Book Description
The editors of Writer’s Digest are pleased to share with you the winning entries in each category of the 80th Annual Writer’s Digest Writing Competition, along with the Grand Prize-winning story, Boy Witch, by John T. Biggs.
Author : The Editors of Writer's Digest
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 38,35 MB
Release : 2011-12-27
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1599636972
The editors of Writer’s Digest are pleased to share with you the winning entries in each category of the 80th Annual Writer’s Digest Writing Competition, along with the Grand Prize-winning story, Boy Witch, by John T. Biggs.
Author : John T. Biggs
Publisher : Oghma Creative Media
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 27,44 MB
Release : 2015-06-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1633730700
A linked short story collection dealing with the collapse of civilization. All the action takes place in Oklahoma. Characters are repeated in the stories. There is strong Native American content.
Author : John T. Biggs
Publisher : Oghma Creative Media
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 50,93 MB
Release : 2024-06-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1633738795
When a mother is struck by lightning in the early stages of pregnancy, is it any wonder her child is a little strange? Glenna Anoli is a beautiful teenage girl who hardly ever talks, and when she does, it’s mostly to companions only she can see. She calls them Shiners. People think it’s all in her head, but they’re more real than anyone could imagine. They come to Glenna’s aid whenever she’s in trouble. And she’s in trouble a lot. Predators are drawn to her as moths to a flame, but lightning has a tendency to strike those who seek to do her harm. It’s a mystery, but one that makes her that much more alluring to the good and the evil alike. When Glenna finds herself entangled with a drug-addicted preacher who believes she holds the key to an ancient prophecy, her journey takes her from the red dirt of Oklahoma to the beating green heart of the Amazon rainforest. Friendship, love, and a powerful connection to the native Gurani people await her there, along with a mystery of near Biblical proportions. Together with her loyal Shiners, she uncovers long-buried secrets, dispels the darkness of a decades-old murder, and reclaims stolen land. Transformed from a mysterious young woman to a deity revered by the Gurani, and ultimately, an internet sensation, she becomes a beacon of hope in the digital age.Prepare to be spellbound by a tale of magic, mystery, and the enduring power of the human spirit in the most unexpected of places.
Author : John T. Biggs
Publisher : Oghma Creative Media
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 27,57 MB
Release : 2023-06-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 163373756X
Trickery is magic until you figure out how it’s done. Richard Harjo’s job is to counsel death row inmates in Oklahoma’s notorious McAlester Prison. That usually consists of convincing them heaven is a sort of afterlife work release program, and God is the most gullible parole officer ever. All they’ve got to do to qualify is have faith as they walk quietly to the execution chamber. No wonder Richard has lost faith in all things supernatural. Everything changes when he meets a Choctaw murderer named Holabi Minco. Native guards say the inmate is a witch… and they might be right. He keeps a popsicle stick calendar in his cell that tells when people are going to die and does so more accurately than the DOC roster. Minco befriends Richard and sends him on a series of extralegal missions to give him insight into the lives of the other death row inmates. The chaplain crosses paths with a pole dancer, white supremacists, and a secret town full of outlaws that isn’t on any official map. What’s alway been a humdrum, hypocritical life is suddenly an adventure. When Holabi Minco’s beautiful daughter, Kinta, enters the picture, Richard is hooked. He quickly finds himself drawn into a complicated plot to break her father out of prison. It involves a slice of something called Dead’n’berried pie, a shoot out on the prison parking lot, and a disappearing act that looks too much like magic. Who could possibly resist?
Author : John T. Biggs
Publisher : Oghma Creative Media
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 38,55 MB
Release : 2018-07-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1633733114
What Kills You Makes You Stronger Clementine is a teenage girl from rural Oklahoma who hears voices. At first, it’s nothing special. Lost dogs and ice cream socials—things on local radio, complete with commercials. But when when she slips into a trance and foretells the beginning of World War III mere hours before the bombs start falling, the locals realize just how special Clem may be. Carl is a government scientist with a secret laboratory. He’s trying to figure out how to save the human race once the war ends and the radiation clears, and Clem’s special gift may be exactly what he needs. First, though, he’ll have to do a few experiments. Nothing painful, he tells her—well, not too painful, anyway. With no interest in becoming Carl’s experimental lab rat, Clem runs, leading the scientist and his cronies on a wild chase through the ruins of the American heartland. She’s almost free when one of her pursuers decides to shoot her rather than allow her to escape. Bullets tear through her chest—a fatal wound—and it looks like things are finished for young Clem, to say nothing of Carl’s grand plans to save the world and gain fame and fortune... until Clem wakes up in Carl’s secret lab a thousand years later. Well, it’s not Clementine, exactly, but she has Clem’s memories and some of her voices. Carl is there, too. In fact, now there are two of him.
