The Mistakes Madeline Made

Mr. Weller is a bold and productive dramatist. --NY Times. The best thing about Weller's play is that it offers no easy answers for making a relationship work. Its shades of gray are less than comforting but realistic as husband and wife struggle to des

“On Story is film school in a box, a lifetime’s worth of filmmaking knowledge squeezed into half-hour packages.” —Kenneth Turan, film critic for the Los Angeles Times Austin Film Festival (AFF) is the first organization to focus on writers’ creative contributions to film and television. Its annual Film Festival and Conference offers screenings, panels, workshops, and roundtable discussions that help new writers and filmmakers connect with mentors and gain advice and insight from masters, as well as reinvigorate veterans with new ideas. To extend the Festival’s reach, AFF produces On Story, a television series currently airing on PBS-affiliated stations and streaming online that presents high-caliber artists talking candidly and provocatively about the art and craft of screenwriting and filmmaking, often using examples from their own work. On Story—The Golden Ages of Television explores the transformation of television’s narrative content over the past several decades through interviews with some of TV’s best creators and writers, including Garry Shandling (The Larry Sanders Show), Carl Reiner (The Dick Van Dyke Show), Issa Rae (Insecure), Vince Gilligan (Breaking Bad), Greg Daniels (The Office), Paula Pell (Saturday Night Live), Noah Hawley (Fargo), Liz Meriwether (New Girl), David Chase (The Sopranos), Alan Yang (Master of None), Marta Kauffman (Friends), Jenji Kohan (Orange Is the New Black), and many more. Their insights, behind-the-scenes looks at the creative process, production tales, responses to audiences’ reactions, and observations on how both TV narratives and the industry have changed make this book ideal for TV lovers, pop culture fans, students taking screenwriting courses, and filmmakers and writers seeking information and inspiration.

An encyclopedia of over 160 frightening phobias from the bestselling author of Can Holding in a Fart Kill You? It is human nature to be curious about things that scare us—that’s why we love scary movies and true crime podcasts. But what about our deepest, most specific phobias? Spiders, Clowns and Great Mole Rats presents a fascinating, friendly and even funny look at 160 fears, from the irrational to the truly terrifying. This book will tell you everything you ever wanted to know about fears and phobias like blennophobia (fear of slime), globophobia (fear of balloons), phasmophobia (fear of ghosts), taphophobia (fear of being buried alive), and over 150 more!

What happens when the one person who’d have done anything for you asks you to do the one thing you swore you’d never do? It’s been twenty-five years since Madeline Hollis stepped onto the ferry leaving Sea Pine Island. Madeline has no children. No husband. No college degree. No prospects of anything other than another dead-end job. Then it came. One letter. In the middle of a stack of bills all marked overdue, a large manilla envelope addressed to Madeline in handwriting she could never forget. Mrs. Honeycutt, a.k.a. Honey, had been far more than Madeline’s favorite teacher. She’d been her mentor. Her hero. The closest thing she’d ever had to a mother figure. And Honey’s dying wish was for Madeline to return to Sea Pine Island to help her make amends, albeit posthumously, for the vague and mysterious “wrongs” she’d done. Madeline, Louisa, Isabel, Katherine, and Madeline’s sister Emerson were once inseparable. They thought nothing could ever tear their circle apart. In the end, it was Madeline who did. Now not only will Madeline have to face the former best friends that were supposed to be forever, she’s going to have to do the impossible and convince them to trust her again. What’s a person to do when they get a letter like Honey’s? If you’re Madeline Hollis, you honor their request. You decide to be brave. You return home. Author’s Note: Step into the inviting world of South Carolina on Sea Pine Island, where secrets unravel, betrayals are brought to the surface, old flames are sparked and best friends are reunited again. Grab a warm drink, download The Inn on Seagrass Lane and get ready to unpack a whole lot of women’s friendship fiction deliciousness.

Can two people find their way back to each other? Straight-talking, driven, and committed to being the best sports agent and manager in the Pacific Northwest, Beatrix “Trixie” Cavendish works hard and doesn’t allow herself to be distracted. She’d let that happen once before and not only did it threaten her fledgling career, it also broke her heart into a million pieces. The cause of that heartbreak? Chris Ford. While he is currently first line winger for the Seattle Whalers, Trixie remembers him as the ambitious rookie from the wrong side of the tracks who promised to love her forever. However, his career and her ambitions caused their young love to shatter. Neither Trixie nor Chris ever really recovered. Ten years later, they’re both living in Seattle and actively avoiding each other. But an unexpected event in Chris’s life turns his world on its axis. The only person he feels he can turn to is the one woman he knows will never take his call. Can these former lovers work together again or will past pain and heartbreak make a reconciliation impossible?