Our Current Novels and Authors
DAILY NOVEL features four novels, serialized, with a new chapter published every weekday. As each book concludes, we will begin another. Here are the titles of our current books and a look at the authors who wrote them:
THE ELEPHANT JUMPERS by DJ Kinney
Burned out and bored by her life in corporate America, June Morgan searches for romance and excitement, eventually discovering “Elephant Jumping.” This little-known hobby–or habit–thrives on spontaneous, whirlwind travel without a destination or purpose. June quickly trades the humdrum of Cleveland for full-time Jumping, but as the miles add up and the money runs low, the life of the Elephant Jumpers takes a dangerous turn. After a botched robbery in Amsterdam, June and the Elephants travel east, from Holland to Paris, to Istanbul, India, Thailand, and Tokyo. As she runs from the law, she surrenders the last tenuous connections to her old life and finds herself alone one morning on a beach in Goa, stripped of everything, without a destination or a place on Earth to call home. Read the novel here.
SHATTERED TRUST by Deb McClatchey
Shanna Blaine was holding out for that perfect man, exciting and gallant, who would love her madly. When she met Alex Jordan, she thought her dreams had finally come true. However, Shanna chose to overlook that all important intuitive voice. She pretended everything was just fine. But it wasn’t. And when the truth about Alex was unexpectedly revealed, the pain was unbelievable! She had been such a fool to fall in love so hastily! Shanna swore never to give in to passion again. It was too painful. Unable to trust herself to pick the right man, Shanna decided to remain alone. But she was too much of a hopeful romantic to go without love! Then along came Rob Elias, local veterinarian. It was love at first sight when he laid eyes on lovely Shanna. But could he convince her to trust him and open her heart once again? And then Alex re-entered her life with a dramatic flair, bordering on insanity, to try to win her back. Could she escape him? Would Rob come to her rescue before it was too late? Read the novel here.
TO TRUCKEE’S TRAIL by Celia Hayes
In the year of 1844, a party of fifty men, women and children set out for California. They walked two thousand miles, across trackless plain and desert, fording rivers and climbing mountains. They found a new trail through the wilderness, hoisted their wagons up a sheer cliff, were caught by the winter snows, and faced starvation, with nothing to rely on but their own courage and trust in each other. These are their stories; the doctor-diarist and party co-leader, the old mountain man who guided them, the feisty woman with her brood of children who means to rejoin her husband in California, the taciturn wagon master… all inexorably drawn to Truckee’s Trail! Read the novel here.
A SOCIETY OF GOOD MEN by Richard MacPhie
Nuclear terrorism comes to life when seven American cities simultaneously go up in atomic mushroom clouds. Terrorists promise there are more nukes to come, causing the majority of urban populations to flee the cities. Martial law is immediately declared, yet American society slowly degrades into a culture of death, violence, and disease. A small percentage of citizens of Minneapolis, Minnesota remain. Defiantly staying behind and trying to forge life in a city void of most of its population, they learn to deal with an entirely new way of life. They struggle to survive as disease, violence, and the post-nuclear world take their toll on their ranks. You can read it here.
ARCHIVED NOVELS
The following novels have completed their serialization at The Daily Novel but are still available for your reading enjoyment.
POLISHED SHOES by Deb McClatchey
Young Amy Tyler was shattered by the terrible tragedy that changed her life forever. Now widowed, how is she supposed to raise her young son on her own? The first thing to do is find a job. Amy finds herself employed at Green Gables, the local ‘nuthouse’, as it is jokingly called in their small North Carolina community. The job is quite a new experience for a naive young woman coming from such a sheltered life. The old mansion is filled with the elderly and mental patients. A new boss eventually arrives on the scene. Jackson Sinclair is handsome and well-dressed. The sparks fly between Jackson and Amy, but they keep their feelings concealed. Jack Sinclair is fighting his own set of demons with an unbalanced wife. Being a southern gentleman, Jackson feels he cannot declare his love for Amy until his divorce is final. However, they become very close friends. A kidnapping crisis involving Amy’s son, Joshua, brings out the true feelings between them. Can Jack be the one Amy can count on to make her life complete once again? Will he be her hero? Read the novel here.
