Quillrunner Books
Worlds Asunder
by Kirt Hickman
Edward "Chase" Morgan, NASA's accident investigator at Lunar Alpha Base, plans an uneventful retirement—until the crash of the Stellarfare Phoenix kills the United States Secretary of Energy and turns Chase's last case into a fight to avert war. Evidence of deliberate sabotage and Chinese government involvement suggest that this is the first in a series of political moves designed to undermine America's interplanetary clout. Events escalate as both sides break decades-old treaties. But when Chase learns that someone fabricated the evidence, he suspects conspiracy. Now he must find proof before the expanding crisis tears all of the colonized worlds asunder.
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Revising Fiction
by Kirt Hickman
In every work of fiction, there’s so much to be concerned about: plot, characterization, scene structure, setting, backstory, dialogue, and pacing. You must maintain suspense, portray your characters’ emotions, show events rather than tell about them, make effective use of comparisions, and achieve consistency of style and voice. You must avoid passive voice, information dumps, repeated information, digressions, clichés, and unnecessary words and phrases. Finally, you must mind the details of grammar, spelling, word usage, punctuation, and format. Whew!
How do you catch it all?
How do you know when you've got it right?
How do you even know where to start?
Revising Fiction will answer these questions and many, many more.
If you’re tired of reading books, taking classes, and attending talks and conferences that don’t give you what you need, Revising Fiction is the book you’ve been searching for.
Within these pages, you’ll find:
- A comprehensive treatment of the entire writing and revision process, from planning your novel, to first draft, through revision, to final product.
- A practical approach that makes the concepts fun to learn and easy to apply.
- Hundreds of examples.
- Over 150 passages of unpolished writing revised to correct problems.
- Two full chapters of case studies.
- Reading recommendations for those who desire a more intensive study of specific writing areas such as plot development, characterization, or scene structure.
- A self-editing checklist
Revising Fiction will give you the tools you need to bang your manuscript into shape, once and for all.
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Venus Rain: Worlds Asunder Book II
by Kirt Hickman
Kelly Baker’s life on space station Venus Rain is far from perfect. Her father has deserted the family, her mother labors full-time on the planet surface, and Kelly is forced to raise her young brother practically by herself, while she’s still in college. She tells herself things could be worse, but she has no idea.
When Chinese militants hijack the space station and seize control of the terraforming project, they abandon Kelly’s mother on Venus’s deadly surface. Kelly’s brother goes missing. And a European spy gambles with the lives of Kelly and her family in his effort to oppose the hijackers. Meanwhile the world governments capitalize on the crisis, jockeying for supremacy in a showdown destined to spark a worlds-wide war.
For Kelly, who’s caught in the crossfire, there may be no way out but the void.
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I Will Eat Anything
by Kirt Hickman
This colorfully illustrated tale features a wise old praying mantis and a hungry spider determined to catch her next meal. On the way to its surprise ending, kids can learn
- what roles different insects play in nature
- how problem solving can work, and
- how greed can bring about negative consequences.
As they absorb the lessons of this delightful story, children can have fun searching for aphids and watching ants work.
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Doing the Right Thing and
Achieving All Your Goals at the Same Time
by Marianne Powers
A book about people who work in offices and why we fight.
21 perspectives anyone can use to resolve conflicts and create better relationships with people at work.
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Sammy: The Real Cool Dog
by Tess K. Reis
Follow Sammy throughout a typical day filled with
play, exploration, friendship—and a much needed nap!
Illustrated with appealing photographs that give the story a real-life quality, this book invites young children to identify colors and to count.
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Fabler's Legend: Age of Prophecy Book I
by Kirt Hickman
The great seer Ageus Mortaan foretold the coming of the Age of Darkness, the rise to power of the forces of evil, and the extermination of the civilized races: humans, elves, and dwarves. For Nick Mirrin, a farm boy from the rural kingdom of Meuribar, this prophecy had never been more than a fairytale––until the minions of darkness attacked his family and destroyed his home... and until the preconditions foretold by Mortaan began to coalesce.
Nick's grandfather, on the other hand, had always believed. He had dedicated his life to the study of the Prophecy. But he's gone now.
With nothing more than a few scraps from his grandfather's journal and a group of friends he thinks he can trust, Nick sets out to complete his grandfather's ultimate endeavor: to prevent the fulfillment of Mortaan's prophecy.
The problem: Ageus Mortaan is never wrong.
Last Updated: February 6, 2012
