted him to his death and quickly evolves when I read that dogs were used to hunt witches in the middle ages. I replace dogs with wolves, wolves with werewolves and werewolves with wolf shifters and I have my enemy. Unfortunately this enemy, like all the rest, are convinced that they are saving the world.

As a result, the wolves become expert hunters while the witches master the weapons of war and both races find themselves hovering on the edge of extinction until the day a covenant is entered into. The wolves will end the hunt and the witches will destroy their weapons.

Time passes, the wolves turn their eyes to the hunt of rogues who stray from the pack and other magical creatures bent on destruction, while the witches live quietly, gathering power and knowledge.

Until one violent act, by a savage rogue, leaves one witch dead and a book of power missing.

And now we arrive at the beginning of the story:

As one of the SpellKeepers, Kiera Rowan has led a quiet life, dedicated to the preservation of magical knowledge, until the day when one unspeakable act of violence rips her world apart. Now, halfway across the frozen landscape of Eastern Europe Keira must form an uneasy alliance with a wolf shifter in a desperate bid to bring her sister’s killer to justice and return a deadly book back to its rightful home.

Broken and alone, Bastian Mallek is haunted by the savage murder of his mate seven years ago. Having abandoned his pack for the nomadic existence of life as a mercenary hunter, his life spins dangerously out of control, until the day when a hauntingly beautiful witch offers him the key to his own salvation-the destruction of the murderous rogue but first he must regain control his own dark impulses and put aside his growing hunger for Kiera.

By Jack Hessey

 Just over a week to go now and honestly, words can’t describe how excited I am for the release date.

I have enjoyed every single minute of the process to getting my debut novel published. From writing the actual novel to submitting to the build up towards the release date, even writing the dreaded query letters. It has been the experience of a life-time, something that I will never forget. I’m still in absolute shock that dream of getting published has finally come true.

 I’ve been a reader since I was about 4 years old and my mum bought be my first book. It was one of the Famous Five series, Five go Down to the Sea. Ever since then I’ve read all types of books and all types of genres with Fantasy soon becoming a firm favourite thanks to the Harry Potter series and Lord of the Rings.

 I’ve always wanted to write but it wasn’t until just over a year ago that I actually committed myself to writing a novel. Steam Queen was the first novel I ever wrote so the fact it’s managed to get published makes it all the more special to me.

 The motivation struck me when I was reading Philip Reeve’s Mortal Engines series. I immediately fell in love with the fantastic world he created and the unforgettable characters and I just thought “I want to do this, I want to try and create a fictional world of my own, make my own characters and tell their stories,” and so I put pen to paper and started work on Steam Queen.

It was hard, I got a quarter of the way through the first draft before I thought “this isn’t working” and scrapped the lot to start all over again with a new story, new characters with only keeping the world it’s set in the same.

 Once that was finished I started work on my second novel, On Angels Wings which I wrote whilst on a break from Steam Queen before returning to do the edits. Since I had completed Steam Queen I found the whole process a lot easier the second time around whilst writing On Angels Wings and once completed, I submitted that to LazyDay Publishing as well and got a contract for it!

 I just want to say thanks to all the folks who helped me, people on forums who offered advice, support and suggestions, to all the other LazyDay authors who I’ve got to know (you guys are awesome) and especially to Staci and the LazyDay team for giving me this great opportunity!

 Now, time to move on to a lil’ blurb about both books! Hope you like them!

 Steam Queen

A Steampunk novel set in a unique world where Steam has grew to become the worlds major source of power and railways are used as the primary transport. Europe is a dangerous place armed bandits prowl the railway lines looking for easy marks and where heavily armed mercenary engines travel from town to town looking for work.

 Erica, an emotionally disturbed girl from England finds herself joining one of these mercenary teams. What follows is a trek across Europe to where two mighty cities, each representing a different way of life stand on the verge of a war which will shape the way Europe develops.

 On one side are the Steam using traditionalists of St Vith, led by the charismatic and cunning General Roosje Cuvelier. On the other stands the mighty Winterscheid Diesel Empire under the iron fist of the merciless Kaiser Sigmund Eisenburg.

 Two vicious armies, treachery from her own allies and the worlds deadliest super-weapon are just a few of the dangers that Erica must face in Steam Queen.

 On Angels Wings

Susie is the newest and youngest Guardian Angel to graduate from the academy in Heaven which trains Angels and assigns them their various duties. She wastes no time in hurrying down to earth to meet the mortal girl she has been assigned to guard, a fifteen year old girl named Jill.

