![]() ![]() I feel like I get a hit of creative dopamine when I’ve crafted a sentence I’m super happy with, and I’ll read it over and over again. I love words, so one of my favorite activities is writing elegant sentences or, even better, taking a boring sentence and making it shine. What’s your favorite part about writing/being an author? What do you find challenging? So I thought “why don’t I write a version where there are actual supernatural elements?” Knowing I was writing for an adult audience, I decided to really delve deeper into the main character’s grief, as well-an element that I felt was lacking in the original (probably since it was a book for a young audience). I loved The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett growing up, but was always slightly disappointed that there wasn’t actually a ghost. I love writing retellings because they give me the opportunity to expand upon or change elements of the original story. I would describe it as an adult retelling of the classic children’s book The Secret Garden about an American woman who, while grieving her mother’s death, travels to Japan to photograph a dilapidated inn only to find herself mysteriously tied to the inn’s haunted past. ![]() Welcome, Amber! How would you describe The Secret Garden of Yanagi Inn? Book Title: The Secret Garden of Yanagi Innīook Genre: Gothic Mystery / Literary Paranormal ![]()
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Harry Clifton sets out to write his magnum opus, while his wife Emma completes her ten years as Chairman of the Bristol Royal Infirmary, and receives an unexpected call from Margaret Thatcher offering her a job. Ambitious and addictive, Only Time Will Tell is the first novel in Jeffrey Archer’s The Clifton Chronicles, beginning the epic tale of Harry Clifton, a working-class boy from the docks of Bristol. In Whitehall, Giles Barrington discovers the truth about his wife Karin from the Cabinet Secretary. 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When he invaded, we were to bury our radio. ![]() Men came and removed all the signposts from the roads around the village, so that when Hitler invaded he wouldn’t know where he was. She made me go into the shelter every time the sirens wailed. “You feel safer in your bedroom, but you’re actually much safer in the shelter.” It didn’t matter how I felt. ![]() ![]() Little do they know that surviving seventh grade is going to become a true matter of life and death, because Vanguard has an evil presence at its heart: a digital student evaluation system named BARBARA that might be taking its mission to shape the perfect student to extremes! ![]() ![]() When Max-Maxine Zelaster-befriends her new robot classmate Fuzzy, part of Vanguard One Middle School’s new Robot Integration Program, she helps him learn everything he needs to know about surviving middle school-the good, the bad, and the really, really, ugly. Reluctant readers and robot lovers in elementary and middle school will enjoy this fast-paced read that shows just how strange a place middle school can be, particularly when the new student is a state-of-the-art robot. ![]() From the minds of Tom Angleberger, the New York Times bestselling author of the wildly popular Origami Yoda series, and Paul Dellinger, an adult science-fiction writer, comes a funny middle school story with a memorable robot title character. ![]() ![]() Mr Tan has not been charged with any crime. Mr Tan is part-owner of 'pimp my ride'-style car customisation company Vogue Industries, a neighbouring business of Hello Lifestyle at the Meadowbrook industrial complex. ![]() Police allege Roberts suggested to officers that Justin Chong Tan 'orchestrated the theft', The Courier Mail reported. The business was allegedly run by Jason Eneli Roberts, 39, who has 'strong ties to the Comancheros outlaw motorcycle gang' and been charged over the shooting. ![]() Seven shots were fired from a stolen BMW X3 at the $4.3m six-bedroom home in Robertson on Brisbane's outskirts on March 1, while a woman and children slept inside.Īccording to the police facts tendered to the Supreme Court in Brisbane, shots were fired in revenge after $2m was 'stolen from a safe' from the premises of car raffle company Hello Lifestyle at a Meadowbrook industrial estate. An alleged $2 million theft from a notorious bikie's safe was the motive behind the late-night drive-by shooting of a lavish mansion, a court has heard. