Like Agatha Christie and Raymond Chandler, Sara Paretsky and Thomas Harris, you, too, can learn the trade secrets of quality detective fiction.It's true. Just one year from now, you can deliver a completed mystery novel to a publisher--by writing only on weekends. Authors Robert J. Ray and Jack Remick guide you through the entire mystery-writing process, from creating a killer to polishing off the final draft. Each weekend you'll focus on a specific task--learning the basics of nov...

Journey into four legendary worlds of classic science fiction with The Frank Herbert, Isaac Asimov, Philip K. Dick, and Ray Bradbury Short Story Collection. This anthology brings together visionary tales of space exploration, futuristic societies, strange technologies, alien encounters, and the fragile line between humanity and the unknown. Perfect for fans of vintage science fiction, golden age sci-fi, dystopian imagination, and thought-provoking speculative fiction.

Who doesn't dream of writing a novel while holding on to a day job? Robert J. Ray and coauthor Bret Norris can help readers do just that, with this proven practical and accessible step-by-step guide to completing a novel in just a year's worth of weekends. The Weekend Novelist shows writers of all levels how to divide their writing time into weekend work sessions, and how to handle character, scene, and plot. This new, revised version is f...

Alan J. Pakula's political thriller All the President's Men (1976) was met with immediate critical and commercial success upon its release, finishing second at the box office and earning seven Academy Award nominations.Through a close reading of key scenes, performances and stylistic decisions, Christian Keathley and Robert B. Ray show how the film derives its narrative power through a series of controlled oppositions: silence vs. noise; stationary vs. moving camera; dark ...

Christmastime is here, and weary-but-wise private-eye Matt Murdock is short on funds and holiday spirit. There are no white Christmases in Newport Beach, California, but there are soggy ones. One rainy evening at the Xanadu Mall, a down-on-his-luck mystery writer named Marvin Holly meets a runaway teenager and autographs her book. As they exit the mall, they encounter the headlights of a speeding car. In the aftermath the author is missing and the girl is in a coma. On an earlier case, Mur...

A surprising number of rich guys in Sedona, AZ, are falling to their deaths. With so many similar “accidents,” the victims had to have been pushed. Fearing that he too will take a fatal plunge, billionaire Ackerman hires Matt and Helene to investigate. To keep their client safe, the PIs will have to be on their best game. Too bad their last case in Taos took such a heavy toll.

Lost Sci-Fi Books 131 thru 140 - Ten Lost Sci-Fi Short Stories from the 1930s, 40s, 50s and 60sThe Creatures That Time Forgot by Ray BradburyA Practical Man's Guide by Jack VanceChristmas on Ganymede by Isaac AsimovA Walk in the Dark by Arthur C. ClarkeThe Repairman by Harry HarrisonProgeny by Philip K. DickWatchbird by Robert SheckleyThe Door in the Wall by H. G. WellsHome is the Spaceman by Geor...

Darkness, our most primitive fear since shadows first stirred.Within the pages of this horror anthology you will be taken back into the past, down to the depths of the ocean and across the borderline between our world and the next. You will see snapshots from the lives of small children, old-time cockney gangsters and aimless stoners. You will journey into the darkest house on the darkest street, wander hospital basements, and take a flight in the comfort of first ...

Recent experience with interventions designed to promote the well-being of children and to prevent mental health problems has identified particular challenges in families with disordered parents. These families are often very difficult to engage in mental health promotion and prevention programs, and they may be especially resistant to intervention. The Effects of Parental Dysfunction on Children explores the current level of knowledge regarding the processes by which a nu...

Hooponopono seems like magic, but it is not magic at all. It is real and within your grasp. Return to Zeropoint is our system of teaching how to use Hooponopono in an easy and straightforward manner. We take away the pain of learning and get to the nuts and bolts without struggle and strife. Leave your problems and pain behind, and move forward with the life of joy that you deserve. It is within your grasp.

Speaking about the kind of filmmaking now known as Classic Hollywood, the most popular and influential cinema ever invented, Vincente Minnelli once gave away its secret: "I feel that a picture that stays with you is made up of a hundred or more hidden things. They're things that the audience is not conscious of, but that accumulate." What are those hidden things? Can we invent a method that will enable us to discover them? Robert Ray attempts to answer those questions by looking closely at...

After over a century of existence, the cinema still has its mysteries. Why, for example, is the job we call movie stardom unlike any other in the world? How do films provide so much unconcealed information that we fail to notice? What makes it hard to define what counts as “acting”? How do movies like Casablanca and Breathless store the film and world histories of their generations? How can we reconcile auteurism’s celebration of the movie director’s authority wi...