If you don't have family connections and don't want to depend on luck alone, the best shot you have at hitting the screenwriting jackpot is to write a kick-butt screenplay. Big Fat Paycheck will show readers how simple it is to write a script. Readers, however, will have to supply the kick-butt. Filled with quirky black-and-white illustrations and accessible, easy-to-understand guidance, author Colton Lawrence gives readers the rules on scriptwriting...

"Lemuel Gulliver has bad luck at sea. A series of shipwrecks lands him in some unimaginable places. first, there's the land of the little people. Next there's the fantastic flying island and the land of the giants. Last but not least, Gulliver visits a nation ruled by intelligent horses!"--Back cover.

In the tradition of "The Hot Zone" comes an explosive investigation into a global catastrophe in the making. moving from America's swamps and wetlands to laboratories and government back rooms, Souder dramatically reveals the warning implicit in an outbreak of mutated frogs, explaining the importance of the amphibians to our fragile ecosystems and suggesting what their possible extinction means to the habitability of the planet for all species, including...

Vampires, werewolves, witches, shapeshifters -- they live among us without our knowledge. Night World is their secret society, a secret society with very strict rules. And falling in love breaks all the laws of the Night World. In "Dark Angel," Gillian is saved from drowning by her guardian angel. Only visible to Gillian, Angel will fulfill her heart's every desire. But when Angel starts making strange and sinister requests, Gillian must question...