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GROTON HERALD --
October 2005
Humor Writer Gives Birth
to a Kitchen and a New
Parenting Humor Book
GROTON -- Humor writer, Kathryn
Mahoney, has just released her first book, Cracked
at Birth: One Madcap Mom's Thoughts on Motherhood,
Marriage & Burnt Meatloaf (Mom-Writers
Publishing Cooperative, a subsidiary of Wyatt-MacKenzie
Publishing, Inc.). The book features her 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. "The goal of the book
is 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
www.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 available
on her Web site at www.CrackedatBirth.com.
The book can also be purchased from Amazon.com,
BarnesandNoble.com, and at select area
bookstores.
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