The self interviews in this collection originally appeared in the Montage: Cultural Paradigm (Sri Lanka) from September 5th-25th, 2011. Focusing on three films directed by Norman Reedus in 2006, each self-interview is an exploration of cinema, philosophy, and the conscious and unconscious mind in creation and reaction to art.Mystery writer Violet Carsten has spent most of her life behind the pages of a book, either reading one or writing one. When she inherits a house in the city she ends up getting much more than she bargained for! Through some amazing coffee, a real life mystery, an overprotective older brother, and a little bit of pepper spray, she finds the man of her dreams. Will she take a chance on love or will old fears keep her heart locked up tight?

An Iranian film directed by a familiar name reminds the author of one of her parents’ close friends, the director’s family, and how everybody’s lives, including hers, changed after the revolution.An Iranian film directed by a familiar name reminds the author of one of her parents’ close friends, the director’s family, and how everybody’s lives, including hers, changed after the revolution, the hostage crisis, and the Iran-Iraq war. She recalls the years she lived in the States and the transformation she went through, from being perceived as an exotic Persian girl whose father owned an oil well, to a dangerous I-rain-ian.

Dr. Nicholson has arrived in Milton. He's determined to find the source he's been in search of, even if his hunter has fallen off his game. Finding a new love interest in Dr. Aaron Spencer was never part of his plan. Despite his best intentions, he can't leave the other man alone. Darkness is coming for Claudia Belle and when it arrives, Claudia will discover powers she never knew she had. It's getting tougher and tougher to hide who she is, especially with Dr. Nicholson trying to take John away from her. John Slater knows there's only one way to keep Claudia, but he'll have to trust the very man who betrayed him to achieve his goals. If all goes according to plan, Claudia and John will have a chance to build a future together, but they will both have to leave behind everything they've come to know and love.

Meet Kylie Hartman, the spoilt daughter of an Oscar-winning director. Her dear daddy will make sure all her dreams will come true, but her focus is Zach Taylor, a sexy executive at a major production company. In the golden glitz of Hollywood, not everyone, nor everything, is as it seems. Zach Taylor is a skilled Dominant, and Kylie is in for a surprise, but there is a darker side to the glamorous business! The seedy underworld where sex and drugs are rampant.Enter the world of the celebrated and the beautiful, Beverly Hills and Malibu, sound stages and dressing rooms, where sex and drugs go hand-in-hand with deceit and lies, and suspense and drama are part of real life. Let yourself get swept away. Step inside this gripping page-turner now.

Hidden deep in the southwest desert, away from civilization, a top-secret, high-tech research facility is experimenting with many forbidden things. Things that even most of the employees don’t know about. The task of protecting the compound and keeping its various experiments under wraps is Director Raze, Head of Security for Diotech Corporation. But when one of those experiments manages to escape and Raze is to blame, he must figure out a way to recover the missing property without exposing himself. In a place where minds can be manipulated and secrets can be wiped from existence, how far will one man go to keep his own secrets buried?

All of the author's proceeds she is blessed with from the sales of The Funeral Director's Wife will be donated to the nonprofit organization Oklahoma Homicide Survivors Support Group. ​​​​​​​Brooklyn Blatrix comes from a life of privilege being the heiress of the Blatrix Vacuum dynasty. The daughter of a devoted Catholic school teacher and an alcoholic, absentee father, Brooklyn has felt the weight of responsibility her entire life. With her degree in Funeral Services just within reach, a text from her boyfriend of six years ending their relationship was not what she expected. Then again, neither was getting fired from her job the same week. Determined to seek vengeance on her ex and his new girlfriend, Brooklyn sets up a fake social media profile to aid in her plan. However, by day, Brooklyn must start her new job as an intern at Macintosh Mortuary and Memorial Gardens.Tall, dark, and quiet Brantley McAffey is not what Brooklyn expected from a...

NO ONE TAKES WHAT'S MINE. The lovely attorney kept a secret from me. A baby she's been carrying since Valentine's night. The night we were thrown together by the roulette wheel. She never contacted me. Meant to keep me in the dark. She's about to find out what happens when you cross a bratva boss. Punishment is in order. Sequestering until the birth. And I'll use that time to win her surrender. Because I don't just plan to keep the baby— I plan to make his mother my bride. And it would be much better for both of us if she were willing.

