Romancing Broadway by Debbie Zello

Romancing Broadway

By Debbie Zello

There are so many unique things about this book that fascinated me. To begin, the cover is beautiful, and just looking at it alone, should mesmerize you enough to want to buy this book, let alone read it.

Another unique thing is within the book. The book itself has dual endings, allowing the reader to chose which ending suits their needs with concluding the way they want the ending to succeed for them.

The character Samantha West is a strong willful woman who has dreams, just like any one of us. But she plans to at least try to make an, and hopefully succeed at making it big.

Sam has a best friend named Gabby and together they live in an Apartment in New York City. Just like Sam, she too has goals. 

Eventually a part comes available in an off Broadway Production. With it comes Cesere Bottari who also grasps Sam’s attention. Without even noticing how involved she’s getting with Cesere, Sam doesn’t even realize he’s dominating her life and interfering with everything. 

Disaster arises for Gabby and false accusations end up ruining everything for her. Gabby ends up distraught, but her best friend Sam is seemingly always busy now.

This book, “Romancing Broadway” has two endings, two beautiful, strong, entertaining women, humor, romance, relationship problems, romantic good looking men, and even offers up the world for you to visualize all on a silver platter! This book would make for an excellent movie, so exciting, and so picturesque.

Everything about this book thrilled me! I intend to read it again, only slower so that I can enjoy the characters and sights more thoroughly. This book is truly five stars, I promise you, you will want to read it again, and enjoy it more than once, after all, you can, with two endings! Debbie, truly has a gift, I just hope she plans on including me in her reviews, I totally found a new favorite!

Here are my questions for Debbie:

1. What made you write this book AND how long did it take you?
Samantha came to me in a dream. She told me the whole story over a month or so. I would get up around 4AM to write what she had given me the night before. It took 38 days to write.


2. Who designed this beautiful cover?
I found the pictures and my publisher, Bitten Press LLC put them together. I'm so glad that you like it. It's my favorite cover so far.


3. Do you have photos or descriptions of Samantha and/or Gabby?

No photos of either. I describe them as the best friends push each other in front of the mirror in their tiny apartment. Sam is petite with a dancers body. Gabby has more curves in just the right places. Both women are less concerned with their looks than they are with the love they share for each other. They would do anything for each other. 

Sam is 5'7" with blond hair and grey eyes. Gabby has brown curly hair and brown eyes. She's 5'2" and she says 4 feet of it is boob and butt. 

4. Have you ever been to a real Broadway production? If so- do tell!

Yes, I've been to several. Titanic, Lion King, Miss Saigon, Beauty and the Beast, to name a few.   I live a 90 minute train ride from NYC. It's a fabulous city and I go there often. 

5. What made you decide on two endings AND which one is your favorite?

After I finished the book,  Cesere gave me the second ending. I'm not telling which one I like best. 

6. How long have you been writing? 

I began writing the stories down two years after they started coming to me. It was the summer of 2011. I wrote several stories before I started looking for a publisher. My first book has 4 of the stories, it was published in 2014.  The second 5 stories. 

7. What all education have you had?

Nothing to prepare me to be an author. I'm not an English Major and never took a writing course in my life. This proves that you can change the course you have chosen. Do something totally different. Just do it. 

8. What can you suggest to anyone trying to become a writer? 

Try to write everyday. Even if it's only a few hundred words. Get into the habit of editing as you go. Correct spelling, do the best that you can with punctuation, make proper paragraphs and capitalize appropriately. No editor wants to work on a mess. 

Have your friends and family read your story. Not everything you write is marketable but practice does make perfect. Finally, read as much good literature as you can. The classics as well as contemporary authors.



9. Was it always your dream to be a writer?

No it wasn't. This is as much a surprise to me as if I had won the lottery.


10. Please provide your social and book links:

Debbie Zello Book list and links 

Amazon author page http://www.amazon.com/Debbie-Zello/e/B00JA71W0G

Facebook @

https://www.facebook.com/debbiezelloauthor?fref=ts

Twitter: @ZelloDzello1

Online: debbiezello.com

Romancing Broadway by #DebbieZello 

Amazon US:

http://www.amazon.com/Romancing-Broadway-Debbie-Zello-ebook/dp/B014ZKJDV2/

Amazon UK:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Romancing-Broadway-Debbie-Zello-ebook/dp/B014ZKJDV2/

Barnes & Noble

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/romancing-broadway-debbie-zello/1122626125?ean=2940152230826

Middle of My Bridge 

Amazon US

http://www.amazon.com/Middle-My-Bridge-Debbie-Zello-ebook/dp/B0115NX3IQ/ref=sr_1_3?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&

 Amazon UK

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Middle-My-Bridge-Debbie-Zello-ebook/dp/B0115NX3IQ/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&

B&N

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-middle-of-my-bridge-debbie-zello/1122266364?ean=2940152290813

Shadow of Him

Amazon US

http://www.amazon.com/Shadows-Him-Debbie-Zello-ebook/dp/B00V3PCZEK/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&

Amazon UK

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B00V3PCZEK/ref=mp_s_a_1_2?