Author : Robert Lee Brewer
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 1670 pages
File Size : 38,65 MB
Release : 2011-08-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1599632403
THE MOST TRUSTED GUIDE TO GETTING PUBLISHED The 2012 Writer’s Market details thousands of publishing opportunities for writers, including listings for book publishers, consumer and trade magazines, contests and awards, literary agents, newspapers, playwriting markets, and screenwriting markets. These listings include contact and submission information to help writers get their work published. Look inside and you’ll also find page after page of all-new editorial material devoted to the craft and business of writing. It’s the most information we’ve ever jammed into one edition! You’ll find insightful interviews and articles, guidelines for finding work, honing your craft, and promoting your writing. You’ll also learn how to navigate the social media landscape, negotiate contracts, and protect your work. And as usual, this edition includes the ever popular "How Much Should I Charge?" pay rate chart. You also gain access to: • Lists of professional writing organizations • Sample query letters • A free digital download of Writer's Yearbook featuring the 100 Best Markets: WritersDigest.com/upload/images/WritersDigest-Yearbook-11.pdf Includes an exclusive 60-minute FREE WEBINAR with the staff of Writer’s Digest that will teach you how to begin building your own writing platform today. "What I appreciate most about Writer’s Market is that it’s impossible to pick up the book, flip through it, and put it down 15 minutes later without at least five, new profitable ideas that I can execute immediately. No other book on my shelf that can inspire this many practical, profitable, career-building ideas in this same amount of time." —Christina Katz, author of The Writer’s Workout, Get Known Before the Book Deal and Writer Mama
Author : Robert Lee Brewer
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 34,56 MB
Release : 2012-12-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1599636050
Are you competitive? Do you believe that your writing stands above that of your peers? If so, then look inside and you'll find all the information you need to enter every major writing competition in the Unitied States. Hundreds of opportunities are listed, with each entry providing information on when and how to submit your work, what it costs (if anything) to participate, what the judges are looking for, when winners are selected, and what prizes are offered. If you believe in your work and think you have what it takes to outshine your peers, this is the refernece for you!
Author : Danny Ben Israel
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 37,50 MB
Release : 2011-02-22
Category : Humor
ISBN : 1101501723
How to talk dirty and influence people—in Hebrew! You can study Hebrew for years, but do you really know how to talk like a native speaker? The next book in Plume's foreign language series, Zubi! will make sure you learn all the colorful vernacular words and phrases for a variety of situations,including insulting your neighbor,flirting with the hot guy or girl at the club, and even chatting online-not to mention plenty of Hebrew words that are...well, best not to mention. Accessible and useful to complete novices, intermediate students of Hebrew, or just anyone who enjoys cursing in other languages, this irreverent guide is packed with hilarious examples and stories to acquaint the reader not only with popular terms but how they are used in everyday speech. With clever illustrations, Zubi! covers it all-from essential basics to the hottest new slang-and proves that no language is too sacred.
Author : Marian Palaia
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 42,80 MB
Release : 2015-04-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1476777934
In 1968, when Riley is thirteen, her brother Mick goes missing in Vietnam. Her family shattered, Riley finds refuge in isolation and drugs until she falls in love with a boy from the reservation, but he, too, is on his way to the war. Riley takes off as well, in search of Mick, or of a way to be in the world without him. She travels from Montana to San Francisco and from there to Vietnam. Among the scarred angels she meets along the way are Primo, a half-blind vet with a secret he cant keep; Lu, a cab-driving addict with an artists eye; Phuong, a Saigon barmaid, Rileys conscience and confidante; and Grace, a banjo-playing girl on a train, carrying her grandmothers ashes in a tin box. All are part of a lost generation, coming of age too quickly as they struggle to reassemble lives disordered by pain and loss. At center stage is Riley, a masterpiece of vulnerability and tenacity, wondering if shell ever have the courage to return to her parents farm, to its ghosts and memoriesresident in a place she has surrendered, surely, the right to call home.
Author : Michelle Nott
Publisher : Enchanted Lion Books
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 22,39 MB
Release : 2022-09-06
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781592703685
A picture book about the changes of growing up and the love passed on through families, as told by a little girl's teddy bear companion.