Talking Books

Didn’t Anyone Ever Tell You? It’s All A Game! is Andrew Mullaney’s powerful and thought-provoking debut non-fiction book about surviving and sometimes winning at life. He brilliantly compares life’s journey to that of a game of snakes and ladders, to which so many of us can identify with. 

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This book represents a lifetime’s work, right from Andy’s childhood as an only child where he experienced bullying in school and overwhelming pressure to succeed in life, which at times took him to the brink of his mindset, almost to the point of breaking down. Pressure comes in a variety of formats and directions that affect our confidence and ability to manage our everyday lives, be that our mental health, well-being and overall approach to conducting ourselves in public. So, to have someone to mentor us, to talk to us about how to manage our successes as well as our failures can be invaluable, both in our personal and professional lives. This is what Andy’s first book is all about, mentoring… to survive and sometimes win at life.

Through a series of anecdotes, famous quotes and chats with different people (including those who face challenges, disability and addiction), Andy’s book covers a lifetime of experiences, from childhood through to the present day. With a constant theme of professional and practical advice, you the reader can savour your victories, identify any development areas and learn from every aspect of life as you consciously go about achieving your goals. Of course, we all know that one person’s success is different to another, and Andy helps you to respect and accept that everyone has a different outlook on life.

So, let’s enjoy climbing up the ladders and avoiding the snakes, ‘Didn’t Anyone Tell You? It’s All A Game!’ It’s a great read.

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Dr Penny Clauss known as P.Clauss in the writing fraternity, is a veterinary surgeon from Dallas, Texas. As a child she loved reading books, so much so she would create stories in her head but keep them there, thinking no one would be interested in her tales. How wrong she was. It wasn’t until years later that with encouragement from her husband David, a clockwork master, that she finally plucked up the courage to publish her writings. Let’s just say thank goodness she did, for her books are beautifully manuscripted with intriguing and at times spine-tingling thoughts and storylines.

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Penny has dipped her toe into various genres from illustrated children’s stories, to Christian devotionals, and lately science fiction stroke dark fantasy.

Her latest books ‘Time Keeper’s Chronicles’ and ‘Hope Eternal’ are part of a trilogy under the umbrella of ‘Time Stealers’. The third book is yet to be revealed.  

Time Stealers trilogy introduces you to clockwork clocks and mythical dark beings called time wraiths.

Grant Stone the main protagonist owns a clock shop that sells an array of clocks, small cottage clocks to magnificent grandfather clocks. However, some of the clocks are home to mythical shadowy time wraiths that can manipulate time, and control events. The Gustav Becker wall clock behind the counter is home to one such being. Some time wraiths are harmful others are not, but as long as the clocks keep running the shadowy beings generally stay within their casings, but not always. Grant Stone is part of a loose-knit society of time keepers that can see and communicate with these mysterious black wispy beings. They do their best to keep the perception of time in check from the time stealers who want to control time for their own evil misdoings?

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This week I’m talking to David V Mammina, an award-winning dark fantasy, indie author from Long Island, New York, US. He joins Talking Books this week for a lively conversation about inspiration, drama and the creative process. His books include, The Angels of Resistance, Protector of Children and Redeem the Knight trilogy to name but a few.

David has been writing for many years considering his relatively young age. He currently teaches history to middle-grade students something he’s passionate about just like his writing. Having talked to David on numerous occasions I get the real sense that he believes writing is a craft, a living spirit that kind of buries itself into the heart, mind, and soul of the reader.

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Chatting to David and researching his books has been a wonderful experience for me, I can see and feel the dark fantasy genre he loves so much coming through his writing.

When you read his books you get a real sense of the post-apocalypse era as well as the present. His deep thinking as to what life would be like after such a devastating event has taken place, a happening that sees the fundamental core of earth’s make-up collapse with devastating consequences is far reaching and intriguing. But what is equally curious when he’s in the present day mode as in his prologue to The Angels of Resistance, he talks about super plagues, fast-spreading and immune to all vaccines. How poignant a topic with what’s going on in the world today. I asked him was he physic, “ unfortunately not,” he replied.

His book The Angels of Resistance is dedicated to his brother Joseph for who he never had the honour to meet in person, I asked David about this in the interview and if you listen you’ll hear him candidly opening up about his brother, the brother he never met and why.

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