 Things quickly take a turn for the worst for the ever-helpful Susie when she falls afoul of Cassidy, an Angel tasked with choosing mortals destinies and who immediately develops a grudge against Susie and Jill and launches numerous attempts against the mortals life.

 Susie sees it as her duty as Jill’s guardian to protect her and so launches a mission of her own to defeat the rogue Angel Cassidy and change Jill’s destiny before Cassidy can succeed in her plans of revenge.

The Silver Cage

To start writing a story, all I need is a beginning, a possible ending, and some ideas about a few events in the middle. I’ve tried using outlines, but they don’t work for me. They take forever to write, and I never stick to them. For me, a large part of the fun of writing is discovering the story as I write it.

One day, in my mind’s eye, I saw a young boy sitting at the edge of a small forest pool fed by a spring. He wore a T-shirt, blue jeans, and sneakers, so he was clearly from our world, yet I knew the spring was magic, a portal between worlds, and the boy was somehow connected to that magic.

That was the first glimpse my muse gave me of my fantasy novel The Silver Cage. Over the next several months, she shared more information about the boy, David Conner, and the man he was to become. I learned that, as an adult, David would be transported through the spring to a magical world of dragons, shapeshifters, and other creatures of myth. Benevolent being that she is, my muse left it up to me to figure out how and why that happened.

Once I had enough information to start working on The Silver Cage, I knew I wanted it to be a modern fairy tale that could be enjoyed by adults whether they were fans of fantasy fiction or not. When I say “fairy tale,” I don’t mean the traditional, short folk tale written for children, often with a moral at the ending. Rather, I use the term as defined by Lord of the Rings author J.R.R. Tolkien in his essay “On Fairy-Stories.” Tolkien said that fairy tales are not stories about fairies or other fantastic creatures; rather they are about the interaction between humans and such beings. He believed that through the use of such tales, an author can help the reader experience a world that is consistent and rational yet completely strange.

David Conner, a sensible, modern-day businessman, is the human who interacts with the fantastic creatures of The Silver Cage. He acts as a guide for the reader as he explores the magical world he finds himself in, investigates how and why he ended up there, and uncovers the layers of intrigue that surround the lives of the world’s creatures.

As I wrote The Silver Cage, I encountered many familiar fantasy elements, such as unicorns, werewolves, talking animals, and magic swords, but each had a unique twist that made it different from similar elements in other fantasy stories. For example, the opening scene is about a young princess and her talking cat, yet by the end of the scene it becomes clear that, far from being the innocents they appear, the girl and cat are up to no good, and evil plans are on the horizon. And the magic in the story isn’t bright, sparkling light; it’s red, throbbing, and dangerously seductive. Those were just the first of many strange, surprising, and unexpected twists and turns I discovered as I wrote The Silver Cage.

Whether you’re a fan of fantasy fiction or just want to spend some time lost in an adventure-filled story of intriguing characters and interesting (and sometimes humorous) situations, I hope you’ll give The Silver Cage a try.

W.C. Hewitt

            There has never been a more exciting period in mankind’s history with the dawning of the early twentieth century. With so many advances in technology introduced to a feudal minded world a collision course was undoubtedly about to happen. This is the world of Elizabeth Brunnette, a young independent woman who is recruited to work for British intelligence.

            I have always been a student of history and since my early days I have been entertained by the writings of Conan Doyle and Ian Fleming and the heroes they created that have lived on through the generations. There seem to be so few heroes today that the younger generation can really relate too and it was with this thought in mind that I created Elizabeth Brunnette who is in fact based on a real life individual.

            Incorporating historical fact and an abundance of gratuitous fiction, her first adventure revolves around the discovery of her diaries thought long lost or destroyed by an eager young reporter determined to make her story known. In the pages amongst the political intrigue are revelations the British government would best prefer to be kept suppressed even in the world of today.

            A seeping discontent is flowing in England as a new, foreign extremist party has been stirring up the working class masses in assailing the working conditions and the much despised social class system that governs them. Manipulated by a German radical named Lenin they have set their sights on attacking the newest of Britain’s technological achievements by whatever means necessary. The R.M.S. Titanic settles steadily into their sights.

            Slowly the hands of time are counting down to an encounter with destiny and Elizabeth Brunnette and Christopher Ryan are all that remain to keep fate at bay.

They say that whatever doesn’t kill us makes us stronger, and I truly believe it.  Despite having to deal with some life altering issues which included my father having terminal cancer, my mother being diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, and my husband being diagnosed with Parkinson’s all within about a year of each other, a writer was born.

