Books with author Christopher Tunney

The Children’s Author Playbook is an in-depth exploration of creating high-quality and marketable children’s book from Pre-K all the way to High School. The techniques discussed in this book deliver a no-nonsense approach to transforming inspiration into a product that publishers, parents and kids will want. Beginning with an exploration of the readers the author wants to attract and then exploring the best way to craft a story, including setting, plot and character, the book also dives into the different types of children’s books ranging from picture books to Young Adult fiction.With detail on the publishing industry and marketplace included, authors will have all the information they need to create, publish and market the perfect children’s book.

Charley Kidgrass is the last and most powerful of long line of time-travelers, charged with protecting space-time from Damien Drake and his mercenary organization, Masnada.The only problem is, he has no idea. His parents have kept his abilities a secret.Until one day, his father gets trapped in the past. Then, only Charley can save him. Energized with new and mysterious powers, Charley travels back to the Spanish Main during the Golden Age of Piracy and begins a quest to find his dad. Along the way, he befriends the most notable pirates of the time: Stede Bonnet, Benjamin Hornigold, Anne Bonny, Mary Read...and the incomparable Calico Jack Rackham.To save Charley's father, they band together to hunt down Damien Drake and Masnada. But doing so won't be easy. Drake has partnered with the vilest and most despised pirate in human history - Blackbeard - and, against all the laws of space-time, has armed him with modern weapons.Charley has one chance to find Drake, save his father, and protect human history from being irrevocably altered...

Only Christopher Dewdney could mine the darkest pools of lore, legend, natural history, science, cultural history and the arts to recast the seemingly commonplace aspects of an ordinary night into a magical and exhilarating nocturnal tour.Using an original hour-by-hour structure that follows night’s progression from 6:00 pm to 6:00 am, Dewdney explores and celebrates a single representative night at each point on the clock.• 6:00 pm: The setting sun begins Dewdney’s search todiscover the perfect sunset.• 10:00 pm: The evening rhythms of the city hit theirstride, from the cop on the night beat to the backbeatof the clubs.• Midnight: The hour of romance and magic.• 3:00 am: Dewdney is wide awake at a sleep clinic.• 5:00 am: “The desperate hour,” we enter a provocativecultural investigation of the “art of darkness.”For all those who’ve been wondering what they’ve been missing while they sleep, Acquainted with the Night is an illuminating exploration and a terrific gift book.