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Learn to craft smart, original stories and scripts for a variety of television formats and genres, including comedy, drama, pilots, animation, made-for-TV movies, late night, and reality television. Hear directly from studio and network executives, agents, and managers on what they’re looking for...

How does your company train its operational-level managers? Do they go offsite, learn new information from a management expert, receive a training manual, or something similar? Most businesses fall into this development category, treating managers as our academic system treats students. The results,...

This book takes you through the life cycle of a quiz. It will teach you how to answer questions more thoughtfully and how to squeeze those extra points out of the quizmaster. You will also learn the secrets of being a successful Quizmaster. You will also learn the secrets of being a successful Quizmaster and how to run a successful and profitable quiz night.

Claiming Freedom is a noteworthy and dynamic analysis of the transition African Americans experienced as they emerged from Civil War slavery, struggled through emancipation, and then forged on to become landowners during the Reconstruction and post-Reconstruction period in the Georgia lowcountry....

anyone with an interest in american history will want to read this quintissentially american story. it's the story of anthony butler, a larger-than-life 19th century american character… and perhaps president andrew jackson’s biggest mistake. named by jackson as attaché to mexico, butler...

CLICK HERE to download a sample chapter and recipe from Fat of the Land* Quirky, engaging book about the hot topic of sustainable foods* Combines adventure with locavorism* Delves into iconic Northwest staples, such as huckleberries, Dungeness crab, and morelsForaging is not just a throwback...

This story is a sequel to “The Hanging of Big Steve Long” however it may be read as a standalone novelette. It does loosely follow the prior story and revolves around the same characters. In the first story the Hansom family leaves their New York home to follow a wagon train on the Oregon Trail....

This is a short romantic, action packed, western adventure novelette about a prospector who finds himself in charge of bringing up a girl child named Sandy. He raises her to be a typical cowgirl after he decides to abandon his search for a get rich quick scheme and takes a job on a cattle ranch. Together they have many adventures on the banks of the Snake River in Idaho.

“The Gold Mine Mystery, a Western Novelette, Second Edition” is a short fictional western containing both romance and adventure. The story herein is about a family prospecting and mining for gold in California's Mojave Desert after inheriting the mine. They launch an intensive search for a lost...

This Novelette is about a small group of men and boys who sailed from Plymouth England in the year of 1626 and landed near Cape Cod. They were boat builders and therefore constructed a somewhat seaworthy craft. They were all fleeing from perceived danger and had no plan to return again to England....

This is a book of seven western short stories. Book 1 “Hanging of Big Steve Long”, was published previously under the title “Six Wagons to Laramie”. A family travels with a wagon train headed for Oregon but gets diverted to Laramie. Book 2 is “Bart of the Dakota Badlands” wherein a young...

In book 1 a man in an alcoholic coma has a fantasy dream remembering adventures experienced by ancient ancestors caught up in the approaching ice age. He takes some of his modern knowledge with him into the past and becomes a slayer of mastodons. This is a fast moving adventure story with a little...

Book 1 is “The Cowgirl and the Prospector.” This is a short, action packed, western adventure story about a prospector who finds himself in charge of bringing up a girl child named Sandy. He raises her to be a typical cowgirl after he decides to abandon his search for a get rich quick scheme and...

This is a book of 6 short stories. Story 1 is an action packed spy story in which a secret experiment in Germany involving changing DNA in a human egg creates a super strong man who escapes from the laboratory and hides out in northern Canada. He meets a beautiful Native American girl by the name...