This volume explores adult work-world writing issues from the perspectives of five seasoned professionals who have logged hundreds of hours working with adults on complicated written communication problems. It examines the gap between school-world instructional practices and real-world problems and situations. After describing the five major economic sectors which are writing intensive, the text suggests curricular reforms which might better prepare college-educated writers for these worlds. Because the volume is based on the extensive work-world experiences of the authors, it offers numerous examples of real-world writing problems and strategies which illustrate concretely what goes wrong and what needs to be done about it.

This volume explores adult work-world writing issues from the perspectives of five seasoned professionals who have logged hundreds of hours working with adults on complicated written communication problems. It examines the gap between school-world instructional practices and real-world problems and situations. After describing the five major economic sectors which are writing intensive, the text suggests curricular reforms which might better prepare college-educated writers for these worlds. Because the volume is based on the extensive work-world experiences of the authors, it offers numerous examples of real-world writing problems and strategies which illustrate concretely what goes wrong and what needs to be done about it.

A second collection of eight prized plays. ?Hanging-Cat? Honorable Mention, Stage Play Script, Writer's Digest 2001 Writing Competition. ?The Cover Crop? as the short story ?In Hot Pursuit of Genetics and Human Behavior, ? Finalist, WordSmitten Media, Inc., TenTen Fiction Competition, 2007. The Gar Hole? as short story Second Place, Green River Tales: Short Stories, Green River Writers 2004 Contest. ?Grace-Noted Albatrosses? with A Brave Going at Fate, Fourth Place, Mindful of Miracles, 1999 Annual Awards, Poetry Society of Texas. ?Why Couldn't Mama Be a Jewish Mother Third Place, Mount Dora [Florida] Festival of Music and Literature, 2005. ?If I?m Any Judge? one of the winners, 2003 Annual Vitality Playwriting Contest. ?Barbie's Mother Calls Home? as poem, Barbie's Mother Calls Home, Second Prize, Joe Logan Short Humor Awards, Amelia, 1999.

A collection of eight prized plays. "Sassing the Sphinx" commissioned for the first Robert Frost Symposium 'Celebrating Robert Frost: An International Conference' Winthrop University, 1997. "Women of the Condor" honorable mention as a short story, Twelfth Consecutive New Millennium Writing Awards, 2001. "Lillie Langtry's 'Lash La Rue Sweet Potatoes'" quarter-finalist as a screen play, Lone Star Screenplay Competition, 1997. "Boo Radley and the Village People" honorable mention as a poem, Long Poem Contest, Rhyme Time, 2002. "Ms. Spam Maps of Vegas" winner Florida First Coast Writers' Festival Playwriting Contest, 2006. "Death Nell" winnerTampa Writers Alliance Play/Screenplay Competition, 2005. "Gnat" award Paul Green Multi-Media Award, North Carolina Society of Historians, 1996. "Second-Time-Around" winner Judith Siegel Pearson Award, Wayne State University, 2008.

Writer/Editor Dr. Lynn Veach Sadler, (former) college president, Distinguished Woman of North Carolina, and National Women s Hall of Fame member, has published widely in academics and in creative writing. She has published 5 books and 72 articles and edited 23 books/proceedings and 3 national journals and published 3 newspaper columns (1 now). In creative writing, she has 11 poetry chapbooks and 5 full-length collections, 125+ short stories, 4 novels, a novella, 5 short story collections and 2 nonfiction collections. One of her 41 plays was commissioned for the First International Robert Frost Symposium. As North Carolina s Central Region Gilbert-Chappell Distinguished Poet 2013-2015, she mentored student and adult poets. Lynn s awards include teaching, Civil Rights, and Exceptional Service to the History of the State.

