How do you continue to get up in the morning when you can't to look at yourself in the mirror?Having returned to Seattle, Ethan Ellison would say that he's trying to piece his life back together but who is he kidding? There's no returning to life as he knew it, not after Ali's revelation about their parentage. Now, Ethan's haunted by personal ghosts and plagued by increasingly temperamental magic.For Patrick Clanahan, returning to work should be easier than dealing with a m...

Coming off a recent divorce, Eric Hyer-Masterson tries to find his muse as he prepares to ride out a bitter Palouse winter in peace and quiet.Too bad his former lover isn't ready to let him go just yet.

She's the junior partner, the freshly promoted detective in Major Crimes, but Sabira Mallory has been working her ass off all summer, first with her irritable partner Patrick Clanahan, and later with FBI Special Agent Vector Clanahan. Every way she turns she's tripping over werewolves, and now that her partner has fled town, Sabira's in store to meet yet another member of the McClanahan pack: Patrick's cute sister Grace.Set in Seattle during The Symbiotic Law, Remainders is a Blood...

Dead men have nothing but secrets…Lachlan Graham is ready for his life to settle down now that he and his ex-partner, FBI Agent Vector Clanahan, have caught the man who killed his neighbor. But no sooner have the two returned to Seattle than more bad news arrives to upturn Lachlan's quiet existence.He may have left the Seattle Police Department for good, but it doesn't look like the life will leave him alone. People die, leaving behind their friends and family to pick up th...

Lachlan Graham is alive, but most days he wakes up wishing he wasn't...Bed-ridden, permanently scarred, and chained to a ventilator, the werewolves who murdered his best friend might not have killed him, but they did a good enough job they might as well have. With his boyfriend out of town, Lachlan is left to his own devices in the long-term care ward of the hospital and he's not the only thing haunting this place.Night time visitors, monsters haunting his dreams.Wh...

He's not dead yet.Lachlan Graham has new allies and new problems in The Profane Series #3: Up in Smoke. A viscous attack against Pack McClanahan leaves the werewolves in his life reeling as Lachlan teams up with rogue mage Ethan Ellison to discover who is behind the violence.Meanwhile, his private life is mired in turmoil as his boyfriend Vector Clanahan makes a supernatural discovery that will reshape their relationship forever.A new year turns under gray Seattle s...

Perfect for literature classes and beginning writers of all ages!"Tell me a story of when you were little" is something children love to ask. Now ten award-winning writers: Mary Pope Osborne, Laurence Yep, James Howe, Katherine Paterson, Walter Dean Myers, Susan Cooper, Nicholasa Mohr, Reeve Lindbergh, Avi, and Francesca Lia Block tell young readers stories drawn from their own childhood memories. The authors have also contributed notes about why they chose particu...

Despite what anyone says, Jordan Kane is not lonely. He's not. Being alone is not the same as being lonely. At least, that's what he tells himself. But it's hard to hold onto his more hermit-like habits when Avery O'Sullivan blows back into town. The sweet--if hapless--writer is hardly prepared for Belleville's harsh winters, and Jordan can't help inviting the other man into his home for the holidays.Two strangers find happiness between a dozen cups of coffee and writer's block in ...

She left her past behind. Now it's waiting for her to return.Mia Capaldi thought she had escaped her past.Now a successful psychologist in the Lake Tahoe region, she helps others navigate their pain-while keeping her own buried deep beneath the life she's carefully built.But when her estranged father dies, Mia is forced to return to her Rhode Island hometown-a place filled with memories she has spent years trying to forget.On the flight home, she me...

Tap into your inner writer with this book of practical advice by the bestselling author of How Writers Work and the ALA Notable Book Fig Pudding.Writers are just like everyone else—except for one big difference. Most people go through life experiencing daily thoughts and feelings, noticing and observing the world around them. But writers record these thoughts and observations. They react. And they need a special place to record those reac...

Newbery medalist Jerry Spinelli has penned his early autobiography with all the warmth, humor, and drama of his best-selling fiction. And don't miss the author's highly anticipated new novel, Dead Wednesday!"A master of those embarrassing, gloppy, painful, and suddenly wonderful things that happen on the razor's edge between childhood and full-fledged adolescence" --The Washington PostFrom first memories through high school, including firs...

A practical guide for how to make your writing come alive, by the bestselling author of A Writer’s Notebook and the ALA Notable Book Fig Pudding.What is “live writing”? It’s the kind of writing that has a current running through it—energy, electricity, juice. This book is a young writer’s toolbox for bringing writing to life. But instead of awls and hammers, this toolbox contains words, imagination, a love of books, a sense of story, and ideas for...