Janet Morris

Chris Morris

The 40-minute War

Beth W. Patterson

pdmac

Michael A. Armstrong

Shebat Legion

Joe Bonadonna

Nancy Asire

Bill Barnhill

Tom Barczak

Jack William Linley

Michael H. Hanson

Yelle Hughes

Richard Groller

Deborah Koren

Bill Snider

Matthew Kirschenblatt

Larry Atchley, Jr.

Bruce Durham

The best, the worst, and ugliest bards in perdition vie for Satan's favor as poets slam one another, Satan's Fallen Angels smirk up their sleeves, and the illiterati have their day. Find out why the damned deserve their fates as Hell's hacks sink to new poetical depths! The first Bible writer drafts a deal with the Devil. Attila the Hun learns his punishment's just begun. Mary Shelley and Victor Frankenstein make a monstrous mistake. Bat Masterson and Wyatt Earp get their unjust deserts. Hell's Undertaker goes on holiday. The Damned Poets Society slams away. A nameless soul shows Dorothy Parker that fame is a bitch. In the underworlds, injustice always reigns: Join us and our damnedest poets for the crookedest poetry festival in perdition where language comes to die and no rhyme goes unpunished.

Poets in Hell

Brandon Sanderson

Ari Marmell

Orson Scott Card

Glen Cook

Cecelia Holland

Howard Andrew Jones

Alex Bledsoe

Cat Rambo

Ian C. Esslemont

C. L. Werner

Paul Kearny

Fantasy heroes endure. They are embedded in our cultural fabric, dwarfing other literary figures and the mere men and women of history. Achilles and Odysseus, Gilgamesh and Beowulf. King Arthur and Robin Hood, Macbeth and Sherlock Holmes, Conan and Luke Skywalker. They dominate our legends, and tower over popular culture. The stories we tell each other begin and end with fantasy heroes, and the 21st Century is as thoroughly captivated with them as ever. From Batman to Gandalf, Harry Potter to Tyrion Lannister, the heroes of fantasy speak to-and for-whole generations. But what makes a fantasy hero? How do the best writers create them, and bring them to life on the page? In WRITING FANTASY HEROES some of the most successful fantasy writers of our time--Steven Erikson, C.L. Werner, Brandon Sanderson, Janet & Chris Morris, Cecelia Holland, Alex Bledsoe, Jennifer Brozek, Ian C. Esslemont, Orson Scott Card, Ari Marmell, Cat Rambo, Howard Andrew Jones, Paul Kearney and Glen Cook--pull back the curtain to reveal the secrets of creating heroes that live and breathe, and steal readers' hearts. Whether you're an aspiring writer or simply a reader who loves great fantasy and strong characters, this book is for you.

Powerful Advice from the Pros

Writing Fantasy Heroes

The world hovers on the brink of nuclear war as American intelligence officer Amy Brecker and the M.E.D.U.S.A., a powerful U.S. anti-satellite weapon, become the only chance of intercepting a Russian missile on a collision course with America's manned spa

Medusa

S E Lindberg

The art of dragon killing: Dragons have been eating humans for centuries. Now heroes throughout history stalk their legendary foe. Learn how to hunt, kill, and eat the wild dragon. Never before has revenge tasted so good. A literary feast for the bloody-minded. In Janet Morris' anthology on the art of dragon killing, seventeen writers bring you so close to dragons you can smell their fetid breath. Tales for the bold among you. HEROIKA 1 -- DRAGON EATERS, an anthology of heroic fiction edited by Janet Morris, features original stories by Janet Morris and Chris Morris, S.E. Lindberg, Jack William Finley, Travis Ludvigson, Tom Barczak, JP Wilder, Joe Bonadonna, Milton Davis, A.L. Butcher, William Hiles, M Harold Page, Walter Rhein, Cas Peace, Beth W. Patterson, Bruce Durham, Mark Finn.

Dragon Eaters

Heroika 1

Elizabeth Massie

James Lowder

Jaym Gates

Natania Barron

Brandon Hodge

Mercedes M. Yardley

Erin Evans

Jess Hartley

Kealan Patrick Burke

The city is called Redoubt, and as far as anyone knows, it is the last. Seven decades ago, there were cities upon cities; kingdoms and nations, the remains of ancient empire. Cultures at war, cultures at trade. Humans, dwarves, elves, and others. Magic and monsters, rare but real. Regions of desolation, but also regions of plenty. So it was for millennia, until the world ended. Most call it the Fall, but whatever term a given people choose to use, it marked the point where everything changed. Nations crumbled. Races died. Magic sputtered. Nature sickened. The Dead woke. Tales of the Lost Citadel is a shared-world anthology of fifteen horror-fantasy stories by noted authors such as Brian Hodge, Mercedes M. Yardley, Jess Hartley, Damien Angelica Walters, and many more.

