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The Boy with a Magical Pen



When talented young artist Nathaniel Hancock receives a new drawing pen for Christmas, he promises his great-grandfather that he'll prepare him a Masterpiece for the following year. But Nathaniel is naive for the Pen is magical-and as he makes his finishing touches, the Masterpiece comes to life before his very eyes. After entering the drawing, he discovers that he's added new territory to the enchanted land that lies beyond: the Inkworld, a pen-and-ink realm where r...

Aegis Incursion

The Best-Selling Action-Adventure Sci-Fi Novel

Time seemed to slow down before there was a sudden flash in her mind. It blinded her momentarily before quickly disappearing. She stumbled back a step, then the flash occurred again. There was an image this time. She could barely make out a flurry of feet underwater before the vision disappeared. “What the—” she began before the vision returned. She could see it clearly now, two humans in the water, moving away from her as frantically...-kicking f...

American Nocturne

Wide ranging poetry on love, power and age 
American Nocturne , Elisabeth Stevens' sixth book of poetry, is unfettered, wide-ranging. Unlike her fifth collection, Sirens' Songs, which was selected by Kirkus Reviews as one of the hundred best indie books of 2011 and focused intensely on romantic and sexual liaisons, American Nocturne explores a world-wide geography and more, ranging expansively from continent to continent, from reality to dream.
American Nocturne begins with a Manhattan suns...

The Narcissist and the Nightingale

There are things in this world that no one understands and the people that do don’t dare speak about them, but these things are used to make people atone for their sins. Vincent  was made to atone for his sins of Narcissism leading to the death of a woman and her child, and Persephone was made to atone for the sins of her father, both curses leading to wandering the earth looking for and running from love.Vincent is a man infatuated with seeing the world and living life purely for his ow...

Solo

Where science fiction meets a psychological thriller

Solo’s memories are fleeting. Latent images swirl in the murky ocean of his mind, some surfacing without warning: A girl—Eye Lyds. A hospital. An experiment. Danger. And perhaps the truth.      The truth? Why when a lie would do so nicely?     As Solo begins to string together the fragments of his returning memories, he loses even more of his grip on what is real and what is not. Can he make sense of his life “B...

The Devil's Fox

A slightly wicked love story between a demon and a priest

Akane is the rarest of all creatures, a Kitsune; a fox demon of Japanese lore.  She has no soul, only the precious pearl that she holds under her tongue; it is the source of her life and power. Her greatest desire is to have a soul of her own and she soon discovers that people are more than willing to sell theirs for money, power or fame.
Nikolai and Thomas are an unlikely pair, a scientist and a blind priest, who uncover a book of...

My Quintessence

Words painted with soul, honey and kinks, Jasmine invites you to portions of her journey as well as the footprints of others. From childhood storms to social messages, a lost voice to a clear one; vulnerability is shared on each page. From her entire essence, to transitions and storytelling, My Quintessence entices your emotions to nod in agreement that, yes, we’ve all been there. My Quintessence travels through what an inner voice looks like, while nostalgic imagery reminds us we are not alo...

Real Teachers

Rediscovering what education really means

As I know that some of my ex-students have been reading this blog... here's something that may remind you of how we used to be critical of the curriculum, and how you all know that teachers who did not conform to the churning out of exam robots have been, slowly, 'marginalised'.
Teaching should be a vocation, but the educational system has become a machine that does not trust the Human Being while pretending to be preparing students to become more round...

The Butterfly Room

The Butterfly Room
Inspired by the recent efforts of the Joyful Heart Foundation’s NO MORE campaign and an existing relationship with InterAct to help raise awareness around domestic violence and LGBTI rights, proceeds from this book will be donated to Refuge the UK’s largest provider of specialist domestic violence services as well as Southall Black Sisters, Stonewall, Women’s Aid and the charities highlighted above. 
For years Vikram and his two sisters have lived in the shadow of their...

The Spirit of StoryTelling

In his highly acclaimed book A Story is a Promise & The Spirit of Storytelling , author Bill Johnson takes readers step by step through the process of fulfilling the promise a writer makes to a reader. In this revised edition, Johnson expands upon his earlier editions to include information on how writers can fully develop characters by exploring the depths of their own personal archetypes.
















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