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CONGRATULATIONS! YES!

Posted by Betty on Monday, August 2, 2021, In : Betty's Blogs 
I'm pleased to announce that my book, IN SEARCH OF SOMATIC THERAPY (Savant 2017) by Setsuko Tsuchiya recently received an honorable mention in the 2021 New York Book Festival! Thank you, New York for your kind support. I am now busy writing THE POWER OF DANCE which focuses on one part, dance, in IN SEARCH OF SOMATIC THERAPY. 



My publisher says I am now "an award-winning author" and my book is an official "award-winning book!" 

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DANCING ON A HOT TIN ROOF

Posted by Dan Janik on Saturday, July 17, 2021, In : Dan's Blogs 

SAY good-bye to those Norse Hell Polar Vortex days and hello to…well…our new hot-as-hell summer. It’ll soon to be hot enough to: – fry an egg on the hood of a car; – burn a lizard’s feet; – happily take a dust bath on the savannah; – make trees run for shade; – make you feel like you’re forever blushing; – not feel your fingertips burn when you pick up a copy of THE EDGE OF MADNESS (Aignos 2020) by Raymond Gaynor. Hot, hot, hot! And no end in sight!


Almost as hot as my fi...


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DO PLANTS LIKE VEGETARIANS? 植物は菜食主義者のようですか?

Posted by Dan Janik on Friday, April 23, 2021, In : Dan's Blogs 

I’D like to start today’s post with a special experience I had while working for NASA (I was a U.S. National Academy of Science/National Research Council senior research associate assigned to NASA-Johnson Space Center in the mid-70’s to assist with water quality issues on the proposed International Space Station and up and coming Space Shuttle). One of my many objectives was to work on reclaiming used water to drinkable (potable) standards. At that time about half of the launch weight o...


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Discovery my book! 本の事で再確認!

Posted by Betty on Wednesday, March 10, 2021, In : Betty's Blogs 
I am still translating my book, THE POWER OF DANCE from English to Japanese. Today I asked my husband, Dan, some questions about the translation. He asked me that what is the genre of your new book? Eh? I was confused.

"Is your book fiction or non-fiction?" he asked. Now, he became once again an English 101 professor, and I returned to being a college student.

"It is non-fiction," I replied. 

"Will it be a textbook?" he asked. 

"Maybe," I replied. "Maybe not." 

He reminded me that if it is a textb...

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Dance Exercise! ダンス エクササイズ

Posted by Dan Janik on Thursday, February 18, 2021, In : Dance Exercises 
It's been almost a year since we last went dancing with other couples. In the meantime, Betty has been working hard on her new book tentatively called either "The Power of Dance" or "Dance Power." Every other day Dan and I either dance together at our house or do toning exercises so we'll be ready to go dancing again. Today we completed the first part of our "Beginner" level dance exercises, directed to gently strengthening upper arm ballroom and Latin dance frame. You're the first ones to se...
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FRUSTRATION? YOU BET!

Posted by Betty on Saturday, January 23, 2021, In : Betty's Blogs 
I have been unemployed (technically on furlough) for almost a year now. My new "job" is  to contact the unemployed office every two weeks, but when I called, the recording on the other side said that we sorry that it is not able to use this number. What? I called this number yesterday and everything worked. Why? I have big frustration.

So, I called an alternate number. Sorry, we are so busy! Please call again. [click]. I have even bigger frustration!

Today, I decided to calm down and cook Japan...

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WHY READ FICTION?

Posted by Dan Janik on Friday, December 11, 2020, In : Dan's Blogs 

Earlier today, I began thinking about the phrase “better than…” and several thoughts bubbled up in my loquacious mind, eventually coalescing into the question, “Better than reality?” Which leads me to today’s post, “Why read fiction these days reality is already quite a bit stranger and more engaging than fiction?”


Let me qualify this: “Better than…what?” Better than eating? Better than money? Better than sex? Better than writing?. Better than…fiction? 


Having a crea...


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Essays!

Posted by Betty on Wednesday, September 9, 2020, In : Betty's Blogs 
Aloha!

Still staying-at-home in Honolulu. I have plenty of time so far, because COVID-19 IS still spreading here. So I decided to publish a second book, tentatively entitled, "It All Begins with Dance," in both Japanese and English.

Before writing the book, I want to clear the difference between expository essay and research paper. So, what's the difference? 

I studied writing essays and research papers in an American undergraduate college, but that was some years ago. However, in fact. I am sud...

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AN HEA (HAPPILY-EVER-AFTER) STORY

Posted by Dan Janik (aka Raymond Gaynor) on Thursday, July 16, 2020, In : Dan's Blogs 
Yesterday, having returned from food shopping, while taking off my mask, my Apple AirPods got caught in the elastic bands and flew off. One arced across the room and fell loudly on my (thankfully) wooden floor. Stunned, I picked it up, and, after a quick inspection, popped it back in my ear, pleased to hear it’s happy gong. The other one, however, was nowhere to be found. After a thorough but fruitless search, I reinserted my one AirPod to my ear (one never knows when an important call migh...
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RAYMOND GAYNOR AND THE EDGE OF MADNESS レイモンド・ゲイナーとTHE EDGE OF MADNESS

Posted by Dan Janik on Friday, June 26, 2020, In : Dan's Blogs 
Most people know me as Dan, but a few also know that I write books, and in some cases, under a pen name. When I write thrillers like TOTAL MELTDOWN (Borgo/Wildside) or my newly released THE EDGE OF MADNESS, I use my pen name, Raymond Gaynor. When I write erotica, I use my pen name Gary Martine. When I write children's books, I use my "real" name. As an author, I think it is important to help readers "feel comfortable" with the author, and pen names, I think, help make that happen. 