I’ve always thought about writing, and I’ve always kept that thought on the back burner.  I guess you could say I was a virtual writer, since I had tons of ideas in my head that never made it down on paper.  Finally, in the midst of all this hate and discontent, and after my niece accepted a publishing contract with an e-book company, I decided, what the hell?  Might as well give it a shot.  Once I got started, I could not stop.  In less than one year, I wrote about a dozen books, and I’m still going strong.  Ideas that had been percolating for decades took solid shape and form, and I was staying up till two or three in the morning most nights just to bring my characters to life.  They became my good friends, and having read more romance novels than I could ever count, and realizing that I enjoyed reading my own stories as much as most of the novels I’d been reading, I decided to submit.  Mind you, I was just tickled that I’d actually put my stories on paper and completed several books.  I thought, even if I never get published, at least I won’t have to look back and wonder or wish that I’d tried.  So I started submitting to different publishers thinking if any of them liked my work, it would be icing on the cake.

I was rejected twice by other publishers before I got the email from Lazy Day telling me that they not only wanted to publish one of my novels, but both that I’d submitted.  I distinctly remember reading it and waiting to come across the “However,” line telling me they weren’t interested, and when I didn’t see it, I read through again and realized that this was not another rejection.  Hot Damn!  After jumping up and down, screaming out loud, and doing several happy dances, I printed, signed, and returned the contracts.

The first book, Mindset, is book one of the Texas Trilogy.  The story is about sassy Callie Dubeck who has had her heart set on marrying Cade Maguire since she was a kid.  After he assures her he isn’t interested, she returns to her modeling career in New York where she meets the rich, well established man from old money that Cade had suggested she should find and agrees to marry him.  Realizing that she’s made a mistake a short month later, Callie breaks off the engagement, but her fiancé doesn’t take the rejection lightly and ends up pummeling her until her best friend, Eva, steps in and knocks him out with a horse head book end.  Eva is married to Callie’s fiancé’s brother who is also abusive, and the two of them decide to go back to Callie’s family ranch in El Paso, Texas where Callie knows her granddad and brothers will protect them from the wealthy, woman beating brothers.

Once there, Callie realizes – after a very steamy exchange – that Cade is not as indifferent to her as he had previously claimed, and she makes up her mind to convince him that they belong together.  When trouble follows Callie and Eva from New York to Texas, Cade has to figure out how he’s going to protect Callie and keep her at arm’s length at the same time.  Needless to say, he’s destined for failure on the keeping her at arm’s length part.

My second book, Forever Summer, is about Summer Alvarez, a bilingual education expert, who is hired by famous singer and entertainer, Gabe Rodrigo, to tutor his four year old daughter in English and Spanish.  Gabe has sworn off serious relationships after a scandalous marriage, and Summer hasn’t allowed anyone to get close to her since her mother died when she was a girl and her father deserted her.  Despite his vow to keep his distance, Gabe is intrigued with Summer, especially since she doesn’t seem the least bit impressed by him.  The more he’s around her, the more interested he becomes in unlocking her secrets and getting to know her better.  After realizing that Gabe is a wonderful father, unlike her beginning assumptions, Summer begins to let down her defenses, but it’s a difficult road she’s walking that is paved with doubt, fear, and uncertainty, not to mention a very jealous, scheming woman who plans on having Gabe for herself.

After much soul searching and risk, Summer realizes that her happiness is dependent on trust, love, and forgiveness, but will she continue to believe that when she finds a former flame in Gabe’s bed?

Whether you enjoy the intrigue and suspense that Callie and Cade live through in Mindset, or you prefer the internal struggles and personal growth experienced by Summer and Gabe in Forever Summer, you’re sure to walk away refreshed and revitalized after making friends with and getting to know these characters from new author, Elaine Dyer, available on December first.  Happy reading!

One of the things I love about LazyDay Publishing is the fact that they have so many genres to choose from.

From blogger books to paranormal, there is something for everyone and I hope you enjoy all of the genres my publisher has to offer.

Mine is Fantasy.  

As I child I enjoyed reading about Knights, Kings and Queens with a dragon or a wizard thrown in for good measure.

All of the stories had a happy ending, all let me escape for a bit.

One day while reading one of my favorite books, I for some reason had it in my head that I could write a story just as good as they could.

My late grandmother, who probably wanted me and my cousins out of her hair for a second simply said, “Just write.”

So I did. I was only maybe six or seven at the time and I remember giving the finished story to my aunt and being very proud that I had written my own Dragon Slayer story.

From that moment on, I was hooked. I never was without a notebook, pen or pencil.

I also kept on reading a lot. And I still do to this day.

