![]() ![]() I’m also a superannuated hack, with 30 years’ experience as a journalist, having worked as a reporter/feature writer/sub-editor on three of Ireland’s national dailies. ![]() I now offer one-to-one creative mentoring and editing and appraisal services for writers – see The Deadline Desk page on this site. Until May 2020, I was the associate director of creative writing at University College Cork, teaching on the MA in Creative Writing and leading undergraduate teaching of creative writing. I have 20 years experience of teaching creative writing at university level in the US and Ireland. I’m an award-winning Irish novelist (The Hennessy Award, Lannan Foundation Award) and short story writer, the author of three novels, Mother of Pearl, The Pretender and The Rising of Bella Casey, and two collections of short stories, A Lazy Eye and Prosperity Drive. This is a blog about art, fiction and history, both separately and where they overlap. ![]()
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![]() ![]() “We’re excited for audiences to see Felipe’s vision for this come to life on the big screen,” said producers Silk, Chapa and Braun. Executive producing are Highland Film Group’s Arianne Fraser and Delphine Perrier as well as Toubia, Bruce Barshop, Vincent Cordero and Simon Wise. Silk Mass’ Jon Silk and Mucho Mas’ Javier Chapa and Phillip Braun are producing the film. Production is set to start in June in Bogotá, Colombia, and New York City. Highland Film Group is handling worldwide rights and launching sales at the Cannes Film Market. Written by Alan Trezza (“We Summon the Darkness”), “Rosario” is financed and produced by Mucho Mas Media alongside Silk Mass. We can’t wait for the world to meet Rosario!” “It’s an honor to film this roller coaster ride of horror in my home country of Colombia alongside an extraordinary team. ![]() “Growing up on my grandmother’s campfire tales of witchcraft and the macabre, I’m thrilled to bring to life this terrifying story of an evil family curse,” said Vargas, who won a 2021 DGA Student Film Award for his horror short “Milk Teeth.” The target of a deadly family curse that spans generations, Rosario must battle everything she knows about her past to save herself and her soul in a desperate attempt to break the evil. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() They fight, and Mark drives out of town with Lena in his trunk. ![]() Lena tells Jules that Nel scared or threatened Katie and drove her to suicide she then runs away from home and goes back to Mark’s house. Louise confronts Lena over her knowledge of Katie’s relationship with Mark. Sean and Erin question Lena, who tells them that Katie killed herself to protect Mark. Josh, unable to continue repressing what he knows, reveals Katie’s relationship with Mark to DI Townsend. Lena and Katie’s sister, Josh, break the windows at Mark’s house in revenge for his driving Katie to her death. Lena reveals that she bought the pills for herself but recalls that Katie had a sexual relationship with her teacher Mark Henderson, who has now left town. While cleaning Katie’s room, her mother, Louise, finds diet pills prescribed to Nel and goes to the police, believing that Nel must have been responsible for Katie’s death. The Whittakers-Katie’s family-decide to leave town to get away from the feelings surrounding Katie’s death. As with her death, reactions to Nel’s funeral are varied. At Nel’s funeral, Jules sees Robbie Cannon, Nel’s high school boyfriend who raped Jules when she was 13. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Joe, Biff, Nancy, and Bess, join Frank in Egypt when the curse of Cleopatra strikes and it's up to them to solve the mystery of the curse and save Frank and his pen pal and his pen pal's twin sister, who has been turned to stone by the curse. inspired by Scooby Doo Where's my mummy? movieįrank is in Egypt helping his pen pal to restore the sphinx when they uncover a tomb, Cleopatra's tomb. ![]() SchoolBoredom Fandoms: Hardy Boys - Franklin W. No spoilers :) Language: English Words: 100,327 Chapters: 29/29 Comments: 108 Kudos: 41 Bookmarks: 5 Hits: 1939 Yes this contains smut (as I update the chapter notes will say which ones have it) In which Frank's feelings are just as confusing, and he wishes he could concentrate on the same mystery. In which Nancy, after weeks of having no mystery to solve, stumbles upon one, along with some confusing feelings.
