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...

A colony of scientists, a megalomaniac, an alien race...which will prevail? Brandon and Palmer, soldier and pilot, pitch their skills against a high-profile negotiator bent on taking over an entire planet, which could change the lives of every colonist on it. And why would one man want to do such a thing? To gain control of a secret alien race discovered on C47. It's not about scientific discovery, and it's not about saving an alien race, it's about power and control. If Garth Killjoy, President of Section 204 of the Intergalactic Peace Force, gets his way he'll have the entire Earth Central...

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.

Unchecked emotions made the world outside Newcity dangerous, unruly, and violent. At least, that's the official story in Newcity.... Within Newcity, everyone is content. Bad feelings are not allowed. To ensure harmony, a monitoring implant alerts the police to bring out-of-control residents in for treatment. Getting better is mandatory. Keith senses something is wrong, especially when he starts having some very unusual visions. Escaping Newcity, he finds freedom and friendship -- but learns the outside world isn't a safe haven, either. As things spin wildly out of control on all sides,...

A tender, raw, and provocative novel speaks from the heart about where we've come from and who we are.

After Fred Lancing retired from the Air Force, he took a peaceful job as janitor at New York City's top detective agency, Detective Ink. When one of the detectives hands Fred a case as a cruel joke, Fred's boredom with his job and his life gets the best of him. Denying all the dangers and problems he might find himself engaged in, Fred elects to see if he can solve the case. The entire collection of the Detective Ink interlocking stories can be found in one package. The PRIME FIVE authors include Jeff Ayers, Mimzi Schradi, Michael Hiebert, Susan Wingate, and Terry Persun.

Time traveling robots, a walking medical experiment turned detective genius, and a kidnapped psychic combine in a story that will tear at your heart and get your adrenaline pumping. the problem... When it comes to investigating missing objects, Neil Altman stands out. After all, his parents severed the two halves of his brain when he was a child and then trained him to use each half independently. The problem is that he doesn't believe in time machines, so Dr. Eric Steffenbraun's project, stolen or not, already sounds far-fetched. the proof... Video is hard to deny, but Neil isn't sure if the...

A pair of intriguing aliens pull at the hearts and minds of Neil and Mavra while the government is bent on research and analysis. Terry Persun's latest science fiction novel explores the idea of alien contact through his main characters' Neil and Mavra Altman--a detective who can think independently from both sides of his brain and the professional psychic he's married to. After two young boys find what they believe is a dinosaur egg, the military gets involved immediately. When aliens emerge from the eggs, Neil and Mavra are struck with a moral decision whether to allow the military to...

Secrets from the past overtake a young man who never knew his father. Will old wrongs destroy him or will he rebuild his life? Billy Maynard, raised by his mother and grandparents, comes home from college for the summer and meets Jack, an ex-con. When Billy's mother forbids him to speak with Jack, Billy wants to know why. The answers he unravels lead from deception to deception leading back to a terrible incident at the creek bend one spring night long ago. The truth about what happened, once uncovered, still has toxic effect on everything that Billy cares about. He will lose everything...

Dying of cancer, lost in a snowy forest, Jim mysteriously connects with a deer and rediscovers love and nature's grace. A lyrical and insightful meditation on mortality and spiritual life, Giver of Gifts tells the story of a schoolteacher who has lost his daughter and becomes estranged from his family and his life. Now, facing untreatable cancer, he needs to rediscover how to give of himself. Alone in the forest on a winter's day, Jim has a mysterious encounter with a deer that gives him the key to reopen his heart to his wife and son, to reconnect with his own feelings and to share his...