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s--''- Authors and their works Best sellers It's a rainbow world and it's full of writers Complied by lha New York Tlmei So you're writing a book, eh? Some folks in the reading audience no doubt nodded their noggins at that question, and maybe even muttered a how-did-he-know. Well, I have news for those of you who think you're not writing a book: Ah, but yes, you are. And you might get around to believing it if you read "Celebrate Joy!" by Velma Seawell Daniels 1 NONFICTION 1. THE BEVERLY HILLS DIET Judy Mazel. A regimen devises by a Hoilywood nutrition guru.

2. THE LORD GOD MADE THEM ALL James Herrlot The further adventures of the Yorkshire vet at home and behind the Iron Curtain. 3. NEVER-SAY-DIET BOOK Richard Simmons. A regimen for exercise, diet and life style devised by a Hollywood television personality.

4. HOW TO MAKE LOVE TO A MAN Alexandra Penney. How-tO. 5. MISS PIGGY'S GUIDE TO LIFE Miss Piggy as told to Henry Beard.

Advice about everything from the porcine superstar. 6. THE CINDERELLA COMPLEX Colette Dowllng. From her own experience, a writer argues that women have a hidden fear of independence. 7.

KEEP IT SIMPLE Marion Burros. Meals that can be prepared within half an hour. 8. COSMOS CARL SAGAN. Thirteen billion years of the universe's evolution explained by the NASA medal-winning space scientist.

9. THEORY William G. Ouchl. The reasons for Japai nese business success. 10.

JANE BRODY'S NUTRITION BOOK JANE BRODY; Advice by the New York Times personal health columnist. FICTION 1. THE HOTEL NEW HAMPSHIRE John Irving. Life with the Berrys, an eccentric family that sets up house in unlikely hotels, here and abroad. 2.

CUJO Stephen King. Monsters haunt a New York family seeking peace in rural Maine. 3. NOBLE HOUSE James Clavell. British and Chinese businessmen struggle for control of one of Hong Kong's oldest trading houses.

4. THE THIRD DEADLY SIN Lawrence Sanders. Chief of Detectives (ret.) Edward X. Delaney on the trail of the elusive killer of out-of-town businessmen visiting New York. 5.

THE CARDINAL SINS Andrew M. Greeley. The triumphs and tragedies of two Chicago boys as priests in the Catholic Church. 6. GORKY PARK Martin Cruz Smith.

A triple murder in Moscow leads to a chase on two continents. 7. THE LAST DAYS OF AMERICA Paul Erdman. International intrigue and dirty financial whaeling-and-deal-ing in 1985. 8.

THE GLITTER DOME Joseph Wambaugh. Two veteran homicide detectives trapped by the seductive vices of Hollywood. 9. NIGHT PROBEI Cllve Cussler. A race to recover an important British-American treaty.

10. LUCIANO'S LUCK Jack Hlgglns. Lucky Luciano, American gangster chief, is whisked to wartime Europe to prepare the way for the Allied invasion. Ed Hayes Velma Daniels In brief Compiled from Sentinel Star Servloea "That's all right," she said. "I saw you had your hands full and I know how bothersome that can be.

Besides, it's just something for my book "I'm writing a book. But not like you. Mine never will be published. As I tell the children at school, everybody is writing a book. Everything you do all day long goes into it.

That's what I meant when I said it was something for my book." With that she gave me a tiny wave of her hand and walked toward the supermarket. After three or four steps, she turned and said, "Each day is like a fresh, new page of your life. You think about that." And I did think about it Mary Jean Poston was right. You are writing a book. What you put in it depends on you.

Nobody else. Wouldn't it be wonderful to leave behind a volume that would hold a place of honor in the permanent library of a friend to be read and reread and shared long after you have passed this way? And so goes "Celebrate Joy!" Tendrils of thought, page after page. Early in the book, Windermere author-orator Win Pendleton makes an appearance as a real life character. Here's a man with a laugh-lined face who lives in a book-lined house, and who also knows how to count his long, long line of blessings. Friends of the 96-year-old Winter Park Library are staging a whopping book sale at their slick and shiny new building at 460 E.

New England (a short lovely walk from Park Avenue) this Friday and Saturday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., and from 1 to 5 p.m. next Sunday. More than 10,000 volumes have already been donated to the cause. Books are still being accepted, and may be dropped off at the technical services room at the rear of the library any day.

