So. You want to be a writer. You want to play around with some fan fiction or entertain your friends, relatives, grand-kids, and/or yourself. You want to share the stories you've been making up since you first learned how to make letters and put them on paper. You want to be published... it's easier to be published today than it has ever been before... and you want to do it well. You want to produce a quality product with a viable plot, engaging story, and authentic settings. You want your grammar and your punctuation to be flawless. You want your formatting to be appropriate to your genre, acceptable to your audience, and the best to showcase your final product. You want your facts to support your fiction. And you want believable characters. This booklet will give you a method by which get them... to make them three-dimensional... to give them life, their own history, and a personality to go with it. If you do that, they'll talk to you; and once they do that, you're on your way.

Obedient and naive Julianna Fletcher does a daughter's duty and travels from India to Gull Arc, Land's End, Cornwall, married by proxy to a dangerous imposter whose plan it is to use her as his means to a wealthy end. At Gull Arc, surrounded by his mother and his sister, she discovers many things and many people are not what they seem; love is not the 'ever-fixed mark' the poet wrote about; and her dreams are not to be had at any price. Julianna must find the strength to save herself as well as absolution for loving the wrong man before she can love again. Can the memory of one month's happiness give her the will to fight back against a man who will do anything to take his brother's place?

A widower finds a runaway whore in a collapsed sod house on his Kansas ranch. She's splattered with blood - not her own - and he's not interested in taking her in or helping solve her problems; but Jake can't leave Mary to who- or whatever is chasing her. By the time he realizes it's too late, his wife's ghost and the Dakota Territory sheriff who'd like to send Mary to join her make it impossible for Jake to let Mary go. That leaves just two problems: how can Jake make the sheriff abandon his obsession without killing him? And how can he convince Mary - and himself - that it's possible to be happy again?

It was the history of an age, the story of a kingdom. It involved the destruction of a religion and the fall of a queen. It was set in a time of extremes: wealth, poverty, obsession, fear, love, hatred, complexity and utmost simplicity, and it could only be controlled and manipulated by those with the greatest of evil intent. It was the life of Henry Tudor and his Anne, and their tale has been told many a time in many a fashion from many an angle, yet there is but one truth. Let us tell it.

Compilation of down-home, comfort food family recipes from the Robbins-Dahl-Van Cleave-Dee-McDaniel families and friends.