The King of Uä and his retinue make their annual pilgrimage to the Summer Palace. En route, a scullion and a fighting man meet over a campfire story, and something blooms between them. But strange things are transpiring in the palace corridors, and the chilling fireside tale that connected our would-be lovers may be more real than anyone suspects. A fantasy inspired by swashbuckling stories of all vintages, from ancient China to Dumas to Fritz Leiber and Steven Brust. Updated Wednesdays until it's done.

Maxwell Cain was just your average, fifteen-year-old, high school misfit. Then one day, he wakes up and realizes ten years of his life have gone missing...and he is now a businessman worth billions. Now, on the run from people trying to kill him, Max is quickly found by a man who calls himself a tracker. This tracker tells him crazy, impossible stories of powerful magic and evil tyrants determined to control the world. If that’s not enough, he tells Max it has been prophesied that he will play a part in it all. Max will travel on a daring rescue mission, all the while, attempting to control his abilities... and save the world. If he can’t, he will succumb to his powers and become the evil tyrant he was predestined to be.

Tips for writers from Hugh Howey, as shared on his blog.

September Capital is a fictional story that gives a behind-the-scenes look at the world of venture capital investment. It follows young venture capitalist Skip Jones as he contemplates investing in app developer ElectricCity. Will Skip and his partners fund ElectricCity, or will a competitor snap them up?

This is a book of interviews with people who deserve an interview due to success or quality of their work. All interviews are copied exactly as there are typed. No changes made, even in grammar.

As the 1790s reach a raucous end, one young idler invents celebrity culture. Beau Brummell is seriously stylish, witheringly witty and ultra urbane: qualities which amount to careless creases in a cheap cravat when High Society makes an enemy of a certain butler lurking in the shadows!

Insider tips and techniques from a traditionally published author on hooking your reader and not letting them go. These tips are aimed to inspire you so that you’re coming up with ideas that help to focus your story, improve your writing, and deepen your understanding of what makes a story work.

The house known as Pemberley stands in an isolated valley on the edge of the High Peak, as intriguing and inaccessible as Sleeping Beauty's briar-shrouded castle. To historian Liz Pargeter it's a mystery to be solved. How can a stately home of such importance have sunk into obscurity? What happened to the former owners - the Darcys - who disappeared from local records after the early 19th century? And why is so little known about Pemberley's current residents? Fitzwilliam Darcy, the former Master of Pemberley, has been dead for many years. When Liz walks through the door of his ancestral home, she awakens more than just his curiosity. She may also be the key to his salvation. Eternal Flame is a contemporary fairytale romance. It is a sequel to Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice", set two hundred years after the events of the original novel. A Wattpad Featured story between March 2015 and July 2017 .