The Friends decided that the library would be the best location for the sale, bring the whole project close to home, give folks a chance Book Editor jf (Doubleday, It's a new book by the Winter Haven author and hostess of the popular weekly book review show on Tampa's WFLA-TV, Channel 8 and the book, well, it's just a joy to turn its twinkling pages. It's an uplifting, tidbit sort of volume. Anecdotes and stories. Lines tracing acts of faith and hope and love. Fluff stuff? Nonsense.

What's wrong with injecting shots of joy into one's cynically-assaulted existence? Open your hearts as well as your eyes. It's basically a rainbow world. When God created Adam he also gave him and his progeny a little mechanism snuggled somewhere between the ears, it keeps ticking away, and it's called imagination. Crank up the imagination: that's what the author is telling us. Take another look at what's bugging or boring you.

Snuggled somewhere among the pages of "Celebrate Joy!" is a chapter called "Another Day, Another Page." Velma Daniels recounts a supermarket parking lot encounter with Mary Jean Poston, school teacher. The author was struggling with two heavy pokes of groceries and her car door. The teacher recognized her and came over to help. "Thank you so much," I said with my best smile. "I'm not used to getting that much attention." to acquaint or reacquaint themselves with the facility.

Weather allowing, the bargain book sellers say they'll set up stalls outside the library as well as inside. Although a number of apparently valuable books have turned up in the mountain pile of donations, and are being scrutinized and priced by dealers, most of the books on sale will be genuine bargains for book lovers, according to Polly Seymour, who is co-chairing the project with Marcia Wright. Members of Sigma Phi Epsilon have contributed countless hours to the back-bending chore of sorting, categorizing and hauling the books to and from the various storage areas around town. Joseph E. Thompson, director of corporate development for Southeast Banking Corporation, who has more than 150 books in his library on sailing, navigation and the early sea explorers, has added another.

His own. It's titled "Celestial Navigation Captain Joe Thompson's Cookbook Method." Publisher is David McKay Company; the book is getting an alternate selection label by the Dolphin Book Club. Joe's been a sailor and yachtsman for nearly 20 years, and this is his first book. "Spence at the Blue Bazaar" by Michael Allen; Dell; $2.25. The main topic of conversation in Tinley, a sleepy English village, is the Blue Bazaar, a nightspot that offends some of the old-timers because it's a trifle flashy and employs strippers.

Then a stripper is found tortured to death. To solve this murder, Chief Superintendent Spence first has to solve two old murders. Nasty business that. But a beautiful British baffler. "John Muir And His Legacy The American Conservation Movement" by Stephen Fox; Little, Brown; $17.50.

An excellent sketch well written and researched of the eccentric dean of the American conservation movement from his boyhood days in Scotland to his final escape into the wilderness of California and Alaska. "The Cousteau Almanac: An Inventory of Life on Our Water Planet" by Jacques-Yves Cousteau and the staff of the Cousteau Society; Doubleday-Dolphin; $15.95. Cousteau Company resist the self-righteous temptation to scold, even as they warn in readable article after article against the long-range costs of short-term benefits as we squander the planet's resources. "Traditions" by Alan Ebert; Crown; $14.95. Janice Rotchstein has done a fine job researching World War II, the McCarthy era, the early years of television, the '60s and more, all of which first novelist Ebert weaves into the background of a smoothly written, lively, fam ily dynasty saga, which requires little on the part'' of the reader save a good chunk of time to get through 608 pages.

"All The Stars In Heaven: Louis B. Mayer's by Gary Carey; E.P. Dutton; $18.50. Carey has spliced; together spicy anecdotes with solid research and mov-J ie savvy into a brilliant saga that spans three decades; the lifetime of a man and the studio he poured his; heart into. A sparkling and vital contribution to film; history.

"Circles Of Time" by Phillip Rock; Seaview; Focused on post-World War I England and Germany; from 1921 to Christmas 1924, peppered with historical facts, the novel balances tales of shell-shocked victim with the fervor of new love affairs. Entertaining; touching story. "Monty: The Making Of A General 1887-1942" by-Nigel Hamilton; McGraw-Hill; $19.95. Within a week; of taking over the 8th Army, Montgomery charted bold new course. The British general's victory over; Rommel was the hinge upon which World War II; swung against We Americans have been re-; peatedly told that it wasn't till Stalingrad that the tide-turned against Hitler.

