In How to Avoid Making Art, the bestselling author of The Artist's Way delivers a (tongue-in-cheek ) guide to doing anything and everything you possibly can to avoid making art. Anyone who is engaged in a creative pursuit will no doubt identify with these wonderful cartoons by award-winning artist Elizabeth Cameron of creative wannabes doing everything except actually getting down to work.

"For most people creativity is a serious business," says Julia Cameron. "They forget the telling phrase 'the play of ideas' and think that they need to knuckle down and work more. Often, the...

A mystery thriller you won't be able to put down Travel along with Mia Kensington through this riveting mystery novel. Based in an institution for the mentally incurable and the criminally insane, the twists and turns in this novel will keep you guessing. Warning: Don't read this thriller in the dark alone

When the interior designer for a major hotel chain, Mia Kensington is sent to a small South Pacific Island to solve the troubled completion of one of its newest hotels, she's prepared to meet the usual problems. But the mysterious suicide of a hotel guest is compounded by the fact that the presiding doctor attends to one of the few remaining leper colonies in the world. Only the patients in this colony situated on the southern end of what had been a Japanese Submarine base during the Second World War are being treated like inmates of a concentration camp. Then Craig Stevens, the handsome...

BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU'RE LOOKING FOR YOU MIGHT FIND IT Another Mia Kensington mystery thriller adventure The wife of a renowned anthropologist, is drawn into the disappearance of the famous Dr. Whitehead who was to announce the discovery of a lifetime and then is murdered on board their cruise ship. When a mysterious illness creeps through the passengers, Mia abandons the cruise ship with her husband seeking a supposed sanctuary and instead is delivered back into a world of unbelievable horror. A gripping novel of suspense, intrigue, twists and turns that you won't be able to put down. A...

Hear is a book with five short stories of murder, intrigue, and suspense. All written in Elizabeth's unique style of unexpected twists and turns that keep the reader guessing to the very end ROSES ARE RED: A good wine can be fragrant, fruity, mellow or just a little unusual. MAC-NETIC ATTRACTION: Computer problems can frustrate all of us and drive some of us to the very limits. MERE DETAILS: For the wannabe writer, write from your experience, the experts say. When you have the experience, that's excellent advice. JUST DESSERTS: Sweets for the sweet? This is a killer diet