TALK TO ME

Dear  Donna

I am pleased to inform you that your book has been longlisted for this
year's Millennium Book Award and will be announced along with other
longlisted titles on the link given below on October 1st.
On or before November 1st we will be announcing our finalists and I will
write again to further update you at that time.

http://www.bookviral.com/017-bookviral-book-award-long/4594057364

WOW! Let's keep our fingers crossed on winning this award!

FANS OF THIRTEEN REASONS WHY

If you're a fan of Thirteen Reasons Why then HELP ME! and Talk To Me are two books you should read.

The books are about the struggles that TEENS go through when they don't think that parents can relate. It's the thoughts of SUICIDE that course through their veins when they think there's no one to talk to or no one to HELP them!

But we're here and we'll listen to every word you have to say! 

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B074WDCMV9                     http://www.amazon.com/dp/B074XM57CC

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B007I0I1L0

HONORABLE MENTIONS

TALK TO ME  received HONORABLE MENTIONS  in the Hollywood Book Festival 2017.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B01N1XZWD0

Crowded halls filled with noisy teenagers.

Teachers, homework, and never ending tests.

Hanging with friends, dating boys, gossip, and preparing for the future.

Isn’t that what high school is supposed to be all about?

Carly Boyles was once popular and dated the Captain of the football team. She wanted to be like any other fifteen-year-old teenage girl at Lakeport Central High School, but Taylor Ryans changed everything.

Two weeks after their break-up, Carly can’t find a reason to live after she finds her best friend Staci Garrison; hanging all over her ex-boyfriend Taylor Ryans. Carly decides to take matters into her own hands, but is it more than just the break-up that has her world falling apart?

The rules no longer apply between two best friends when a boy comes between their once forever-friendship since elementary school. One phone message changes everything and Carly’s world is shattered to pieces.

Will she find a reason to live? Will she tell the one secret that is killing her from the inside out?

Talk To Me is a gripping tale of one girl’s life that will never be the

same again…

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B01N1XZWD0

TALK TO ME

Reviewed by Vernita Naylor for Readers' Favorite As a teenager in high school, this should be the best time of your life. In high school there is so much to explore and experience, from parties and hanging out with your friends to discovering a new outlook on your future, but instead this can also be the scariest, most uncertain, and lowest time of a teenager’s life. Talk To Me: HELP ME! Book 2 by Donna M. Zadunajsky deals with the essence of the social issues that affect the life of a teenager. While this is a true account of the lives that our teenagers are living today, when reading this book parents must be aware that some of the material is for mature audiences. Carly Boyles feels that her world is falling apart. Her friend, Mick Connors, is a cutter. Taylor Ryans is her ex-boyfriend who not only caused a wedge between her and her best friend, Staci Garrison, but he's also a rapist. Carly discovered that not only did he rape her, but he raped her best friend, Staci, who later hanged herself. What should she do? Who will be his next victim? Who should she tell? Should she keep what she knows to herself? Would they believe her or blame her? So many questions and conflicting emotions are running through Carly’s mind and body; what would you do? This book brings to light the epidemic affecting our children and youth every day. It has been estimated that within their personal circle a teenager is aware of at least one teen living a depressed existence or a life full of anxiety. Of those within the same circle that have either thought of or have attempted suicide, some succeed. According to healthychildren.org, at least 90% of the 15-24-year-olds that commit suicide experience some type of mental illness, behavior or alcohol, drug, sexual or physical abuse problems. Despite the traumatic accounts contained in this book, I'm glad that Donna M. Zadunajsky is continuing her efforts to bring these horrific details to the forefront. Readers will also find some questions and resources that they can use immediately to help one deal with the after-effects of rape.

Thirteen Reasons Why

I read this a couple of years ago and fell in love with the book. It was so heartwrenching that it never left my mind, but it was also a book that got me to start writing about the kids in school today. 

Kids that think their life isn't worth living anymore. As parents, we have so much going on in our lives that we are sometimes too busy to see what is going on in their life. We're too busy to stop, listen, and talk to our children. 

Suicide is real and we must not hide it from the world. Children, teenagers, and adults. It doesn't matter what the age. It's out there and it's happening to people we know and love. If someone seems like there is something bothering them, it's probably because there is. Find a way to let them know that you are there for them. That you will listen.

If you haven't read the book, I suggest that you do. If you have Netflix, you can also watch the new Netflix original series that was made of the book. I will tell you this much, make sure the box of kleenex is sitting near you because you will need it. 

It was so good, and it would be nice to see a second season to the series.

https://smile.amazon.com/Jay-Asher-Thirteen-Reasons-Why/dp/B007RGYXOO

ONLY DAYS LEFT TO ENTER!

COUNTING DOWN THE DAYS LEFT FOR A CHANCE TO WIN A COPY OF MY LATEST NOVELLA TALK TO ME.

CLICK THE LINK ON THE LEFT TO ENTER.

CARLY BOYLES DIDN'T DESERVE WHAT HAPPENED TO HER...

READ IT TODAY! 

Available in eBook and Paperback

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B01N1XZWD0

NEW RELEASE

TALK TO ME is now available in audiobook.

http://www.audible.com/pd/Teens/Talk-to-Me-Audiobook/B01N7YJIQF

MEMORIES

Don't pass up a chance at HAPPINESS just because you're 

afraid to get hurt.

Lonely Souls

To all the Lonely Souls, you are not alone...

I will give you my hand to hold and my ear to listen. Now, you just need to make the next move.

New Website - Donna M. Zadunajsky

New Website  - Donna M. Zadunajsky

ME

I'm tired of hiding behind the ME everyone sees, 

when 

I just want to be ME...

ONE PERSON

"It only takes one person to brighten your day, but it also takes one person to 

destroy you..." 

HELP ME! Book 1

A novella about a boy named Mick and his struggles with life. His parent’s divorce and a friend’s suicide make his world unbearable. Each “cut” has a deeper meaning. A cry for help.
“I spin my dad’s Ruger SP101 revolver on the wood floor of my bedroom. Sometimes, just to see what it feels like, I place the tip of the gun against my temple, but I never once pull the trigger. NO!”
“I’m more into the slice of the blade against my skin and the blood running down my arm.”
“It relieves so much pressure.”

“And I can breathe again…”

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B019ZUNKBQ