The author of brings you a farce of the tradition of P.G. Wodehouse and Douglas Adams.Best friends Caleb and Lenny hate each other. Stranded in the middle of upstate New York with two flat tires, one spare, no cell reception, and no idea what to do, they figure they're pretty much screwed.Fortunately, they broke down right in front of a place that deals in ideas. For the special one-time fire-sale price of seventeen bucks, they can get a pack of seven completely original, bra...

Alan Tosetti set the sterling standard in a town built on silver. The greatest architect in Nevada history, he died before he could finish his masterpiece Craftsman. Two years later, his youngest daughter died of old age in the same house, sitting in front of the fire.She was only 26.When the tales of Tosetti's legacy draws a hungry young architect from the big city, he finds a broken-down ruin with a soul full of music and a chilling secret that can only be unlocked with the...

Alliston Hayes loved three things: getting married, hats, and the late Jac Jarger. So when she got the chance to combine the three with the help of a demon-possessed cat and an ancient book, how could she pass it up? And how could she know that her enthusiasm would result in "The Incident"?

Welcome to Wheel: a perfect world without poverty, disease, or want.Tinkered and tuned in every way for maximum order by Rank and Spoke, every child knows her destiny. So long as she can take the neural implant.The defective, whose bodies reject the implants, do not exist. Ghosts. Cyphers. Haunting the edges of society, living on scraps, killed for sport.A lucky few, the Crudrats, scrape out a perilous living cleaning the toxic wastes from the great machines that power...

Stephen got stoned so he could deal with the chemo, but it's his husband who really needs the drugs. After all, watching your partner of twenty years die of cancer can leave you hopeless, courting bankruptcy, your life in ruins. It can drive you to steal, or cheat, or look for hope in a can of chicken-noodle soup you bought from the demonic pawnbroker at a creepy old hock shop at the edge of nowhere.

Everybody lies—especially when dating. Fortunately, Luke has your back. A self-appointed honesty enforcer, he volunteers at bars using VR optics and data mining in his quest to referee the game of love. He'll keep you honest and send you home happy...if you play fair.But a world without secrets holds all kinds of surprises, even for Luke—like transparency activists, and broken hearts, and the unexpected appearance of an Open Source Woman.

Think you can't write a great novel in a month? Think again. Most of the best novels in history were written in a month or less. Professionals do it all the time. And with Becoming and Every Day Novelist, so can you.Prolific author J. Daniel Sawyer walks you through the process in this lively and fun day-by-day guide to going from blank page to a publication-ready novel...and doing it every month.

Young men make rash choices. At 19 years old, with no money, no food, and no hope, one man's choices start making themselves. As winter sets in and time runs out, he needs salvation anywhere he can find it - in a brothel, a dumpster, a gun, or maybe in a creepy old pawn shop in a broken down city at the edge of nowhere.

A cubicle is no place to waste a golden summer afternoon, which is why Albert escaped early to spend some time at the park. But when his boss piles on extra deadlines, he's forced to work through his time off--at least, that's the plan.But neither Albert nor his boss could have planned on a surprise adventure courtesy a broken briefcase, an escaped python, and a mischievous pawnbroker who keeps a creepy little shop out on the edge of nowhere.

Writers face a world of infinite possibility--and hard decisions. To navigate the publishing world, you must understand business and money from the point of view as a businessperson, not an employee.J. Daniel Sawyer, longtime businessman, educator, and author of over twenty books guides you through the transition from thinking like an employee to thinking like an entrepreneur, and gives you the tools you need to make informed decisions about how to grow your fiction writing from a h...

When five-year-old Aldo wakes up his father at 3AM on Sunday and demands a giraffe, his father takes him on a giraffe-hunting safari.Because when Aldo doesn't get his way, bad things happen.But Aldo's father might reconsider if he knew the source of Aldo's power: A talking rat with its own designs on a toy giraffe, which can only be found in a dusty display case at a creepy little pawnshop way out on the edge of nowhere.

Four original, unabridged, full-cast productions of Gail Carriger's most beloved fantasy short stories:The Curious Case of the Werewolf that Wasn't, The Mummy that Was, and the Cat in the Jar: A mummified cat, a secret agent, and an aristocrat entangle Alessandro Tarraboti (father of Alexia Tarraboti from the Parasol Protectorate series,) in a rollicking, wry adventure into the supernatural secrets of ancient Egypt.Marine Biology: Inconveniently a werewolf, unexpectedly alive...