Big Cat Circus

Laced with lush period imagery, this highly explicit story is an absolute must for all lovers of dark and other-worldly erotica, and especially for fans of the hit HBO series, Carnivale. There are hundreds of conventional writers' guides on the market, but none so scathing, cynical and downright cantankerous as this one. Forget toadying to publishers or obsessing over return postage, in this insider expos veteran author, Chancery Stone, spares no-one's blushes as she strips the book world bare and reveals the true natures of publishers and authors alike. Interspersed with laugh-out-loud parodies of best-selling thrillers, romances, crime, science fiction, erotica and even the Booker Prize, and naming names and showing no mercy to the perpetrators, How to Write the Perfect Novel will submerge you in such brain-numbing brilliance that you may never browse through a book shop in quite the same way again.... ""The perfect antidote to the thousands of well-meaning, hefty writers' guides that currently flood the market"" Essential Writers "A bitter look at how to succeed" Writers' Forum(Reader Review) "This is the kind of book that you read for the humour the scathing remarks and the blatant flaunting of all the rules. Yet it is so cleverly written that you find yourself learning things that quite frankly none of the other how to books teach you" W H Smith UK (Reader Review) "Chicken soup for the jaded writer's soul" Good Reads Die Schwarze Engel - the mythical black angel of death, of evil, of sorrow. Or of something darker than all three... Danny has been missing for six years, when one night, drunk and confused, Stephen thinks he sees him reflected in a bar mirror, like an apparition from the past. But surely he has imagined it? Danny haloed and burning above him like an avenging angel. Danny rescuing him from a midnight street in a sinister, dark car. Danny smelling as sweet as lemons and dressed all in black silk, as dry and caustic as Lucifer himself. Those drunken visions can't be true, can they? But Rab believes they must be, Stephen fears they might be, and Conley knows they are. Danny is back. And now there is one overriding question burning in all their minds. What has he been doing during those mysterious missing years? And with whom? Vulnerable, lost, and deep in mourning, Danny is ripe for the picking. But that shadowy other is ever-present, like an unspoken third, a revenant determined to be at the party, ruining their fun. Is the 'Schwarze Engel' real, or just a figment of Danny's diseased imagination? And, more importantly, can anyone finally set him free from it? Eilean Mhor, a small island off the West Coast of Scotland, surrounded by ocean and blessed with long white sandy beaches. It is here Danny sets up home with his oldest adversary, and greatest friend. At first all is wine and roses, glowing sunsets and fun on the beach. But it isn't long before old jealousies and ugly frictions start rubbing the bloom of newfound happiness off Elysium. First there is Ewan of the violet eyes and heart-shaped face, idolising Danny and hero-worshipping the dangerous Jackson Moore charisma. Then there is Morag, buxom, sweet and keen to replace her unsatisfying local boyfriend with something hunkier. And then there is Iain a new Iain scarily like the old one in the one way Danny fears a cuckoo in the nest determined to steal his life for his own. DANNY 2.2 - Eilean Mhor, the most seductive and alluring volume of The DANNY Quadrilogy, offers us a different portrait of the Jackson happy, optimistic, even secure. But how long can it last, with hungry interlopers sneaking in every door, their gaze fixed firmly on everything Danny holds dear? The Jackson Moores have been tilling the land of Hope House Farm on the West Coast of Cumbria for many generations, but they have been harbouring a dangerous history of dark and sinister secrets for far longer: cancerous secrets, that have slowly eaten away at their family, their sanity and their very existence. Nemesis comes in the shape of P.C. James Henderson, when he first spies Danny - youngest son of the family - on his way to commit a crime - or at least to conceal one. This pivotal moment sets Henderson on a doomed road of infatuation and addiction, ending in ruin and, ultimately, death. For Danny is no ordinary boy and he belongs to no ordinary family. Until now, the Jackson Moores have managed to keep their skeletons firmly inside the closet, but when Henderson unwittingly uncovers their twisted House of Usher, the whole rotten construct starts to sink into the mire, dragging everyone with it in a spectacular display of ruthless revenge. ... "brings you Craftsmanship through Negative Learning! By showing you the worst excesses of 'popular fiction' it liberates the aspiring writer to either "unleash hell" in a shower of purple prose, or embrace a more rarefied but less mainstream output - no moral judgements offered, and untold wealth guaranteed! Of course, it's also a wildly funny read for the guilty lover of trashy novels, parodying thrillers, romances, crime, science fiction, erotica and even the Booker Prize with equal aplomb. Naming names and showing no mercy to the perpetrators, it will submerge you in such brain-numbing brilliance you may never browse through a library in quite the same way again"--Page 4 of cover Bad girls, wicked women; lecherous, treacherous villainesses; hedonistic harlots, and plain old-fashioned bunny-boiling temptresses. Immerse yourself in a feast of delectable depravity with these eight blackly humorous tales, spanning the familiar gothic grimoire of murder, lust and revenge with rapacious relish. Lascivious lesbians, manipulative mad-women and gruesome gold-diggers are just a few of the bad girls that you'll meet in this fast-paced anthology, which proves beyond all reasonable doubt that the female of the species is definitely more deadly than the male.