Books with author Michael Dugan

As she fell through the air, Claire reassured herself the fall would not be enough to kill her and that the real killer would find her fast enough. But once she hit the ground, she laid there, numb and motionless, pools of red hot blood accumulating all throughout her body. As she knew the blood loss was too much to recover from, she recalled everything about the incident that consumed her every waking moment. The petrified look on her friends faces, their chokes of pain and desperation, the slight hint of almonds in the air.Almonds…?She scent of almonds suddenly triggered a new memory, unlocked it. She remembered smelling it in the party. Where exactly? She struggled to pinpoint the exact moment she smelled the hint of almonds. Suddenly, an image began to resurface behind her closed eyelids - the bottle of poison. Hydrogen cyanide gave off the slight hint of almonds. Claire now remembers glancing at the poison as she searched for a weapon to use against Rev, how she knocked the bottle over while grasping for her bag for a can of pepper spray. She remembers it spilling across the ground and seeping into the pool but she was too disoriented to notice and too preoccupied to warn her friends. She realizes she killed them by accident, in the attempt to save them. Claire felt like her entire world was collapsing down on her, spiraling into her and smashing into her being. I killed them, Claire thought to herself. The autumn leaves blew around the crisp air, floating softly and slowly, as if to pay tribute to the tragedy below them. “I am so sorry.” She whispered.Claire felt as if this was the proper end. Perhaps this ending was the only way to do justice to what she had done. And so she stopped fighting. Slowly, but surely, she fell deeper and deeper into unconsciousness, as her eyelids struggled to keep open and her vision began tunneling. Suddenly, she was snapped back from her peaceful departure into awareness, as she heard a rustle in the leaves, then footsteps.“How could you do this to me, dear Claire?” A liquid soft voice crooned from a distance.She thought she was simply imagining things, hearing voices. Perhaps she had already entered the next life, and this voice was not real. But the sudden shadow that covered the light pouring from the lampshade proved Claire otherwise. There was definitely a dark figure standing right above her head - a man. “If I wanted you to die quick and easy, I would have pushed you out that building myself. Instead I felt you deserved a more… dignified end. But we don’t always get what we want, or what we deserve, do we? We don’t get our happy endings because after all...This is reality.”

Discover How to Get Your Screenplay Read (and Eventually Sold!)Want to sell a screenplay, but have no idea how to make it happen?Want to get your script in the hands of Hollywood -- even if you live in Podunk Falls, Idaho?Have a killer screenplay in your drawer but no frickin' idea how to get people to read it? (Or whether you should send a query letter, direct email, carrier pigeon, etc?)Fear not, screenwriter! Because in In “Selling a Screenplay in the 21st Century," former screenplay reader and optioned screenwriter, Michael Rogan, shows you: •How to Conquer Hollywood From 3000 Miles Away •The Tools You Need to Find Out Who Can Read Your Script •How to Know if Your Script is Ready for Prime-Time…and How to Make it •How to Write a Query That Doesn’t Suck •Who You Should Contact in the Business to Read Your Script •How to Call Agencies and Production Companies Without Sounding Like a Total Moron …and so much more!And each chapter includes easy-to-follow action steps to help you boost your screenwriting IQ - without taking a single $2,000 seminar. You CAN get your script read (and possibly) sold! I've done it, and so can you. So, why not begin your quest to world-class screenwriting awesomeness...today!

Can Man regenerate a leg? Discover how a Cherokee granny woman, a refugee from the Trail of Tears, and a country surgeon regrew arms and legs on soldiers and loggers using Underwater Panthers' limb bud transplants. The science of regeneration is described as well as the Native American art and folklore of the mysterious Underwater Panther. The background is the Civil war in the Ozarks and St. Louis. Enjoy the art work in this book.

The story "The Sound of Blue" was awarded Silver Honorable Mention by Writers of the Future, Q2 2019.Aliens exist everywhere. They are android. They hide within the mind. They live on other planets. And they can even travel the universe using technology far beyond our understanding.Markey VI, an android on an orbiting space station, assists an artificial intelligence. David, the A.I., ponders the question of humanity’s fate. The ultimate question is, “Should life be returned to Earth?” The answer is known as the Singular Conclusion. But the answer’s impact reaches far deeper into Markey VI’s electronic components and programmed logic than could be anticipated. And the android’s final moments bring it closer to humanity itself.David Grayson volunteered for a project called, ‘Threading.’ Unfortunately, Threading slowly alters David’s mind. And it affects the other two subjects. But in what way? After the final test goes wrong, David unleashes a powerful ability capable of distorting time.Shiran accuses Abian of murdering her husband. She claims that Abian tells lies about the events leading to the death. She also keeps a secret that could reveal the truth. When Abian uncovers Shiran’s secret, Shiran discovers that there is more to her simple village life than she first believed.It’s a futuristic version of 1930s Chicago. Named Chicago VI, the shielded space city exists somewhere at the far edge of the Oberon Galaxy. And all space cities connect by jump trains, faster-than-light machines. Bobby and his dog, Mister Pleats, barely make ends meet at Chicago VI’s jump train station. But when Bobby meets an alien Xenoarchaeologist, he’ll discover that there’s more possibilities in the galaxy than shining shoes.The Sound of Blue takes you on four journeys of alien discovery. A journey just out of atmospheric reach. To a mysterious planet and at the far end of a galaxy. And into the mind itself where superhuman powers wait to be untapped.

Discover the Secrets to Kindle Publishing Awesomeness!Wanna learn the insider strategies to publishing your book on Kindle? (And actually making money from it?) Wanna turn your literary efforts into a reliable source of passive royalty-check income? Looking for a NO B.S., super-simple guide to getting published on Kindle..and promoting that book to the world?Well, in "How to Publish a Book That Doesn't Suck" you'll discover:•How to Build a Tribe of Passionate (and Irrational) Readers •How to Make Your Book Look Like a Million Dollars (on a Ten-Cent Budget)•The Ultimate Guide to a Kick-Ass Book Launch•The 7 Deadly Sins of Kindle Publishing…and so much more!And each chapter includes easy-to-follow action steps to help you boost your Kindle publishing game - without taking a single $2,000 online course. So, why not begin your quest to Kindle publishing awesomeness...today!

The Gardner Museum Heistexplores all sides of this famously unsolved crime. It discusses police investigations, conspiracy theories, and more related to the biggest art heist in world history. Features include a glossary, references, websites, source notes, and an index. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Essential Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.

On October 8, 1871, a fierce fire broke out in the bustling city of Chicago. Jumping rivers and burning miles of buildings and homes, the flames raged for more than two days. More than a hundred people died, and thousands were left homeless. Could the city have prevented this blaze? To understand the impact of a disaster, you must understand its causes. How did Chicago's building methods add fuel to the fire? How did human error delay help when the fire broke out? Investigate the disaster from a cause-and-effect perspective and find out!