Not Quite Leaping Puddles

Not Quite Leaping Puddles
Author: Barbara Blanks
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 66
Release: 2017-02-21
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1365768228

This collection of award winning poems captures the extremes, in-betweens, and sunbeams people experience-past and present, humorous and serious. Obviously life is neither all good nor all bad-all we can do is splash from puddle to puddle. Sometimes landing in puddles is fun. Sometimes they hide sinkholes. It's always our choice how we deal with them. Still, while we're in mid-leap-oh, the possibilities!

A Galaxy of Verse, Vol. 37, No. 2

A Galaxy of Verse, Vol. 37, No. 2
Author: Barbara Blanks, Editor
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 150
Release: 2017-11-15
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1387366637

A Galaxy of Verse Literary Foundation is a non-profit 501-c (3) organization that publishes member-submitted poems, hosts cash-prize contests, and aims to produce two issues of its anthology each year. Membership is $20/year. Members receive two anthologies, and may enter contests at no additional charge. (Non-members may enter contests for $5 each. Winners are published, but anthologies must be purchased.) Many of GOV's members are award-winning and/or published poets. For complete information about A Galaxy of Verse, please visit www.barbara-blanks.com, and click on the appropriate pages.

Resisting the Ground

Resisting the Ground
Author: Barbara Blanks
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 122
Release: 2019-04-29
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 0359564240

This collection of prize-winning poems by Barbara Blanks focuses on people: Real - Could-be Real - Unreal - Happy - Unhappy - Funny - Up Close & Personal people. We are all just doing the best we can, and these poems reflect our struggles, our successes, our failures, and our fun.

A Galaxy of Verse, Vol. 37, No. 1

A Galaxy of Verse, Vol. 37, No. 1
Author: Barbara Blanks, Editor
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 154
Release: 2017-05-29
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1365969614

A Galaxy of Verse Literary Foundation is a non-profit 501-c (3) organization that publishes member-submitted poems, hosts sponsored cash-prize contests, and aims to produce two issues of its anthology each year. Finances are the final determination, which is why membership, sponsorship, and patronage are so important. For complete information about A Galaxy of Verse, please visit www.barbara-blanks.com, and click on the appropriate links. Membership is $20/year, which includes two issues of its anthology. Each member may have two of their poems published in each issue. These two poems should not exceed more than two 6x9 pages, or approximately 40 lines-total on a page, with some exceptions.

Unstable: Twisted Tales & Tasty Entrails

Unstable: Twisted Tales & Tasty Entrails
Author: Barbara Blanks
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 113
Release: 2019-11-18
Genre:
ISBN: 1794749071

Barbara Blanks is equally adept at both horrific blood-thirsty stories and humorous blood-thirsty stories. She is, in fact, a little afraid to turn her back on herself because she doesn't know from what sinister brain vault some of these story ideas escaped. This mixture of mystery, crime, horror, and humor will leave you off-balance, which is-perhaps-better than being unbalanced. Or Unstable. But don't press the issue with the author. Really. Don't. Suggestions: Stay away from power tools. Avoid parks, cemeteries, zoos, farms, malls, stores, theaters, and ... your own home. And don't go toward the light at the end of the tunnel. Parental Guidance Advised only because some subject matter may be disturbing to youngsters.

Traveling Sideways

Traveling Sideways
Author: Barbara Blanks
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 114
Release: 2019-05-14
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 0359644384

Mankind breathed in poetry with the first dust of life blown into his nostrils. Life IS poetry. From humorous to serious to inspirational, to animals of all kinds, to nature, to music, to creativity--whatever gets us through the days and years. Poetry lifts us--at least, poetry that is comprehensible. And Barbara Blanks writes poetry you can actually understand!

Flesh of the Sun, Life Above the Ground

Flesh of the Sun, Life Above the Ground
Author: Barbara Blanks
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 74
Release: 2016-05-31
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 136514917X

This collection of prize-winning poems by Barbara Blanks carries the reader through the range of human experiences. Perhaps a normal, sensible sequence would begin with Dawn, and end with Dusk or Eclipse, but she chooses to start with light and a kiss from the gods, move through the dark eclipse that sears like dragon's breath, then feel a joyous pulse at the pinnacle of light-and have some fun along the way. Her feet might be "wet from not quite leaping over puddles" but Barb is still willing to "pull the husk away from heaven, and bite into the flesh of the sun."

Toward a New Cinema

Toward a New Cinema
Author: Eligah Boykin
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 399
Release: 2018-11-06
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1984558854

The author wishes to offer you more than the standard fare of sex and violence that normally comes with your popcorn, burgers, and fries. He is betting you have been hankering for a little courage and love, spiced with pride and faithfulness, and that you might find a turn to nobility and truth more to your tastes. This book of movie reviews samples the classics and more contemporary selections. You will discover the author’s observations and thoughts about Twelve Years a Slave as well as Amiri Baraka’s The Dutchman. We will examine Edison with Spencer Tracy and David Mamet’s Oleanna. James Coburn will take us dancing and prancing through death and danger as Our Man Flint, and we will have a front-row seat to Klaatu’s stern lecture to humanity in The Day the Earth Stood Still. After a round trip through The Forbidden Kingdom with Jackie Chan and Jett Li, we will, at length, settle down to a glass of milk and a slice of apple pie with Young Tom Edison. Finally, with all this under our belt, we might, at last, find ourselves meditating and contemplating upon a route toward a new cinema.

The Not Quite Series Box Set

The Not Quite Series Box Set
Author: Kaye Draper
Publisher: Kaye Draper
Total Pages: 770
Release: 2021-04-11
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Not quite human, not quite beast. Not quite female, not quite male. Sometimes hunter, sometimes prey. Always alone. Until them. Fiend hunter Sam “Sabertooth” Forest is used to being on the outskirts. Being a cur with a mix of shifter and human blood, Sam can’t fully shift to beast but can’t fully pass as human. Through sheer determination, and a desire to protect the broken shifter woman who raised them, Sam has managed to eek out a place of their own in a world devastated by the rift that allowed monsters to spill into the earth plane. Sam hunts monsters, sometimes curs and mongrels just like Sam. The work might be dangerous, and the humans might want to put the mixed breed hunter on their hitlist, but it’s a job. It’s freedom. Sam works alone and trusts no one. The next hunt should bring in a big bounty—big enough to pay the pack extortion fee and keep Sam’s adoptive mother safe through winter. But when a Leprechaun horns in on Sam's unicorn hunt and tricks Sam into forming a hunter’s guild, Sam is suddenly burdened by an overabundance of people. Setting off to hunt one-horned murder beasts with an annoying leprechaun and a nerdy half-ogre is bad enough. But when you add in a betrayal by the seductive siren Sam has loved since childhood, and the machinations of a rich human politician, well…Sam’s simple, lonely little life just got a whole lot more complicated. Author’s Note: I love reverse harem, but I got sick of reading the same old tropes. In my books you will find atypical characters and varied sexuality. In general, you probably won’t find many alpha males or fainting females. The Not Quite series is a harem/reverse harem urban fantasy series of novellas (between 35,000-45,000 words) and contains the following: *adult language, and lots of it *moderate levels of violence/gore/action *graphic sexual situations *polyamory/ multiple lovers *LBGTQ and straight themes (the main character is intersex and will have both male and female lovers, and this is a harem, so expect M/F, M/M, F/F, MMMFF etc.) *as usual, my characters all have their own emotional scars. This means the book MAY contain mentions of abuse, unpleasant situations, etc. Please do not read if you are triggered by things like this.