Forged from Light. Tempered in Blood.Othaashle, undefeated Champion of the God King, is tortured by a dangerous secret.She leads the Empire's elite fighting force, but crippling visions of a forbidden past cast doubt on everything she holds certain.When the planet threatens to fall into the sun, the empire's ark ship is besieged by insurgents.As she pursues the rebels, Othaashle learns of an ancient power that could end the vision and eradic...

You can write beautiful copy, design clean logos, or edit video for 8 hours straight. None of that matters if your invoice is 47 days late or a client claims they own work you never agreed to sell. This book gives you the paperwork system that keeps your lights on, so your talent actually gets paid 100 % of the time.Across 101 templates, samples, prompts, and tips, you will move from vague email threads to a 2 page contract that states scope, price, due date, revision limit, and ow...

Tightly plotted and fast paced, Girl Crazy is a cinematic ride through one man’s obsession with a younger woman. Justin, a dissatisfied community college teacher, meets Jenna and is attracted at once to her mixture of toughness, vulnerability and ripe sexuality. Jenna is unlike anyone Justin has ever known -- through her he discovers a world of drugs and sex, casual violence and intimidation that at first frightens and then thrills him.Justin falls deeper into Jenna’s thra...

Tightly plotted and fast paced, Girl Crazy is a cinematic ride through one man’s obsession with a younger woman. Justin, a dissatisfied community college teacher, meets Jenna and is attracted at once to her mixture of toughness, vulnerability and ripe sexuality. Jenna is unlike anyone Justin has ever known -- through her he discovers a world of drugs and sex, casual violence and intimidation that at first frightens and then thrills him.Justin falls deeper into Jenna’s thra...

Using simple exercises, rediscover the pleasure you got from childhood drawing, before you became too self-conscious and self-critical to enjoy it.As we grow up, somehow we learn that drawing is hard and there are all sorts of rules about colour and perspective that stifle our creativity. This book is here to remind you of the joy you once found in creating, scribbling, getting something down on paper—and that it's more about the process than the result. This acces...

A wry, savvy novel of untidy modern relationships, A Family Affair confirms award-winning author Nadine Bismuth’s place as a remarkable chronicler of contemporary middle-class mores in the manner of Jonathan Franzen, John Irving, and Lorrie Moore.Award-winning novelist and screenwriter for film andtelevision Nadine Bismuth has returned with an unsparing portrait of twenty-first century life. In A Family Affair, love is the first casualty and decei...

A bold, unsettling, and sinister collection of stories that asks what monster means.What is a monster? The word encompasses the grotesque, the immoral, or the merely wondrous. Mythical creatures, corrupt executives, and cruel exes are all monsters. Monsters live among us. Sometimes the monster is us.What do monsters mean to writers? Here is a literary grab-bag: fourteen writers from diverse genres — literary, mystery, horror, the experimen...

A bold, unsettling, and sinister collection of stories that asks what monster means.What is a monster? The word encompasses the grotesque, the immoral, or the merely wondrous. Mythical creatures, corrupt executives, and mean exes are all monsters. Monsters live among us. Sometimes the monster is us.What do monsters mean to writers? Here is a literary grab-bag: fourteen writers from diverse genres — literary, mystery, horror, the experiment...

How to Drive a Stick Shift -Manual Car in 5 Easy Routines Including Pictures, takes you from being an automatic car driver, to being able to drive a manual (stick shift) car.It shows you the comparisons between driving an automatic car, and driving a manual (stick shift) car.It has a straight forward step by step approach comparing automatic and manual, grouped into 5 easy routines with the aid of pictures and diagrams.The contents of the book are:Chapter 1 – Ba...

"I am not the Black Piper . . . but I do know the Piper."If you listen closely," she said, "you will hear stories that will transport you into the heart of adventure, force you directly into the path of danger, and if you are lucky . . . or perhaps unlucky"—she looked at the unmoving dragon behind her and inhaled, only barely losing her grip on her smile—"transform you." Her attention turned back to the crowd, and her eyes grew mysterious. "In essence, dear people...

New risky fiction — with no names attached.If authors could write their sex scenes anonymously, would they be less reticent? Would they include the stuff they didn’t want their mom, or the newspapers, to read?Here are twenty-four original short pieces of fiction on the theme of sex, by twenty-four prominent authors living in Canada. Heather O’Neill, Lisa Moore, Michael Winter, Zoe Whittall, Pasha Malla, francesca ekwuyasi, Drew Hayden Taylor, Tamara Faith B...

A Globe and Mail Fall Book of 2025An electric examination of women and men, sex and love, self-loathing and twenty-first century loneliness.Between writing a weekly column for The Hype Report and managing her mood stabilizers, Gloria navigates a series of quasi-relationships while commiserating with her best friend about dating apps and dick pics, married men and questionable boundaries. But when she makes a glib pass at Daryn, a s...