Books published by publisher Storycraft Publishing

A beading bible that answers questions spanning every experience level—from basic knots to special techniques like bead knitting.Whether you’re mastering crocheting with beads or choosing supplies for your very first necklace, Karen Morris has the answers to all your questions. Concise, straightforward, and packed with illustrations, this handy little book is full of tips and techniques that will take your craft to the next level. With insightful advice on everything from thread storage to fragile glass beads, The Beading Answer Book will help you solve your most vexing beading dilemmas.“Indispensable.” —Making Beaded Jewelry“A terrific reference book for beaders of any level.” —WEBS Yarn Store Blog

Learn to apply the top-down construction method to crochet with fourteen gorgeous patterns you can adjust as you go for a customized fit!Welcome to the new era of crochet. Making garments from the top down is a favorite knitting technique that allows knitters to test and adjust the fit as they go. Now, thanks to designer Dora Ohrenstein, crocheters will benefit for the first time from a pattern book featuring the same beloved approach. These fourteen fashionable patterns are sure to flatter bodies of all shapes and sizes. Show-stopping original photography, an extensive discussion of the benefits of top-down construction, and detailed instructions on how and why to adjust the patterns to ensure an exquisite customized fit will have crocheters tying themselves in knots to start strutting their stuff!

Professor Albrecht Longenfang steps through the Great Cosmic Mirror to the Magick Earth, his mission to track down the alternate version of his lost love, Vulpina Vixen. He knows it’s a one-way trip and a silly idea as Vulpina is currently with Tobias, the alternate version of Toby Thompson, but he has to try.Finding Vulpina is easy. She is a disciple of High Priest Ruthan, at the Church of the Great Cosmic Mirror. Albrecht even gets the chance to tell her about the death of her Science Earth counterpart.But then he gets into a fight with Tobias and is banished from the church. He finds himself back out on the street, unsure what to do next.Then Millicent Jorgensen, meditating in front of a mirror, decides to cross over and join him. Unfortunately she has no way to return – save through the giant mirror at the church. Realising he has an obligation to look after his former student, Albrecht takes her back to the church.But High Priest Ruthan and his disciples have tired of simply lurking in the shadows, hiding from the authorities while trying to recruit new followers. The time has come to act, to finally bring Magick and Science together. And Caroline “Karuna” Collins believes she has figured out the way.Also available:Nocturnal AcademyNocturnal Academy 2 – Teacher’s PetNocturnal Academy 3 – Immaterial GirlNocturnal Academy 4 – the Supernatural CircusNocturnal Academy 5 - Mage Against the MachineNocturnal Academy 6 – The Da Vinci CodexNocturnal Academy 7 – School of ThoughtNocturnal Academy 8 – The Lonely HouseNocturnal Academy 9 – Mirror MirrorNocturnal Academy 10 – The Nightmare GamesNocturnal Academy 11 – TunguskaNocturnal Academy 12 – Wall of FireNocturnal Academy 13 – When Gods CollideNocturnal Academy 14 – Infinite TimesNocturnal Academy 15 – The Dark Magick Side of the MoonNocturnal University 1 – Higher LearningNocturnal University 2 – Course of DestructionAlso by Ethan Somerville for children and young adults:Lockout; a futuristic action-packed adventure about teenagers who discover they have psychic powers.Dicing with the Universe: an exciting cyberpunk action-adventure spanning three different time periods.Mirrorworld Tales 1 - Necromantic Voyage: What would a group of gamers really do if they were somehow transported to a real fantasy world of myth and magic?Mirrorworld Tales 2 - Empire of the Undead: the gamers must journey into a truly unholy land to find their way home.By Ethan Somerville and Emma Daniels for young adults:Return to Atlantis; a sci-fi romance for teenagers about a schoolgirl who falls in love with a rock star who is really an exiled Atlantean rebel.

