Jacob and Talon get a surprise when they head out to target practice. A zombie. Not a big deal in their world post-infection. But this zombie is different. And it just might change everything.This is a FLASH fiction short story. It is a prequel to the upcoming EMPTY (Evolution Zombie Book 1) coming out in July 2011. --FLASH FICTION SHORT STORY--1270 wordcount--Approximately 5 pagesFLASH FICTION SHORT STORYJacob and Talon get a surprise when they head out to target practice. A zombie. Not a big deal in their world post-infection. But this zombie is different. And it just might change everything.This is a FLASH fiction short story. It is a prequel to the upcoming EMPTY (Evolution Zombie Book 1) coming out in July 2011. --FLASH FICTION SHORT STORY--1270 wordcount--Approximately 5 pages Views: 384
"People always ask me what kind of books I write and I guess you'd call them love stories, but I also think of them as mysteries. After all, what makes two people fall in love? I've written three novels on the topic and I'm still looking for the answers.
In a way, I'm a bit of a love detective. Because what's a greater mystery than love?"
Ruby Miller has lost her faith in love. In an effort to forget her cheating ex and clear her writer's block, she joins her sister for a week's holiday in India... and embarks on an extraordinary adventure.
Swept up on a magical mystery tour, amid silks and spices, palaces and weddings, Ruby investigates different stories of love lost and found.
But will a romance of her own remain always out of reach? Or can she find her happy ever after? Views: 382
"The Rosie Project" was an international publishing phenomenon, with more than a million copies sold in over forty countries around the world. Now Graeme Simsion returns with the highly anticipated sequel, "The Rosie Effect."
Don Tillman and Rosie Jarman are now married and living in New York. Don has been teaching while Rosie completes her second year at Columbia Medical School. Just as Don is about to announce that Gene, his philandering best friend from Australia, is coming to stay, Rosie drops a bombshell: she''s pregnant.
In true Tillman style, Don instantly becomes an expert on all things obstetric. But in between immersing himself in a new research study on parenting and implementing the Standardised Meal System (pregnancy version), Don''s old weaknesses resurface. And while he strives to get the technicalities right, he gets the emotions all wrong, and risks losing Rosie when she needs him most.
"The Rosie Effect" is the charming and hilarious romantic-comedy of the year.
Graeme Simsion was born in Auckland and is a Melbourne-based writer of short stories, plays, screenplays and two non-fiction books. "The Rosie Project" began life as a screenplay, winning the Australian Writers Guild/Inscription Award for Best Romantic Comedy before being adapted into a novel. It went on to win the 2012 Victorian Premier''s Literary Award for an unpublished manuscript and has since been sold around the world to over forty countries. Sony Pictures have optioned the film rights with Graeme contracted to write the script. It won the 2014 ABIA for Best General Fiction Book and overall Book of the Year.
Praise for "The Rosie Project":
''Funny and heartwarming, a gem of a book.'' Marian Keyes
''Don Tillman helps us believe in possibility, makes us proud to be human beings, and the bonus is this: he keeps us laughing like hell. I''d love to have a beer with the humane and hilarious Graeme Simsion.'' Matthew Quick, "New York Times" bestselling author of "The Silver Linings Playbook"
''"The Rosie Project" is 1930s screwball comedy updated for 2013. Hepburn and Grant in "Bringing Up Baby," or Rosalind Russell and Grant in "His Girl Friday" have the exact same pitch, intelligence, wit and farce with a love story at the centre of it all. Madcap indeed, but like those films "The Rosie Project" underscored with writing meticulously judged...Extremely loud and incredibly long applause.'' "Age/SMH/Canberra Times/Brisbane Times"
''What an endearing, funny book...a quirky love story about belonging with poignant undertones on the need for us all to be more tolerant of those with differences. A must read for 2013.'' "Courier Mail/Daily Telegraph"
''The charm of this story is Simsion''s affectionate depiction of his strange, flawed, infuriating, logical and always amusing protagonist.'' "Weekend Australian" Views: 381
Raina Sun arrives in Las Vegas to elope and ends up with a missing groom. With an overbooked hotel-casino and a rock and roll conference, Raina thought her fiancé was helping the hotel-casino with their security—until a strange woman searches Raina's room and a dead woman is found in a laundry bag.And to make matters worse, the security videos show both Raina and her fiancé interacting separately with the dead woman hours before her death. With no communication from her fiancé, Raina fears the worst—he is in hiding. But from whom? And how is he connected to the victim? With the help of the grandmas, can Raina find the killer and track down her fiancé? Views: 381
A perfectly preserved pre-historic cadaver is discovered in the fens and brought to a Museum. For the new Director it should present a major opportunity but is it real? And if it is, how come the pre-historic ring it's wearing also bears the marks of a local shop. And where is the Museum's Head Electrician? If the Director doesn't find answers soon the unthinkable may happen. He may look an idiot.I promise, there isn’t a vampire or werewolf in sight. Views: 381
A cruise ship, then a fishing boat, then pirates, then a submarine, then a viking ship, then a submarine, then a fishing boat, then pirates, then a cruise ship, then a written page.A nested story comprised of insanely horrifying, weird, morbid sea stories all wrapped in a literary burrito of magical realism. A true nightmare. Views: 380
A ghost story for adults. Like all good coaching inns, the Green Man is said to boast a resident ghost: Dr Thomas Underhill, a notorious seventeenth-century practitioner of black arts and sexual deviancy, rumoured to have killed his wife. However, the landlord, Maurice Allington, is the sole witness to the renaissance of the malevolent Underhill. Led by an anxious desire to vindicate his sanity, Allington strives to uncover the key to Underhill's satanic powers. All the while, the skeletons in the cupboard of Allington's own domestic affairs rattle to get out too. Views: 378
