The boundaries between appearance and reality are blurred to The Dreaming Girl, a traveler who has a brief affair with a man known only as the German. In this short novel, her imagined world becomes as real as the jungles of Belize where, in her fantasies, she denies the otherness of the German. With extraordinary simplicity, Roberta Allen lays bare the illusions we live by when we deny the irreducible other.

The author of The Playful Way to Serious Writing presents a dynamic workbook that combines verbal directions and visual cues with strategies on developing self awareness as a writer. Original.

Offers a fun and creativity-promoting approach to writing while presenting suggestions on how to overcome writing blocks, in a guide that includes advice on how to focus, hundreds of verbal directives and visual cues, and a wealth of writing ideas. Original. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Set a timer for five minutes, select one of the more than 300 "prompts" at random, then immediately start writing and don't stop until time is up. The rules of Fast Fiction are simple; the results, liberating. By telling you what to write about ("write a story about a coward, " ...read more

Product Description: Filled with erotic waywardness, this latest in the Coffee-To-Go Short-Short Story series is about characters who--wherever they maybe--are never at home. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: A practical, real-world writing book that provides a hands-on approach to business writing. The Process of Writing: Composing Through Critical Thinking focuses on writing as a process. It is designed to develop critical thinking skills: analysis, synthesis, evaluation, and problem solving...read more

Product Description: An irreverent and lucid sojourn through the facetious, twisted burps we call sophisticated society, captured by the camera-quick and ruthless eye of the ever-vigilant third person, Madame Realism. Each fiction has a terse analytical agenda, surgically dissecting the mundane, forcing quotidian life off the canvas, out of the museum dioramas and into our laps...read more