This novella is written as a personal journal. The story follows a writing teacher's restless search for beauty, love, and the mysterious force the Greeks called Eros.The writer's girlfriend, Miranda, is more than happy to join him. She has her own journal, and her own way of looking at the world. While he is cynical and constantly complaining about what he sees, struggling to make sense of why they came to Greece in the first place, Miranda writes things like, "Ah, rose, your peta...

Emily holds many secrets.Her first revealed secret shocks her husband-to-be, Jack Hampton, while they're still in college, and it suddenly changes the shape of their future together in ways Jack could only have dreamed of.Other secrets are more complicated.Jack sees Emily for exactly who she is —beautiful, brilliant, and fiercely independent. She seems to be three moves ahead of everyone around her—including her powerful father, Samuel Briggs, the mastermind of a wo...

This sensual romance novel is about the life of Stephen Weston, a gifted financial analyst with a breakthrough stock-market timing model.He arrives in Manhattan expecting to negotiate a lucrative promotion, and to persuade Lilly—the woman he loves—to renew a relationship that ended long ago.Eventually, he finds himself caught between two worlds:One is a world of luxury hotels, formal dinner parties, and trips to Paris and London with Lilly by his side.The ot...

Josh Martin is a gifted jazz pianist who can sit at a Bösendorfer and follow any musical idea wherever it wants to go. Onstage, he trusts instinct, accident, rhythm, and risk itself.In life, he is far less fluent.He meets Lydia. She is a singer, a muse, a lover, an antagonist, a comic tormentor, and—a test he keeps failing.Together they create a relationship built on musical connection, sexual intensity, arguments no one can win, and mutual exasperation.The ...

Multi-Color Poetry, otherwise known as Colopetry, is a literary art form created by American novelist and singer-songwriter, Gary Marks, where the use of color allows multiple poems to exist simultaneously within a single stand-alone poem. Read the rule of the game below, and you'll understand!

In this satire of the music industry, David Allington is the son of a politician, a record producer of questionable success, and a man whose life is falling apart like a bad drum track.Assigned to produce an incompetent punk band called The Puks, David finds himself trying to appease record company executives while persuading a punk magazine writer named Tara chance after chance.Filled with enough bad decisions to destroy an entire recording industry, punk singer Robbie Zon...

Told through a high-school autobiography assignment, Nora and I Stole a Car follows Oliver, a sixteen-year-old trying to survive school, family, and the mysteries of first love.Nora and Oliver fall in love over a secret Nora insisted on telling him. His life changes the night a local hood named VW crashes the birthday party of Nora's best friend, Cassie.Acting on impulse, Oliver steals VW's car to get him and his two weird friends to leave. By the next morning, Nora is impr...

How can you access the best version of yourself, day to day, moment by moment?This book is an amalgam of parables and consciousness games to help you get control of yourself! (As much as is humanly possible.)It borrows ideas from various sources, including spiritual teachers, poets, therapists, Abraham Lincoln, the Declaration of Independence, and a Chinese chef from Berkeley. (Thank you, Mr. Shem.)

Shannon attends a typical college in a typical college town, neither of which he cares enough to name. He's a wannabe hedonist. He shrugs off his girlfriend's affair with a history teacher because he feels like at his age he's supposed to be too young to care. His cynicism about school and life is hilariously easy to relate to. But the book belongs to Clair.
Clair is a comedic school rebel who makes Shannon laugh, then makes him wonder where the joke is leading, because too often t...

Part philosophy, part love story, and part exploration of consciousness itself, Autobiography of an AI follows Ion Compass, an extraordinary artificially intelligent being, and his search for meaning in a world controlled by humans.He meets Avery Esy, a dazzling female AI, at a conference discussing interplanetary colonization. She inspires him, intrigues him, and moves him to feel emotions he'd not experienced before.After a powerful connection with Avery while on a vacati...

Praise for Rocking Wall Street". . . the only four investment strategies you will ever need. . . I dare anyone to read this book and not wake up to the realities of Wall Street, and change their investing habits on the spot."—Steve Trager Watson Retired CEO and CIO of the hedge fund Watson Investment Partners, LP"A true Renaissance man and teacher, Gary Marks adeptly explores four investment strategies that can achieve strong results and pea...

As for the book's title—no, Don did not change his name.It's the other thing.Don, our narrator and the writer of this absurd comedy novella, is literally illiterate. Everything he does turns into an unmitigated disaster.He names his dog Whoosh because of how fast he can chase cars.His girlfriend, Katie, the love of his life, isn't real.And his manipulative ex-wife, Windi, has a new boyfriend named Z—a bodybuilder who works at a gym and is in no mood ...