Mike Jack Stoumbos, a young Seattle playwright, brings you his debut narrative in the form of this fanciful folk tale which demonstrates the triumph of love against even the most daunting whimsy. With its cast of charming characters, historical anecdotes, literary allusions, and a fresh farce with each new day, The Baron Would Be Proud is certainly a story for storytellers everywhere. * * * A folk-tale set in early 19th century England, "The Baron Would Be Proud" tells the story of the tiny village of Adleship Isle, which is almost entirely unreachable. No one can figure out how to get into or out of the village, save for a veteran traveling merchant who has assumed the honorable duty of vacationing there every Christmas. Now, as fate would have it, another man, also traveling around the world, gets lost in a storm and stumbles blindly into Adleship Isle. As both the novice and the veteran are English gentlemen and well-to-do traveling merchants, they quickly discover that the minuscule village is barely big enough for the both of them. However, the narrator will tell you that's not what the story is about; it is about the young man named Julian who has never left Adleship Isle and who has grown quite smitten with the daughter of the mayor. In order to gain her attention, Julian boldly offers to put up the stranger and his servants for the winter weeks, and this stranger--a cheeky fellow who goes by the name of the Baron Pan Bordolo--decides that the only way to aptly repay the lad is to help him woo the lady.

The Baron Would Be Proud: a storyteller's story

Literature & Fiction

Stoumbos, Mike Jack

Humor & Satire

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

The Signal Out of Space (This Fine Crew)

Literary

Theogony Books

Do You Have All the Answers?\nIt’s okay if you don’t—no one does. Like the saying goes, “If it were easy, everyone would do it.” Just because no one has “all” the answers, though, doesn’t mean that some folks might not have some of them… or maybe even one, especially if they’re already experienced authors.\nThe hardest thing about being a new author is that you don’t know what you don’t know. Why stumble around, trying to figure everything out, when you can learn from those who have gone before you?\nIn “Brief Lessons in Writing,” the authors from Chris Kennedy Publishing willingly share one brief lesson they think you might need on your journey to success. These lessons might seem small, yet the stories shared here are all candid, and, in some cases, even raw. Sharing such honest experiences—usually learned through failure—is never easy; sometimes it’s funny and at other times it’s quite painful.\nThe purpose of this book, edited by veteran authors William Alan Webb and Chris Kennedy, is therefore not to say ‘do this or do that,’ but to share brief lessons that have already been learned by the contributors during their writing journeys, in the hopes that you won’t repeat their mistakes—you’ll have to instead find new ones of your own!

Brief Lessons in Writing (Author Fundamentals)

Reference

Howell, Rob

Ikenberry, Kevin

Steverson, Kevin

Roberts, William Joseph

Kennedy, Chris

Webb, William Alan

Wolf, Marisa

Novotny, Matt

Kleve, Mia R.

Writing, Research & Publishing Guides

Quillcraft Press

We Dare: Old Age and Treachery

Brazee, Jonathan P.

Cordova, Jason

Ibson, Jamie

Piatt, P.A.

Moores, Casey

Olthoff, Melissa

Stallings, Mark

Frisbee Jr., William S.

War is Coming!\nNigel Shirazi, the Speaker of the Merc Guild, knows that war is coming and he’s not ready. He needs to build up the mercenary forces after years of war, and he’s proclaimed the Phoenix Initiative to give people who want to start new companies the opportunity to do so. CASPers are cheaper and financed at lower rates, and the government of Earth is offering bounties to take the mercs from alien races off the planet. Now is the time!\nHearing the call to arms, a diverse group of startups, including a number of non-conventional ones and ones that originated on some of the colony worlds, have just taken their first missions. These are some of their stories.\nWelcome back to the Four Horsemen universe, where only a willingness to fight and die for money separates Humans from the majority of the other races. Edited by bestselling authors and universe creators Mark Wandrey and Chris Kennedy, “The Phoenix Initiative: First Missions” includes seventeen all-new stories in the Four Horsemen universe by a variety of bestselling authors—and some you may not have heard of…yet. Are you ready to strap on a CASPer and go out to make your fortune? Then it’s time to read the stories of these mercs and learn the lessons they’ve already figured out for you!

The Phoenix Initiative: First Missions

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Ezell, Kacey

Osborne, Jon R.

Wandrey, Mark

Steverson, Nick

Science Fiction

Seventh Seal Press

The innermost secrets of heroes and heroines. The dark mysteries that hide our disquiet nature. Will the true danger be them...or us?\nThis exciting collection of bold, imaginative fantasy and sci-fi will thrill and entertain readers with stories by authors who dare to tempt you with the bizarre or delve into the shadows.\nShort stories by: David Farland ּ Tim Lewis ּ Sara Jordan-Heintz ּ Vail Henry ּ ּMark Beard ּ ּSherry Rossma ּ ּA.R.R. Ash ּ ּL.S. King ּ ּMichele Stuart ּ ּStephen Johnson ּ ּAJ Skelly ּ ּClint Hall ּ ּRosemary Williams ּ ּKatharine Reid ּ ּTracy L. Snyder ּ ּ Kevin A. Davis ּ ּ Melva Gifford ּ ּ Mike Jack Stoumbos

Hidden Villains

Farland, David

Lewis, Tim

Beard, Mark

Huss, Robyn

Davis, Kevin A.

Hall, Clint

Williams, Rosemary

Henry, Vail

Short Stories & Anthologies

Inkd Publishing LLC

DreamForge Magazine Issue 11: Stories from DreamForge Anvil

Fox, Shannon

Lee, Mary Soon

Hudak, Jennifer

King, E.E.

Noel, Scot

Sun, Ana

Kinney, Benjamin C.

Nerenberg, JMG

Tilford, Indiana

Fantasy

Independently published

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