Mick Napier’s Improvise: Scene from the Inside Out is an excellent resource of information on improvisational theater techniques, written primarily for intermediate to advanced improvisers. However, there is much that the novice (such as myself) can learn to develop better techniques in improvisational performance. Starting...

Sci-Fi Scenes and Monster Dreams by Jan Peterson Ewen is a collection of science fiction plays. It begins with Dr Madd, who is an expert in transplanting any head to any body, when the present body becomes old or infirm. The inventor of a time...

"The original purpose of the book was not to teach acting, but to show how to synthesize it to make it more accessible to instructors and their students." That was author/acting instructor, Gavin Levy's goal. And he was successful. Acting is not, as one might...

A young girl, scarred for life from a brutal assault, thrown out of her home by a mother who no longer can stand to look at her – this girl now lives above the comic book store where she works. She hides her scarred face...

Each To Their Own by Diana J. Febry seems like a straight forward mystery novel. Dan doesn’t believe that Kaleigh, his ex-wife’s daughter, died in an accidental fall from a cliff and sets out to find the truth. The problem is that he isn’t the...

Set on a distant place called Miasma, human colonists made the marshy and rainy planet their home. We follow the story through the first person point-of-view of three characters; Lanton Mowhay, Tanaka Emi and Mokan. Lanton is a packet-runner. He’s seemingly nonchalant but has quite...

The Last Night on Earth by Victor Davis is a dystopian short story. David and Kara live in New York City, but not the New York City that you and I know. This is a city set in the future, a city that is barely...

Shiva by Victor Davis is a story that will make you hope that your pet will never run away. This short story is about a beloved pet Husky named Shiva that runs away after moving with the family to a new home. A week later...

A Night at the Lake by Victor Davis is a short horror story. Natalie and Brennan are camping out in the woods. Before they set up their camp, they go for a swim in the lake and end up on another shore. After a few...

Transform to Freedom, Book I: What You Haven't Been Told by Elliot Sabino tackles the most universally accepted explanations for key events throughout history, and presents clear, rational, and well documented arguments that things did not happen as we assume. We take it for granted...

"Twas the night before Christmas and all through the house..." Well, not really. It's a darker version that begins with "It was a black Christmas Eve and all through the world...." The meter of this poem reminds the reader of Clement Clarke Moore's classic 1837...

Hurricane Island (Quint Mitchell Mystery Series) by Parker Francis is a deep-seated thriller. Private investigator Quint Mitchell and ex-police officer Woody Carpenter are old friends, but a reunion at Cedar Key proves deadly. Quint and Woody are called back from a fishing trip to find...

The Power of 10: A Practice for Engaging Your Voice of Wisdom by Rugger Burke is an uplifting and inspirational book for readers which helps them to discover themselves and set their own goals to make them happy. The book reiterates the power of love...

Fooling Around With Cinderella by Stacy Juba is a fairy tale romance. Jaine Anderson wants a job so she visits Storybook Valley amusement park, a park she has been going to since she was a child. She pitches a new marketing role at the general...

Wow! Just, wow! How's that for a review? That is definitely how I felt after finishing the wonderful novel, The Day to Eternity: A Novel of Love and Survival in the Korean War, by author Joanne Monte. Set in 1950s Korea and Japan, the story...

In Dreamscape: Saving Alex by Kirstin Pulioff, Alexis Stone's life as she knew it was coming to an end and there was nothing she could do about it. Her mom had just informed her that instead of the three months they had promised her before...

Captive in the Dark follows the emotional and physical journey of Livvie, a young girl who gets kidnapped. As well as telling her story, CJ Roberts also tells the story from the perspective of Livvie’s captor, the unbearable and handsome Caleb, who is both her...

Rotville by Bryce Bentley Summers is about certain complex experiments being conducted on humans in a quarantine setup which acts as a prison, Colosseo, located in the city of Rotville. Though the people are quarantined due to a plague attack, worse times await them in...

Varuna - A Thames Barge that was Home by Caroline Havord begins when she, leading a life of humdrum tranquility with her daughter, terrier and kittens, falls in love. The gentleman in question, Bryn William, being a man of taste, introduces her to life on...

As we embark on the journey called life, we encounter all types of people. As we encounter these people, their actions make us question ourselves at some time. For example, you are at the mall; you pass through the door and hold it open for...