![]() ![]() But worst of all, Spencer Grant is on a collision course with inner demons he thought he’d buried years ago-inner demons that could destroy him if his enemies don’t first.Available for purchase at:Apple - Audiobook (Downloadable format)Audible - Audiobook (Downloadable format)audiobooks. government-and a man who considers himself a compassionate Angel of Death. On his trail is a shadowy security agency that answers to no one-including the U.S. And he is hiding from a past he can’t fully remember. He is in love with a woman he knows next to nothing about. Follow him in each story, which can be read or listened to in a single sitting. Follow him in each story, which can be read or listened to in a single sitting. In the Heart of the Fire Dean Koontz Home Books Nameless In the Heart of the Fire In the Heart of the Fire Book 1 of Nameless, a riveting collection of short stories about a vigilante nomad, stripped of his memories and commissioned to kill. But now Spencer is on the run from mysterious and ruthless men. From 1 New York Times bestselling author Dean Koontz comes In the Heart of the Fire, part of Nameless, a riveting collection of short stories about a vigilante nomad, stripped of his memories and commissioned to kill. ![]() He couldn’t know that it would lead to a narrow escape from a bungalow targeted by a SWAT team. He thought he would just sit down, have a slow beer or two, and talk to a stranger. ![]() ![]() NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Do you dare step through the red door? Spencer Grant had no idea what drew him to the bar with the red door. ![]() ![]() ![]() His sister Annie finds his secret stash of "englische" clothes, a forbidden copy of Treasure Island, and a harmonica. Gideon Stolzfus, 16, chafes under the rigid tenets of his family's local sect, and plans to run away to his uncle's more lenient community. When Isaac Litvak, 12, is injured on an Amish farm, his Jewish peddler father leaves him behind to recuperate with the whispered reminder, "Remember who you are." Though kind and well-meaning, the foreign-speaking family's eating habits and religious laws are strange. Grade 6-9?In this novel set at the turn of the century, two boys?one Orthodox Jew and the other Amish?are brought together by chance. ![]() Visit her website at From School Library Journal: ![]() Her many award-winning novels include Mary, Bloody Mary, an ABA Pick of the Lists, an NCSS-CBC Notable Children's Trade Book in the Field of Social Studies, and an ALA Best Book for Young Adults Anastasia: The Last Grand Duchess, a New York Times bestseller White Lilacs, an ALA Best Book for Young Adults, an NYPL Best Book for the Teen Age, and an IRA Young Adults' Choice and Marie, Dancing, a BookSense Pick. Carolyn Meyer is the acclaimed author of more than fifty books for young people. ![]() ![]() Bester has clearly thought long and hard about the way these abilities would change law enforcement, and how they might conceivably alter society as a whole. A considerable amount of thought has gone into the espers ( Extra Sensory Perception-ers) who make up the police force. ![]() To give Bester credit, the ideas in this book are great. Though The Demolished Man came out well beforehand, there are shades of Minority Report in that summary, and I was intrigued. ![]() And then there’s the premise of the book, which promises a fraught battle of wits between a would-be murderer and the telepathic police force determined to stop him. That sort of reputation is enough to make me sit up and take notice. As this SF Masterwork edition proudly boasts, it was the first novel to win a Hugo Award, which even now is one of the most coveted literary awards in the science fiction community. The Demolished Man holds a special place in the science fiction canon. But death always finds a way, and one man’s journey into violence could spell disaster for all involved. ![]() With telepathic law enforcement, violent crime should be impossible. Reprinted under the Gollancz SF Masterworks banner. ![]() ![]() Worst of all, Nora’s secret is discovered. What begins as a simple effort to protect her friend and prove her point snowballs into a classroom-wide “Get a Zero” campaign that ultimately involves teachers, counselors, even school administrators and threatens to get both her and Stephen suspended. To prove this, however, Nora sets a not-so-smart plan into action: She decides to flunk fifth grade. It is this reason that leads Nora to draw a very smart conclusion: that tests and grades should not be the only way students are judged. Most of all, she does not want her best friend Stephen to feel less good about himself because she is so much smarter. She does not want to leave her regular fifth-grade class to attend the Gifted Program. She does not want her family, friends, or teachers to know that she is highly intelligent because she does not want to be singled out as different. ![]() The secret is that she is very, very smart. ![]() Fifth-grader Nora Rose Rowley has been keeping an unusual secret for most of her life. ![]() ![]() “It’s been a long time, so I was kind of looking around … and a woman came up and asked me, ‘Is this your first time inside the school?’ I said, ‘No, not really.’” ![]() “It was funny when I first came into the building,” she said near the end of a phone conversation last Halloween, a week and a half after her appearance with Macchio. Prior to the event, Hinton was quietly going about her business, wandering the school’s halls absent-mindedly. Hinton, the writer whose teenage words would forever be emblematic of young adult literature and whose most famous creation, The Outsiders, helped launch Macchio’s career some 40 years earlier. Hosted by Magic City Books, the live conversation in the Art Deco auditorium at Will Rogers High School featured another pop culture icon: S.E. ![]() Ralph Macchio (most recently of “ Cobra Kai” fame) was in Tulsa, Oklahoma, to promote his memoir, Waxing On: The Karate Kid and Me. In late October 2022, a big-time streaming star returned to the city where it all began for him. ![]() ![]() ![]() Chapter by chapter, and equipped with video clips, planning tools, rubrics, and templates, you get the inside track on which instructional strategies to use at each phase of the learning cycle: Surface learning phase: When-through carefully constructed experiences-students explore new concepts and make connections to procedural skills and vocabulary that give shape to developing conceptual understandings. The framework is forged out of current research in mathematics combined with John Hattie’s synthesis of more than 15 years of education researchinvolving 300 million students. This results in “visible” learning because theĮffect is tangible. ![]() ![]() That’s a high bar, but with the amazing K-12 framework here, you choose the right approach at the right time, depending upon where learners are within three phases of learning: surface, deep, and transfer. Rich tasks, collaborative work, number talks, problem-based learning, direct instruction…with so many possible approaches, how do we know which ones work the best? In Visible Learning for Mathematics, six acclaimed educators assert it’s not about which one-it’s about when-and show you how to design high-impact instruction so all students demonstrate more than a year’s worth of mathematics learning for a year spent in school. ![]() |