B&N

http://m.barnesandnoble.com/w/shadows-of-him-debbie-zello/1121503348?ean=2940046236705

Elizabet Under the back staircase 

Barnes & Noble 

http://m.barnesandnoble.com/w/elizabet-under-the-back-staircase-debbie-zello/1121150996?ean=2940151741057

Amazon US 

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Amazon UK

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The Viscount's Vices: The Love Story of Brook and William

Barnes and noble:

http://m.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-viscounts-vices-debbie-zello/1119575294?ean=9781496913616

US Amazon:

http://www.amazon.com/Viscounts-Vices-Story-Brook-William-ebook/dp/B00KKHIA5U/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&

Amazon UK:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B00KKHIA5U/ref=mp_s_a_1_4?

Raising Ren and Cowboys: Sequel to The Viscount's Vices William and Brooks Love Story

Barnes and noble:

http://m.barnesandnoble.com/w/raising-ren-and-cowboys-debbie-zello/1120036342?ean=9781496926135

Amazon US:

http://www.amazon.com/Raising-Ren-Cowboys-Viscounts-William-ebook/dp/B00MNHMWUY/ref=la_B00JA71W0G_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&

Amazon UK:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B00MNHMWUY/ref=mp_s_a_1_3?

Love's Labyrinthine: Five Stories about Love's Twists and Turns

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http://m.barnesandnoble.com/w/loves-labyrinthine-debbie-zello/1116783175?ean=9781491703755

Amazon US:

http://www.amazon.com/Loves-Labyrinthine-Stories-about-Twists-ebook/dp/B00EWN5ABK/ref=la_B00JA71W0G_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&

Amazon UK:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B00EWN5ABK/ref=mp_s_a_1_5?

The Kiss Me Chronicles: Four Short Stories about Love

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http://m.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-kiss-me-chronicles-debbie-zello/1114690700?ean=9781475977691

Amazon US:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00PQL5CTW/ref=mp_s_a_1_2?

Amazon UK:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B00PQL5CTW/ref=mp_s_a_1_2?

Amazon link 

http://www.amazon.com/Debbie-Zello/e/B00JA71W0G/ref=ntt_athr_dp_pel_1

Blog link

http://www.debbiezello.com

Facebook Page

https://www.facebook.com/debbiezelloauthor?fref=ts

11. Anything to add:

My books are about strong women and confident men. I write history that's easy to understand and interesting to read. I hope to give you something to think about with each book. 

About the Author:

Debbie has always been an avid reader, but writing was not her interest. That was until an illness gave her the time and inspiration needed to begin her journey in words. After writing down a few chapters of a story that had whispered into her head, she gave it to a few friends to read. The rest became her first book, The Kiss Me Chronicles. 

Debbie freely credits her stories to her muses, the characters themselves. They occupy her thoughts and dreams, presenting her with their narratives on their lives and loves. On occasion, she has tried to put her own take on their story, only to be quickly corrected by the true authors.

Debbie has traveled extensively and has a deep love of American history. Her novels are often based on historical events as well as places she has visited. She is also an amateur genealogist, having traced her own family roots.

Debbie currently has eight published books with many more in various stages of production, including a tetralogy of 'what or where is your safe place.' She is also branching out of the romance/historical romance genre to include a teenage appropriate story based on Dorothy's(The Wizard of Oz) great-granddaughter, Dee, and her adventurous shoes. 

Romancing Broadway by Debbie Zello
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

There are so many unique things about this book that fascinated me. To begin, the cover is beautiful, and just looking at it alone, should mesmerize you enough to want to buy this book, let alone read it.

Another unique thing is within the book. The book itself has dual endings, allowing the reader to chose which ending suits their needs with concluding the way they want the ending to succeed for them.

The character Samantha West is a strong willful woman who has dreams, just like any one of us. But she plans to at least try to make an, and hopefully succeed at making it big.

Sam has a best friend named Gabby and together they live in an Apartment in New York City. Just like Sam, she too has goals.

Eventually a part comes available in an off Broadway Production. With it comes Cesere Bottari who also grasps Sam’s attention. Without even noticing how involved she’s getting with Cesere, Sam doesn’t even realize he’s dominating her life and interfering with everything.

