TITLE: Maddy’s Phoenix
RELEASE DATE: August 10, 2017
AUTHOR: Patricia Yager Delagrange
CATEGORIES: Contemporary Women/Coming of Age
PAGE COUNT: 364
ISBN: 978-0692875452
IMPRINT: Sly Fox
KEYWORDS: single mothers, loss, disappointment, life struggle, coming of age,
second chances, hope
ONE LINER:
After losing her
baby prematurely, Maddy discovers an infant in a dumpster and keeps her. But
can Maddy keep her secret hidden for long?
SYNOPSIS:
Maddy lives a
hard life, working as a waitress at the Monte Rio Café in a town on
California’s Russian River. Abandoned by her mother when she was a teenager,
she is nonetheless grateful for the cabin where she lives—and for Cheryl, the
older waitress who watches over her while Maddy anticipates the birth of
her baby.
Then Maddy goes into labor prematurely and loses her precious baby,
a loss almost more than any young woman
can bear. Soon after Maddy discovers a tiny infant in the dumpster
behind the café, keeps the baby, and names her Judith.
Maddy takes the money in her tip jar and moves to the Bay Area,
where she can study to become a nurse, to be better than the things her momma
said about her. But how can Maddy take care of little Judith, work and go to
school?
GUEST POST:
How do you come
up with the ideas for your books?
I write women’s
fiction so all my books have a woman as the central character. I always put my
main character in a true-life situation and make her deal with it. Whether it’s
an unhappy marriage, an adoption, or a typical family problem, the women I write
about step up to the plate and solve whatever dilemmas surface in their lives.
In the case of Maddy’s
Phoenix, Maddy finds a baby in a dumpster. When doing research for this
novel, I found stories of babies found in dumpsters, but none where the person
who discovered the child kept the baby. I spoke with the police and an attorney
about the legal ramifications of such an action and as far as California law,
the outcome is possible.
The women I
write about are true-to-life characters and their problems are also real; but
my characters do not dump their problems on someone else to solve for them.
They may have help, but they take responsibility for figuring them out and do
their best to fix things.
I also inject
romance into my novels because most women i know have some sort of past or
present love interest and while they’re busy jumping over the hurdles I’ve
placed before them, they usually are also dealing with a boyfriend or a husband
along the way.
So to answer
the question of how I come up with the ideas for my books, I’d have to say that
I don’t have to look very far from my own family or friends or the news to come
up with realistic opportunities in which to place my main characters, forcing
them to work through all that life throws them while on this earth.
AUTHOR BIO:
Fascinated by
broken-hearted couples and atypical families, Patricia weaves engaging tales of
men and women who create cohesive families where love reigns supreme. She
sprinkles her books with intriguing characters who struggle to find balance in
life after tragedy. Whether an unwed teenager, desperate widow, abandoned
father, or a couple who stray from their marital vows, her characters form
relationships impacted by their desire to create a family.
Born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, Patricia attended St.
Mary’s College in Moraga, California, where she studied Psychology and Spanish.
She spent her junior year abroad at the University of Madrid then transferred
to UC Santa Barbara where she received her B.A. in Spanish. She went on to get
a Master’s degree in Education at Oregon State University.
Patricia lives
with her husband and two children in Alameda, across the bay from San
Francisco, along with two very large chocolate labs named Annabella and Jack,
and a rescue terrier mix, Shay Dog. Oh, and she also takes care of her
daughter's guinea pig, Lucifer. When she’s not writing or spending time with
her family, Patricia enjoys riding her Friesian horse Maximus, who lives in the
Oakland hills with a million dollar view.
EMAIL: yagerdelagrange@gmail.com
AUTHOR LINKS:
http://www.patriciayagerdelagrange.com https://twitter.com/PattiYager
https://www.facebook.com/Patricia-Yager-Delagrange-204510679568596/?fref=ts
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