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Character 101 started originally as a series of blog posts and was for some time the core material of John Adamus' popular Writing Workshops. The elements here are taught in a practical way, spending little time on abstract theory, and focusing instead on how any writer can apply these ideas...

"It is the fear of the young bird to trust its wings." - Ralph Waldo EmersonOver the years, hundreds of self-help and advice manuals have been written to enable us to become more well-adjusted human beings, better able to overcome adversity. Like you, I have perused my share of these seemingly...

What if Détente and the eventual fall of the USSR never fully occurred? What if some members of the Russian government decided to hibernate for over 25 years and then attack the U.S. with stolen nuclear missiles? What if an elderly former CIA Agent accidentaly finds out about this pack? Can something be done to prevent these fanatics from taking over the world?

“From the Author of the recently released and acclaimed novella, ‘Baskerman PR,’ this collection of shorts challenges the reader to step outside the comfort zone of the simplified action of the space opera, and wrap their heads around some mentally expansive, mind-altering scifi. Five Magnificent...

What happened when, after a life-changing study-tour of Peru, a successful US attorney abandoned his law practice to volunteer with a religious organization and travel to Peru to fight for human rights in the midst of a culture of violence and terror?Not what he expected.In his sometimes...

In The Time After Book One on the Web of the Universe “…At 11:57 A.M., on July 14, 2014, there were approximately seven billion people living on planet Earth. Three minutes later, most of those people were gone. Not sick with the Zika virus, or dying from radiation poisoning after...

Imlod Nir is a young man caught up in a resurging conflict between primordial forces. Apprenticed to his sister—the self-styled Queen of Earth—in the dark art of necromancy, he hunts the wilds beyond the city of Ramfiram for those who would deny her rule. But with each passing day he becomes less...

ExPRESSION is a psychological thriller on how writing a book is an absorbing journey--especially if you're part of the story. Swirls of ink take John Bird Ray on a fantasy linked with reality. A reflection of the world twisting and turning on the roller coaster of time; filled with memories that never...

When his sister dies in a school shooting in their hometown of Bridgevine, NJ, fourteen-year-old Mike Price vows to find a way to go back in time and save her. What he doesn't realize is the new window of danger he's just opened, and the fate that lies between him and his fiancée, Rebecca. 

A power packed and intriguing thriller, The Shir Khan Prophecy is the second novel in the Kane Rhodes/Brian Jones series from author John Lock. Intelligent and unswervingly appealing it whips along at a breakneck pace as Lock dexterously plaits converging plot lines across international boundaries,...

Conquest and Secrets is the conclusion to John Ronald’s 'Secrets' trilogy. Badiah leaves his self-imposed exile and lays aside old demons to put an end to the sinister Prime Minster Varcus’ nefarious plans for the galaxy. Clutching onto power as well as his own sanity amidst the crumbling Confederacy,...

What can happen when an older divorced man is kind to a younger women who is just moving into a new apartment complex? Kindness can pay off with kindness. Follow John as he discovers the value of kindness in the first of a new series of stories that take place in an average college apartment complex.

Throughout time, seers and shamans of particular backgrounds have practiced a teaching scheme called stalking. In this instance, the term does not refer to the aberrant persecution of another’s welfare: the literal opposite is the case as the stalker’s goal is to free their apprentice from apparently...

This book is written by John Galsworthy in 1924. Fleur Forsyte is now married to Michael Mont, but the marriage is haunted by the ghost of a past love story . Fleur is an unhappiness woman , but Michael want to save is marriage , also finds himself caught in another tragic and moving story……