HELP ME! Now in Audiobook...

I will be giving away 10 FREE audiobook codes for my latest novella HELP ME! If you're interested in a FREE code all you will have to do is email me and I'll send you one. 

 It's that simple!

dmzadunajsky@gmail.com 

To listen to a sample of the book click on the link below:

http://www.audible.com/pd/Teens/HELP-ME-Audiobook/B01B3M9TUA

A novella about a boy named Mick and his struggles with life. His parent’s divorce and a friend’s suicide make his world unbearable. Each “cut” has a deeper meaning. A cry for help.

“I spin my dad’s Ruger SP101 revolver on the wood floor of my bedroom. Sometimes, just to see what it feels like, I place the tip of the gun against my temple, but I never once pull the trigger. NO!”

“I’m more into the slice of the blade against my skin and the blood running down my arm.”

“It relieves so much pressure.”
“And I can breathe again…”

Book Club Readings

Hello fellow readers,

     Last year I joined a Book Club. I'm not sure why I didn't think of posting the books we read and a short review of what I thought about the book on my blog so now I am. I will include a link in case any of my readers are interested in reading the book themselves. We meet once a month so for January reading we read Magic Hour by Kristin Hannah.
It was my second time reading the book as I read it years ago, and loved it then as well. 
Beware may contain spoilers...

My review: January book MAGIC HOUR
by Kristin Hannah

Like the first time, I loved the book just as much as the second time through. But now that I'm in a book club there are things you might not think about when you are reading a book or even after you've read it. Now, I have some questions that were never really clarified at the end of the book. 

First: She never told us the whole story with Max, after Julie said that he could tell her the story when he was ready, so I guess he was never ready?

Second: Did Julia ever go back to Seattle and get her stuff? Did she close down here practice that went down the drain due to a patient killing people? Did she sell her condo? Known of that was made clear. 

Third: If Alice was ankle cuffed in the cave the whole time, then how did she know her way back to the cave when she wasn't really outside of it when they all went to find it so they could catch the killer/kidnapper? 

It's a great story to read, I did really enjoy it, but I guess like other books, there are thing that go unanswered, which is our job as a writer to make sure we have answered all the questions. All bows must be looped, so to speak. It was a heartfelt book that kept me reading and I do recommend to readers that love to read women's fiction. 

In the rugged Pacific Northwest lies the Olympic National Forest—nearly a million acres of impenetrable darkness and impossible beauty. From deep within this old growth forest, a six-year-old girl appears. Speechless and alone, she offers no clue as to her identity, no hint of her past.

Having retreated to her western Washington hometown after a scandal left her career in ruins, child psychiatrist Dr. Julia Cates is determined to free the extraordinary little girl she calls Alice from a prison of unimaginable fear and isolation. To reach her, Julia must discover the truth about Alice’s past—although doing so requires help from Julia’s estranged sister, a local police officer. The shocking facts of Alice’s life test the limits of Julia’s faith and strength, even as she struggles to make a home for Alice—and for herself. In Magic Hour, Kristin Hannah creates one of her most beloved characters, and delivers an incandescent story about the resilience of the human spirit, the triumph of hope, and the meaning of home.

http://smile.amazon.com/Magic-Hour-Novel-Kristin-Hannah/dp/0345522184

If you want to read along, here is our February Book:
Eight Hundred Grapes
by Laura Dave
http://smile.amazon.com/Eight-Hundred-Grapes-Laura-Dave/dp/1476789258

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Holly

This review is from: Help Me!: Once I slice, it relieves so much pressure, I can breathe again... (Volume 1) (Paperback)

Help Me! is the story of what bullying can do to a person. Mick is a teenage boy dealing with his parents divorce, losing his friend to suicide and dealing with bully's who make his life miserable. Layla is the one girl who is willing to talk with Mick and ends being a great friend to him but notices that he is hiding something until one night that will change the both of their lives forever.

This is a quick read but it brings a strong message of bullying and suicide, a topic that needs to be addressed in school. I do believe this book needs to be in schools everywhere just for the message it brings about what bullying can do to a person. Losing someone to suicide is never easy and heartbreaking for the family and friends who are effected by it but even more for the person who went through something that nobody can understand even with all the help in the world, nobody can change their mind once it's made up.

Thank You to Donna M. Zadunajsky for writing a book that brings a topic that everyone like to hide out in the open.

I received this book from the Author in exchange for a honest review.

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Book: HELP ME! by Donna M. Zadunajsky

categories: Book, Bullying, Suicide, Cutting, Young Adult, Depression, Growing Up, Teen Suicide

Donna M. Zadunajsky

about this book: This book is about teen suicide and the struggles they face as they are growing up. I was inspired to write this book because my daughter knew someone who wanted and tried to kill himself. I choose to go with this cover because her friend was a cutter.

