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(UPDATE: Publication of In Pursuit of Sleep has been rescheduled for early January 2016.) From the author: This book is an outgrowth of sixty-five years of experimentation and research. I’ve had difficulty sleeping since I was a kid. At the … Continue reading →

If you’ve read Novelsmithing and thought its groundbreaking approach to novel writing was useful, get ready to be blown away. It’s coming soon, and you’ve never read anything like it. It’s a new concept in storytelling. Here’s the cover to give you … Continue reading →

Lumi Laura’s first novel Carpathian Vampire, When You’ve Never Known Love is now available for pre-release sampling (first 12 chapters FREE) and advanced purchase of the digital version at the introductory price of $2.99. Click Here. The complete novel will … Continue reading →

New Publication (July 29, 2013): Walking That Short Distance, Childhood Enlightenment in the ’50s a short story by David Sheppard From the author: I wrote this short story (1987) for a class in creative writing at the University of Colorado. It is … Continue reading →

New publication (July 28, 2013): High Heels, With a Touch of Prufrock a short story by David Sheppard From the author: I wrote this short story during the summer of 1992. It helped me flesh out a couple of characters in my … Continue reading →

New Publication (July 27, 2013): Encountering Hermes, On the Road in Greece by David Sheppard From the author: This short essay describes a psychic experience I had while on an extended journey through Greece. The ancient Greeks viewed Hermes as the … Continue reading →

New Publication (July 27, 2013): Sirius Chasing the Pleiades, An Essay on Euripides’ Iphigeneia at Aulis by David Sheppard From the author: This short essay addresses some of the opening text of Euripides’ play Iphigeneia at Aulis. By investigating a … Continue reading →

Carpathian Vampire is a novel set in current day Romania, specifically the mountain village of Sinaia. It will be published Fall 2013. For updates on Ms Laura, visit her blog. Click here. Lumi (Luminita) Laura is the author of the … Continue reading →

FROM THE AUTHOR: I intend Story Alchemy, The Search for the Philosopher’s Stone of Storytelling to be a companion volume to Novelsmithing, The Structural Foundation of Plot Character and Narration. Whereas Novelsmithing addresses more directly the craft of novel writing, Story … Continue reading →

The Eternal Return by David Sheppard is Volume II of the Tales of the Mythic World series. This narrative discusses the relationship between Sophocles’ Oedipus at Colonus (429 BC), Shakespeare’s The Tempest (1611), and the Adler/Hume movie Forbidden Planet (1956). It … Continue reading →