The Duke’s Dilemma by Fenella J Miller
Published: Sun, 01/06/13
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- The Duke’s Dilemma by Fenella J Miller - 2013-01-03 19:54:33-05
Fenella Jane Miller was born in the Isle of Man. Her father was a Yorkshire man and her mother the daughter of a Rajah. She has worked as a nanny, cleaner, field worker,hotelier,chef, secondary and primary teacher and is now a full time writer. She has over twenty five Regency romantic adventures published plus one Jane Austen re-telling and one YA romantic fantasy. She lives in a pretty, riverside village in Essex with her husband and ancient Border Collie. She has two adult children and
- The Best Breast Exercises - 2013-01-05 01:05:58-05
Andy Charalambous was born in London, England, to Greek immigrant parents. He grew up in East London where he trained and worked as a carpenter. He moved to South London and changed careers to do what he enjoyed the most; spend time in the gym. He qualified as a personal trainer and massage therapist and worked in many top health clubs in and around London. He recently started work building his ebook brand "Fit Scribbler", at www.fitscribbler.com, which at present has a collection of health and fitness books which focus on particular areas of womens' wellbeing. He plans on doing a series of these and then doing a series focusing on mens' wellbeing. He also writes books on different topics just to keep things fresh. For the time being Andy has settled in Spain. One of the main reasons he moved there is because of the climate and the less stressful way of life. When he is not working on building a new website or writing he trains on the beach, cycles, swims, reads, rollerblades and does whatever he can to keep any negative thoughts at bay. "We have more control over our lives than we think. The sooner we realize this the better the chances are of reaching our goals and fulfiling our dreams" - Andy.
- Fumes and a Prayer: How to Live at the Edge and Still Be Home for Dinner, by Dennis Bauer - 2013-01-05 01:07:56-05
Dennis stood on top of 14,410' Mt Rainier in 60-mph winds. He sailed Puget Sound in an electrical storm. And in junior high he faked a knee injury and wrapped it in an ace bandage when invited to a birthday party... so they wouldn't know he didn't know how to dance. Other than that, he's a pretty normal guy. Dennis lives in the Puget Sound area of Washington State. He graduated from Colorado Christian University in Denver, served as a pastor, worked in flight test at Boeing (the lavatories work in the 767 because of him!). and was a flight instructor and aircraft mechanic on small planes. Today, Dennis shares "How to Live at the Edge and Still Be Home for Dinner" with groups of all sizes.
- The Second Thanksgiving by Douglas Lloyd McIntosh - 2013-01-06 01:49:40-05
Born and growing up in South Charleston, West Virginia, Douglas Lloyd McIntosh fell in love with films, novels, and the art of storytelling. His childhood hero was the late producer-director Cecil B. DeMille. “I love DeMille," Doug says. "He’s still my favorite director to this day. He was an absolutely riveting storyteller who kept his audience involved with his characters and anxious to find out what is going to happen next. His work was actually quite complex. Despite the condemnation of critics who hated his beliefs, he soldiered on to enormous success. He dealt with serious themes but could keep you laughing all the way through the story and then make you cry at the crucial moment. This was not sentimentality. He knew how to make you feel what he felt. Best of all, whether in his religious or secular projects, he nearly always sent the audience out of the theater in a state of exaltation. How many times these days does anyone walk out of a theater or turn off a DVD in a state of exaltation? A lot of the old masters pulled this off in their various ways, including my other childhood favorites John Ford, William Wyler, Fred Zinnemann, Frank Capra, Douglas Sirk, and even Alfred Hitchcock. What all these guys had in common was that they weren’t afraid of their emotions or ashamed to express them.” Equally enthralled by novelists as disparate as science fiction master Robert A. Heinlein, thriller writer John D. MacDonald, Thomas Wolfe, and Charles Dickens, Doug decided at a very young age to pursue a career as a professional storyteller. He has now been a filmmaker and professional screenwriter for many years. As a screenwriter Doug has written many scripts and teleplays for Hollywood production companies, national television networks, and influential filmmakers including Francis Ford Coppola, Steven Spielberg and Michael Mann. In 1997 TV Guide named his Miami Vice episode for Mr. Mann, “Out Where the Buses Don’t Run,” one of The 100 Best Television Episodes of All Time. More recently, Doug adapted the Janette Oke novels Love’s Long Journey and Love’s Abiding Joy for the Hallmark Channel. Doug is happiest doing work in which he can celebrate and express his faith as a born again Christian. His dramatic and documentary writing includes scripts and teleplays for Christian organizations including Focus on the Family, Chuck Colson’s Prison Fellowship, the 700 Club, the Missouri Synod Lutheran Church (Waiting for the Wind, starring Robert Mitchum and Rhonda Fleming), and other organizations. His most personal project and the only film over which he exercised complete control was his Master of Fine Arts thesis production for the Graduate Institute of Film and Television, New York University, a 53-minute drama, The Girl Who Ran Out of Night, about a teenage runaway. This film has been used all over the world to lead thousands of people to trust in Jesus Christ as personal Savior. Today Doug lives with his family in Florida where he works on novels and new film projects. He remains an avid reader of fiction and watcher of film and television. His primary intellectual interests are Free Grace Theology and Christian Apologetics, the science of proving that the Bible and Christianity are true through the use of science, history, mathematics, and logic. He loves classical music, especially Baroque, collects comic books, and likes to draw as a form of relaxation. But what he really wants to do is direct.
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