![]() ![]() I reside with three dogs in Los Angeles, California, where I can be found writing under a palm tree, expressing my inner teenager. I’ve also edited MANGAKA AMERICA (Collins Design), a gallery and tutorial book featuring some of the hottest emerging North American manga artists of the time, and am currently working on another tutorial book for Focal Press on character design. AOL Comics Alliance described my work on SABRINA THE TEENAGE WITCH as “One of the best and most underrated all-ages comics of the last 10 years”! Most recently, I am the author of DIARY OF A GIRL NEXT DOOR: BETTY, an illustrated novel for Archie comics. ![]() ![]() My clients include Archie Comics, Dark Horse, and Marvel. The sequel, WARREN THE 13TH AND THE WHISPERING WOODS comes out on March 21st, 2017! I’m also a professional comic book writer and artist with 10 years experience writing and illustrating for a young audience. Hi, my name is Tania del Rio, author of the middle grade novel, WARREN THE 13TH AND THE ALL-SEEING EYE for Quirk Books. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Marks & Co.’s polite but formal reply regretted they were unable to supply the particular volume she described, but enquired if she would like them to send ‘a Latin New Testament, also a Greek New Testament, ordinary modern editions in cloth binding’. ![]() She enclosed a list of her ‘most pressing problems’, one of which was a Latin Bible. Helene Hanff described herself as ‘a poor writer with an antiquarian taste in books’ which she was unable to satisfy as ‘all the things I want are impossible to get over here except in very expensive rare editions, or grimy, marked-up school copies’. It was not the kind of letter they were accustomed to receiving, but it was one that would make history. In the drab and traumatized post-war London of 1949, Marks & Co., second-hand and antiquarian booksellers at 84, Charing Cross Road, received an enquiry from a Miss Helene Hanff of New York City. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() When he tells her (yes, tells her) she will be his wife, Julia thinks Douglas is (probably) insane. Not to mention, she has to deal with the active hostility of Douglas’s frosty, Attila-the-Hun-in-a-skirt mother, Monique.ĭouglas decides the best way to give the children what they need, get his mother to behave and give himself what he wants is to marry Julia. Julia is struggling with grief and trying to make a go in a new country without much help from impossibly handsome but even more impossibly remote Douglas. After tragedy strikes, Douglas and Julia are forced to live together at Sommersgate and raise their newly orphaned nieces and nephew.ĭouglas has no desire to raise his dead sister’s children nor does he want the distraction of the tempting Julia living under his roof. Julia Fairfax is his stubborn American sister-in-law. Douglas Ashton is the cold and unfeeling owner of the gothic Victorian Mansion, Sommersgate House. ![]() ![]() So I began writing a journal just to remember how I spent my days-anecdotes about my kids-such as my son falling out of a tree like Icarus and my daughter receiving a vial of ants for her ant farm that turned out to be red biting ants. I was no longer upset that he couldn’t do the reading for me.īut I decided to start writing a journal because doing psychic readings is like breathing. I wasn’t even writing, never even wished I was. “You’ll sell a book to Simon & Schuster,” he said. “Can’t you tell me anything now? Anything at all?” He was sorry? I was so sorry for myself that I felt tears running down my cheeks. A day before my appointment, he phoned to say that he had to cancel. In 1985, I was eagerly looking forward to a much anticipated visit to a famous psychic who had a seven year waiting list. I’ve been psychic all my life, a gift inherited from my Russian grandmother, but my writing career started as one of those cosmic oddities. People contact me to inquire about their relationships, finances, health, and loved ones who have passed on. ![]() ![]() ![]() Like Miriam Kaminsky, the heroine of both my novels, I’m a phone psychic and have been for over thirty years. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In Shaker Heights, a placid, progressive suburb of Cleveland, everything is planned-from the layout of the winding roads, to the colors of the houses, to the successful lives its residents will go on to lead. It moved me to tears.” -Reese Witherspoonįrom the bestselling author of Everything I Never Told You and Our Missing Hearts comes a riveting novel that traces the intertwined fates of the picture-perfect Richardson family and the enigmatic mother and daughter who upend their lives. It’s a deep psychological mystery about the power of motherhood, the intensity of teenage love, and the danger of perfection. “To say I love this book is an understatement. It's a marvel.” -Paula Hawkins, author of The Girl on the Train and A Slow Fire Burning ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She co-wrote the screenplay for Tumbleweeds, winner of the 1999 filmmaker’s trophy at the Sundance Film Festival. She later wrote Finding Angela Shelton about her experience during the making of the documentary and the epidemic of abuse and violence. Screenwriter, Author, Actor and Public SpeakerĪngela’s directing debut, the multi-award winning documentary Searching for Angela Shelton, led to appearances of The Oprah Winfrey Show, Larry King Live, 48 Hours Investigates, NPR, Lifetime Television and the cover of