“Baroota” is a fictional tale of Nick Hudson a retired and aging cop attempting to get in one last mission to make a difference. He gets sucked in to an “off the books Black Ops mission” to rescue victims of Human Trafficking being sold into sexual slavery. He meets Nõnkos Zia or Nõn. A woman born in South Africa and herself a former victim of Muti-medicine, a type of medicine still practiced in South Africa that weaves the occult and human sacrifices into the locals belief system. She is also a victim of human trafficking, from which she barely escaped after taking revenge on her captors. They are outsiders in a dark twisted tale of deceit, lies and double crosses that take them to the “Darien Gap” of Panama, one of the most remote areas in the world to hunt human traffickers. **

In a small American town, strange shadows disturb the residents' peace and help unearth old and new secrets. Every so often, when the old town hall clock strikes the hour, the town freezes and the shadows come to life on the local theatre group's stage, manipulating the young actors. During rehearsals, situations become complicated as the shadows provoke moves that cause turmoil and reveal secrets that the town elders had taken great care to hide, secrets that the shadows know well, having visited Cooperville's residents for years and woven their fates through intrigue and unfulfilled love. Dimitri, the star of the college's theatrical productions until last year, is directing the play The Rainmaker, which they are staging this year. Susan, a marginalised girl, becomes his good friend, as does John, the young man who will play the leading role. However, the star of the show is Nanita, the mayor's daughter, who is secretly in love with Dimitri. The lovestruck young girl does not perform well in her role until she falls in love with Dimitri under strange circumstances. The drama reaches its climax when Dimitri, the theatre group's director and the shadows' main target, is involved in an accident, leading to a final catharsis through otherworldly processes.

An innovative, unique, and engaging approach to the development of the skills that every visual storyteller must have. It’s based on the premise that a director is a storyteller 24/7 and must be aware of the “truth” that he or she experiences in life in order to be able to reproduce it on the big screen.

Sitcom director Tia Morales is used to calling the shots and having everything securely in her control—that is, until a handsome cameraman turns both her heart and her life upside-down.Tia Morales is used to calling the shots. She's the director of the popular sitcom Stars Collide, and her life on set is calculated and orderly. Well, most of the time. But her life outside the studio is another matter. If only she could get her family to behave as well as her stars do! When she starts butting heads with handsome camera operator Jason Harris, it's enough to send a girl over the edge. Will she ever learn to let go and take life—and love—as it comes?Full of the humor and crazy family dynamics Janice Thompson fans have come to love, this colorful story gives readers an inside look at Hollywood and a healthy dose of romance.

The Director’s Cut is Book #3 in the bestselling Spotlight series, which began with Close Up & PersonalIf you love books like 50 Shades of Grey (E.L. James), Bared to You (Sylvia Day, Crossfire Series), Beautiful Disaster, Rock Me, or Love Unscripted you'll love the Spotlight Series...Ready for your close up?...Issy and James have survived dangers and challenges to their relationship. But now the cameras are rolling, a new threat could ruin everything.With Isabella, sparkling behind the camera, and James smouldering behind it, life on set is sexy and explosive. So when a malicious press leak, could end filming, their chance of a real relationship is suddenly in jeopardy.What readers are saying about The Spotlight Series“What Fifty Shades of Grey should have been. I love this series, and couldn’t put the books down.” JAK“Love it...love it...love it !!!!!! Nothing better then to find a book that just keeps pulling you in and capturing your heart. JS Taylor’s books have it all.” Anna Rock“I love Fifty Shades - and I can’t believe I’m saying this. But the Spotlight series is better…” Caroline Finn.“The Spotlight Series takes romance-with-alpha-male books like Bared to You to another level. Get ready for a sizzling new romance series” Book Group eBooksLOOK INSIDE this book to see why readers are loving this actress and alpha male romance.Other books like Close Up and Personal:Bared to You, Crossfire Series, Sylvia DayBeautiful Disaster, Jamie McGuireThe Ivy Lessons, J LermanRock Me, Cherrie LynnLove Unscripted, Tina ReberAbout the AuthorJS Taylor is a best-selling cross-category author. She teams fiction writing with a successful and award-winning journalism career, working for The Times and The Mirror in London, UK.

"Why did you marry me?" Cathy's voice was accusing. "You shut me out of every part of your life except your bed and your home. You don't share any of your dreams with me." When she married glamorous film director Tom West, Cathy had been very young, but very much in love with him. Now, two years later, Tom's casual affection was no longer enough. She wanted the whole man--to share his triumphs and his failures. Cathy was determined to fight for her happiness, although she stood to lose everything--especially with Tom's old love, Bronwen, waiting in the wings. But this time, at least, the director's wife would control the final scene....

In David Ignatius's gripping new novel, spies don't bother to steal information…they change it, permanently and invisibly.Graham Weber has been the director of the CIA for less than a week when a Swiss kid in a dirty T-shirt walks into the American consulate in Hamburg and says the agency has been hacked, and he has a list of agents' names to prove it. This is the moment a CIA director most dreads.Weber turns to a charismatic (and unstable) young man named James Morris who runs the Internet Operations Center. He's the CIA's in-house geek. Weber launches Morris on a mole hunt unlike anything in spy fiction—one that takes the reader into the hacker underground of Europe and America and ends up in a landscape of paranoia and betrayal. Like the new world of cyber-espionage from which it's drawn, The Director is a maze of deception and double dealing, about a world where everything is written in zeroes and ones and nothing can be trusted. The CIA has belatedly discovered that this is not your father’s Cold War, and Weber must play catch-up, against the clock and an unknown enemy, in a game he does not yet understand.