Alice Dibble has finally made it to the Nocturnal Academy, and is ready to start lessons at the most exclusive private school in Australia. She believes she is about to be trained to become a nocturnal defender of the Earth against the chaotic hordes of the Immaterium, and is ready to face up to this noble challenge.Unfortunately, when she arrives she discovers that the Nocturnal Academy isn’t really that different from her old school. Lessons are tedious, equipment is old and broken, bats roosting in the rafters keep dropping presents on her notebook - and then there is scullery duty, which involves taking rubbish out to the epic compost heap, known to swallow children whole.Alice’s new friend Toby, once a popular kid at her primary school, has become an outcast; her old enemy Carla needs help to learn how to change into her new animal form, and a little omniwere boy who can only change into tiny creatures like rats and rabbits has developed a crush on her.Alice must also learn how to use her new vampire powers responsibly without succumbing to the lure of the darkness.To make matters worse, Professor Abbacus, a teacher Alice thought liked her, now seems to want to kill her. It is all Alice can do to keep one step ahead of him and all of his devious, convoluted plans to punish her for the destruction of the Holloway Grimoire.Also available:Nocturnal AcademyNocturnal Academy 3 - Immaterial GirlNocturnal Academy 4 - The Supernatural CircusNocturnal Academy 5 - Mage against the MachineNocturnal Academy 6 - The Da Vinci CodexNocturnal Academy 7 - School of ThoughtNocturnal Academy 8 - The Lonely HouseNocturnal Academy 9 - Mirror MirrorNocturnal Academy 10 - The Nightmare GamesNocturnal Academy 11 - TunguskaNocturnal Academy 12 - Wall of FireNocturnal Academy 13 - When Gods CollideNocturnal Academy 14 - Infinite TimesNocturnal Academy 15 - The Dark Magick Side of the MoonNocturnal Academy Omnibus - Books 1-3Nocturnal University 1 - Higher LearningNocturnal University 2 - Course of DestructionAlso available by Ethan Somerville for younger readers:Lockout; an action-packed futuristic adventure about teenagers with psychic powers.Return to Atlantis; a sci-fi romance for teenagers about a schoolgirl who falls in love with a rock star who is really an exiled Atlantean rebel.Dicing with the Universe: an exciting cyberpunk action-adventure for teenagers and young adults spanning three different time periods.

Join the storytelling fun! If you’ve ever wanted to try storytelling, Family Stories, Book #2 in the KidTeller Series, will show you how to get started in an informal, familiar environment.What are family stories? Are they…stories you tell to younger brothers, grandparents, aunts or uncles? stories you learn about your unique family history? family legends you create with your family while working together on a project? They are all of the above. But they all have one unique common characteristic. They are all informal stories, adapted for their specific listeners. They are not theatrical performances that are memorized and recited or acted out. They are tales that are learned and modified for each new telling. Just like writers are advised to “write what they know,” storytellers should “tell to who you know,” know your audience. And, since there’s no audience you know better than your family, you’ll find many beginner storytelling opportunities. Whether you’ve read KidTellers Book 1 Easy Beginner Tales or other beginning instruction, or are just getting started now, Family Stories can help you learn basic storytelling concepts, showing you how to speak to your audience and see their responses to you. You’ll learn how storytelling can be more like a conversation than like theater. As in all KidTellers Series books, you’ll find complete “TellerPaks,” each with example stories, step-by-step illustrated instructions for easy props to help tell them, fun activities and telling tips, and an “extra surprise” to help 9-12 year olds develop storytelling skills. With an active table of contents and links you can jump directly to each TellerPak and then navigate within each TellerPak to a favorite story or craft. The three Family Stories TellerPaks provide examples of different kinds of family stories:TellerPak #1: “Tote Bag Tales” shows how to use a tote bag full of props to help tell a tale. It presents one way to capture a young child’s interest with props and hold it while telling a tiny tale. Then it shows how to adapt the tale for senior citizens or other relatives. TellerPak #2: “Take a Family History StoryQuest” shows how to learn about events and people in your family’s past. Learn to make and put together a family history puzzle, get relatives to tell the tales behind the facts, and discover what makes you and your family unique. TellerPak #3: “The Fairy Garden Adventures” shows you one way to create stories with your family members while working on a family project together. Learn to create a series of stories that pass on family values, help solve problems, and teach about your family traditions. You can get started storytelling right now, with the people and stories you know best, your family! Let Family Stories help you find the amazing story treasures you already have right at home. Become a KidTeller today! (9-12 yr olds)

