Fear of Driving

What is a family?   Can you escape the things that connect you to yours?  

That's what Ruby Reynolds wants to know, in ... FEAR OF DRIVING

Throughout Ruby's childhood, her mother dragged her clear across the country and back, starting their life over and over again, without ever telling Ruby who her father was and what exactly they were running from. When she was old enough, Ruby moved to New York City and promised herself she'd stay put, and at a comfortable distance from her Momma…and the moving vehicles Ruby learned to hate. But, Ruby has met someone she wants to marry, someone with whom she hopes to create the kind of "normal" life she always wanted.  The only problem is, now that she's left the city life behind, all her worst fears are stirred up.  She has to learn to drive, though this symbolizes so many frightening possibilities about her family history, and she has to learn to make peace with who she really is. But as Ruby blossoms into life, both on the road and in her heart, creating a “family” of her own along the way, can she ever truly come to terms with herself? 

“Ruby is a terrific lead character as she struggles with leaving Manhattan for love,” - Harriet Klausner

Velvet Rope Diaries

Just when Anna thinks her career is over, she gets the opportunity of a lifetime to pen a nightlife column about her misadventures behind the velvet rope. She'll have to learn to fight for what she wants—both in her career and in her head. There's just one problem—she still blames herself for her father's death so many years earlier, and she's just not ready to let herself grab life by the martini glass in the way this situation requires. Can she find a way to get on track and live this exciting adventure she's stepped into?

“A wonderful coming of age story.”
- Harriet Klausner

“…The defining moment in Anna's life is the death of her father in a fire when she is eight. Obviously a tragic situation, but for Anna it's even worse: she believes she murdered him. Now in her late twenties, how she lives and her every action and inaction is based on her massive guilt. Two events change the course of her life. She is given a column of her own critiquing the newest hot spots, for which she is woefully underqualified, and one of her two best friends, Ray, with whom she's lived platonically for years, convinces her to get therapy. Brodsky's novel is funny and melancholy as Anna gets her life back on track and succeeds beyond anything she ever imagined.” - Booklist

Princess of Park Avenue

You can take the girl out of Brooklyn, but can you take Brooklyn out of the girl?

..Anyone can see Lorraine Machuchi is no ordinary Brooklyn girl.  Anyone except for Lorraine, that is.  She’s been too busy painfully obsessing over Tommy Lupo to notice.  Living day to day on his confusing midnight phone calls and big-haired memories of their relationship in the early nineties, she’s given up any opportunity of leaving Brooklyn.  And though she never saw the home she loves as a failure, there’re a lot of folks she’s pissed off by staying put—her mother, her dead grandmother’s ghost, not to mention the old Italian ladies who shake their heads at her in the pork store.  And what’s worse, the very guy she tossed away everything for just told her he’ll never wind up with her—a girl who’s not going anywhere.

..Okay, so you might disapprove of her motive—changing for a guy.  But then you probably haven’t seen Tommy with three buttons open on his shirt.  Besides, when Lorraine crosses the bridge to Manhattan she begins to realize she’s got a lot to offer.  She starts coloring hair at a swank salon where they actually appreciate a little talent, even if you have to bend some rules to use it.  She gets a fabulous Park Avenue sublet, even if it does involve chasing around a dog/horse named Pooh-Pooh.  She meets a guy who’s actually…nice, even if she might be too obsessed with Mr. Wrong to notice.  She’s asked to become the newest member of the Princesses, an elite group of Park Avenue’s most powerful socialites, even if the reasoning behind it might be a little fishy.  Sure, their $400 cashmere sweaters, charity balls for poor girls with small boobs, and ‘sexy’ yoga are a bit over-the-top, but sometimes a Brooklyn girl can learn a lot by discovering her own inner princess…

“If you liked ‘Mean Girls,' you'll get a kick out of Brodsky's book.”
- Farrah Weinstein, New York Post

“Princess of Park Avenue is a delicious self-indulgent treat right up there with a leisurely soak in an aromatherapy infused bubble bath with scented candles…It would be cliché to say that Princess is a ‘good read' but truth be told, it's not only good, it's fabulously fantastic.”
- Karen Marie Shelton, HairBoutique.com

“Daniella Brodsky…charms us with her second novel…Princess of Park Avenue is an enterntaining and amusing book that will remind any of us who have find ourselves lost in a relationship with a man that the real “us” still exists and we only have to look in order to find her.”
- Amie Taylor, Bookreporter.com

Never on a Sundae

..To tide you over until my next novel launch in September '05, check out my novella, The Waitress in the anthology Never on a Sundae.
"Never on a Sundae is an entertaining anthology with three very talented authors. All of the stories involve the Manhattan diner, Sundaes, where comfort food can be found for any woman at a
crossroads in her life. After all, no problem looks bad over an ice cream sundae.”
- Jennifer Bishop, Romance Reviews Today

"Waitress Kate (in The Waitress) is also a writer though she never told her peers at Sundaes or her customers. She still dreams of finding the right one, but seems to never do so until Glenn. However, he wears a ring that makes him off limits. Solid contemporary romance that fans will appreciate.”
- Harriet Klausner, The Best Reviews

"Daniella Brodsky's writing is lyrical and flows smoothly. Sometimes with short stories you feel that something is missing and the writing rushed, but when THE WAITRESS [Daniella's novella in the anthology] ended, I felt supremely satisfied."
- Romance Junkies

The Girl's Guide to New York Nightlife - 2nd Edition

8 NEW Girl Stories!
Wait a minute! Just wait one damn minute, I thought as I darted up out of bed. I scrutinized the pout smooched onto the cheesy girl’s note. Could that possibly be MAC Brave? Could I possibly be the cheesy girl? And if I was, then who the hell is Brian?
- from Girl Story #2: Happy Hour?

AND over 200 new listings designed to help you have MORE great fun, look more fabulous doing it, feed MORE midnight carbohydrate hunkerings ...

"Finally a Guide to NYC Nightlife for Women.  The Girl's Guide to New York Nightlife (Hangover Media, $11.95) could provide needed encouragement and guidance to those women who need help."
- Sara Bonisteel, New York Resident