Harvey Stanbrough: 216 books

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This compilation contains the full text of my shorter nonfiction works in a single book: Narrative in Fiction; The Seven Writerly Sins; Creating Realistic Characters; Writing Dialect; Writing Great Beginnings; Writing Flash Fiction; and Self-Editing for Writers. Each title is chock full of tips and...

When it is written well, dialect informs and enhances the reader’s sense of place and character. It should never be used for only one reason, for example, to identify a character’s race or region. Rather, it should be used when necessary to identify the character’s level of intelligence, level...

When writing narrative, there is very little room for error. All narrative must advance the story line, and it must do so as efficiently and interestingly as possible.

A light-hearted short story in which God himself is a major character. Think George Burns in "Oh God!"

Charley Bradstreet is a snappy dresser. For a mob guy, he also has strange ideas about how women should be treated. He's always been loyal, but some things go beyond what he's willing to accept.  

In this "they come here" SF novel, the Solgren, intra-galactic colonists from another planet, have their eye, and their man, on Earth. The Solgrens are ethereal beings who have long since forgotten the burden and the pleasures of being confined in a physical body. They are entralled with...

The basis of life as we know it is carbon.  Suppose the nucleus of every carbon atom is a sun. Suppose one electron "planet" swirling around that nucleus supports life. And suppose a group of scientists theorize that, like space, time is a maleable factor in the universe....

Could you mine the bones of your own ancestors? And if so, at what cost? In the early 22nd century, the Earth is governed by the World Equality Organization (WEO). Like all corrupt governments, they not-so subliminally plant imagined problems for the citizenry, then parlay the citizens' fear into...

Me and my buddy Jackson just wanted'a stop off for a brewski, right? Hey, but we never expected to see what we seen. Or what happened after that.

From the opening: Of the three wingback chairs in my library, only one is upholstered in human skin. There's a reason for that. Charles Claymore Task has been labeled a psychopath by hypocrites who see themselves as "normal." And a group of wealthy investors want to know what...

Detective Kelli Holt is on a routine assignment, investigating the murder of an elementary school teacher. But the investigation itself is far from routine. Why does an elementary school teacher have 1.7 million dollars stashed in her floor safe and in her purse? What does her pupil and 7 year...

On future Earth, there are only six nations. They are governed, loosely, by a compendium of delegates, one from each nation, to the World Dominion. But among any six humans, there is always one who wants to be dominant. When that one, by happenstance, is contacted by extra-terrestrials who...

Adolph Hitler, terrible as he was, was nothing but a pawn. One in a series of strings tugged by a puppeteer. Hitler was vanquished, but the entity that gave him rise never went away.  Two centuries and two decades after the rise of Hitler, the same entity is still pulling strings.  And he's almost accomplished the goal of his father and grandfathers before him.