If I had any advice to give any writer is to read the genre or genres you’re interested in.  It not only can help you to see what other authors are doing, but it can also help you with your own story. 

Currently I’m reading George Martin, whose ‘A Song of Fire and Ice ‘is being made into the upcoming HBO series ‘Game of Thrones’. 

Since I studied Broadcast Journalism, a lot of my favorite authors are screenwriters. Two of my all time favorite screenwriters are Michael Hirst, creator of ‘The Tudors’ and the upcoming Camelot series, and the late John Hughes.  

This brings me to my tale, By Sunset.

A fantasy romance for adults, this is the first book about dueling Royal Families, who race Dragons to win a pair of pink and black diamonds.

Is the tale as simple as that? Of course not!  LOL.

 If I tell you anymore, I’ll actually spoil the story.  So before I type one out, I think I’ll just post the blurb and the excerpt.  Enjoy!

Blurb:

A lady in waiting, two princes and a pair of family jewels are enough to bring hell on earth…

Excerpt:

Swimming alone, the young woman enjoyed her mid-afternoon swim along the banks of Elderon Lake.
On one of the hottest days she had ever experienced, the large lake and forest were one of the three borders between her kingdom of Kergan and the enemy state of Tacorian.
She adored the solitude, making a point to take an occasional break from her duties as a lady-in-waiting to the youngest heir of Kergan, Princess Isabelle, to relax, reflect and perhaps enjoy some sporadic company with a young border soldier needing his own afternoon stress reliever.
It didn’t matter who they were or if they were from enemy territory. Both royal families of Kergan and Tacorian had more than their equal share of handsome and lustful men on each side that provided her with several hours of pleasure.

Wrapping around the curves of her pale, bare breasts as if it were a winter blanket, the dark water felt amazing against her warm skin.
Floating on her stomach, she flipped herself over on her back watching the blue sky for several minutes, her cascading ebony mane and feet, occasionally making a brief appearance through the water’s surface.
On this day, she contemplated everything from when her nation’s current drought would end, to helping her country’s eldest son, Prince Julian, win the upcoming Dragon Race. Doing this would finally release their nation of Kergan from a mounting economic debt, thanks in part to Tacorian.
In her opinion, she was getting faster by the year. It was only by sheer luck that the Tacorian team won.
Their dragon, Hera, apparently knew the course better.
Unfortunately, because of her win, it may have cost the Dragon her life.
She was concerned for Julian and the royal family she served. People were blamed him for the murder which occurred a couple of nights ago while the Dragon slept quietly in her lair.
Knowing Julian for her entire life, she knew that he wasn’t capable of such a horrendous act.

She turned onto her stomach and dove deeper into the lake swimming underwater for several yards.
Coming up for air was when she noticed him only several feet in front of her.
Lying on the grass, the young man’s ivory shirt was trimmed at the bottom with the crimson and gray colors of the Tacorian.
Her curiosity was peaked. She knew the military garments of the Tacorian army. This wasn’t it. Their coats, their vests, were of red, black and gray.
They never wore white, but for some reason, he did.
His shirt was opened, revealing his tanned skin. He had shoulder-length light brown hair and green eyes.
She swam towards him. The closer she got to him, the more taken she was by him.

J.M. Kelley

I’m your stereotypical late-blooming author: The love of writing was always there, but after high school, too many things got in the way of carrying out my dream to drum up a novel of my own. Bills to pay, work deadlines to meet, episodes of Gilmore Girls to watch. You know how it goes. Life gets in the way of your fantasies.

After my father died, I needed to work out my grief. I started penning angst-ridden short stories. Then the stories got longer and longer and a little less angsty. The grief was addressed, to some extent, and the love of writing was stronger than ever.

That long-silenced voice was reawakened. Write a book, it would whisper. “You’re nuts,” I’d shoot back. But the whisper got a little louder every time I heard it. “What would I even write about?” I’d ask it, and it would only laugh at me in response.

Then one day, I was driving home from work. It’s your typical two lane road in what used to be a small town but was trying to burst its seams and become a full-fledged city. There’s always lots of traffic chugging through a semi-rural setting.

Well, there I was, sitting at a red-light that lasted way too long, when I saw a guy toodling on down the side of the main drag on a real, honest-to-god penny farthing. You know, those old bikes with the tiny back wheel and the comically huge front wheel?

That’s when the first nugget of Drew in Blue, a contemporary romance, was born.

I lived in Pennsylvania, I realized, a veritable cornucopia of weird. The story was right there in front of me.

