Bøger af Valerie Haynes Perry

OUTER SPACES is an experimental interplay between these characters: The Man (haunted by seven words); The Woman (practitioner of astral projection); Spirit-of-a-Child (evades being born); Earth and Mars (on the run from humans); and various Crossroads. Like its recent predecessors--QPID AND THEM and UNILOGUE--OUTER SPACES invites readers to supply details according to the capacities of their creativity and imaginations.

Award-winning author, Valerie Haynes Perry, has written this book to help you maintain the clarity, self-confidence, and motivation you need to bring your own book into being. Write the Book You Want-Be Your Own Coach is the third book in her writers' trilogy. It's preceded by Listening Out Loud-A Friend to the Serious Writer and Write, Read, Listen-Your Handy Writing Coach. This capstone empowers you to combine your desire, experience, and skill in order to live up to the promise of the title. You can benefit from this book if you are new to writing or experienced and wish to approach the craft from an innovative perspective.New in this edition is a SIXTH Chapter, Motivational (TM) Writing. It introduces the reader to an uplifting and empowering approach toward cultivating personal literary development.

Award-winning author, Valerie Haynes Perry, has written this book to help you maintain the clarity, self-confidence, and motivation you need to bring your own book into being. Write the Book You Want-Be Your Own Coach is the third book in her writers' trilogy. It's preceded by Listening Out Loud-A Friend to the Serious Writer and Write, Read, Listen-Your Handy Writing Coach. This capstone empowers you to combine your desire, experience, and skill in order to live up to the promise of the title. You can benefit from this book if you are new to writing or experienced and wish to approach the craft from an innovative perspective. The SIXTH Chapter, Motivational (TM) Writing, in particular, introduces the reader to an uplifting and empowering approach toward cultivating personal literary development.

Write, Read, Listen-Your Handy Writing Coach is the second in the Writer's Trilogy. It is preceded by Listening Out Loud-A Friend to the Serious Writer and followed by Write the Book You Want-Be Your Own Coach.

El niño, Demonstration, Cross Country, What If The Indians?, Sleep Away, Flip Turn, and Music for the Dream make up this collection of seven short stories. In them you will meet Nash and Joana, who are considering having a child; Charm Palmé, an aspiring journalist who wants to show a positive side of Oakland, California; Merina Jordan, who gets caught up in double romantic intrigue on her way from New York City to Los Angeles; Alura, who speaks up for the first time in her high-school history class; Glori, an adolescent who is coming of age; Blessine and Brick who are tempted to buy a houseboat and "simplify" their lives; and Naniki, who lives on a hidden island in danger of being discovered. These characters stand ready to escort you through worlds of desire, nostalgia, and future possibilities.

LENORE BROOKS is an African-American woman in her early forties who visits the Old Town Oakland farmers' market on Friday afternoons. Though she is married to JAMEY LAMONTE, a very successful realtor, she finds herself drawn to MANGROVE WINGFEATHER, who she has noticed at the market for several weeks. Lenore dabbles at painting and Mangrove sets up exhibits at the Oakland museum. After Jamey sells some of Lenore's paintings as a "surprise," without her permission, Lenore leaves home and accepts Mangrove's invitation to accompany him to the Painted Desert on a business trip. Overshadowed by a full solar eclipse, their travels bring to light a shocking secret that pulls Lenore in many revealing directions.

Intimacy as an ideal is one way to regard this series of romantic vignettes. Qpid is a lonely and disgruntled matchmaker tasked with connecting Her and Him "over, and over, and over again." In this original series of vignettes, the reader gets to fill in many of her or his blanks regarding perceptions of the story's nonlinear progression, making it interactive in an unusual way. Not only does the reader get to experience the idealized intellectual, physical, and spiritual intimacy of one couple, she/he also gets to find out if Qpid, himself, finally meets his own match.

Isalene Will is a black girl from the projects on Manhattan's Lower East Side. The summer of her ninth birthday presents her with several intense transitions, one of which is leaving her neighborhood to attend an elite school where she is one of few black students. Divided between two worlds, she digs deep and tests the stability of her roots.

What if you remembered being born? Imagine your awakening... Tanner Blue is an African-American woman named after the black painter, Henry Ossawa Tanner. She wants to honor the reputation of her namesake. Connecting her thirtieth birthday to her birth causes Tanner Blue to revisit her own potential as an artist, which was encouraged by her father and blocked by her mother. Destiny leads Tanner Blue to a magical world that tests her creative abilities and alters her relationship to reality forever. In a storytelling tradition similar to those of The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho and Illusions by Richard Bach, Tanner Blue is an invitation to discover where reality ends and imagination begins.

LENORE BROOKS is an African-American woman in her early forties who visits the Old Town Oakland farmers' market on Friday afternoons. Though she is married to JAMEY LAMONTE, who is a very successful realtor, she finds herself drawn to MANGROVE WINGFEATHER, who she has noticed at the market for several weeks. Lenore dabbles at painting and Mangrove sets up exhibits at the Oakland museum. After Jamey invades Lenore's "artistic space," Lenore leaves home and accepts Mangrove's invitation to accompany him to the Painted Desert on a business trip. Overshadowed by a full solar eclipse, their travels bring to light a shocking secret that pulls Lenore in many revealing directions. PAINTED DESERTS will appeal to the audiences of THE ALCHEMIST by Paulo Coelho; ILLUSIONS by Richard Bach; and THE CELESTINE PROPHECY by James Redfield.

"e;Software Development on a Leash"e; is designed as a roadmap for experienced developers and architects to align their approaches and development priorities for high reuse and innovation. Author David Birmingham's products have been successfully deployed in a variety of venues, in this context, highly complex desktop environments with rapid turnaround and high-intensity delivery deadlines. This book contrasts the application-centric development approach from the architecture-centric development approach, introducing the concept of the metamorphic super-pattern. Metamorphism is the capability of a software program to dynamically adapt to changing application requirements without rebuilding the binary executable. Birmhingham invites the reader to deploy reusable structural and behavioral building blocks, along with some powerful frameworks to gain immediate traction in any setting. The book includes a high-speed multi-dimensional toolkit to organize and deploy the building blocks, essentially weaving the application together at run-time, rather than being hard-wired in program code. Birmingham ties the building blocks together with structural and behavioral metadata, allowing simple, interpreted macros to drive everything from database access, screen layouts, and many aspects of software development normall embedded directly in the software program. The rapid deployment effect this creates allows developers to perform simple surgical application changes, or rapid sweeping rework/enhancement - without changing compiled software. The frameworks discussed include the capability of deploying/changing highly complex applications and their Visual Basic screens, without compiling program code; the capability of building dynamic data models that adapt to rapid change without software change; inter-application object sharing through sockets; dynamic error recovery and management, plus a powerful multi-dimensional toolkit.