An album-by-album account of working with iconic artists such as Anthony Kiedis, Michael Stipe, Gord Downie, and Bono, from a leader in the fieldMark Howard, a record producer/engineer/mixer and a trailblazer in the industry, will take you through the star-studded world of recording and producing Grammy Award–winning artists. Listen Up! is an essential read for anyone interested in music and its making. Along with the inside stories, each chapter gives rec...

Tarrya Illimor of Carrier House Leneiros is on the run. A thousand-silver bounty drives her from the protection of the port city of Arkoness into the waiting grasp of mysterious assassins and sorcerers—enemies who have waited years to claim her powers. Tarrya has always taken her role as heir to a Carrier House seriously, spending more time on the Blue, on the decks of ships than in the drawing rooms of notables, working the rigging and sails, plotting bold courses, and ne...

All Life began in the ocean. The tides, the salt, the rolling waves are in our souls, and the sea will always have the power to call us home...There's a world deep under the sea, a kingdom that has endured thousands of years without the modern world knowing it exists. Those who dwell there are thalassogenêis: seaborn. Kassandra is the king's granddaughter—the one he wishes he had killed when he'd had the chance. She comes from the sea, but she's spent her whole li...

All Tomorrow's StarpartiesGritty Near-Future Science Fiction with Strong Astronomy & Astrophotography ThemesSetting & themes: Post-contact comedown ◹ Astronomy nerds stand up ◹ One-horse apocalypse ◹ Rogue nebula hackers ◹ Low-saturation cyberpunk (there's very little neon) ◹ Hope comes at a costThe future is bright, or maybe it's just over-exposed...We haven't been communicating directly with an anc...

Saltwater Witch: Kassandra comes from the sea, but she has no memory of saltwater, seagulls, or an incoming tide. She's never seen an ocean, never heard the thunder of surf. She's an exile, betrayed by her own family, sent as far from the sea as they could arrange. But everything changes the day she drowns in Red Bear Lake and discovers that, for the most part, drowning isn't as bad as it sounds.The Prequel in the Seaborn SeriesSaltwater Wit...

*Nanowhere, it'*s a love story with all the usual elements: rogue soldiers, computer hacking, tyranny, cryptography, hitmen with an affinity for rolled adhesives, rebellious skateboarders, and sentient billion-node self-organizing nanotech ghosts."Chris Howard has released an interesting and well-written SF thriller along with a bunch of supplementary materials that purports to be the lab notes and publications of one of the book's characters…"

Gritty dystopian fantasy romanceTheodora Vearin has a way with forests, blossoms, creeping vines, composting, paranoia, and sudden death. She sees deception in every shadow, a trap in every word. She knows that promises mean little and the universe has always been someone else's manipulative game, but when she makes a promise to save the life of a childhood friend, it becomes a promise she cannot keep or break without breaking her view of the world....

Kassandra comes from the sea, but she has no memory of saltwater, seagulls, or an incoming tide. She's never seen an ocean, never heard the thunder of surf. Kassandra's an exile, betrayed by her own family, sent as far from the sea as they could arrange—somewhere in the middle of Nebraska.In Kassandra's own words...If I had known my tears were doors for summoning sea demons, I wouldn't have tried so hard to cry. And I would have told someone about the mermaid's...

A DARK, MODERN YA FANTASYAndin Teller can change the world with a pencil and paintbrush. Teller isn't just his name. It's what he is—someone who can manipulate memories, reality, and even shift time with the right pencil line, brush stroke, or telling of a story. But there's a cost with every tale, and he isn't alone. No longer able to hide from his enemies, Andin is forced to navigate a world he doesn't understand, taking on family betrayers, assassins, and rivals who have powers ...

An eighty-meter rig support ship mysteriously disappears in the Caribbean with all hands, and an eccentric shipping financier knows the truth. Jayson Wilraven of the Marcene, a legend in the salvage community, is hired to lead the confidential job, only to find out the charterer wants the team to make sure the ship is never found.Two thousand miles away, along the California coast, Jon Andreden starts underwater trials for Knowledgenix's next generation autonomous submersi...

All Life began in the ocean. The tides, the salt, the rolling waves are in our souls, and the sea will always have the power to call us home...The sequel to Seaborn: Kassandra prepares for war against her grandfather and she's confronted on all sides. Nikasia, the daughter of the king's war-bard—who claims descent from the goddess Circe—seeks revenge for the murder of her father. A group of immortals band together to take everything away. Kassandra's only way out is to def...

The College Affordability Academy: A Blueprint for Counseling Families is for anyone involved in the college recruitment and enrollment process. The book provides information that high school and college administrators can use to advise prospective and current students and their families with unbiased information about enrolling in and paying for college. The book may be used as a stand-alone volume or to accompany the College Affordability Academy training modules. In addition to Robert M...