the New York Times. Her Emmy award winning performance as a Superhero for children in the video series, The Safe Side Angela Shelton The movie was based on Angela’s life and a chapter from her first manuscript, written when she was 19. ![]() Angela Shelton Screenwriter, Author, Actor and Public Speaker Angela’s directing debut, the multi-award winning documentary Searching for Angela Shelton, led to appearances of The Oprah Winfrey Show, Larry King Live, 48 Hours Investigates, NPR, Lifetime Television and the cover of the New York Times. ![]() ![]() ![]() (via Goodreads) It had been over five years since I read Tim Pratt’s Hart & Boot & Other Stories when I noticed the Heirs of Grace ad on my Kindle. In 2009, he donated his archive to the department of Rare Books and Special Collections at Northern Illinois University. Heirs of Grace is a tale of family and magic, action and wonder, blending the strong heroine, cheeky humor, and dark fantasy that have become the hallmarks of Tim Pratt’s writing. He has also had stories and poems published in various other markets and Year's Best collections. Collection Hart & Boot & Other Stories was a World Fantasy Award finalist in 2008. ![]() His " Impossible Dreams" (Asimov's July 2006) won the Hugo Award in the Best Short Story category. ![]() His story "Hart & Boot," first published in Polyphony 4, was reprinted in Best American Short Stories: 2005. His story "Little Gods" (online) (2002) was nominated for Nebula Award for the Best Short Story. Pratt's work has appeared in a number of markets, including Asimov's Science Fiction, Realms of Fantasy, Orson Scott Card's InterGalactic Medicine Show, and Strange Horizons. (It’s probably the 21st novel I’ve written that’s going to actually be published. He currently works as a senior editor at Locus Magazine. Published by Tim Pratt on NovemOver the weekend I finished writing the first draft of Heirs of Grace, my twenty-something-th novel. He moved to Santa Cruz, California in 2000, and currently resides in Oakland with his wife Heather Shaw and son River. In 1999 he attended the Clarion East Writing Workshop. ![]() He grew up in the vicinity of Dudley, North Carolina, and attended Appalachian State University, where he earned a Bachelor's in English. Tim Pratt (born December 12, 1976) is a science fiction and fantasy writer and poet. ![]() ![]() ![]() This exhaustively researched novel elucidates not just the situation in Mexico but the consequences of our own disastrous 40-year “war on drugs.” Author tour 50,000–copy first printing. Along the way, Keller falls in love with Marisol Cisneros, a beautiful doctor who heads a small but committed group of journalists and artists dedicated to resisting the violence. ![]() As a war between Barrera’s cartel and several different competing factions ensues, violence overwhelms the city of Ciudad Juárez. Keller agrees to return to duty and spearheads several attempts to capture Barrera, who remains elusive and seemingly protected by the Mexican police and government. Winslow's second book, The Trail to Buddha’s Mirror, continued the Neal Carey saga. DEA agent Art Keller has withdrawn from the world, tending bees for a New Mexico monastery, when he receives word that his old nemesis, Adán Barrera, leader of the Sinaloan cartel El Federación, has escaped from prison and is intent on reestablishing control of his empire. With a wife and young son, Winslow went back to investigative work, mostly in California, where he and his family lived in hotels for almost three years as he worked cases and became a trial consultant. Set in 2004, Winslow’s masterly sequel to The Power of the Dog (2005) continues his epic story of the Mexican drug wars. ![]() ![]() King telephoned Westlake personally to ask permission. Westlake under which he wrote some of his darkest, most violent books. The book's central villain, George Stark, was named in honor of Richard Stark, the pen name of writer Donald E. When King was identified as Bachman, he wrote The Dark Half – about an author – in response to his outing. ![]() Most of the Bachman novels were darker and more cynical in nature, featuring a far more visceral sense of horror than the psychological, gothic style common in many of King's most famous works. Stephen King wrote several books under a pseudonym, Richard Bachman, during the 1970s and 1980s. The novel was adapted into a feature film of the same name in 1993. Publishers Weekly listed The Dark Half as the second best-selling book of 1989 behind Tom Clancy's Clear and Present Danger. The Dark Half is a horror novel by American writer Stephen King, published in 1989. ![]() ![]() This book by Dennis Abrams was very thorough and went into a lot of detail in Carver's life. Color of skin or form of hair mean nothing to me now." One of my favorite quotes from the book came from one of his students, who said to Carver, "You have shown me the one race, the human race. Overall, the material was easy enough for me to understand as I read it, but it was very in depth and I learned a lot from it. Washington, but these parts were added to help the reader understand more about the significance of people or events that influenced his work. There were a few parts that strayed a bit from Carver, like when it talked about Booker T. George Washington Carver is an interesting man, and I enjoyed learning more about his life and how he helped improve the lives of many Southerners after the Civil War. This book was very helpful for my research essay for English class. ![]() |