My mom should have killed me the day I was born. Now I have to kill my sister. Being a twin complicates the Evian line of succession, but Chancery Alamecha doesn’t want her mother’s throne. Her sister Judica is the merciless fighter, the ruthless politician, and the groomed heir. Chancery doesn’t mind that Judica will […]

April 2021. Jan and Kelly have a privileged life as the teenaged children of two wealthy defense contractors in Karachi. They don’t notice the odd behavior of their servants until it is too late. Kidnapped from a Pakistani resort, the Polish boy and American girl are taken hostage by a disgraced Taliban fighter. He will […]

How to use self control and mental toughness to achieve your goals. Have you spent weeks, months, or even years trying to achieve your goals but keep failing? Have you given up on becoming successful because your futile efforts have led you to believe that success is only for the select few? If you have […]

She can’t remember what happened that night. But someone else does. After years of struggle, Raven Kendrick is giving up on her dream of a theater career in New York. Returning to her hometown, she moves back in with her parents and resigns herself to a quiet life. But that humble dream is shattered when […]

Isla Rhys has lost her flat, her fiancé, and her faith in the possessive apostrophe, all in the span of twelve minutes. When her Oxford academic fiancé dumps her via a text message that reads “Your to intense,” Isla doesn’t just mourn the relationship; she mourns the grammar. Needing an escape where syntax doesn’t matter, […]

What is a story about? What are the events its characters experience during the course of the story? Do those events flow in a logical, easy-to-follow sequence? These are the kinds of questions Theme, Plot, and Structure examines in detail, especially when there are problems. In this book, long-time critique group leader Ross Lampert (a.k.a. […]

Arriving early one morning to open for business, the baker’s wife walks into a bloody scene, a body, and a missing husband. Later that afternoon, a beloved town patriarch and sapphire dealer is found hanging from the balcony in his historic mansion. On first observation, it looks like suicide. An autopsy points to murder. Further […]