MELLON & CO. CLIENT PENS SECOND NOVEL
Ann McCauley, an emerging Women’s Literature author, has released her second novel, Runaway Grandma. This release is out on shelves and online at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and is soon to be on her new Web site.
Mellon & Co. is working with McCauley to promote her new book, as she has increased sales ambitions from her debut title, Mother Love. Currently, a new Web site, printed media materials, and public relations efforts are underway.
Runaway Grandma is the story of 70-year-old Olivia Hampton, a widowed, retired school teacher who fakes her own death and moves to a distant state because she suspects her son is plotting to have her declared incompetent to gain control of her finances.
“With my experience in psychiatric nursing, I’ve seen that somehow, older people have become categorized as a stagnated group waiting to ‘check out,’” McCauley said. “The boomer generation seniors, however, will force us to change the way we view the elderly. This fascinates me, and gave me inspiration for writing this book.”
McCauley added that she knew from an early age that she would be a writer someday.
“I can’t remember a time in my life when I wasn’t reading,” she said. “Words and stories were things I could always count on.”
Growing up on a farm as the oldest of seven children, family was “the tapestry of my childhood,” the author recalled.
“There were always cousins, aunts, uncles, and friends coming and going,” McCauley said. “I spent a lot of time, for instance, visiting my grandparents in Pennsylvania.”
She now lives with her husband, while her parents still live on the McCauley Family Farm where she was raised.
Prior to taking the plunge into her writing career, McCauley worked as a mental health nurse for 15 years, having earned degrees in nursing and psychology from the University of Pittsburgh, and continued on to be a pharmaceutical sales representative.
After retiring from many years in the medical field, McCauley took her husband’s advice and finished the book she had begun writing.
She has since come to know Madison Avenue Publishers, an independent publishing company, who has published her work.
Getting the first book into print was the icing on the cake, and it left her wanting more.
“I’m obsessed with writing,” McCauley said. “It’s like a virus I can’t shake.”
Her third book, It Happened On Willow Lane, is ready for publication, and a fourth book – a nonfiction piece co-written with her husband, entitled Finding Your Balance in a World of Addiction – is in the works.
McCauley’s most recent title is available in bookstores throughout New York and Pennsylvania, as well as online retailers.