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	*American By Choice* by Paul Schreiber Paul G. Schreiber was born in Berlin Germany in 1934, the son of Major General Walter P. Schreiber M.D., who was appointed Chief Medical Officer of Fortress Berlin in 1944 by Wehrmacht Supreme Command. Imprisoned in Moscow?s Lubyanka after the surrender, General Schreiber testified before the Nuremburg War Crimes Tribunal in 1947. Paul writes from an age-commensurate perspective as an eyewitness to many of the world-shaking events that characterized the first half of the 20th century as he travels through a war-ravaged Europe. His extraordinary adventures include a first-person account of the fall of Berlin to the Russian Army, the beginning of the Cold War at a place that became famous as "Checkpoint Charlie," facing starvation on the streets of Stalin?s Berlin, outwitting the Soviet NKVD as a young boy in a daring CIA-brokered rescue of his father from Soviet captivity, and leaving home to live a young man's romantic adventure as a Gaucho herder on Argentina's Pampas and Patagonia in the 1950s. Those experiences served to strengthen his long-held plans of immigration to the United States in 1954, when a Peronista sabotage and mutiny nearly sank the ship on which he was working his way to his adopted country and almost derailed his plans. Woven throughout American by Choice are subtle but telling comparisons between the totalitarian methods of political manipulation that characterized Paul?s experiences under Nazi, Soviet, and Argentinean dictatorships, and the methods that increasingly characterize our own political life --- including attacks on gun ownership, civil rights, family structure, faith-based education, and ever-increasing political correctness. Most significantly, American by Choice is the story of a young boy's conversion from a state-controlled totalitarian mindset to one that embraces the constitutional principles of free choice and self-determination, a conversion initiated by his family and encounters with eight British prisoners of war whom he befriended as a child. His story culminates in a life-long celebration of America that began in 1945 with the entry into Berlin of the U.S. Army?s Second Armored Division, Hell on Wheels, to whose soldiers he dedicates this book.
	*My Dark People* by T.S. Kerrigan "Kerrigan is a real, honest-to-goodness poet whose poems pass the supreme test -- they can send chills down your back." ~ Polly Warfield, Backstage West "I regard him as one of the finest and most entertaining poets alive." ~ X.J. Kennedy, Light Quarterly READ MORE... "A solid, meaty style and real matter." ~ W.D. Snodgrass "[All] the poems have real substance and a bracing sense of craft." ~ Timothy Steele "Kerrigan is, without hyperbole, a major new word visionary." ~ Robert Benn, Coastlines "An Irishman, a Catholic, he has studied long at the singing school where Yeats is the cruel headmaster. Kerrigan's tenor has the register of John McCormack's." ~ Timothy Murphy
	*20 Things You Must Know to Write a Great Screenplay* by Rick Reichman "Peppy, penetrating, and practical, Rich Reichman's 20 Things You Must Know to Write a Great Screenplay is a welcome addition to screenwriting literature. Written in clear, no-nonsense prose, the book provides far more than merely twenty things worth knowing. The work overflows with advice that will enhance any worthy screenplay. Here is a volume that deserves a place on all serious screenwriters' bookshelves." ~ Professor Richard Walter, UCLA Screenwriting Chairman "In twenty-five years of directing I've learned that structure is the heart of a script. Structure is Rick Reichman's forte and is brilliantly presented here in his new book. As for heart, you're on your own, as directors are known for not having one." ~ Vern Gillum, Freelance director for Universal, Warner Bros, Paramount Studios of 120 hours of prime time drama "One of the writers I work with has benefited greatly from Rick's classes and advice, and 20 Things You Must Know to Write a Great Screenplay shows why. It's a straight forward, nuts and bolts, easy to understand primer that provides screenwriters with the tools they must have to produce well-written screenplays." ~ Alton Walpole, Independent Film Maker, Co-producer of The Tao of Steve "Want to become a professional screenwriter? Buy this book. Rick Reichman shares every secret you need to get started. I know, because he was my teacher. I've been a television writer for over eleven years now." ~ Ashley Gable, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Crossing Jordan, Strong Medicine, New Amsterdam