TRIAL AND ERROR by Yago Novo
Joshua Newman is a fantastic lawyer; young, handsome, single, and living in one of the most exciting cities in North America: Miami Beach, Florida. His life, albeit short, has been a series of ups and downs: birth in a beautiful Soviet city, exile in frigid Siberia, pit stop in Israel, settled down in the U.S. of A. That’s why he is so worried, because he is in the upswing, having the time of his life and he knows that calamity lurks in every corner. Sure enough, out of the blue comes a nasty prosecutor, filing trumped-up charges against him that could land him in prison for a long time, and destroy his livelihood in the process. Fortunately for him, one of the best defense attorneys in the area has accepted to represent him. Will this legal eagle be able to decipher what has motivated this witch hunt? Will Joshua beat the rap? The answer will be uncovered by trial and error. Read this novel here.
THE YEAR GOD FORGOT US by Dennis Nau
The Year God Forgot Us is set in North Dakota in 1936 amidst the height of the Great Depression. The dust bowl ravaged the Midwest. Scam artists preyed upon the desperate. Hatred and prejudice grew, even though the crops would not. Everyone was looking for someone else to blame for his or her misery. Johnny Ogdahl is at the center of a group of townspeople determined to stamp out evil, save the American way of life, and put money into their pockets at the same time. Johnny pours coffee at his restaurant and dreams of romance and success as his small town stumbles and the world creeps closer to another war. You can read it here.
LIFE HAPPENS by Danny Moon
Danny Moon, author of numerous short stories and poems, is a life-long Texas resident and father of one son. Retired from the transportation industry, Danny enjoys reading, gardening, and happy endings. Click here to read!
UNTIL THE DAWN by Alec Clayton
Like the protagonist of his novel Until the Dawn, painter and writer Alec Clayton grew up in Mississippi and was active in the civil rights movement of the 1960s, and in New York in the 1970s he was immersed in the SoHo art scene. He now lives in Olympia, Washington, where he writes art and theater columns for newspapers in nearby Seattle and Tacoma. You can learn more about Alec at his web site. His novels include Until the Dawn, Imprudent Zeal, The Wives of Marty Winters, and an upcoming novel, The Backside of Nowhere. Click here to read!
THE CHILDLESS LAND by Vic Bobb
Vic Bobb’s 30 years of freelancing have taken him to an odd variety of periodical places, from confessions in such magazines as True Romance and Secrets to technical articles about computer security and salmon runs, from articles about archaeology and The Beverly Hillbillies and ritzy dog snacks to award-winning short stories, from human interest stories about bullriders and appellate court judges to ghost-written podiatric-advice columns and articles about bobblehead dolls honoring professional poker stars. Although he has lived in eastern Washington for most of his life, The Childless Land was written during a decade spent in downstate Illinois. Click here to read!
WHAT CHILD IS THIS? by Cynthia MacGregor
Author of 54 conventionally published books (and a number of ghostwritten works), Cynthia MacGregor makes her living as a freelance writer/editor and also writes for a hobby. Her avocational writing includes all the plays put on by the Palm Springs (FL) Players community theatre troupe since the group’s inception several years ago. Her other hobbies include cooking, which led her to write several cookbooks, one of which is among her 54 published books.
Cynthia has taught adult classes in writing, public speaking, and (not surprisingly) cooking. Her past has also included stints as a newspaper publisher and as a theatre reviewer in New York. At one time she produced and hosted a Public Access Cable TV show called New York: The Living Scene, but she gave up New York for the warmer climate of South Florida in 1984 and hasn’t looked back. The self-described “happiest person you’ll ever meet,” Cynthia says, “There’s no one in the world I’d want to trade lives with.” Cynthia has a professional website and she also co-owns the DailyNovel site. Click here to read!
