BRAIN GAIN

One brain. Two minds. No where to run…

Dawn Harrison wakes up in a research lab with no memories and an AI implanted in her brain. She escapes into a world she no longer recognizes only to quickly become the most sought-after person on the planet.

Pursued by shadowy agencies desperate to reclaim the technology in her brain, Dawn races against time to uncover both the truth of her past and secrets in her head.

But in this high-stakes thriller, even a single thought can be deadly.

The Night Bazaar London: Ten Tales of Forbidden Wishes and Dangerous Desires

In volume three of this widely-praised dark fantasy anthology series, the Night Bazaar, a secret marketplace of the rare, strange, occult, and dangerous, journeys to 19th century London. There, as usual, its vendors will purvey curious services, forbidden wares, and rare objects which cannot be had elsewhere, for any price. The midnight market has operated throughout history in various locales, appearing in a city for one week only, never to return.

This time the Bazaar’s proprietress, the enigmatic and unflappable Madame Vera, escorts the reader on an eerie, fantastical British tour in ten linked short stories by various authors. Some tales feature such recognizable luminaries as Sherlock Holmes, occultist Madam Blavatsky, and Queen Anne Boleyn. Several take place during the Bazaar proper, while others occur earlier or later, tied to its 1880 London appearance by a curse or spell – or, by an object found, inherited, purchased, or stolen during the decades since, by the unsuspecting, foolish, or greedy (though seldom the completely innocent).

Together, these ten linked stories take readers on a fantastical journey into astonishment, dread, and dark delight. The Night Bazaar still holds everything you’ve read about but thought had passed away, or perhaps never existed at all. How wrong you were! But be warned: as usual, each object or service comes with a gift, a curse, or a haunting. . . .

Wulfie: A Ghostly Tail

Book 4 of the Wulfie series

Wulfie Saves the Planet

Book 3 of the Wulfie series

Wulfie: Beast in Show

Book 2 of the Wulfie series

Wulfie: Stage Fright

Book 1 of the Wulfie series

Write That Script – and write it now!

Based on more than two decades experience, Write That Script! is an imaginative and comprehensive guide to screenwriting, full of creative examples and exercises to show you how to use the theory to write your script. Not tomorrow. Not next week, but now!

• Visual storytelling, what it’s all about?
• Your idea: is your idea suitable for the screen?
• How to create unforgettable and unique characters throughout your script

Into the depths: plotting your story; knowing what to reveal and when

• Structure, act by act what you need to achieve
• Powerful writing: the individual scenes, dialogue and character, creating vivid and sparse description
• Know your audience: who are they?
• Script format
• Productivity tips and how to create your own inspiration
• And a bonus chapter on rewriting.

What people are saying about WRITE THAT SCRIPT:

“…Inspiration for getting that script out of your head and on to the page/screen from someone who has done just that and done it brilliantly.” – Paul Donovan, Producer, Deadpan Pictures

“What I love about this book is that it’s all practical and actionable advice, with effective exercises and brainstorming tips. Great for those starting out… as well as those want to develop their craft in a committed and professional way.” Alan Fitzpatrick, MD of Filmbase, Dublin

“…A helpful and practical guide to fire imaginations and to get words flowing onto the page. She has distilled the essence of screenplay craft and technique into a practical guidebook that’ll motivate you to overcome the screenwriter’s hardest obstacle – the first draft.” Danny Stack, screenwriter

About the author: L J Sedgwick is the creator of the ground-breaking children’s series Punky. (Available in +100 countries.) With more than 5 million hits on YouTube, it has won awards in Ireland, France and Russia. She has taught screenwriting since 1996 and works as a creative consultant across a wide range of projects for TV, film and games and is currently adapting her first novel, Dad’s Red Dress into an eight-part tv series with Tailored Films.

The Angelica Touch

Angelica, 14, has reached three conclusions. Firstly, her mother Molly, who manages a rundown hotel on the wild Drisogue peninsula in Donegal, is desperately lonely. (She’s not.) 

Secondly, it’s entirely her fault that Molly is still single.

(It might be.) 

Thirdly, since she can hardly have a boyfriend of her own if Number 2 is true, it’s up to her to find her mother a man.

(It really isn’t.) 

Given her dangerously impressive gift for matchmaking, Angelica’s solution is to develop a dating website for her mum. With the questions devised by Angelica and best friend, Grace, what could possibly go wrong?

Ordinary Springs

In 1960s Ordinary Springs, Florida, Dory Gamble is raised from infancy by her father in his small-town hardware store after her mother leaves. Over a decade later,  still struggling to overcome her feelings of betrayal over this abandonment, Dory finds her life turned upside down once again by the arrival of strangers next door — an ailing man dependent on his beautiful and sophisticated wife —  and her father’s growing relationship with his new female neighbor. Dory’s own relationship with lifelong best friend Pearce is evolving into something else, too. But then, in one shattering act she mistakenly sees as kindness, Dory nearly brings the world crashing down on them all. In the aftermath her  father calls the sheriff and she’s sent to a reform school for girls by her father, but soon escapes and endeavors to make her own way in the world at 15 — unevenly at first, but gradually with more success despite many trials along the way. When at last she endeavors to go home again, though, she learns that everything she believed about her parents was a lie. And now she must decide how to live with that unwelcome and devastating truth.

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Waterwoman

SYNOPSIS: Even as a child, plain, boyish Annie Revels had everyone’s role in life figured out. Everyone’s, that is, except her own. Her mother was sickly and needed to be taken care of. Her little sister Rebecca was remarkably beautiful, where Annie was not. Her father was a waterman, a free-looking life Annie deeply envied and could’ve had, if only she’d been born a son.

Tiny, remote Yaupon Island knows nothing of the partying, gin-soaked Roaring Twenties which grip the rest of the country. The Revels family depends on the coastal waters to make a living, and tragedy is always only a bad storm away. As Annie notes, “In order to live on the Shore, you need to understand that good weather always follows bad.” But when her father dies, suddenly it falls to Annie to take his place aboard the oyster boat and support what’s left of the family.

Out there, she finds the only life she thought she could ever really fit into: being a waterman. Until one day, out on the water, she meets Nathan . . .

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