Disaster arises for Gabby and false accusations end up ruining everything for her. Gabby ends up distraught, but her best friend Sam is seemingly always busy now.

This book, “Romancing Broadway” has two endings, two beautiful, strong, entertaining women, humor, romance, relationship problems, romantic good looking men, and even offers up the world for you to visualize all on a silver platter! This book would make for an excellent movie, so exciting, and so picturesque.

Everything about this book thrilled me! I intend to read it again, only slower so that I can enjoy the characters and sights more thoroughly. This book is truly five stars, I promise you, you will want to read it again, and enjoy it more than once, after all, you can, with two endings! Debbie, truly has a gift, I just hope she plans on including me in her reviews, I totally found a new favorite!

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Black Wings by Iryna K. Combs

Black Wings

By: Iryna K. Combs

Here we are on a new planet, with two new types of people. And with two different types of people, come different opinions, resulting in wars, and with that come all sorts of new technologies. 

Annabel has her mind set to solve everyone’s problems, and it helps that she has learned what secret the leader has. Annabel thinks her best bet would be to escape and help her own kind, even if it means in the end, the loss of her own life. At least if she frees her people from their problems, her death will have not been in vain. 

Luckily, Annabel is successful, and now she can join her people at the other end of the planet. This is where she plans on making new friends, and a new start. Here she hopes to find romance, and safely remain free from the gruesome pain and tortures of the enemy.

Annabel must remain strong, and focused. Her feelings matter, but must not get in the way. She wants to be a normal everyday person, with a normal everyday life, but can she let herself settle down, or does she truly even want to? 

As I read this book, "Black Wings" I couldn’t help but sympathize with Annabel, taking care of her people, and wanting only the best for them. She is a very strong and focused woman. I give this book “Black Wings” five stars, as I truly enjoyed the intensity of it, very much so. I was worried, and distraught, wanting only the best to turn out. This was a truly enjoyable book, very sentimental. I felt the words like they were meant to be read, truly emotionally impacting me, every inch of the way!

Here are my questions to Iryna:

1. Why did you write this book and how long did it take?

"Black Wings" is written from a dream of mine. The dream that was stuck in my mind. I kept thinking and developing it further and further. One night I realized: Oh! I got an exciting story! I have to make into a book! Here is how it all started: amazing accident that is turning into one of the best things I ever done.

From the first word to the “The End” of rough manuscript was about two months in the writing. Another two months of editing while searching for a publisher and another two months of working with the publisher for the book to be released.

2. Do you have any photos or description of Annabel?

In fact, I do! When writing Black Wings I could perfectly imagine my main heroine Annabel. When I was in the prosses of creating cover design for my book with cover artist, the first cover she made did not impress me. I actually told her that I do not want faces in my book. I guess I was scared to explain how my Annabel looks like and be misunderstood. But something whispered to me to check out other covers my designer has made. So I did. And on the bottom of the page I happen to see one cover that had my imaginary Annabel looking at me. I could not believe what I saw. I wrote to my designer right away and told her the name of the book (which happened to be her own). She responded saying she still has more photos of the same model and when she sent me the new idea for my book, I fell in love with it! There she was, my Annabel, just like I pictured her. I ended up loving the idea I did not want before creating the cover. So I think it is good to have ideas but it is also good to stay open-minded to new things.

3. Can you describe the character Dexter or provide a photo?

I honestly searched many time to find somebody close to him but I had bad luck finding. Dexter is strong, tall, muscular, hot man. He has tanned skin, dark hair and blue eyes. I did not mention any facial hair, but he could sure have some. No tattoos, no piercings, no scars. He is handsome enough for any woman to lose mind over him.

 4. What are you working on now?

At this point I am working on my next book – realistic Biblical fiction/thriller. Needless to say I am in the process of studying Bible in order to have a better understanding of certain things and prophecies. It has been a joy of reading this book, thankfully I have Parallel Bible that is English and Russian, so makes it easier for me to understand scriptures. At this point I predict to have raw manuscript done by the mid spring. I already have a couple beta readers who are familiar with Bible and who are willing to help me to evaluate my work. It is exciting, but hard task as I am facing some questions and challenges making this book as close to prophecies as possible and still keeping it as fiction.

5. How long have you been writing?

To this day it has been only a little over a year. In the end of 2014 I started to write my first rough ideas of Black Wings. I began with first three chapters, writing little bit at a time.

6. Where is your favorite place to write?

It is my kitchen! It is my favorite place in the whole house. I like to make hot tea or chocolate, sit in my char (not the most comfortable things in the world but it works), the smell of dinner soothing me down and I am ready to create!