Persistent praise of the U.S.S.R.; and relative silence regarding the herioc role of Brit- ain has lasted too long. A welcome biography. 'Easy Travel' easy trip to success? Ted Mooney: his first novel, 'Easy Travel to Other Planets," may be headed for best seller charts. Fly to and from Miami for $25. Iff By JOSEPH BARBATO Special to Sentinel Star Ted Mooney has been in tight spots before.

Once, while fighting forest fires in the Pacific Northwest during a college vacation in the early 1970s, he and the rest of his "brush disposal and fire suppression" crew were helicoptered to the bottom of a valley. A fire was raging somewhere beyond a steep hill, and Mooney, serving as a scout, was sent to locate it. "I climbed up, stuck my head over a fallen log, and a tumbling tree on fire hit the log in front of me and bounded into the valley below," he recalls. "I crouched there in terror for about 20 minutes before I could go down and tell them where the fire was." Now, at 29, Mooney finds himself in a situation far less dangerous but tinged nonetheless with trepidation. He is a first novelist.

Indeed, his novel, "Easy Travel to Other Planets," has caused sufficient in-house excitement at Farrar, Straus and Giroux, his publisher, to prompt an unusually large first printing of 25,000 copies. "We think the book is going to be the "White Hotel" of the fall season," says publicist Helene Atwan, referring to the literary novel by D.M. Thomas, which has become a best seller. "Sure I'm nervous," says Mooney. "Seeing the book in stores makes me feel very vulnerable." For all that, Ted Mooney, who devoted three years to "Easy Travels," writing from 4:30 to 8:30 each weekday morning before going to his job as an editor at Art in America magazine, seems quite relaxed in an interview in his apartment on Manhattan's upper West Side.

His agent, Harriet Wasserman, submitted the book simultaneously to eight publishers, three of whom offered bids, he explains. While no one will discuss dollar figures certainly not about to buy my house in Malibu," says Mooney), all three bidding houses offered "very good deals," says the author, and a floor has already been established for a paperback-rights auction slated for October. A native of Dallas, Mooney is the son of writers. His father, Booth, who died four years ago, wrote popular political histories; his mother, Elizabeth, is the author (Joseph Barbato is book columnist for Amtrak's Express magazine and has written for Smithsonian, Publishers Weekly, and the Village Voice.) of many children's books and a recent memoir, "Alone," about her life as a widow. Mooney graduated in 1973 from Bennington College and then headed for New York where he met Mark Mirsky, the editor of Fiction magazine, based at City College.

Mirsky soon hired him as the magazine's managing editor and in payment arranged a graduate fellowship under which Mooney studied writing with Donald Barthelme and Susan Sontag. At the same time, Mooney's first and only attempts at short fiction were published in American Review and Esquire. Then, in 1976, after an unsuccessful attempt to expand one of the stories, "The Interpretation of Dreams," into a novel, he began "Easy Travels." Long fascinated by science the great myth of our Mooney traces the dolphin experiments in his novel to a Manhattan neighbor's mention several years ago of actual efforts to communicate with dolphins. "Factual things excite my imagination," he says. "Choosing the subject of a new novel is so much a matter of finding the biggest possible surprise for myself," he adds.

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While these characters, more sharks than dolphins, circle each other, the superpowers prepare for war over Antarctica. This non-sequitur world demands a non-sequitur mode of narration that can baffle the careless reader. Far more successful, however, is Mooney's attempt to see the world through the dolphin's eyes, or rather skin, since it is that organ that functions as a kind of secondary brain, supplementing the regular brain to produce a prodigious memory and even dreams in Mooney's imaginative creation. Mooney does not simply anthropomorphize; he writes from "dolphin consciousness," as sounds and shapes intrude upon the mammal's sense organs and interact with memories of traditional dolphin "sagas." There is the promise of literary success here for the author. lower floors are flooded with sea water, so that Peter can swim about at ease, and so that she can continuously observe him in his natural element.

Peter seems to be studying Melissa as much as she is studying him, and before you can say John Lilly, they have fallen "in love." This unnerves Melissa almost as much as it must the reader. On balance, however, their relationship is a beguiling and gentle one, since the human relationships in the novel are so carnivorous. Back home in New York, Melissa's paramour Jeffrey is sleeping with Clarice, who is married to someone else. Melissa's friend Nicole is living with Diego but is considering an affair with Jeffrey. Melissa's mother Nona is dying of cancer, which is perhaps why she is sleeping with Richard, who is married to someone else.

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