So many kids and adults out there are suffering from something we all know as depression. There are so many that we don't always know who they are. They could be the person we sit next to on the bus or in our math class at school. They may not show any signs of self-destruction on the outside, but on the inside, they want to die, or at most, hurt themselves because they don't think they're good enough, pretty enough, or likable enough. But the truth is, they are loved more than they know. Is it that they don't see it? Or is it that they don't think they're loveable enough for us? How is one person born without these thoughts and self-esteem issues, and another that just wants their world to end? Is it their lifestyle that makes them feel a certain way? Maybe a parent, an alcoholic or drug abuser is abusing them at home? We all live and are raised differently, but what makes us become so depressed that we want to end our life? I'm sure most of us have experienced some kind of bullying in our life. Maybe when we were in school, or maybe even at our job where we work. There's always someone who has to be better than us or get his or her own way. Maybe they feel more superior when they're bullying other people?

I don't know all the answers, but I do know that we need to do something about it.

A look at 2015

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!

Here are the Goodread Winners for my novel FAMILY SECRETS.

Joanne Holland
Thomas Barrington
Ann Neza
Cheryl Bruder
Susan Csoke

Congratulations on winning a signed copy of my book!

Honorable Mentions:

I'm also thrilled to share that my novel FAMILY SECRETS "Secrets and Second Chances", Book 1; received honorable mentions in the Florida Book Festival I entered earlier this year!

Books I read in 2015:

         1: Still Alice

         2: Barely Breathing

         3: Out of Breath

         4: Waterproof Mascara

         5: Forbidden

         6: Sharp Objects

         7: Look Again

         8: Insurgent

         9: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night

         10: Twenty-Eight and a Half Wishes

         11: From a Buick 8

         12: I Was Here

         13: The Witness

         14: What Alice Forgot

         15: UR

         16: The Nightingale

         17: The Girl in the Green Raincoat

         18: Mile 81

         19: Fear the Worst

         20: Winter's Tale

         21: The List

         22: Three Wishes

         23: The Great Gatsby

         24: Dargo Island

         25: Tell Me Lies

         26: The Touch

         27: Gone Too Far

         28:  Mr. Mercedes

         29: Gone

         30: Breaking Rules

         31: Held

         32: Over

         33: Not a Drill

         34: The Last Anniversary

         35: The Child

         36: Liars, Inc.

         37: Dark Places

         38: Not Forgotten

         39: The Ocean at the End of the Lane

         40: The Girls of Mischief Bay

         41: Bone Dust White

         42: Three Wishes

         43: Look Behind You

         44: Every Fifteen Minutes

         45: Help for the Haunted

         46: 14

         47: One Tuesday Morning

         48: The Silkworm

         49: Pines

         50: Beyond Tuesday Morning

         51: Broken Promises

         52: The Girl on the Train

         53: The Escape

         54: The Chance

         55: Every Now & Then

         56: One Breath Away

         57: Another Thing to Fall

         58: How to Fall

         59: Stroke of Innocence!

         60: Some Girls are

         61: Paper Towns

         62: Chasing Sunsets

         63: Mile 81

         64: Everything I Never Told You

         65: Cracked Up to Be

         66: The Hypnotist's Love Story

         67: Never Knowing

         68: Rain Girl

         69: The Good Girl

         70: Bet Your Life

         71: Collision

         72: Cold Fear

         73:  I Am Legend

         74: Always Watching

         75: Clouded Vision

         76: Innocence

         77: Sarah's Key

         78: Saving Grace

         79: Killing Floor

         80: A Killing at the Creek

         81: Drunken Fireworks

         82: Let the Right One In

         83: And Then She Was Gone

         84: Big Little Lies

         85: Confessions Of A Cutter

         86: Flowers in the Attic

         87: Accused

         88: Sunset Kisses

         89: Daddy's Little Girl

         90: Shutter Island

         91: The Boston Girl: A Novel

         92: Absolute Power

         93: The One That Got Away

         94: Where She Went

         95: The Best of Me

         96: The Family of Jesus

         97: The Friends of Jesus

         98: See Me

         99: Broken Harbour

         100: Lone Wolf

         101: The Girls of Mischief Bay

         102: Petals on the Wind

         103: Croak

         104: Go Set a Watchman

         105: My Sister's Grave

         106: My Dirty Confession

         107: Baltimore Blues

         108: Left Drowning

         109: The Girl on the Train

         110: The Stationary Bike

         111: Second Life

         112: Wintergirls

         113: The Fifth Floor

         114: Pretty Baby

         115: Gone Again

         116: The Grownup

         117: Torn Away

         118: Finders Keepers

         119: The Half Life

         120: If You Find Me

         121: The Murder House

         122: Bitter End

         123: Still

         124: Perfect Escape

         125: 11 Birthdays

         126: Trust Your Eyes

         127: HELP ME!

         128: Blackberry Winter

This year I introduced myself to Audible.com and found that listening to a book while doing work around the house was very convenient. I have highlighted the books in red from Audible; the rest I read.

HAPPY 2016!