On Screenwriting and Love and Politics is a book by screenwriter Aviva Butt that invites the reader to take an up-close view at writing a film script. Written in an engaging and literary style, the book attempts to illuminate the emotions, theories and process that go into creating a screenplay. As a special appendix, the book includes the author’s latest full-length screenplay "Blue Mist." About this screenplay, she comments: "I write about love and politics. My screenplays are theatrical feature films on Middle Eastern subjects. This time with my screenplay 'Blue Mist,' the world situation and the Middle East come …

A woman has brain surgery that lasts 14 hours, far longer than her surgeon expects. She survives the operation, but the first sentence she speaks after she gains consciousness is spoken in a dialect that nobody in the family understands. Like everyone in Hong Kong, the woman’s family speaks Cantonese. Some older members also use Hakka, a dialect of the Guangdong Province. So when the woman starts talking in Chiu Chow, her family is worried. Is it possible for someone to lose the ability to speak a language she’s been using for 50 years after undergoing brain surgery? The woman’s …

Tragedy strikes Rosie Taylor when her ill mother dies aboard the clipper ship transporting her and her family from England to Australia. Not long after, her father becomes engaged to a passenger on board, a woman to whom Rosie takes a dislike. But growing up in Victoria, amongst some of the passengers who came over on the boat, isn’t so bad, especially after she meets a young boy named Rory. Years later, when her father leaves town, Rosie takes different jobs to make ends meet. Things start looking up when a local river skipper asks for her hand in marriage, …

Cristo travels through three lifetimes as Lord, an admiral, and an actor. From the first mention of the name Cristo 2,000 years ago, through the New World, and into the future, this name appears in historical fiction to lead the way into the Next World. From sainthood to evil and on to Buddhahood, our subject demonstrates life and death made easy for the common man to grasp the mystery of the ages. Cristo is the same actor who plays Christ, an admiral of the ocean seas, and a Shakespearean actor ignored in the end. His is a soul that suffers …

Ancient mysteries are used to foreshadow current day events in the thrilling novel Repairing the World. Two ancient organizations compete for age-old scrolls and treasures, including an amulet that offers a tantalizing glimpse at future scientific data. The richly drawn characters within the interwoven plots include a sadistic duo running an ancient brotherhood, two married college professors who make Indiana Jones look slow, a cadre of robber barons, three college students, a quantum physics whiz, a liberal priest, a pair of retired Israeli commandos, sociopaths, and an ultra-strong woman president. All are caught up in a competition spawning violence, international …

The Gene Factor by M. J. Manley portrays a "youthful" mission of the challenges to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that God manifests communications through the DNA of our very souls. The novel is a breakthrough scientifically on how communications with a highly spiritual being—God—is manifest deep, deep down into the very soul of transmission genetic factors: the DNA cell. Scientific discoveries show how communications through gene factors are transmitted. The scripted discoveries in The Gene Factor tell how blessings, prayers, and having faith are communicated. Manley states that The Gene Factor is the most revolutionary novel ever written about …

The Kreuzvogel Experiment is a fictional sci-fi thriller about the lives and relationship of Howard "Howie" Brice and Miriam Berkowitz. The two are members of a group of seven infants born in April 1936 at the Michael Reese Hospital in Chicago. There they were administered an experimental serum by Herr Doktor Ernst Kreuzvogel, a high-ranking member of the Nazi party who is now known as Dr. David Vogelmann. The experiment, designed to retard the aging process, was successful to the extent that in the year 2016, at the age of 80, the subjects are still healthy, virile, and appear to …

This fictional story is about making elder care decisions. It tells of George, Verna, Doris, and other elders who have been admitted over time to St. Matthew Nursing Home – their final home – due to dementia or other debilitating medical conditions. Each questions how they landed here, as they live their final days and years in this unfamiliar place. Some are content, while others are desperate to go back home. Family members are also woven into the story, discussing their guilt over their reasoning for choosing a nursing facility. This book considers the options families have, including providing home …

Loki’s Resurrection is a beautiful and erotic love story that considers the tough problems that come up when divorced people find new mates that their children don’t like. Even so, the story has a happy ending. The novel is about the fantastic love affair of Loki and Sara, who seem to be destined to be together for the rest of their lives, until ... Loki’s Resurrection is the first book in the series The Amazing Life of Loki Fownis. The final cliffhanger of Loki’s Resurrection: An Erotic Story Based on a True Icelandic Saga begins with the first chapter of …

Jenny Thompson is a normal girl who unknowingly possesses powerful psychic abilities. Glade Overstride is a kinetically gifted psychopathic murderer with an evil, powerful split personality known as Rex. He wants what Jenny has and will stop at nothing to get it. Jenny eventually comes to better understand her abilities through the help of Floyd DeLane, a ghost freed by Jenny’s powers. Floyd helps Jenny channel her abilities and to escape from Overstride. Enter Detective William Scopeali, who is also looking for Jenny, as she is the one connection to his brother’s murderer from years before. Meanwhile, a deepening bond …