HUMOR WRITER GIVES BIRTH TO A KITCHEN AND A NEW PARENTING HUMOR BOOK

Humor writer, Kathryn Mahoney, is releasing her first book, Cracked at Birth: One Madcap Mom's Thoughts on Motherhood, Marriage & Burnt Meatloaf (Wyatt-MacKenzie Publishing, Inc.). The book features Mahoney's hilarious personal accounts as a wife and mother on everything from the first day Underwear Man and Diaper Boy appeared in her living room to the traumatic kitchen renovation she equates to the pain and joy of childbirth.

Mahoney uses her wit to not only poke fun at herself, but to also encourage the reader to look at their own lives and find the humor about the situations that might ordinarily drive them crazy. Sometimes I think we all tend to take life a little too seriously, Mahoney explains. My goal of the book was to allow the reader to sit back, put their feet up, and take some time out to just laugh.

Cracked at Birth is a compilation of 60 of Mahoney's best columns that have been featured over the last four years by Nashoba Publishing of Devens, MA, on Mahoney's Web site CrackedatBirth.com, and on the humor site SanityCentral.com. And although this is Mahoney's first book, she has contributed to a number of parenting Web sites as well as to another parenting anthology entitled, Misadventures of Moms and Disasters of Dads.

When asked about the title of the book, Mahoney commented, The book is an extension of my humor column, Sunny Side Up, which focuses on looking at the sunny side of life and also happens to be a popular way to cook eggs. I started brainstorming the whole egg concept and eventually came up with 'Cracked at Birth.' I thought it not only sounded funny, but it also fit my cracked view of how I look at life.

Autographed copies of Mahoney's book are now available on her Web site at www.CrackedatBirth.com. The book can also be ordered from Amazon.com, BarnesandNoble.com, and will be available at select area bookstores starting in November.


About Us: Kathryn Mahoney is a freelance writer who resides in Massachusetts with her husband and their two sons. To read more of her work, please visit her Web site at www.CrackedatBirth.com.

Contact Info: Kathryn S. Mahoney
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www.crackedatbirth.com
978/448-0107