Power, Diversity and Public Relations addresses the lack of diversity in PR by revealing the ways in which power operates within the occupation to construct archetypal practitioner identities, occupational belonging and exclusion. It explores the ways in which the field is normatively constructed through discourse, and examines how the experiences of practitioners whose ethnicity and class differ from the ‘typical’ PR background, shape alternative understandings of the occupation and their...

Sharon Mims overheard her granddaughter Gracie Mims speaking to a mirror and what the elite socialite overheard seemed to evoke a familiar feeling from her distorted past. Being the nosey, forceful woman she’d always been, she challenged her granddaughter on a series of occasions trying to fulfill her hunch but was outsmarted at every turn by her granddaughter Gracie.Pain is a Requirement, is a story that uncovers and exposes different aspects of abuse through molestation, rejectio...

Featuring a failed young wizard and her cleanup crew, this delightfully dysfunctional middle grade fantasy is an imaginative twist on magic school that’s perfect for fans of Nevermoor and The School for Good and Evil.Cara Moone is a wizard—but she’s basically flunked out of wizard school. Now she’s in training to be a MOP, also known as Magical Occurrence Purger, also known as it’s Cara’s job to sweep up the hazardous dust a real wizard’s spells leave behind.

Worlds of adventure await in this action-packed sequel to The Secret of Zoone, where it’s up to Ozzie Sparks, a blue skyger, a purple-haired princess, and one very overprepared aunt to save the multiverse from an evil robot overlord.Ozzie Sparks’s life went from normal to out of this world—literally—when he traveled to the station of Zoone, saved the multiverse, and somehow managed to find his way home to his Aunt Temperance. He’d like nothing more than to go back ...

A short story excerpted from the upcoming LinkTales volume II, set in the world of Euroboros, which also includes stories from the Link: West (RPG) and The Bride of War.Richard Caslon thinks he is a great predator, a man and Darkling of distinction, and not one who will soon succumb to the deterioration of mind and spirit that the Darkness inevitably brings to all mortals. He hopes to secure favour with his master by bringing him a great catch; an unwed noblewoman of great breeding...

Richard Burley is a failing playwright, living in Brooklyn with his wife Kara. He's forty and it's getting hard to make ends meet as a writer, but he's still determined to try, whatever the cost. But now his problem is, he's run out of things to say with his writing, and no one wants to see his plays anymore. Thinking he needs to take a bike ride around the park to clear his head, he has a series of metaphysical encounters that affect him in ways he has never experienced before.Ask...

Half a decade ago, the first stirrings of a true new shift in rock and roll music was felt, perhaps for the first time since 1991 with the Grunge Sound. Music both innovative and yet highly respectful of the great albums that had informed the Rock 'n' Roll of the 50s, 60s, 70s, and 80s. For one writer, it was a recapitulation for the many years of faithful devotion and careful scanning of rock magazines and increasingly tiny liner notes. His eyesight has not improved appreciably.Thi...

To the Quotidien, the interplanetary police arm of the Pancivilion Transunion, Chief Bioengineer Djoran Sendal Lav is more trouble than her groundbreaking research into Foldspace travel is worth. When one of Djoran's bioprobes infects her with the spore-borne spirit of an alien prophetess, it becomes the perfect opportunity for her superior officer, Shipmaster Salus Pree, to have her declared irreparably contaminated. Then he has her removed to a far-flung prison hospital for dangerous pol...

Jeannie Kinneman is a good Judge's daughter with a good job in the city and good prospects. Her only vices are a fondness for good food, good scotch, good wine, and bad men. One particular bad man, actually: Sterling Carcieri, private investigator. When she invites him over for Christmas dinner, she thinks she has a pretty good idea of what she's getting herself into, but she winds up getting more than even she bargained for when she becomes embroiled in a conspiracy to ruin her father's r...

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[112 Pages in Printed Book]These stories feature one connecting theme: they all take place in The White House! And a HAUNTED HOUSE it is! With ex-presidents, that is, dead ex-presidents making many ppearances in various forms. Supernatural elements take place that may explain how some of the "Executive" decisions are made. And what about that White House lawn? Who, or what, lives there in the twilight hours? All this and more is offered up in Edward Lee's visions of the ultimate HAUNTED HO...

For a very long time, Jack Ketchum and Edward Lee have followed their separate paths of line-crossing, gut-wrenching, no holds-barred storytelling. Now, those roads have drawn close and merged for a collection of five collaborative stories guaranteed to shock, amuse, disgust, and bring lovers of extreme fiction back for more. Along with the five stories, the authors have each included the first draft of one of their stories, showing the rough-base that becomes the foundation for their fict...