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High in the desert, between the mountains out west, up where the ground throbs from the nuclear test detonations, the casinos still glitter, drawing people from the far reaches of the world. They come here to try their luck, to take a chance, to have the adventures they wouldn't write home about.In this other-world, the desert offers one last hope for the penniless, the luckless, the loveless, and the hopeless. A pawnshop dealing in wonders, where...
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Let us make man in our own image." -God ...man, being a gentleman, returned the favor." -Voltaire The Award-nominated author of The Antithesis Progression and Down From Ten brings you a genre-spanning collection in the American Gothic tradition of Flannery O'Connor, Ray Bradbury, and Ambrose Bierce. Stories of creativity, hubris, sacrifice, and longing, these tales put you to bed with visions of eternity sharp in your head. Bedtime stories aren't...
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“Making Tracks” gives you the lowdown on today's book landscape, now revised and expanded for today's marketplace. From narrative technique to studio design to production management, you'll learn everything you need to go from zero to full production, including:
How to access the world's biggest book markets Industry history and business practices
How to choose your production style
How to leverage your books to build your stable of true fans
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You can make the whole world end, if you but count down from ten...Eight friends gather for their annual retreat--cloistered in a mansion in California's high country for ten days of games, conversation, exhibition, and hedonism. When the house is buried by an avalanche, they must somehow survive and stay sane while waiting for rescue--a task which becomes increasingly difficult when they all start having the same disturbing dream.Can they escape...
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One Surfboard. Two X-chromosomes. All Man.Climbing Olympus Mons put him on the map. Winning a gold medal in asteroid jumping got him great press. Children everywhere tune into watch every time he skydives from a space station. But Suave Rob Suarez likes to aim high--really high. Together with his stunt partner and their childhood hero, he's gonna stage the biggest daredevil stunt the universe has ever seen:Surf a supernova.Or die trying.The author...
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The author of The Antithesis Progression and The Clarke Lantham Mysteries brings you delicate, humorous, and brutal visions of a future that never was and a past that might have been. Here you will find collected tales of satire, romance, whimsy, and comic horror to delight every sensibility.Contains:Train TimeSleep, WalkOn Matters Most AustereA Goblet of Fifty-ThreeAngels Unawaresand Cold Duty, the story that Steampunk Scholar Mike Perschon calls...
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The author of Ideas, Inc. and The Clarke Lantham Mystries brings you hilarious gonzo adventure in the 24rd century...When bastardly forces threaten, only Suave Rob can save the day!Surfing Betelgeuse made him the galaxy's ultimate badass, but when Suave Rob gets thrown in the klink for brawling with his best bro, and forced to babysit a bevy of bratty delinquents as punishment, he figures that even badasses get the bogus end of the stick sometimes.But...
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When your ass is on the line, they'll kick it off!They surfed a supernova. They beat the Poseidon Front. They raptured the rugrats and made the solar system safe for the most bodacious badassery. Now Suave Rob and Gigolo Jeff are bringing their epicness to your establishment.That's right! Whether you've got problems with gropey groupies, sneaky stalkers, rapacious rivals, seriously shifty slavers, or a dangerously disastrous ducky drip, this top-notch...
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Perda and Sasha shared a vision as grand as life itself-a vision lacking only in a grand, validating experiment. Their pilgrimage to Mother's world gave them that experiment. The chance to build a new life on Mother's words of compassion and vision, of power and promise. A truly peaceful world of sharing and nurture, without competition and depredation and warfare.And what more could you ask at seventeen than to step through the magical fire with...
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Thirty Days from Idea to PublicationThink you can't write a great novel in a month? Think again. Most of the best novels in history were written in a month or less. Professionals do it all the time. And with Becoming an Every Day Novelist, so can you.
Prolific author J. Daniel Sawyer walks you through the process in this day-by-day, step-by-step guide to going from blank page to a publication-ready novel...and doing it every month.
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She has everything to die for...When Chan Xiyi Aya's dream of life beyond the galactic frontier lands her in hot water with the Foundation who employs her, she gets her shot at the job she's aching for: chronicling the history of a planet she'd kill to protect, three hundred light years beyond the rim of human space.The catch?Only the dead can go.
12) Pick a Card
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On a trip to visit his ailing grandfather, seventeen-year-old Peter meets a magician who claims to know how to grant Peter's dearest wish: to perform impossible illusions.But dearest wishes come with costs, and new opportunities come with each turn of the cards in a hospital room at the edge of nowhere.
13) Ideas, Inc
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The author of Suave Rob's Double-X Derring Do brings you a farce of the tradition of P.G. Wodehouse and Douglas Adams.Best friends Caleb and Lenny hate each other. Stranded in the middle of upstate New York with two flat tires, one spare, no cell reception, and no idea what to do, they figure they're pretty much screwed. Fortunately, they broke down right in front of a place that deals in ideas. For the special one-time fire-sale price of seventeen...
14) Funeral Hats
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Alliston Hayes loved three things: getting married, hats, and the late Jac Jarger. So when she got the chance to combine the three with the help of a demon-possessed cat and an ancient book, how could she pass it up? How could she know that her enthusiasm would result in "The Incident"?
15) Business 101
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Writer's face a world of infinite possibility, and hard decisions. To navigate the publishing world, you must understand business and money from the point of view as a businessperson, not an employee.
Now, J. Daniel Sawyer, longtime businessman, educator, and author of over twenty books guides you through the transition from thinking like an employee to thinking like an author-entrepeneur and gives you the tools you need to make informed decisions...
16) The Empty House
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Alan Tosetti set the sterling standard in a town built on silver. The greatest architect in Nevada history, he died before he could finish his masterpiece Craftsman. Two years later, his youngest daughter, died in the same house, sitting in front of the fire, of old age.She was only twenty-six.When the tales of Tosetti's legacy draws a hungry young architect from the big city, he finds a broken-down ruin with a soul full of music, and a chilling secret...
17) Hadrian's Flight
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Hadrian Jin. Skyguard. Refugee.Twelve times a day, this sixteen-year-old proprietor of Luna City's best orn-suit shop fits the wings, and jumps out into the open air to soar with the grace of an eagle. For forty dollars an hour, he can teach any groundhog how to fly bird-fashion in the moon's low gravity. But when the tramp of military boots on the road to his home forces him to flee, he finds himself adrift between planets, on the run from government...
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Everybody lies-especially when dating. Fortunately, Luke has your back. A self-appointed honesty enforcer, he volunteers at bars using VR optics and data mining in his quest to referee the game of love. He'll keep you honest and send you home happy...if you play fair.But a world without secrets holds all kinds of surprises, even for Luke-like transparency activists, and broken hearts, and the unexpected appearance of an Open Source Woman.
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Wonder and terror from the author of Down From Ten...Fin came to Manaus to save the family business. His brother came to make the family fortune. But the Amazon runs far, and its fingers reach down into the past, rooting into ancient secrets buried under golden temples, and terrors that spring from the deep, sweltering heat.
20) Throwing Lead
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If you write fiction, you have to know about them-but what if you don't have any formal training, or a job that brings you into regular contact with firearms?
Sure, you could watch a lot of CSI, but as you'll quickly discover upon cracking open this volume, you can't trust everything you see on TV. Entertaining and humorous in style, Throwing Lead shows you the gestalt of guns, showing you the history of small arms in one readable, accessible, graphics-rich...