In this fascinating account of her life as a young actress in New York City, and later as "Hollywood's Youngest, Sexiest Producer," writer Barbara Dan pulls no punches, as she describes the many pitfalls actors are likely to encounter on the road to success in show business. At age 23 she opened her own showcase theatre in Hollywood to help other actors get discovered by agents, producers and the studios. Later she worked for the story editor of Shirley Temple Storybook and Dinah Shore Chevy Show, and describes meeting her future husband, actor John Dan, and many other actors, cameramen,...

Women of the Metro Ballet captures the spice and spirit of New Orleans as it zooms in on an Uptown neighborhood, and specifically on the Common Grounds coffee shop. At its center are four young mothers who are struggling to raise their children, form meaningful relationships, and run their often hectic households. But encircling them are several impeding factors, including difficult sibling relationships, disengaged spouses, domestic abuse, and finally, life-threatening illness. Women of the Metro Ballet is a nontraditional narrative showing the inner life of the four women trying to find...

Julie McKay's father died, and now she had to go home and face the music. What worried Julie wasn't facing Cade Weston once more, but her daughter facing him. How would Kellie react once she knew Cade was her father?

This short non-fiction work chronicles an elderly parent's battle with dementia in the hope that the reader might avoid some of the mistakes I made in trying to cope with it.

Alan L. Slaff's poems read like tiny stories, and his ultra-descriptive images transport readers to the scene and inside his thoughts. His collection of poems causes the heart to fill with empathy and the soul to connect with a kindred spirit. This rich journey includes poems Slaff wrote from 1970 to 2004 and from 2004 to 2011 for this expanded 2nd edition. From his father's distant nature to the laughter of children in the streets of Vietnam, The Boy in the Mirror covers the entirety of Slaff's experiences, whether agonizing or ecstatic. In telling, through verse, of his feelings and...

Short stories that are a little strange with twisted endings. Mandy's Revenge is a story of the murder of a young girl in 1941 and deaths of her killers. Jamaica Farewell, an abused wife solves her problem in an usual manner . Love Bites, a beautiful vampire awakens after 3,000 years and has to learn to exist in a modern world. The Funeral, the dead walk among the mourners. Children of the Dark, beware of who you let into your home. The Bookseller, a dowdy woman transforms after reading a book in a bookstore that isn't there. The Yellow Bird, an old woman writes her memoir before going in for...

Allison Andrews is broke. She wants a man with money and goes on a dating site to find him. She's successful and connects with Roberto Rubio, a rich Cuban from Miami. Allison has always used her beauty and sex appeal to get what she wants from men. She likes her sexual gratification and is thrilled that this man can satisfy her in all the ways that she likes, money and sex. She moves to Miami to live in his huge estate and life is good until she comes home from shopping and finds him dead with a bullet in his forehead. She realizes that she really did love him and wants to see the killers...

The buck stops at the President's desk. But how often in fact has the President been impeached and removed from office? Never in the history of the United States, not once. In 'The Constant Fugitive', a novel that explores the nexus between jihad and home-grown terrorism, the odds against sacking the President are brought vividly to life when FBI director Joe Gabriel commits a crime at the bidding of the White House and refuses to take the rap for his political masters. Joe orchestrates his own disappearance, setting off a man-hunt that begins in Washington, D.C. and comes to a violent end in...

Forced to go to a summer camp and babysit her younger cousin instead of the wonderful vacation that she had planned at Disney World, Tianna Logan figures that she is about to have the worst, most boring summer that she has ever known. Little did Tianna realize that she was instead headed for the greatest and most dangerous adventure of her life and that she would soon be facing the most powerful adversary that she has ever went up against. Camp Weeping Willow has always been a safe haven for the children of American witches and wizards, a place for them to have fun, make new friends and get a...