Emma Jenkins lives alone – a recluse in her remote home in Portland, Oregon, no longer engaged to be married. She spends her day reading books, pouring through old diaries, recalling happier times… and hallucinating twisted characters she reads about.Then Chelsea Greene comes into her life—a mysterious woman who knows far too much about Emma. The perfect stranger. But when Emma finds out something about Greene that she shouldn't, she turns to the characters in her book for guidance...

Truly powerful vocal performance in musical theater is more than just the sum of good vocal tone and correct notes. As experienced teacher, director, and performer Mark Ross Clark lays out in The Broadway Song, powerful performance communicates the central function of a song within the context of the surrounding narrative, or the "truth" of a song. Because unstaged performances of a song, such as auditions, are key to the success of all aspiring singers, Clark provides here the es...

Set in the year 2062, "Stupid Machine" is a gripping hard science fiction novel and cybernetic noir that explores a world where technology is supposed to be infallible. In this near-future AI dystopia, car accidents have been a thing of the past for over twenty years—until Jordan Bishop’s vehicle undergoes a fatal crash.What looks like a simple malfunction to the world is, to former police detective turned insuranc...

Set in the year 2062, "Stupid Machine" is a gripping hard science fiction novel and cybernetic noir that explores a world where technology is supposed to be infallible. In this near-future AI dystopia, car accidents have been a thing of the past for over twenty years—until Jordan Bishop's vehicle undergoes a fatal crash.What looks like a simple malfunction to the world is, to former police detective turned insurance investigator Araci Belo, a clear case of corporate malfeasance and...

How do you prepare for your own "Golden Years" when you’re still trying to figure out how to care for those who came before you?When Mark Niemann-Ross realized he had "suddenly" become a senior, he didn't look to brochures or retirement seminars for guidance. Instead, he looked to his mother-in-law, Greta."My Favorite Mother-in-Law" is a heartwarming and often hilarious memoir that explores the complex, beautiful, and somet...

Old Mr. Smith has a story about young John Stokerson, a boy who didn’t speak a single word until he was four years old. While his parents worried, John trained his clever companion—a Border Collie named Patches.When Rusty Dunan, a fugitive cattle rustler, appears at John’s home, John and Patches hatch a plan. This western adventure shows how brains beat brawn. Using a series of tricks, this duo proves you don’t need a gun to stand up to a cattle ru...

A collection of science fiction stories from the pages of Analog magazine by the award-winning team of Richard A. Lovett and Mark Niemann-Ross, including the 2011 Analytical Laboratory (reader's choice) Award winning novella "Phantom Sense" and the 2006 Analytical Laboratory Award winning novelette "NetPuppets."Lovett and Niemann-Ross have written some of the most thought-provoking and entertaining stories I've read in years- Nebula award winner Jerry Oltion

The year is 2273 and the United States’ prison system is the largest industry on the planet and the de facto rulers are the wardens who run them. Hiram Macdinton is a troubled genius working for a secretive hi-tech firm whose cutting edge use of Holographic physics may just save the human race from self extinction and quadruple the US prison systems inmate count. Hiram’s passion to make his astonishing scientific insights a reality and solve the Earth’s desperate predicament is matched onl...

Ross Montgomery makes his Barrington Stoke debut with this comical caper that sees a match-making dream turn into a midsummer night's disaster.Nick is truly, madly in love with Jessie Stone. And she doesn't even know his name. In a ploy to win her heart, he plans to star alongside her in the school production of 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'. But when he's cast as the foolish Bottom instead of the romantic lead, his whole world comes crashing down.Enter Robyn, school mischief...

Only a sensible, level head can save the day when disaster strikes on a school trip in this hilariously slapstick introduction to Shakespeare’s The Tempest.Frank and his drama club are off on a dream school trip to perform The Tempest at a festival. But it turns into a nightmare when their ferry is hit by a terrible storm!Half of the actors wash up on a sandy shore and they can’t believe their eyes. Is this a desert island? Why is there strange music coming from the forest?...

Prepare for Sports Day carnage as the Montagues and Capulets battle for the House Medal in this laugh-out-loud Shakespeare-inspired drama from Ross Montgomery.Top school athletes Dom and Blake have been best friends for ever – B and D, D-Dog and B-Unit, the Cool Combo … But with Sports Day approaching, their friendship is suddenly under threat. Mr Fortune, their headmaster, has pitted the school houses against each other by naming them after characters from his favourite Shakespear...

Ross Kemp's fascinating guide of the worst places in the world.Want to know where to discover the perfect sunset in Fiji? How about a tropical paradise in St Lucia, or one of the world’s beautiful natural wonders in the Alps?Well this is NOT the book for you.But if you want to know about meeting transvestite prostitutes in a South African prison, or being attacked for a can of tuna in the Congo, buying crack cocaine in a Venezuelan prison or being c...