Emma Hart is abducted and becomes the muse of Ethan Cole, the director who wants to make the perfect film. Fighting for her life, Emma attempts to survive in Ethan's cruel idea of fantasy and film.

Moonchuckle Bay ... Movies ... Monsters ... Magic! SHE PLANNED TO DIRECT A ROMANCE -- NOT STAR IN ONE! Famous for directing many of the Creature Feature films her family’s Moonchuckle Bay Studio is famous for, vampire Bianca Rossi wants to branch out into paranormal romances. Her brothers reluctantly agree, but insist she hire several specific people, including Blake Gladwell, a key grip with a great reputation. Blake doesn’t believe in love at first sight — until he meets his new boss. He wants romance, but she’s all business — until a saboteur tries to stop the movie altogether. Will this reluctant vampire finally get a grip? Contents: Laughs, sweet romance, light paranormal, friendly tosnsmonsters, smelly trolls, no swearing BOOKS IN THIS SERIES (Each are stand-alone books that may be read in any order.) #0.5 Jingle Belle (free for signing up to Heather’s website) #1 The Artist Cries Wolf #2 The Bridesmaid Earns Her Wings #3 The Director Gets a Grip #4 The Fireman Finds His Flame (Feb 2017)

Moonchuckle Bay ... Movies ... Monsters ... Magic! SHE PLANNED TO DIRECT A ROMANCE -- NOT STAR IN ONE! Famous for directing many of the Creature Feature films her family’s Moonchuckle Bay Studio is famous for, vampire Bianca Rossi wants to branch out into paranormal romances. Her brothers reluctantly agree, but insist she hire several specific people, including Blake Gladwell, a key grip with a great reputation. Blake doesn’t believe in love at first sight — until he meets his new boss. He wants romance, but she’s all business — until a saboteur tries to stop the movie altogether. Will this reluctant vampire finally get a grip? Contents: Laughs, sweet romance, light paranormal, friendly tosnsmonsters, smelly trolls, no swearing BOOKS IN THIS SERIES (Each are stand-alone books that may be read in any order.) #0.5 Jingle Belle (free for signing up to Heather’s website) #1 The Artist Cries Wolf #2 The Bridesmaid Earns Her Wings #3 The Director Gets a Grip #4 The Fireman Finds His Flame (Feb 2017)

Originally published in 1983, when the novel sold thousands of copies in its first printing, The Helmsman is the starting point for Bill Baldwin's epic, eight-part militaristic space opera—The Helmsman Saga. Using actual histories of World Wars I and II as template, the novel chronicles the adventures of StarSailor and extraordinary Helmsman Wilf Brim during an epoch of discord and outright war among various star-nations within our own galaxy. This special, "Director's Cut" Edition is heavily re-written, a la George Lucas' rewrite of the Star Wars Trilogy, to bring it more in line with later novels in the series, as well as existing "Director's Cut" Editions of Galactic Convoy, The Trophy; the five other "Director's Cut" editions to come; and the continuation novel now in the works: The Turning Tide. The novel begins as Brim—a 21-year-old SubLieutenant in the Imperial Fleet—arrives at the Eorean Starwharves, a maintenance complex within the planet-spanning Fleet base on watery Gimmas-Haefdon. On first assignment since receiving his commission, Brim is fresh from The Helmsman's Academy, where he weathered years of torment from wealthy classmates because of his impoverished background. Heretofore, the Academy had been a "private club" for the scions of Imperial wealth; however, enormous numbers of casualties during the present war with the League of Dark Stars has called for desperate measures to expedite replacement of these losses. Brim's first ship is I.F.S. Truculent, a “T”-class destroyer, just the right kind of starship for the young Brim to cut his teeth on—with challenges galore to rapidly make a veteran of the young Helmsman. And even though his torments continue, in part because of long-held prejudices among the wealthy, the starship is populated with a crew largely made up from races and economic classes glad to help the young man with his career in any way they can. As one might expect, the love interest for this poor-as-a-church mouse hero is none other than one of the Empire's most beautiful, most desirable royalty: Princess Margot of the Effer'wyck star kingdom. And though nothing goes easily for Brim—including Princess Margot herself—he acquits himself with bravery, aplomb, and daring as he begins carving a future for himself in the midst of a long, complex Galactic struggle.