Writer/Editor Dr. Lynn Veach Sadler, (former) college president, Distinguished Woman of North Carolina, and National Women's Hall of Fame member, has published widely in academics and in creative writing. She has published 5 books and 72 articles and edited 23 books/proceedings and 3 national journals and published 3 newspaper columns (1 now). In creative writing, she has 11 poetry chapbooks and 4 full-length collections, 125+ short stories, 4 novels, a novella, 5 short story collections (including Litmus Tests, Volumes I and II), and 2 nonfiction collections. One of her 41 plays was commissioned for the First International Robert Frost Symposium. As North Carolina's Central Region Gilbert-Chappell Distinguished Poet 2013-2015, she mentored student and adult poets. Lynn's awards include teaching, Civil Rights, and Exceptional Service to the History of the State of North Carolina.

Writer/Editor Dr. Lynn Veach Sadler, (former) college president, Distinguished Woman of North Carolina, and National Women's Hall of Fame member, has published widely in academics and in creative writing. She has published 5 books and 72 articles and edited 23 books/proceedings and 3 national journals and published 3 newspaper columns (1 now). In creative writing, she has 11 poetry chapbooks and 4 full-length collections, 125] short stories, 4 novels, a novella, 5 short story collections (including Litmus Tests, Volumes I and II), and 2 nonfiction collections. One of her 41 plays was commissioned for the First International Robert Frost Symposium. As North Carolina's Central Region Gilbert-Chappell Distinguished Poet 2013-2015, she mentored student and adult poets. Lynn's awards include teaching, Civil Rights, and Exceptional Service to the History of the State of North Carolina.

Writer/Editor Dr. Lynn Veach Sadler, (former) college president, Distinguished Woman of North Carolina, National WomenIs Hall of Fame member, and Central Region Gilbert-Chappell Distinguished Poet (2013-2015), has published widely in academics and in creative writing: books, articles, newspaper columns, poetry chapbooks and full collections, short stories, novels, a novella, short story collections and nonfiction collections. One of her 41 plays was commissioned for the First International Robert Frost Symposium. Lynn pioneered/consulted in Computer-Assisted Composition, published its first journal and established the first microcomputer laboratory for teaching writing. She originated the first academic computing conference in North Carolina, was Visiting Distinguished Scholar in Educational Leadership, and directed a National Endowment for the Humanities Seminar for College Teachers. Her awards include teaching, Civil Rights, and Exceptional Service to the History of the State.

This annual showcase of speculative fiction highlights both established and emerging writers in the fantasy, horror, and science fiction genres. The fifth installment in the series presents award-winning stories by Craig Comer, Jamie Lackey, David Lawrence, Viktor Kowalski, Viktor James Night, Lynn Veach Sadler, Chad Strong, and George S. Walker. Each installment in the series presents the winners of the annual Bards and Sages writing competition, as well as winners from our annual Readers' Choice Awards program.

All smart and looking-to-be-smart kids and all parents, grandparents and teachers need to read My Computer Journal of Family Dining. In this tragi-comic novel, teenager Zy Slayter, via technology, struggles with 11 SEPTEMBER 2001 and his "drugger" father. His mainstays are his "ancient," wise-droll, hip/hep grandfather, with whom he works on The Great Mystery of the World; his Black friend Doak; and another omnipresent but secret constant. Along the way, we get tragic race relations, Blues and theremin music, Trolls and football as play and computer game, a new "Boo Radley," a Miss North Carolina candidate "sunk" by a chicken costume..."[Y]ou cannot, finally, live life on the computer or in the virtual world. The real world feeds great parts of you, too. Nor can you, finally, bow down before evil and calamity. The spirit rebounds. There will come a morning when you step out into sunshine, and the spirit can do nothing less."

In a futuristic/paranormal but hot/steamy novel set against the backdrop of a Russo-Islamic-Chinese take-over of the United States, a woman is transformed and transforms. But who is cannibalized-Winn Miller herself? Her husband Scott? Industrialist Christopher Godbolt and General Sun, the men of her consuming fantasy? DREAM himself/itself? Are the experiences of this intellectual, once-chaste female and the revival of such ancient lore as alchemy necessary to help us resolve world crises? What do we make of and how do we survive in a diminished world?

