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A very frustrated writer stalks a week-long writer's conference with the aim of getting enough publicity to interest a publisher in his/her novel. He/she kills four other would-be authors, leaving on each victim a card with what the killer considers to be an appropriate literary quote printed on it. Che Hadley, a workshop leader at the conference, at first has no idea who the killer could be, but as the murders continue he begins to figure out who it is. Once he is certain who the killer is, Che is presented with an ethical dilemma: an editor wants him to write the killer's story, but that isn't all. So does the killer.
“An original, fascinating, and beautifully written reckoning . . . of that great human passion: to write.”—Kay Redfield Jamison, national bestselling author of An Unquiet Mind Why is it that some writers struggle for months to come up with the perfect sentence or phrase while others, hunched over a keyboard deep into the night, seem unable to stop writing? In The Midnight Disease, neurologist Alice W. Flaherty explores the mysteries of literary creativity: the drive to write, what sparks it, and what extinguishes it. She draws on intriguing examples from medical case studies and from the lives of writers, from Franz Kafka to Anne Lamott, from Sylvia Plath to Stephen King. Flaherty, who...
Woody Allen made the glamour of Paris in the twenties magical in Midnight In Paris--but was that really the case? The Lost Generation made up one of the most fascinating, eccentric, and diverse group of writers ever known--Ernest Hemmingway, James Joyce, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ezra Pound, and so many more collectively made up this artistic period in time. In this book, you will learn how and why the movement started, what it was like to be a writer in Paris, and what led to its fall. A list of essential reading from the period is also included in the book.
'A gripping, beautifully written novel that I devoured in a day...as thrilling as it is fascinating' Hannah Kent, author of Burial Rites Sweden 1856. Blackasen Mountain: a distant place of rumour, superstition and now - murder. They say it was the Lapp who killed the three men. But something is not right. Ester knows it - but to help the settlers is to betray her people. Magnus feels it too. Sent by the Minister to survey the mountain, he cannot resist its mystery. And Lovisa: banished from the city by her father, travelling with her sister's husband, she is perhaps closest of them all to the wildness of the place. Three people, caught in the haunting light of the midnight sun.
Do you feel stuck in your own life? Are you going through the same motions and call it living? Have you lost your joy and desperately crave for much-needed seclusion from everything around? Behest by the malaise of hustle and chaos of big cities, Midnight Writers offers you peace in solitude, a beautiful way to embrace silence. This anthology of poems has familiar and unfamiliar terms and phrases, some modern, some long, and others freshly minted. All forms of poetry here are the interplay of words and rhymes, some of them strung together to recreate sounds, images, and ideas that are too complex or abstract to describe plainly. Somewhere along the flipping of pages, be prepared to get lost ...
The Midnight Writers Present...The end is nigh...or is it neigh? Humans might be an apex predator, but plenty of animals have the ability to end the world as we know it. Bunnies, cats, dogs, and alpacas might all seem cute at first glance but just wait until they let loose and cause an apocalypse the likes of which you've never seen before.
"From #1 internationally bestselling author Lucinda Riley, an epic story of family secrets, love, and betrayal set in Imperial India, a magnificent English country house in the 1920s, and that same house today"--
What is the dark and terrifying secret that haunts Moonlight Cove? Midnight is a gripping thriller from bestselling novelist Dean Koontz that explores a town haunted by a deadly presence. Perfect for fans of THE EYES OF DARKNESS and Stephen King. 'A monster hit... In his own masterful way, Koontz slowly unveils the escalating horror... breath-taking' - Dallas Morning News A string of inexplicable deaths has occurred in the picturesque coastal town of Midnight Cove; sinister, shadowy figures stalk the streets in the dead of night and four people are drawn together by terrifying circumstance: a young woman determined to find the truth behind her sister's suicide; an undercover federal agent; a...
A woman encounters a life filled with desires and emotions when she returns to Paris after suffering from a bout of depression and alcoholism in London.
There are four parts. 1) The first one gives the essential techniques for writing a short story, 2) The next explains why we write what we do, 3) The third section lists some benchmarks in my writing life, 4) The final part gives some additional examples of short stories and poems.