Outtakes Vol 2 The Commisson World

Featuring stories from readers favorite characters from author Bethany-Kris' Commission World, Outtakes Vol 2: The Commission World takes readers to before the filthiest Marcello took his throne and far beyond ... to the next generations. Made up of outtakes and short stories written for and by request of readers, the collection contains over 170,000 words and over 100 shorts. Readers should be familiar with The Commission World to best enjoy.

Featuring stories from readers favorite characters from author Bethany-Kris’ Commission World, Outtakes Vol 2: The Commission World takes readers to before the filthiest Marcello took his throne and far beyond ... to the next generations. Made up of outtakes and short stories written for and by request of readers, the collection contains over 170,000 words and over 100 shorts. Readers should be familiar with The Commission World to best enjoy.

Hailed as one of the most in-depth portraits of a band ever presented, "Get Back" traces, minute-by-minute, every move that the Beatles made during the fateful month of January 1969.

The universe isn't done with Vaslav Pashkov just yet ... Perhaps marrying a man whose secrets weren't entirely revealed wasn't the smartest choice of Vera Avdonin's life, but her new husband makes the decision hard to regret. Even when it brings agony. Yet, not even wedded bliss and love is enough to keep Vera from peeling back the remaining layers of Vaslav's past and truth-and there are always consequences for what she might find. The price of loving a man like this one is high. * The Breath Before Forever is the final Vaslav/Vera book in The Beast of Moscow saga and should not be read as a standalone. Read after books 1, 2, and 3. TW: Pregnancy Loss.

They didn’t come from the same world … Born rich to a family of mafia royalty, Lucia Marcello was already destined to succeed. She wanted for absolutely nothing, until she met him. Born poor to parents who never cared, Renzo Zulla was already destined to fail. He has struggled for absolutely everything, but she’ll prove to be his biggest fight yet. She’s high society from the upscale suburbs. He’s a drug dealer from New York’s slums. They just weren’t meant to be … until they were. What would it take to change a life—an entire perspective? All the things you thought you knew and wanted? For them, it took thirty-six days. And the privilege of meeting each other. They shouldn’t be. They don’t fit. Love doesn’t care. Note: Privilege is book one in a three-book trilogy following the same couple.

Join the Marcellos as they celebrate the holidays … Cecelia wants one thing for Christmas, and Antony thinks he can make the impossible happen for her. Never underestimate a man who loves his wife. Lucian and Jordyn struggle to make this Christmas perfect for their kids when life gets in the way. Someone waiting in the wings is willing to play Santa to make it all happen. Dante and Catrina battle the stress of managing work and family through the holidays. Sometimes it takes the right kind of reminder from those who matter most to make it all work. Giovanni and Kim have to keep everything together—from business to party planning. Not to mention, they still have to find something that will satisfy little Andino’s one Christmas wish. A little family spirit, and a bit of Christmas magic come together for all the Marcellos to make these holidays the best one yet. Merry Christmas from the Marcellos. It’s the only time of the year when they dust off the filth. ~ Broken into small novellas for each Marcello couple, take a trip through the holidays with everyone from the Filthy Marcellos series. This novella is meant to be read as an add-on to the Filthy Marcellos series, and is not standalone.

Giovanni Marcello lives life by his own terms and has no intention of changing. As a Capo and the son of a mob boss, he knows what is and is not acceptable conduct. That doesn't stop him from doing whatever he wants, whenever he wants to do it. The one thing he would never do is disobey the principles of La Cosa Nostra. That is, until he spends a night with a beautiful stranger. He'll break every rule for her. Kim Abella has made some mistakes-no doubt about it. She's paying for them by a forced marriage she doesn't want to a man who suffocates her with his demands and abuse. After everything, she knew better than to get mixed up with another family, especially their youngest son. Then again, when she's with him, he reminds her of who she is beneath the control that's slowly killing her. She just can't leave him alone. Being spoken for by a made man means Kim is off-limits, but Giovanni doesn't play nice when it comes to taking what should be his. The only thing that might save them both from a bullet and a makeshift grave for what they've done are the very same rules they already broke. Sometimes, love has to start out a little filthy.

Winner, Distinguished Literary Achievement, Missouri Humanities Council, 2015 The story behind the writing of the best-selling Blue Highways is as fascinating as the epic trip itself. More than thirty years after his 14,000-mile, 38-state journey, William Least Heat-Moon reflects on the four years he spent capturing the lessons of the road trip on paper—the stops and starts in his composition process, the numerous drafts and painstaking revisions, the depressing string of rejections by publishers, the strains on his personal relationships, and many other aspects of the toil that went into writing his first book. Along the way, he traces the hard lessons learned and offers guidance to aspiring and experienced writers alike. Far from being a technical manual, Writing Blue Highways: The Story of How a Book Happenedis an adventure story of its own, a journey of “exploration into the myriad routes of heart and mind that led to the making of a book from the first sorry and now vanished paragraph to the last words that came not from a graphite pencil but from a letterpress in Tennessee.” Readers will not find a collection of abstract formulations and rules for writing; rather, this book gracefully incorporates examples from Heat-Moon’s own experience. As he explains, “This story might be termed an inadvertent autobiography written not by the traveler who took Ghost Dancing in 1978 over the byroads of America but by a man only listening to him. That blue-roadman hasn’t been seen in more than a third of a century, and over the last many weeks as I sketched in these pages, I’ve regretted his inevitable departure.” Filtered as the struggles of the “blue-roadman” are through the awareness of someone more than thirty years older with a half dozen subsequent books to his credit, the story of how his first book “happened” is all the more resonant for readers who may not themselves be writers but who are interested in the tricky balance of intuitive creation and self-discipline required for any artistic endeavor.