What happens to old journalists when they die?If you're still relatively young, tech-savvy and haven't drunk yourself into a stand-up fossil yet, you continue observing. Talking to people. Looking for That Story even if there's no forum for it.Then you publish it online. Could be your own blog or on someone else's online property. But you publish it anyway.Eric Pulsifer, an award-winning reporter who plied his trade in several states, did just that. His best work sh...

"Here's the deal. Each of us decides to ourselves what becoming a pro is all about. Then we do it. I'll tell both you hairy-legged types what. I don't care what you think, but I'm gonna be the first to make that jump …"Braden Campbell is an outrageously talented jazz musician who would rather do something grown up -- like drive a taxi. Karen Watts writes and has the credentials to prove it, but she's paralyzed by self-doubt. Robert Blair, a gifted artist, uses his talent to paint s...

A company contest goes horribly wrong, so it hires a "consultant" to control the damage. Including murder?Newsman Darrell Kline spends more days caught up in newsroom politics than actual reporting, so he needs a big story right now.Retired homicide cop Michael Dugan is haunted by the way his career ended.Executive secretary Denise Ingram is forced to choose between her strong convictions and her employer's survival.In a story full of twists and turns, Darre...

It's hard to take harmonica players seriously. What doesn't help is that so many harmonica players don't act as if they want to be taken seriously. We have the reputation as the dumbest musician on the stage, and that's only if we're considered musicians at all.But with a good working knowledge of how to play, how to follow a song, how to work with the other band members and an idea of what you're doing up on stage, you can be considered an asset to any band instead of a novelty ac...

Joni McLean is 25, self-taught and one of the top five online security experts in the USA. She hooks on with ASPIS, an exciting new tech company that is eating Google's lunch. ASPIS, specializing in high-security but user-friendly online services, was founded by charismatic genius Stefan Nicolaides, a pretty cool boss.It sounds like a dream job. Joni's using her best talents to do something that matters. She's paid extremely well. She's part of something innovative and exciting. Sh...

Riverbend, Arizona sits across the Colorado River across from Sagebrush, a Nevada town with a casino and not much else. The side-by-side towns were founded and grew from a rivalry between two families that grows deadly.It's up to reporters Alfredo "Fred" Walker and Richard Lawrence to sort through the bodies. Walker is a hard-drinking Tex-Mex with four ex-wives and a lot of baggage, and the Tennessee-bred Lawrence brings tons of talent and a lot of attitude to the investigation. Bl...

Creative? Got that inner fire and you don't know what to do about it? Stuck? Don't know where to start? Don't know what to do next?Eric Pulsifer, a writer/musician who spent years trying to evade his gifts, learned a few things the hard way about the creative process and shares his observations in a series of short, to-the-point meditations.It's all there. The uncertainty. The opposition. The blood all over the typewriter. The allure of the couch. The siren song of those wh...

So you were outrageously talented once and forgot about it. Life happened. Time to grow up. Got to make a living. But you sure miss it. How does someone get back into it, recapture the mojo after burying it for so long? In this book Eric Pulsifer points out the land mines, cuts through the crap and the excuses, gives you some practical ideas to begin on, and hopefully guides you back into the game where you belong.

Life is Not Always a Butcher's Game. Sometimes the Prizes Are Real. Sometimes They're Precious. All-time best-selling author STEPHEN KING returns with a novel of carny life—and death... College student Devin Jones took the summer job at Joyland hoping to forget the girl who broke his heart. But he wound up facing something far more terrible: the legacy of a vicious murder, the fate of a dying child, and dark truths about life—and what comes after—that would change his world forever. A rive...

“Quick, cutting wit . . . a keen ear.”—The New York Times Book ReviewHollywood’s newest wunderkind is Peter Alan Nelsen, the brilliant, erratic director known as the King of Adventure.His films make billions, but his manners make enemies. What the boy king wants, he gets, and what Nelsen wants is for Elvis to comb the country for the wife and infant child the film-school flunkout dumped en route to becoming the third-biggest filmmaker in A...

The thrilling new novel in the #1 New York Times–bestselling series.In Southeast Minnesota, down on the Mississippi, a school board meeting is coming to an end. The board chairman announces that the rest of the meeting will be closed, due to personnel issues. “Issues” is correct. The proposal up for a vote before them is whether to authorize the killing of a local reporter. The vote is four to one in favor.Meanwhile, not far away, Virgil Flowers is...

Virgil Flowers will have to watch his back--and his mouth--as he investigates a college culture war turned deadly in another one of Sandford's "madly entertaining Virgil Flowers mysteries" (New York Times Book Review).At the local state university, two feuding departments have faced off on the battleground of science and medicine. Each carries their views to extremes that may seem absurd, but highly educated people of sound mind and good intentions can rea...