Your goal: • Write a novel with one or more partners Learn how to: • find a writing partner • harness the creative energy that comes with collaboration • avoid problems in working with someone else • write a novel that you're both passionate about Contains: • suggested frameworks for organising tasks • activities to help you generate and organise ideas • real life anecdotes and examples Best-selling comic fantasy authors, Heide Goody and Iain Grant, have drawn on their years of collaborative writing experience to create this guide for every collaborative writer. From finding a writing partner, to generating those important story ideas, to actually writing your novel and seeing it through to publication, this book will walk you through the pitfalls and challenges of collaborative writing.
Curious about the day that Saint Christopher found out he'd been declared non-existent by the pope? What exactly is a cat in Hell's chance? How would an annual Christmas present exchange between Heaven and Hell work out? Find out the answers to these and other pressing questions in this collection of short stories from the world of Clovenhoof. This contains the stories, Clovenhoof's Shed and Clovenhoof Goes To Night School, which were previously published individually, but there are eight other stories included here featuring favourite characters from Heaven and Hell. Contains: Clovenhoof goes to Night School. Patron Saint of Nothing At All. Clovenhoof and the Snowmen. Saint Nicholas and the Krampus. Detritus at the Church Fete. Clovenhoof and the Spiders. A Cat in Hell's Chance. The Non-Specific Prayer Assessment Unit. The Hoof. Clovenhoof's Shed.
This concise book takes the reader step by step through putting together a grant application for medical research. Written by leading researchers in epidemiology who have long experience in making grant applications themselves, and assessing those from others, this is a thoroughly practical tool. The accompanying disk is an invaluable prompt during the actual writing of the application.
Investment is no longer a matter of individual savers directly choosing which shares or bonds to buy. Rather, most of their money flows through a 'chain': an often extended sequence of intermediaries. What goes on in that chain is of huge importance: The world's investment managers, who are now almost as well paid as top bankers, control assets equivalent in value to around a year of total global economic output. In Chains of Finance, five social scientists discuss the ways in which the intermediaries in the chain influence each other, channel the flows of savers' money, enhance investment decisions, and form audiences for each other's performances of financially competent selves. The central argument of the book is that investment management is fashioned profoundly by the opportunities and constraints this chain creates. Whether chains constrain or enable, however, they always entangle, tying intermediaries to each other - silently and profoundly shaping the investment management industry. Chains of Finance is a novel analysis that will make students, social scientists, financial professionals, and regulators looking at the workings of financial markets in a new light. A must-read for anyone looking for insights into the decision-making processes of investment managers and those influenced by and working for them.
New Media: A Critical Introduction is a comprehensive introduction to the culture, history, technologies and theories of new media. Written especially for students, the book considers the ways in which 'new media' really are new, assesses the claims that a media and technological revolution has taken place and formulates new ways for media studies to respond to new technologies. Substantially updated from the first edition to cover recent theoretical developments, approaches and significant technological developments, this is the best and by far the most comprehensive textbook available on this exciting and expanding subject.
The aristocracy abide by a different set of rules... ...or so it seems to Sam Applewhite when her job brings her to Candlebroke Hall, the stately home. The burglary definitely wasn't what it appeared to be, and the subsequent accidents suggest that it's a dangerous place to spend time. Sam is caught up in events as she tries to protect the interests of young Hilde Odinson, part of the local viking family. The Odinsons insist on doing things their own way though, with scant regard for the law. In the meantime, Sam starts to understand that while many people would kill to live at Candlebroke Hall, maybe there are others who would kill to get away from it.
The dragon queen is dead, her dragon flown off into the east. The capital city is in flames and ruin. Who will rebuild the city and how? While the lords squabble over who should be king, a self-appointed council - a former-pirate, a thief-turned-treasurer, a knight of the realm and someone who calls himself a dentist - need to save the city from itself. Because the dragon might have gone but perhaps it left something behind...
Some bodies just won't stay buried. When a client tells Sam Applewhite she's seen ghosts in the nearby graveyard, Sam dismisses it as the ramblings of an old woman. She's got bigger things to worry about -- keeping on top of her job at DefCon4 Security Services isn't easy -- particularly since her manager is a cactus and no one will tell her what her job actually is. But when the ghost-spotting client goes missing and only Sam suspects foul play, she is compelled to dig deeper. Aided by her retired stage magician father and the owner of the most outlandish junk shop on the sea front, Sam dives into a mystery involving psychotic seals, unexploded air force munitions, DIY foot surgery and a corpse that just won't quit.
Meet Sam Applewhite, a security consultant with no staff, no resources and some big jobs to tackle. When an armed robber targets a local bank, things quickly go wrong and hostages are taken. Sam's stage magician dad is in the firing line and no magic tricks are going to get him out of this situation. The police say they've got things under control but Sam knows there's something strange going on. Why has a law-abiding man suddenly turned to crime? How can it be an armed robbery if the robber has left his gun at home? As the hours tick by and the threat of violence escalates, Sam has to put the pieces together before it's too late because, in this money heist, things just don't add up... Praise for the Sam Applewhite books: "Original, inventive and funny - what more do you want in a crime drama?" "An up-to-date sassy Agatha Christie." "The characters here are so real that you feel you know them after just a few pages." "Crazy, laugh out loud mayhem all the way through, and an amazing finale. Can't wait to read the next one in the series." "Lovable main characters, greedy villains who self destruct with a vengeance and enough laugh out loud moments to make my day.
This philosophical treatise critiques the Philosophy of the Will through the philosophical works ofSchopenhauer, Nietzsche and Wittgenstein in German-Language philosophy. The thesis shows howthe development of Volitionality came about with each successive philosopher being significantlyinfluenced by his predecessor. This influential genealogy would find an exemplary case inNietzsche's early philosophical career. Throughout the period of his early philosophical careerNietzsche regarded Schopenhauer fondly as his 'philosophical educator'.
There's something very wrong at the Otterside care home. When Sam Applewhite tries to help a friend who's lost a beloved pet she finds that it's just the first in a series of seemingly unconnected deaths. Is it her imagination, or do all of them somehow point back to the same residential home for seniors? Sam's skills are in demand elsewhere however, as she must orchestrate a safety drill with animal actors, cook dinner on an abandoned oil rig and keep an eye on those vikings who are building a longship. When the police don't see the pattern, it's all down to Sam, and the closer she gets to uncovering what's going on at Otterside, the more danger she's in.
As punishment for his part in an attempted coup in Heaven, the Archangel Michael is banished to Earth. The holiest of the angelic host has to learn to live as a mortal, not an easy job when you've got Satan as a next-door neighbour. Michael soon finds that being a good person involves more than helping out at Sunday school and attending church coffee mornings. He has to find his purpose in life, deal with earthly temptations and solve a mystery involving some unusual monks and a jar of very dangerous jam.
Christmas is a time for families to come together.Guin Roberts can't think of anything worse than visiting a Christmas market with her new family. Guin is perfectly happy with own company and doesn't want that disrupted by her wisecracking stepbrother and his earnest mum.Their Christmas celebrations are invaded by a sleigh full of murderous elves. And it doesn't matter if they've been naughty or nice - these elves are out for blood.Can the family band together to survive the night? Or will Santa's little helpers make mincemeat of them all?
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