This guide to writing compelling, memorable short stories gives you all the essentials without wasted words. It tells you how and where to get ideas, how to establish and sustain excitement, how to create live, colorful characters, and how to plot, develop and bring home your story. It even includes exercises to help you perfect your story-telling skills. Full of tips and techniques that work, it makes an indispensable, reliable collaborator. You'll find it ideal whether you're studying alone or supplementing a creative or fiction writing course, conference or workshop.
This title contains: "The Umbrella Man"; "Dip in the Pool"; "The Butler"; "The Hitchhiker"; "Mr Botibol"; "My Lady Love", "My Dove"; "The Way Up to Heaven"; "Parson's Pleasure"; "The Sound Machine"; and "The Wish".
Roald Dah,l who died in 1990, continues to be the most popular author for today's children. Quentin Blake is one of the UK's most celebrated artists, renowned for his collaboration with Roald Dahl. He lives in London.
From a Moravian Dark One who must take on zombies and an angst-ridden teenage vampire to win the love of his soulmate, to a sunbathing vampire who finds the woman of his dreams in Vegas, this hilarious collection of paranormal romances celebrates the lives and loves of the immortal undead.
A Short History of the United States - Edward Channing (Audiobook, MP3)
Edward Channing’s best known work, A History of the United States, is regarded as one of the most complete and accurate accounts of American history and received the 1926 Pulitzer Prize for History.
WAITING FOR ORDERS is a collection of the author's shorter works, written in 1929-1940 as Ambler, already a successful suspense novelist, waited for his call to military duty. Included in WAITING FOR ORDERS are "The Army of Shadows," his earliest published short story; "The Intrusions of Dr. Czissar," a collection of detective stories; and "The Blood Bargain," a short story that the author abandoned and then came back to in 1970.