Ex-Marine Acton Sanderson, the local sheriff, lives in one of the converted missile towers on Boatswain Island, home to America's first missile site. Older and newer entangled families with secrets produce their own virtual Tower of Babel. Acton has to let Suelima Pardee know that her older sister, Charlotte, who runs the Silver Mullet Pier and Motel founded by their father, has had a breakdown. By the time she interrupts completing her doctorate in literature at the University of Chicago to come to her aid, Charlotte is dead, and the island's "bad boy," Wes Thomas, is missing. Suelima seems destined to sort out matters and solve the mystery [mysteries?]. A secondary motive for her return is to determine, prior to answering the marriage proposal of philosophy professor "Jamie" Winthrop, whether her feelings for Acton are merely the dregs of a childhood crush. After what she uncovers, can Suelima be satisfied that she has done her best by the island she loves and not left it a place of "whited sepulchers"?

Tonight I Lie with William Cullen Bryant is literary fiction with touches of Southern Gothic, "coming-of-age," mystery, and the humor that saves us daily. It offers a wry comment on race relations and proof that many of today's concerns (e.g., the American Dream, migrants, "gypsies," victimization of the weak, and persistent blindness to that beneath the surface) were seeded in a past-that-teaches. All humans have "big" lives with the potential to enrich or subvert the human cause. A compelling novel written with masterful touch and attention to detail.

She's not a composer, for all I know. She loves to dance - that I do know, maybe she likes to sing in the shower?...I never asked. Neither do I think she is a chef, though I am certain she can prepare a perfectly boiled egg. As for love matters, that's easy, if I quote her as being neither a "gusher" nor a "sentimentalist". So what is there with Dr. Lynn Veach Sadler and a poetry book called "Music, Food, Poetry"? Well, in one word - everything. In one other word, making it a total of two - perfection. In one other word...ok, got the idea? Lynn can take any subject and turn it into a masterpiece of allusion, illusion, collusion and above all...profusion. This is another collection we are proudly collating for the wide public, with nothing else in mind but the diffusion [sic] of incredible quality.

She finds them everywhere - in history, art, religion, industry, her own back porch. She is awed by them, delighted by them, saddened by them and by our misunderstanding of them. She gets them in her poetry, immortalizing them with her mastery of word, stanza and composition. Dr. Sadler turns, for the thickness of one book of poetry, into an animals' master, transporting us into a world we knew yet never really paid full attention to - "their" world, what "they" mean to us. Most probably, many of us do need our eyes opened.

It is absolutely impossible to define this humorous collection of poetry, born at the finely sharpened end of Dr. Lynn Veach Sadler's pencil, other than...absolutely marvelous. Delving in, stealing from and exploiting unfathomable depths of academia, pun, and personal wit, Dr. Lynn threads word-barbs on the steel of sentence-wires with machine-gun speed at sniper-rifle accuracy. She could have had easily qualified (among her numerous other titles) for the "Muhammad Ali of the ho[a]xing world [of English]" title, had such a title existed. This short review is written by one of Dr. Lynn's aspiring students, poorly trying to imitate her inimitable style.

Ten tales of epic adventure that explore everything from the darkest recesses of the human mind to the strangest corners of outer space. Escape the mundane world with this exciting journey into the varied realms of speculative fiction. In volume two of "Bardic Tales and Sage Advice," explore amazing tales by both new and established writers in the field.

Award-winning poet, playwright, and author Lynn Veach Sadler offers an intriguing poem regarding the true inspiration for Darwin's "On the Origin of Species" with Evolution of the Beagle/"Beagle"

2009 Bards and Sages Quarterly Author of the Year Eugie Foster follows two step-sisters on a journey to discover a powerful truth regardless of the cost in Gifts Not Asked For

2009 Bards and Sages Charity Contest winner Anna Cates presents a fantasy tale of revenge, betrayal, and love found in unexpected places with The Frog King

These and other fantastic tales await.