In THE EDGE...
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SOCIAL DISTANCING - WHAT FUN! :-)

Posted by Dan on Saturday, March 28, 2020, In : Dan's Blogs 
In these days of rampant COVID-19, it's all about "social distancing." Yes? Well, let's think about that for a moment. Distancing, yes. But actually it's all about PHYSICAL distancing, really. And what is the main side effect of physical distancing? An overwhelming need for social CLOSENESS. There's nothing like a few weeks in physical isolation or quarantine to make one scream for social closeness, whether by snail mail, email, phone, message (messaging is my personal favorite because I can ...
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I HAVE TWO HUSBANDS!

Posted by Betty on Monday, June 3, 2019, In : Betty's Blogs 
Today, I have two husbands. Dan just finished writing a new book entitled "The Edge of Madness." The story is like future science fiction, and he wrote it under one of his author pseudonyms, Raymond Gaynor. He uses this name for thrillers and has published two already: TOTAL MELTDOWN (Borgo/Wildside 2009) with William Maltese, and QUANTUM DEATH (Savant 2017) with A. G. Hayes. His new story begins where TOTAL MELTDOWN ends; namely the downsizing of the USA to form a much smaller NewAmerica, mu...
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HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Posted by Betty on Wednesday, January 14, 2015, In : Betty's Blogs 
Happy New Year!!

It has been so busy a new year.  I went to work on New Year's Day.  After working, Dan and I attended my editor's wedding in the evening on January second (my editor, David, is editing my upcoming book, IN SEARCH OF SOMATIC THERAPY).  The weather was heavy with rain but the wedding had so many people and was a very relaxed ceremony.

It has been three years since Dan injured his knee and his doctor said to forget about dancing. He recommended surgery and said he had a 75% chance...
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WRITER's UNBLOCK

Posted by Dan on Tuesday, September 16, 2014, In : Dan's Blogs 
It's been awhile, and you might be wondering what Betty and I are doing. I'll let Betty "kiss and tell" in her posting. For me, I've been being a good author. 

You probably know about my two children's books, A WHALE'S TALE (Savant 2009) and THE TURTLE DANCES (Savant 2013), at least I hope you do! If you haven't read them, now is the time! They're available world-wide from Amazon.com. The first is about ohana (Hawaiian for "family"), and the second is about enjoying moving -- "dance, dance, da...
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More Turtles, Turtles, Turtles!

Posted by Betty and Dan on Saturday, November 16, 2013, In : Dan's Blogs 


I've just received my order of 60 turtles from Fiesta: one turtle per THE TURTLE DANCES book. At the Savant Bookstore Honolulu, it's exclusively $16.95 for the book and a turtle. Hurry before they all crawl out of the box and disappear!  Savant Bookstore Honolulu:

Fridays from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. at Hawaii Kai Retirement Center (free parking);
Saturdays from 9 a.m. to noon at Kokua Market (free parking, too).

See you there! Just say Dan sent you!

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Turtles, Turtles, Turtles! Awesome!

Posted by Dan and Betty on Wednesday, October 23, 2013, In : Dan's Blogs 
Now that my new children's Color-Me-Please book, THE TURTLE DANCES (Savant 2013), has been released, I'm out looking for some stuffed animals to include along with the book. They've got to be realistic (I'm a naturalist) and yet cute and cuddly (after all, Isla, the dancing turtle and her dance partner, Surf, are beautiful turtles in looks and heart). While I haven't yet fully decided, I'm favoring these GUNDimals turtles. 


What do you think? Have you read my new book about Isla, the Hawaiian ...

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Poetically Perfect

Posted by Betty and Dan on Friday, June 7, 2013, In : Dan's Blogs 
Although I'm a prose writer by profession, I've always been a poet at heart. Maybe at the heart of every good prose writer is a poet. Whatever, I began writing poetry at 12 years of age and have been writing ever since. In undergraduate college I wrote a poem called "Everyway" which won many honors and is one of my favorite to this day. Then came "Water Faucet Man" and many others, eventually collected in three editions: (1) "Footprints, Smiles and Little White Lies," (2) "The Illustrated Mid...
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The Turtle Dances

Posted by Betty and Dan on Monday, May 6, 2013, In : Dan's Blogs 
I don't think I've shared that I'm a multi-award-winning author of a variety of books ranging from non-ficition educational works to poetry collections to novels and children's books. My first children's book, SOURDOUGH SCOTT'S BEDTIME FAIRYTALES FROM ALASKA (Publication Consultants, 2005) is a collection of three "modern" fairy tales I made up and told around campfires throughout Alaska until someone suggested I write them down for posterity. 

That done, I wrote a non-fiction education work, ...
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