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|  | | The Kidnapping of Mary
Mary Ellen Cooper thinks she knows everything there is to know about life... but she is about to become a statistic.
This is the story of a troubled young girl whose parents go to drastic extremes in order to bring her "back from the edge." Her mother is a well-to-do executive in southern California who has spent an amazing amount of money on therapy and help programs for Mary... but all to no avail. Her father is a military officer who has been gone from her life for so long that Mary can't even remember him.
After numerous troubles in school and three attempts to run away from home, Mary's mother decides to swallow her pride and get in touch with her ex-husband. Together they concoct | |  | | Unspoken Rules
"The three don'ts of successful fiction."
Possibly the most important little book on the craft of fiction you will read all year.
Thousands of books are written every year but only a small percentage of them get published. Hundreds of books on the craft of creating fiction are available to anyone who is interested, and almost anyone can learn the skills to produce a technically perfect manuscript. To make matters even more confusing, many of the books that do get published… are not technically perfect. So, what's the secret?
Readers are the ultimate judges
of good books.
Whether they are editors making decisions or the reading public, readers are readers no matter what they do for a |
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