Tales of the Lost Citadel Anthology

House Plans

Small and Tiny House Plans Design Book - Small home plans + granny flat plans in Metric and Feet and Inches Includes: - Small & Tiny House Plans- Stunning Designs- 2 Bedroom Designs- Modern and Country Designs- Australian Designs- Plans for all types of land- Stunning affordable Home Designs- Designs from leading designers

Small Home Plans + Granny Flat Plans in Metric and Feet and Inches

Small and Tiny House Plans Design Book

Los Lobos leaped into the national spotlight in 1987, when their cover of “La Bamba” became a No. 1 hit. But what looked like an overnight achievement to the band’s new fans was actually a way station in a long musical journey that began in East Los Angeles in 1973 and is still going strong. Across four decades, Los Lobos (Cesar Rosas, Conrad Lozano, David Hidalgo, Louie Pérez, and Steve Berlin) have ranged through virtually the entire breadth of American vernacular music, from rockabilly to primal punk rock, R&B to country and folk, Mexican son jarocho to Tex-Mex conjunto and Latin American cumbia. Their sui generis sound has sold millions of albums and won acclaim from fans and critics alike, including three Grammy Awards. Los Lobos, the first book on this unique band, traces the entire arc of the band’s career. Music journalist Chris Morris draws on new interviews with Los Lobos members and their principal collaborators, as well as his own reporting since the early 1980s, to recount the evolution of Los Lobos’s music. He describes the creation of every album, lingering over highlights such as How Will the Wolf Survive?, La Pistola y El Corazon, and Kiko, while following the band’s trajectory from playing Mexican folk music at weddings and dances in East L.A. to international stardom and major-label success, as well as their independent work in the new millennium. Giving one of the longest-lived and most-honored American rock bands its due, Los Lobos celebrates the expansive reach and creative experimentalism that few other bands can match.

Dream in Blue

Los Lobos

Everything is connected: life caught in a loop, Earth always turning, forever in Destinies hoop. "That's what The All is, forever without an end, continuing through space and time, within the souls of his people and within life itself: destiny is always looping from beginning right through to end...." "What is that you are reading Prometheus?" A great voice said to the preoccupied king Titan who was sitting atop his throne gazing down at a scroll. The four brothers resided in their ancient domain many thousands of centuries ago. Their kingdom sat upon a great mountain; the Titans were surrounded by human servants, which were restrained by chains around their hands and feet. Prometheus was king of the Titans after Cronus. Cronus was their father, until he was vanquished by the residing entities the humans called gods.

The Circle of Destiny

Warriors of Piathos

A collection of short stories written for fun, for competitions and to see if I could. I challenge anyone to guess all of the endings!

An Anthology of Oddments

A Sting in the Tale

Join Tempus and Niko where a young girl trembles between love and sorcerous obsession, a prince's flaws betray him, and a city of immortals learns that Death has not forgotten it. Beneath a warlock's citadel, swords and courage face the jaws of demons -- with a girl's life and a god's vengeance resting on the outcome.

City at the Edge of Time

The Sacred Band

Tempus takes Manhattan. Is this the Lemuria of antiquity, or of times to come? Once you've ridden the storm clouds of heaven from the edge of time, anything is possible. Demonic hordes threaten to destroy the very fabric of time itself. The fate of all humanity rests on the shoulders of Tempus the Black, Favorite of the Storm God. But even this hero of legend will encounter a challenge he has never faced before . . . present-day New York City. Praise for the Sacred Band series: ..". much more than great Heroic Fantasy: it is classic literature, filled with sub-plots, a fine cast of well-drawn characters, insight and wisdom and recurring themes of honor, faith, brotherhood and love." -- Joe Bonadonna, Black Gate Magazine * * * * * "Janet Morris, Tempus (1987), and, with Chris Morris, Tempus Unbound (1989), The Sacred Band (2010). "A fantasy series about the Sacred Band of Stepsons, an elite army modeled on the fourth-century B.C.E. Sacred Band of Thebes. The stories explore the fraught personal relationships of mixed hetero- and homosexual troops, only sometimes paired, as they fight for their commander, the immortal Tempus. Morris includes archaeological and historical details, from physical items to social practices, religion, and philosophy, to create a fantasy world that is, in many ways, more historically accurate than many popular accounts of antiquity." -- Robert W. Cape, Jr, in Classical Traditions in Science Fiction, Brett M. Rogers & Benjamin Eldon Stevens, eds., Oxford University Press

Tempus Unbound

Tempus and Niko reunite the members of the Sacred Band for a perilous mission into the desert world of Sandia, but their quest is threatened by dark echoes from the past

Storm Seed

Updated since the decision to begin Turkey's admission to the European Union. Turkey is a country in a state of flux, swept along by an extraordinary process of change. In the last few years, a series of far-reaching political and economic reforms has swept away much of the old order which ruled the country for so long. Some people call it a second Turkish revolution. But resistance to reform remains strong. Pressure for change has come from ordinary people fed up with the old ways; it's also been motivated by the dominant issue of Turkish political life - the long pursuit of membership of the European Union. And yet Turkey remains a mystery to many outsiders; a complex country hard to understand. It's secular and Muslim, Western and Eastern, democratic and authoritarian, all at the same time. This book examines the potential and the problems of the new Turkey, and the expectations of the people who live there, drawing on first-hand interviews and observations gathered over several years.

The Quiet Revolution On The Edge Of Europe

The New Turkey

This book is primarily a photographic celebration of the legacy of George and Robert Stephenson, the father and son team in the forefront of the development of the railways, servicing the burgeoning industrial revolution. The life of George Stephenson presents a classic rags to riches tale - from illiterate colliery worker to pit owner and railway magnate. His son Robert combined the best traits of his father's character with new talents of his own to become, rightly, the most feted of the heroic' Victorian engineers. Their transport revolution was made posible through improvements in rail technology and, most importantly, the development of the steam locomotive itself.

Railway Pioneers

George & Robert Stephenson

Threshold

Chris Morris

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