I could take you on a tour of a few cities and towns that merged to become my fictional town of River’s View, Pennsylvania. You might even be able to find the direct inspiration for a few of this imaginary town’s quirks, if you look hard enough. I’ll wager you’d even find a few new oddities that I somehow managed to miss.

In my novel, River’s View has no river to view. The town’s traffic circle is actually a square. The tourism council forgot to spell-check the town’s tourism brochure. Elmer Ochs is a menace on a motorized Rascal. Mrs. Tafani is a gossip-whore who could put Perez Hilton to shame. And Drew Doyle is caught smack dab in the middle of it all.

Drew’s life is a mess. A casual fling results in the birth of infant son, Nick, and Drew soon finds himself the sole provider for the boy. An artist, Drew can’t find his muse. His best friend and former high school girlfriend, Kris, does a better job at parenting his kid than he does. His love life is deplorable, and every move he makes is noted by the town gossips.

Things start to look up when the lovely Valerie Bailey catches his eye in the local grocery store. After a few missteps, things start to heat up between the pair, and Drew believes he may have found the girl of his dreams. But nothing happens easily in Drew’s life, and love is no exception.

Drew is used to looking for love in all the wrong places. Imagine his surprise when he discovers the real deal has been right there with him all along.

I’m so happy to be able to share Drew’s journey with you in my debut novel, Drew in Blue. If you come to love this man even a fraction of how much I adore him, I’ll be one incredibly satisfied author.

Mack Brinson has two major problems.  He is trying to recover from the long trauma of losing the love of his life—his wife Song.  Now, his only family, Song’s mother, Huong, is being systematically, and legally, bilked by a sleazy televangelist’s organization.

When Brinson goes to the smarmy preacher’s headquarters in an attempt to stop the thievery, he is physically threatened.

Brinson is a former Green Beret and isn’t intimidated. He goes after the preacher in an attempt to gather embarrassing information.  When he gets too close, someone tries to murder him in a running gunfight on the Lake Ponchartrain Bridge. 

Along the way, Brinson meets a woman, Pattie, who finally begins to dissolve the emotional walls he has erected.  He begins to learn how to love again.

There is an unseen hand behind the preacher’s organization.  The face of the antagonist is unclear, but when Huong is kidnapped, Brinson has to call on his old Special Operations contacts to find the kidnapper and rescue her.

The face of the man behind the televangelist finally becomes clear and shocking. Vengeance: slow and awful lies ahead.

December 1, 2010, is creeping up rather quickly! There is so much electricity in the air with the upcoming launch of LazyDay Publishing.  I’m beyond proud to be counted as one their founding authors.  Every step of the way they have exceeded my hopes and expectations!  From editing to book covers to trailers, I couldn’t ask for a better team to work with!

Having said that, I invite you to come spend some time in the sleepy small town of Memory Grove and get to know its residents.  My erotic romance series, Seduction in Memory Grove, consists of three novellas entitled Pull the Trigger, Mount Up and Feed the Fire. These are the stories of three very different women living in this small Arkansas town.  My goal was to embody their romantic relationships and the impact that love has on their lives and their individual struggles to achieve their happily-ever-afters.

Pull the Trigger:  Rebecca Harper is making a clean break.  The ink is dry on her divorce decree and her dream job has finally come to fruition.  In two weeks, she will be on a plane to St. Louis.  All her plans are set until sexy cop Justin Cain, her former high school crush, asks her to dinner. 

This one night out instigates a roller coaster ride of hot sex, serious soul searching and heart breaking decisions.  Will Rebecca leave Justin behind to follow her dreams?  Or will his love be enough to keep her in Memory Grove?

Mount Up:  Dr. Natalie Shea doesn’t want to be attracted to the rugged but affable cowboy who ends up under her care after a rodeo injury.  But when a second fateful accident has their paths crossing again, there is no denying the synergy, both in and out of the bedroom. 

Luke Reilly is everything she never expected.  He’s captured her body, but her heart won’t be won that easily.  Can Luke break down the walls built by a childhood tragedy and set Natalie free to love him forever?  Or will she walk away from him and Memory Grove without looking back?

Feed the Fire:  After eight years, Olivia Andrews returns to Memory Grove for her best friend’s wedding.  She has no intention of becoming involved with sexy fireman, Cade Reilly, but once she finds herself in his bed, there is no turning back.

Their casual affair is suddenly complicated when an unexpected visitor shows up on Cade’s doorstep and the demons that Olivia left behind come calling.  Will their new found love overcome the obstacles created by their yesterdays or will those revelations drive a wedge between them forever?

I hope that you enjoy Seduction in Memory Grove and please check out the work of the many other talented authors included in the launch of LazyDay Publishing!