Bøger af Anne Hart

The definitive companion to the POIROT novels, short stories, films and TV appearances, now revised and updated.

Two athletic honeymooners vacationing in the woods near Big Sur, on the California coast, just want to take a breather from each other's firefighting, smoke-jumping, rappelling out of helicopters, and forensic DNA analysis career duties. They find themselves accidentally hiking into a rural nudist camp only to be surprised that they actually were set up to arrive there by the groom's employer, requiring another globetrotting job offer of the couple that they can't refuse -- from government agents, even when they work in different occupations. This contemporary romance novel with a touch of intrigue and suspense is a work of fiction. Curiosity skilled the cat, and action coaxed it back. Resilience filled the cat, when self-confidence sniffed a rat. While Doros - Δωρός Argos mugged a twisted smile, he day-dreamed of the fierce maroon eyes of his old Greek islands flame, known as "The Cat," a strong-willed mountain biker from Chios with a feline-like expression. Aphi, short for Aphroditi - Αφροδίτη Adis, appeared to Doros. He knew her as 'the Cat'. And she knew Doros as 'the Dog.' The 'Cat' appeared to Doros in a dream, bikinied, in a haystack with a wisp of broom straw dangling from her blood-red lips. In reality, no one heard Aphi Adis scream. At three in a dog-day, August morning, the 'Cat' (Aphi) clawed the dry earth in California, where the FBI's most-wanted file number sixteen had buried her in the six by seven foot grave, not in her native Chios, but in a rural part of California, near Big Sur, where she was supposed to have a slightly belated honeymoon with her new husband, Doron. She couldn't have been closer to home in the most isolated wooded area near California's Sykes clothing- optional campgrounds, but he wished they were honeymooning back in Chios, the Greek island, as they had planned a week after their recent wedding. Work details kept both of them in California.The last thing Aphi remembered was a large, gloved hand over her mouth and scratchy thorns. Then she awoke, and pounced on her own throbbing headache in pitch blackness, and within seconds began to claw, to kick, to bite at the ceiling of her brittle, ceramic coffin.Wolf E. Schitte, a cartoonist turned arsonist, had stripped the FBI's wired microphone, recorder, and honing device from her waist, burned her tee shirt and jeans, and tossed her kicking into the yawning construction ravine wearing nothing but a string and a whistle.

27 Ways to Use Creative Writing and/or Public Relations Skills in Entertainment, Education, Genealogy, Video Production, Gift Books, Reunions, Nutrition/Alternative Health, Social History, Anthropology, Publishing, Matchmaking, and Business. Cheers to Simplicity, Clarity, and Accuracy in Creative Writing. What's needed in fiction as well as with instructional writing of books, scripts, or articles? Foresight, Insight, and Hindsight. Do you want to use your creative writing skills to solve problems in business, education, or entertainment? Or perhaps you want to use the creative writing skills of a novelist to solve problems, show measurable results, design guidelines that readers/viewers can easily follow, or raise funds? The first pointer to understand in applied creative writing is that simplicity sells. Ask any creative director. If it's clear and accurate and anyone can understand how you're being creative and why, the outcome is measurable results and a step-by-step guide that's easier to follow for the intended audience or reader.

Leveling is Disheveling and Disordering. This novel presents multi-ethnic fiction as part of a series of novels and plays presenting anthropology and psychology through fiction and drama. Are you being 'leveled' by a friend, partner, educator, workplace employees, employer, bully, neighbor, name-caller, bigot, or other? Beware of 'leveling' when it comes to relationships with any type. Beware of being with one or more people intent on leveling the other person. Leveling is when one partner or friend who feels so bad about himself/herself has the need to criticize, pull down, abuse, conflict with, defame, accuse unjustly without proof, uses name-calling, or otherwise discredits the other partner or friend in order to 'level' (raise or push down) the feeling of self-worth. It's a habit of pulling you down in anger to build himself or herself up. Or pulling you up with praise to make you feel calmer, happier, or better in another person's company. An example of leveling in a relationship might be about calling someone a 'loser', weak, coward, miser, (uses ethnic epithets or generalizations) or uses various words of devaluation, designed to reduce your resilience and self-confidence, and engages in various uses of incendiary names for losing a job, retiring too early, or failing in school in order for the other person to feel more important or more secure. The accuser tries to 'level' the relationship built on the 'level' of self-esteem of the moment. This novel focuses on why so many highly intelligent women often land in relationships where they are battered psychologically, emotionally, financially, physically, or in other ways depending upon their age and whether or not they have other options to go to when they leave. Regardless of income or intelligence, there's a problem in society which this novel gives one example of of highly intelligent women and any other women (or to a lesser degree, men) being abused in some relationships. Decades ago, a survey taken of battered wives by psychologist Carole Victor showed that a number of the battered wives studied were high IQ professional women, non-working, married to a man with professional job status. Battering husbands were likely to be physicians, military men, chemists, computer experts, lawyers, and engineers. In that survey, battered women were likely to be social workers, teachers, nurses, secretaries, technologists, and in other so-named 'nurturing, ' traditionally female, lower-paying jobs/careers, over-educated, often unemployed. Some had masters degrees, and had small children. Some were agoraphobic. Some were described as sensitive and highly intelligent. Some wrote poetry, and some had small children. And some had traditional careers in the humanities or wanted careers in those fields.

For writers nowadays, the author is the product for tangibles and intangibles in addition to the individual's creative, fact-checking, or research work. You're the virtual assistant, and the readers/customers are your intended audience. Since June 17, 1959 I've written at least one book every year or two while working my way through my area's local university. What motivated and inspired me to write almost daily for those decades?The last time I worked full-time in an office setting, back in 1974, my pay was minimum wage, which then was $1.65 an hour. I worked on a weekly newspaper, writing a frequent "Globetrotting Gourmet" column and selling display advertising on the side without commission, all for that $1.65 an hour, which paid my rent and bus fare, food, and any other bills. That's one reason why I became a full-time book author working for myself. The price of rent increased. Back then I had my own version of the 'gig' generation, where one works at home freelancing as an independent contractor in a field of choice. My choice was writing, and the fiction writing thundered with memories of elementary and middle school life story highlights. Before the outsourcing era, the work I did when I found it, had been outsourced to me. And that gave me time to write novels, plays, and scripts.The years of work I'm familiar with are my own, which would be 1959 to 2004. On one job when I was 18, the office manager asked me on a job interview not what job skills I had but he asked, "Do you have a boyfriend?" Another question asked, "I hope you won't get pregnant if I hire you and I'd have to spend money training someone else." He never asked me what I could do on the job or what the job required, and just wanted to know whether I'd stay for years or leave as soon as I found a boyfriend to "pay the bills" as he prattled on at that job interview. That was in the summer of 1959, when I was 17 and had graduated from high school looking for my first job so I could work my way through college and get my teaching credential so I could teach in community colleges (creative writing courses or journalism and business communications). My minors were psychology and anthropology. My favorite subject was anthropology. Nowadays, the biggest worry of many women and men would be "is my job going to be outsourced overseas, so the employer will get to pay fewer dollars to the country of the outsourcing?" As a journalist, there's a lot of outsourcing nowadays. This book reveals all the details and information noteworthy enough to motivate me to make writing books my full-time career for all those decades.

The definitive companion to the MISS MARPLE novels, short stories, films and TV appearances, now revised and updated.