A battle is emerging between the doublesight and the humans. As the two armies build their strength, the bear clan visits the doublesight's council grounds hoping to help. When their attempt is thwarted, they must decide on a new plan. Zimp and Lankor head for memory tower while being chased by the harpies, and warriors from Castle Weilk. As they travel, their romance grows into something stronger than either of them had realized. In the mean time, King Belford struggles to gain control of his armies so that he can destroy as many doublesight as possible. Memory tower has a lot more to teach...

"Lately fantasy rarely surprises and seldom delights, but Terry Persun's novel Doublesight does both and more. Richly textural, complicated in character, and presenting a world unlike any other, this debut imbues new blood into the genre. It is a stunning fantasy for the new millennium."--James Rollins, New York Times bestselling author of the Sigma Force series "Persun's captivating new fantasy raises the art of shape shifting to a new level. Enter the world of Doublesight where man and animal are one. A fresh adventure awaits "-- Janet Lee Carey, bestselling author of Dragonswood Now part...

And Now This persuades me that we inhale the whole sensuous journey of growing up until the right words come to release it. These poems are a journey with roots in a hollow on Beautys Run Road that needs time and a poet's eye to discover its lessons. They worry that space between past and present, that "fine line between sky and ground," where it is so "easy... to get lost," until they find the "golden light" of "drawing the best out of everything memory] touches" and "everything it can't touch." These poems offer a painful journey, a man's journey, yet feelings, raw and true, defy gender....

IPPY AWARD WINNER ("Sweet Song," 2012) For fans of Joyce Carol Oats, James Salter, Jim Harrison, and E.L. Doctorow BOOK DESCRIPTION: A bold and raw study of the human condition, readers will instantly see themselves and their friends and family in this bravely written novel. Because it explores love, hate, sex, and passion in a way that exposes the truth, this book is hard to put down once you've started reading. When Jack and Silvia introduce their workmates and their spouses and girlfriends at a party, they have no idea what problems will transpire. And when a mentally unstable man acts out...

International Book Award Finalist Winner - If you enjoy edgy fiction, fiction with depth and bite, read the raw but sensitive "Ten Months in Wonderland" -- Airman Kevin Grayson, a happily married, nineteen-year-old family man, is deployed to an airbase in Udorn in the fall of 1973. He is completely unprepared for two things that will change his life forever: Thailand's seamy underbelly and Jerry, his dark mentor, who will lead him into a lifestyle he could never imagine. Thrust into the seedy world of hardcore booze, drugs, and sex, Grayson must face losing everything he holds dear and risk...

Abstract Writings is a collection of short stories written by Terry Persun through the 1970s, 80s, and 90s. Many of these stories have been published by small, idependent magazines and university publications. The stories vary in length from short, flash fiction pieces of fewer than 500 words, to longer stories of several thousand words. They have been collected here for the first time. Written in a variety of genre styles from science fiction and horror to mainstream and literary, the strangest stories are often the most imaginative, and this collection has its share of strange stories....

The chapbooks in this collection span from 1986 through 1996. During those ten years, I wrote and published literally hundreds of poems in little magazines and university publications across the country. I regularly entered chapbook contests and actually won a few. But, just as often, a small publisher would contact me and ask for 16 or 24 or 36 poems to create a chapbook. Those were great days, and I am eternally grateful to those publishers. Since chapbooks are typically published in very small runs of anywhere from 50 to maybe 250 copies, the chapbook poems collected here are no longer...

Make Money Writing explains the key elements of how to make a living while freelance writing. It covers everything from the types of pieces magazines (online and print) are looking for, how to contact editors, and how to start your business. This is something I've been doing for over fifteen years. I've actually been freelance writing (fiction, nonfiction, and poetry) for over thirty, but had a regular job for half that time. Many of those years, I was freelancing part time, while working as the Editor-in-Chief of several commercial and business-to-business magazines. So, I've been on both...

When writing with intention and purpose, novelists often break the rules that beginning writers are told to avoid. "Tell Don't Show: How to successfully break the rules of fiction" was written to help those authors understand the rules so that they can successfully break them. The book has many examples of successful solutions that professional and award-winning authors have used to make their prose stronger without throwing the reader completely off the page. The three authors have each taught classes on breaking the rules of fiction, intentional writing, and many other aspects of how to...

Blues and Beyond is Gerald Braude's first book of poems but will not be his last. A professional classical/jazz guitarist and short story author, Gerald's approach to poetry is both new and familiar. Sentences is Terry Persun's latest poetry collection and shows a different side to his work. These very stylized poems are unique in their structure and approach. They often read like disconnected images, but there is a focus to each poem that is larger than the sum of its lines.