Series Description:StoryQuest Books are collections of stories for 12-15 year-olds to help inspire you to discover and create stories from your own life experiences. To write stores, first, read stories! Just as scientists and inventors read reports before experimenting or creating, storytellers also investigate before creating. Such StoryQuests can not only inspire story ideas but can also help you solve creative stumbling blocks by providing many options and patterns of complete short stories. They are not intended as perfect forms to analyze or copy; instead of rules of what must be done, examples show various possibilities to help you imagine your own unique stories. StoryQuest Books provide convenient samplings of the types of tales that might be found on a full StoryQuest, as a way to get started on such a creative journey, with tips of where to go next.E-book Description:In Birthday Lights, the first book of the StoryQuest Books Series, unique new stories are combined with adaptations of a few favorites to create a sampling of birthday-themed adventures of a variety of lengths and styles. Birthdays are a great way to start StoryQuesting because the familiar theme can provide many easy jumping-off points to discover similar tales from your life. Subjects range from the familiar--parties, gifts, and wishes--to the unexpected--unicorns and robots! Some stories, short and snappy, provide quick inspirations and are easy for younger readers. Others weave more complicated tales, for times when you want to curl up for a comfortable thoughtful hour of uplifting bright fiction. Read in any order, start with ones that interest you most, save others for later. At the end, find tips how to discover your own stories and where to go next to continue your birthday StoryQuest. Whether used to help celebrate a birthday, or as a creative aid, Birthday Lights will help shine a light on the many marvelous stories waiting hidden in your own life.

Want to play chess?An epidemic of perpetual sleep threatens to drive the world mad...Are you good at it?Unless Alice and the Pillar can solve a global chess game where every world leader plays to save their own country.Good enough to play for your life?Designed by the one Wonderland monster who knows what the Six Impossible keys are for, Alice will have to risk the lives of millions to expose his secret.But that’s the least of Alice’s fears. She is about face a monster who is on nobody's side, but his. A monster who shares a terrible past with her she can’t quite remember. A past that will deepen her struggles with her identity and the things she'd done -- and is about to do.On the other hand Inspector Dormouse is about to discover why Pilla da Killa killed 12 people in cold blood. A discovery that he may soon regret.Will Alice walk the white tiles of the chessboard of life again like she did in the Vatican? Will she triumph over her sins in the past? Will she find love again? Is she really destined to kill the Pillar? And most important of all, who is Carter Pillar, reall

Necronis the Unmaker is now only days away from tearing open the Wall of Fire. The hordes of imps and demons surrounding the breach are glorying in his imminent arrival.But the mysterious newcomer to the Nocturnal Academy, the eccentric Rhys Kelly, has an insane plan to close the breach that he believes just might work. It will require the school’s most powerful mages and fighters to join forces with Appleton’s priests and shamans. The timely arrival of the Nocturnal University provides more help in the form of Lord Eldritch, Dr Ashe, Dr Primus, Malcolm and Kim.However, even with such a diverse group of multi-talented people, they will still be facing off against a truly formidable opponent. The Dark God has millions of monsters at his beck and call, ranging from the tiniest imps and larger demons, to massive lords, devoted Necronites and even his own chosen son.Necronis is hell-bent on claiming the universe that he believes rightfully belongs to him, and will do anything to thwart his foes.To succeed Rhys and his small army will require nothing short of a miracle, and help from an extremely unexpected quarter.Also available in this series:Nocturnal AcademyNocturnal Academy 2 – Teacher’s PetNocturnal Academy 3 – Immaterial GirlNocturnal Academy 4 – the Supernatural CircusNocturnal Academy 5 - Mage Against the MachineNocturnal Academy 6 – The Da Vinci CodexNocturnal Academy 7 – School of ThoughtNocturnal Academy 8 – The Lonely HouseNocturnal Academy 9 – Mirror MirrorNocturnal Academy 10 – The Nightmare GamesNocturnal Academy 11 – TunguskaNocturnal Academy 12 – Wall of FireNocturnal Academy 14 – Infinite TimesNocturnal Academy 15 – The Dark Magick Side of the MoonNocturnal University 1 – Higher LearningNocturnal University 2 – Course of Destruction