This answer of mine was also published in the Georgia Writes Association Magazine winter issue 2016, page 11. Link is here: http://issuu.com/exit271georgiawritersresource/docs/winter-2016/1

7. Did you always want to be a writer when you grew up? If not- what did/do you want to be when you grow/grew up?

Surprisingly I never found the writing career enjoyable and something I wanted to do when growing up. Literature was not my favorite subject and reading was not my favorite thing to do. I never wrote anything decent in my school life other than small poems.

Who did I want to be? A model. And I was modeling for a little while. Still like photo-shoots though but never have time and a wish for any more modeling.

8. What all education do you have?

I have middle school diploma and bachelor degree in finances (economics and enterprises was the name of my field) from European University of Ukraine.

Self-taught English, some psychology and body language.

 9. What are your hobbies?

Writing books when the time and inspiration allow me.

Cooking new unique dishes and trying new foods. Yes, I love unique and weird new food experiences.

Making hand-made jewelry (https://www.facebook.com/IrynasCrafts/)

 10. Please provide us with your social media and book links:

Website: http://ireneangel333.wix.com/blackwings

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Iryna-K-Combs/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/IrynaKCombs

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/IrynaKCombs

Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Black-Wings-Iryna-K-Combs-ebook/dp/B0170VTQA6/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1454944240&sr=8-1

Amazon UK: http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0170VTQA6?*Version*=1&*entries*=0

B&N: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/black-wings-iryna-k-combs/1122411416;jsessionid=35B3170115355B0C686240BF91B5B55E.prodny_store02-atgap14?ean=2940151132060

Kobo: https://store.kobobooks.com/en-us/ebook/black-wings-6

iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/black-wings/id1051398674?mt=11

Roane Publishing: http://www.roanepublishing.com/product-p/bw-01.htm

11. Anything you'd like to add:

I want to thank readers for their interest in my book, for their time reading it and for sharing their thoughts about it. I love to hear from my readers and I value every review. I never argue the bad once even though I have not had those yet. But I always learn from every review and honored to know there is somebody is reading my creation, my book that came from a dream.

Thank you, Deneale for your questions and for the time corresponding with me. 

 About the Author:

Originally from the Ukraine, I am still considered a new face to America. Speaking three languages including English, that became just as natural to me as my native Russian. I grew up in a town on the south of Ukraine doing the same things that other kids my age did. Dreaming, hoping and wishing. Growing up, I spoke absolutely no English and never even saw myself somewhere abroad. Nevertheless writing a novel in another language! I went to the local school that brought mostly negative experience in my life. But it shaped me throughout the years. My college life was much better. I was known to study well and to go out partying as much as it was possible. In my first year of college I began to work in the marriage agency and met my future husband. We dated and traveled to most of the Europe along with Egypt.
When I finally got my fiancée visa, we both moved to the states, where soon after, got married. In the first few years I did some modeling and acting. Photo-shoots, run-way and photo in the magazine fulfilled my childhood's dream. A few years later I became a mother of a wonderful and most handsome little boy. Along with learning and experiencing motherhood, I began to make hand-made jewelry and organic soaps. This hobby turned into my small business and became bigger than I thought it would. In the last year I discovered: an author lives inside me. Never did I think that I would write an English book and that I would love doing it. But I did! And I loved it! For more about Iryna K Combs and her novel Black Wings visit her website: http://ireneangel333.wix.com/blackwings

Black Wings by Iryna K. Combs
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Here we are on a new planet, with two new types of people. And with two different types of people, come different opinions, resulting in wars, and with that come all sorts of new technologies.

Annabel has her mind set to solve everyone’s problems, and it helps that she has learned what secret the leader has. Annabel thinks her best bet would be to escape and help her own kind, even if it means in the end, the loss of her own life. At least if she frees her people from their problems, her death will have not been in vain.

Luckily, Annabel is successful, and now she can join her people at the other end of the planet. This is where she plans on making new friends, and a new start. Here she hopes to find romance, and safely remain free from the gruesome pain and tortures of the enemy.

Annabel must remain strong, and focused. Her feelings matter, but must not get in the way. She wants to be a normal everyday person, with a normal everyday life, but can she let herself settle down, or does she truly even want to?

As I read this book, "Black Wings" I couldn’t help but sympathize with Annabel, taking care of her people, and wanting only the best for them. She is a very strong and focused woman. I give this book “Black Wings” five stars, as I truly enjoyed the intensity of it, very much so. I was worried, and distraught, wanting only the best to turn out. This was a truly enjoyable book, very sentimental. I felt the words like they were meant to be read, truly emotionally impacting me, every inch of the way!



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