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Was it always going to come down to this? Sister against sister? Darkness against light? Veronyka is determined to do whatever it takes to get Tristan back, even if that means revealing her identity to the world and inheriting a throne she's not sure she wants. Except for her beloved phoenix, Xephyra, of course, and her new friend, Kade, who has his own reasons for wanting to save Tristan. Now that the secret is out, everyone at the Eyrie treats Veronyka differently, and with Tristan still a hostage of the scheming Lord Rolan-and Sev with him as a spy-Veronyka feels very much alone. and the niece of Avalkyra Ashfire, the resurrected rebel queen who tore the empire apart. Veronyka is no longer an orphaned stable boy or a nameless Phoenix Rider apprentice: she is the daughter of Pheronia Ashfire, the last queen of the Golden Empire. About the Book "Veronyka has been revealed as the heir to the empire, but to protect her people, she'll have to face the most devastating enemy she could imagine: her own sister"-īook Synopsis In the heart-stopping finale to the Crown of Feathers trilogy, which #1 New York Times bestselling author Kendare Blake calls "absolutely unforgettable," Veronyka must face her most devastating enemy yet: her own sister. ![]() ![]() Then Gideon would have to tell the truth, not that he was any of those things, but that he was more lonesome inside than any boy his age should be. Holding still was the hardest part, not because his mother was dead and had no answer, but because Gideon knew that if he moved at all, his father might ask if he was awake or sad or equally lost. Gideon thought it was pitiful, the helplessness and tears, the shaking, dirty fingers. For long minutes he stood silently, looking down then he touched Gideon’s hair and tried to whisper himself strong, saying, Please, God, please, then asking strength from his long-dead wife, so that Please, God turned into Help me, Julia. But Gideon knew what his father would say and so kept his head on the pillow and watched the dark corner until his father pulled himself up and crossed the room. It would be a simple question, and if his father were any kind of man, he’d probably answer it. His father often ended up in the corner-huddled as if his son’s bedroom were the world’s last good place-and Gideon thought about asking why, after all these years, his father was still so sad and weak and broken. ![]() ![]() He held very still, though the sobbing was neither new nor unexpected. ![]() ![]() Gideon Strange opened his eyes to dark and heat and the sound of his father weeping. ![]() ![]() But even greater torments await Saint-Germain when he is forced to flee Peru into the uncharted wilderness to the north. Mighty Spain has conquered Acanna's people and brought the dreaded attention of the Holy Inquisition to the New World, and both the vampire and the Incan noblewoman find themselves trapped in increasingly precarious times. Now the Count's endless travels bring him to seventeenth-century Peru, where he finds passion, as well as solace for his loneliness, in the arms of Acanna Tupac, daughter of the vanquished Incan royalty. ![]() ![]() Chelsea Quinn Yarbro's powerful and evocative novels have captured Saint-Germain throughout his long existence, from the temples of ancient Egypt to our present century. ![]() Ambitious in its scope and provocative in its content, the saga of the undying Count Saint-Germain is a monumental feat of the imagination that rivals the Vampire Chronicles of Anne Rice. ![]() ![]() The collection marks the final chapter in “Anthology,” a yearlong campaign in which the three surviving Beatles cleaned their vaults of studio outtakes and rare video footage. “Anthology 3,” which arrives in stores today, also closes with the optimistic “love you make” lyric from “The End.” But the double-album’s subtitle could have been “We Can’t Work It Out.” This is the sound of a band slowly imploding. The Beatles ended their final album, “Abbey Road,” on a warm and fuzzy note: “The love you make/is equal to the love you take.”īut in real life, the four lads weren’t exactly singing “All You Need Is Love” to each other in the late-‘60s: Paul McCartney was trying to boss his mates around in the studio Ringo Starr felt so useless he temporarily quit and the four members often pieced together the albums in total seclusion from each other. ![]() ![]() He also gets surly over her decision to retain her last name and generally hovers over her, making sure that she is always in contact with him via email or the phone. So they’ll bang, okay? Along the way, he viciously scolds her for showing off too much skin that other people may see, suggests that she is too fat, and laughs at her face when she shaves her Sahara desert in an effort to impress him. ![]() ![]() And another, and then another, because when the story opens, Christian and Ana decide to tie the knot. So, Fifty Shades Freed, the conclusion to the “Will Christian ever get psychiatric help?” saga comes to an end with a bang. The story so far has EL James laughing all the way to the bank, the media beating the mommy porn horse to death, and folks tired of mocking Stephanie Meyer and Linda K Hamilton now perking up at having a new victim to make fun of for the next ten years on the Amazon discussion boards. The books sold so well that the series got picked up for mainstream consumption. ![]() Fifty Shades Freed is the conclusion of EL James’s runaway success series, which I’m sure you have at least heard by now was once an alternate universe Twilight until Ms James decided to use the popularity of her series to make some dough off them via the wonderful world of self-publishing. ![]() |