Fairies are real, but they’re not cute winged girls in cobweb dresses. They don’t dance in mushroom circles and they certainly don’t grant wishes. They’re large, angry dragonflies with the ability to drain emotions, and they’re massing. A war is coming.At the Australian Nocturnal Academy, the Earth’s last dragon is finally starting as an official student. Hoping to make friends his own age, Drago Bethelrath decides to suppress his true aspect and appear as an ordinary were-lizard.However, making friends is harder than it looks. Some kids are nice, like the Colin the were-hedgehog and Olive the cactus girl, but others like Derrick the weredog don’t behave in a way Drago understands. He gets into fights and ends up on detention. His teachers begin to despair of him ever growing into the magnificent being he is supposed to become.But when the fairies abduct the Nocturnal Academy’s principal, Drago discovers that he is completely immune to fairy glamour – and must join the quest to save the head master.Related to this series:Nocturnal Academy books 1-20Nocturnal University books 1-3

Necronis the Unmaker is coming. He is clawing open the Wall of Fire and influencing the entire Immaterium. Thousands of celestials have formed a barrier in front of him, but despite their combined wills the Dark God will soon rip the hole large enough to step through.When he breaks free, he will tear the universe apart.He is gaining followers and a large group of Necronites have set up camp in front of Appleton’s Old Cider Factory, preparing to welcome their evil master with open arms.Just when everyone is at a complete loss at how to combat him a mysterious stranger appears at the Nocturnal Academy who just might have a solution.Unfortunately Rhys Kelly has lost parts of his memory and has no idea how he arrived at the school. Before he can help to combat Necronis he needs to rediscover exactly what he can do. It is up to the teachers, and Alice and her friends, to shape this middle-aged computer programmer into a lean, mean fighting machine.But not everyone believes Rhys to be the answer to their prayers and Professor Abbacus even sees him as a threat.And to make matters worse, the delinquents at the Old Cider Factory have gained some powerful new leaders and are planning a bloody takeover of their own.Also available in this series:Nocturnal AcademyNocturnal Academy 2 – Teacher’s PetNocturnal Academy 3 – Immaterial GirlNocturnal Academy 4 – the Supernatural CircusNocturnal Academy 5 - Mage Against the MachineNocturnal Academy 6 – The Da Vinci CodexNocturnal Academy 7 – School of ThoughtNocturnal Academy 8 – The Lonely HouseNocturnal Academy 9 – Mirror MirrorNocturnal Academy 10 – The Nightmare GamesNocturnal Academy 11 – TunguskaNocturnal Academy 13 – When Gods CollideNocturnal Academy 14 – Infinite TimesNocturnal Academy 15 – The Dark Magick Side of the Nocturnal University 1 – Higher LearningNocturnal University 2 - Course of DestructionNocturnal Academy Omnibus - Books 1-3

The perennial classic—one of the bestselling gardening books of all time and the companion to the TV series of the same name. Full of useful tips and practical garden wisdom, this straightforward guide shows you everything you need to know to grow a more bountiful harvest with less work. Stressing the utility of raised beds and wide rows, gardening expert Dick Raymond shares his time-tested techniques for preparing the soil, starting plants, and controlling weeds. With helpful photographs, clear charts, and profiles of reliable garden vegetables, Joy of Gardening will inspire you to grow your best crop ever.“Considered by many readers to be the best of the gardening books out there.” —Lake News Online

This boxed set How To Guide on novel writing is perfect for beginners needing the basics AND seasoned writers looking to dramatically improve their skills.MAKING DESCRIPTION WORK HARD FOR YOULearn how to use description to achieve deep point of view and to create stories and characters readers will remember long after the last page is turned.GOING DEEP INTO DEEP POINT OF VIEWIn this book, you'll learn about the different kinds of POV, choosing the right POV for your scene, when, how, and why to shift POV, how to achieve deep point of view, and more.SOME LIKE IT HOT: WRITING SEX AND ROMANCEIn this book you’ll learn how to create sexual tension, how to write sex scenes, and how to plot a romance that will have readers staying up until the wee hours to finish and closing your novel on a happy sigh.