Writing can be hard, miserable work. There have been plenty of times in my life when I would have preferred to dig a ditch than finish the book I was working on.No reader enjoys trying to make sense of a story that the writer is struggling with.If you're caught in a mire, you're doing something wrong.You need perspective, and structure gives you perspective. A structured workflow is a platform where inspiration can land. Reliably.The right structure can acco...

High school can be hell. Literally.A demonic detective novel best devoured in a single sitting--from acclaimed TV writer Stephen Lloyd.Welcome to Danforth Putnam, boarding school for the elite, sprawled across its own private island off the coast of New England. Sam, a war vet who feels sure he’s seen it all, has been called here to find a stolen rare book. But as he corners D&D nerds, grills steroid-raging linemen, and interviews filthy-ri...

THE DISCIPLE, from highly acclaimed author of THE STRING DIARIES, Stephen Lloyd Jones, is a richly-imagined thrill ride for fans of Stephen King, Lauren Beukes and THE GIRL WITH ALL THE GIFTS.'Ferocious and masterful' Starburst magazineThey are coming...On a storm-battered road at the edge of the Devil's Kitchen, a woman survives a fatal accident and gives birth to a girl who should never have lived.

A family is hunted by a centuries-old monster: a man with a relentless obsession who can take on any identity.The String Diaries opens with Hannah frantically driving through the night -- her daughter asleep in the back, her husband bleeding out in the seat beside her. In the trunk of the car rests a cache of diaries dating back 200 years, tied and retied with strings through generations. The diaries carry the rules for survival that have been handed down f...

'The Silenced hits the ground running and never lets up . . . An electrifying supernatural chiller . . . A gripping page-turner' GuardianTWO STRANGERS. ONE ENEMY. A WORLD AT STAKE.The Silenced is a fast-paced thriller that will have you gripped and keep you reading throughout the night. Terrifying and electrifying in equal measure, Stephen Lloyd Jones's new novel is perfect for fans of Stephen King, Dean K...

Sixty-six generations into humanity's endless journey through space, Mott Fortress never asked to save humanity—she just wanted to rescue her best friend.On the generation ship IHC-111, everyone's destiny is predetermined. Mott repairs machinery and follows orders. Her empath abilities should make her valuable, but mostly they just remind her that she's trapped in a life she never chose.Then one cancelled date leads to an unauthorized adventure. A conspiracy involving clone...

Moony Adams knows seventeen ways to kill a man—or thinks he does. The trust fund heir can't tell if his expensive childhood training was preparation for intelligence work or just the paranoid extravagance of wealth.After his sister kills herself rather than join the family mining business, he exiles himself to a budget apartment complex in suburban Denver, trying to become nobody.But privilege doesn't wash off. Confronted by a woman with money launderi...

Moony Adams knows seventeen ways to kill a man-or thinks he does. The trust fund heir can't tell if his expensive childhood training was preparation for intelligence work or just the paranoid extravagance of wealth.After his sister kills herself rather than join the family mining business, he exiles himself to a budget apartment complex in suburban Denver, trying to become nobody.But privilege doesn't wash off. Confronted by a woman with money launderi...

See the girl. Leah Wilde is twenty-four, a runaway on a black motorbike, hunting for answers while changing her identity with each new Central European town.See the man, having come of age in extraordinary suffering and tragedy in nineteenth-century Budapest: a witness to horror, to love, to death, and the wrath of a true monster. Izsv°k still lives in the present day, impossibly middle-aged. He's driven not only to hunt this immortal evil but to find his daughter, stolen from an Ar...

This is the tragi-comic love and war story of Reginald (British nobility) and Vivian (Austrian Countess), who meet at the 1908 Paris Air Show and become lovers. When World War I broke out in 1914, they each became fighter pilots for their respective countries. This book describes the unusual and unique adventures they have had separately and together, both during the war and afterwards. When the war ends, they get together in the United States of America, where their further adventures inc...

The main character, Theopolis P. Bezelbottom, is the scion of a wealthy family of old-fashioned robber barons and leaders of the industry. Theo just wants to live an indolent, irresponsible existence, doing as little as possible to maintain his common-law wife, children, and girlfriends in an easygoing life. He expects to inherit the main part of one of the major railroads of the United States as well as control of Hawgwaller, an entire county in Appalachia, and he is trying to keep his po...

The book Worldly Wisdom is a collection of subjects that will educate, inspire, and enlighten readers. The book is the next instalment of philosophical learning and discussion, as an extension of my previous book, The Ego and Beliefs Revealed.The ego is once again discussed, as well as many other subjects that will draw the reader's attention. The subjects are intended to bring more meaning in life as well as deliver lessons that, once understood, can bring a better state of mind f...