ISBN 10 0-9715344-8-9 ISBN 13 978-0-9715344-8-3	*Growing Great Characters from the Ground Up* by Martha Engber "If you're ready to take your characters to the next level, this is the book for you. Martha Engber's Growing Great Characters from the Ground Up is a generous resource, chock full of examples and exercises for writers who want to develop complex and memorable characters." ~ Martha Alderson, M.A., author of Blockbuster Plots Pure & Simple "I guarantee that anyone reading this book and doing the exercises will have more dynamic, organic, dramatic, and fascinating characters. Martha Engber is practical, inspirational, encouraging, and clear!" ~ Dr. Linda Seger, author of Creating Unforgettable Characters "Growing Great Characters distills the essence of character development by using a breadth of good examples. It brims with valuable suggestions. I can't wait to try some of Martha's ideas in my own writing." ~ Dianne Jacob, author of Will Write for Food: The Complete Guide to Writing Cookbooks, Restaurant Reviews, Articles, Memoir, Fiction, and More
ISBN 0-9715344-4-6	*Beyond the Masks* by Harvey Stanbrough *"Harvey Stanbrough's new collection, Beyond the Masks, is a work of great power* and impressive range. Stanbrough is a poet with a genuine sense of life's intermittent savagery, a writer whose stark snapshots of pain, hunger, warfare, lies, rage, and suicide tear away the masks of our self-deception. And yet there is a fierce hope here as well, a refusal to acquiesce in our human failings. Stanbrough has a clear vision of life's brutality, but he has an even clearer vision of someone who's passed through that brutality and found compassion." ~ Joseph S. Salemi READ MORE...
	*Rosetta Stones* by Catherine Dix "[Rosetta Stones is] a beautifully written and wonderfully imagined contemporary coming-of-age story." ~ Tony Hillerman "Rosetta Stones is a thrilling and magical roller-coaster ride set in the hauntingly beautiful New Mexico landscape. Dix artfully weaves together a fast-paced plot, spit-fire dialog, and a dynamic cast of characters whose search for truth in the midst of loss, family secrets, and a hot psychopathic killer will keep readers on the edge of their seats. I had a hard time putting this book down. Teens of all backgrounds will enjoy this tantalizing mystery." ~ Malin Alegria, Author of Sofie Mendoza's Guide to Getting Lost in Mexico (Simon & Schuster, 2007) "Four Hearts." Heartland Reviews
Street Milk ISBN 0971534403	*Street Milk* by Robert Swearingen In this collection of forty-four poems, Robert Swearingen takes us on a journey through a life that is by turns raw, humorous, and at times, poignant. With a brutal honesty that asks for neither pity nor condemnation, these poems tell of growing up in a rough blue-collar family in the fifties, of a young man working in the steel mills of Gary, Indiana, of love and the end of love, and finally, of a life on the streets for nearly two decades. He speaks, in the context of personal experience, of a life of material success, selfishness, loss, folly, loneliness, and the hope for a redemption that will transcend the mistakes of the past. READ MORE...
Punctuation for Writers ISBN 0971534411	*Punctuation for Writers* by Harvey Stanbrough True to the name of the Thorough Primer Series for Writers, Punctuation for Writers is a concise, thorough one-two punch. It provides writers with the rules of punctuation, but it also empowers them by explaining why each mark of punctuation has a particular effect on the reader. The second part of Punctuation for Writers puts punctuation in perspective with a brief but thorough grammar refresher. READ MORE....
Writing Realistic Dialogue & Flash Fiction ISBN 0971534454	*Writing Realistic Dialogue & Flash Fiction* by Harvey Stanbrough The second book in the Thorough Primer Series for Writers, Writing Realistic Dialogue & Flash Fiction builds on concepts explored in Punctuation for Writers and explains in detail why and how authentic-sounding, realistic dialogue works to engage the emotions of the reader. We discuss even the nuances of the sounds of individual letters and words and the effect of those nuances on the reader, and we explore and explain why and how narrative is effective when used in conjunction with realistic dialogue. READ MORE...
Restless Tribes ISBN 0971534438	*Restless Tribes* by Stephen Ausherman Travelers are a restless tribe, and Stephen Ausherman is one of their most active members. Culled from over a decade of travel through nations as diverse as Iraq, China, Vietnam, and Northern Ireland, various incarnations of the stories in Restless Tribes have been published in newspapers, magazines, and anthologies including Grand Tour, The Korea Times, and Travelers' Tales of China. READ MORE...

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