Product Description: With wide-ranging topics—such as the best way to begin a novel, endings that satisfy, what agents do, what editors want, and what happens after a manuscript gets sold—this entertaining and instructional writer's manual shows how to craft perfectly tailored commercial fiction for today's market...read more

Product Description: “This is the stuff… Violent, pacy, stylish and funny.” - The Daily MirrorBook #2 in the Stolen Millions series.Smoke Dugan, one-time bomb-maker for the mob, is on the run. There’s nothing on the Caribbean island of St...read more

One of the best cult villains from the 70s, 80s, 90s, and today, recounts his wild life and discusses everything from the intricacies of producing and directing independent films, to highlights from his greatest roles. A cult legend from films like BladeRunner, The Hitcher, and Ladyhawke, Hauer is also a Renaissance man who has led an incredible life. The son of actors, Hauer ran away from home at 15 and worked on a freighter for nearly a year, visiting Pakistan, Canada, Singapore, Vietnam, and the Persian Gulf. In 1969, Hauer was discovered on Dutch TV, and his career took off from there. He tells what it was like to be one of the 'most bankable stars' of the 1980s, gives his take on life in Hollywood, and shares his experiences as a sex symbol and theimpact this has had on his private life.--From publisher description.The international film star of such movies as 'Blade Runner' and 'Ladyhawke' describes his dramatic early years, his perspectives on the movie industry, and a near-tragedy that changed his life.

When the bullet-riddled body of his former lover and boss, sexy real-estate executive Dot Racine, turns up in the trunk of his car, ex-con Dick Miller finds himself in the middle of a deadly showdown with Dot's other ex-lover, cocaine dealer and killer Nestor Garcia.

Exacting revenge against a crime boss who used one of his bombs to kill innocent people, aging bomb-maker Smoke Dugan finds himself on the run and hiding in Maine, where his girlfriend and he are systematically targeted by some of the modern world's most notorious lowlifes. A first novel. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.