Anne Elliott – författare

Enticing, heart wrenching, and darkly funny, the interconnected stories in The Artstars are set in creative communities—an art school, an illegal loft studio, a guerrilla street performance troupe—where teamwork and professional jealousy mix, and the artists grapple with economic realities and evolving expectations. A middle-aged poet, reeling from 9-11, fights homesickness, writer's block, and ladybugs at an artist's colony. A new empty-nester finds a creative outlet in her community garden, but gets tangled up in garden politics. As the characters pass through each other's stories, making messes and helping mop them up, some find inspiration in accidents; others are ready to quit art completely. Together, they stumble through the creative process, struggling to make art and find the spark of something new and original within themselves. In a world where the odds of becoming a star are nearly impossible, The Artstars tells the stories of those who dare to dream.

University faculty members describe their collaborative projects with other faculty members, rsearchers, graduate students, professional educators, and other stakeholders in the educational enterprise. Through descriptions of several collaborative projects, the chapters explore some of the less explicitly articulated aspects of collaborative ventures.The authors use a variety of conceptual frameworks, derived from a number of disciplines including education and business, to deconstruct collaboration and to further undernstand its elements, issues, dynamics, and problematics. By confronting the challenges of building genuine and effective collaborative partnerships across institutions and cultures and by examining how the personal and the professional intertwine within the process, the book extends and deepens the dialogue about such partnerships. Collaboration is presented as a deeply personal and professionally challenging enterprise that offers satisfaction and enrichment when it is undertaken with eyes and minds wide open.

University faculty members describe their collaborative projects with other faculty members, rsearchers, graduate students, professional educators, and other stakeholders in the educational enterprise. Through descriptions of several collaborative projects, the chapters explore some of the less explicitly articulated aspects of collaborative ventures.The authors use a variety of conceptual frameworks, derived from a number of disciplines including education and business, to deconstruct collaboration and to further undernstand its elements, issues, dynamics, and problematics. By confronting the challenges of building genuine and effective collaborative partnerships across institutions and cultures and by examining how the personal and the professional intertwine within the process, the book extends and deepens the dialogue about such partnerships. Collaboration is presented as a deeply personal and professionally challenging enterprise that offers satisfaction and enrichment when it is undertaken with eyes and minds wide open.

The poems in this book cover a wide spectrum of topics, from lifes most embarrassing moments to our deepest feelings. Also included in the mix is humour with a dash of fantasy. There is plenty here to appeal to every age group.

The poems in this book explore human idiosyncrasies highlighting life''s dramas, but sprinkled with a touch of humour and fantasy..

This book is about men and women who are trying to live up to the expectations of those around them, looking to others to make them happy, not realizing that the power lies within.

The 6 essential steps for nurturing writers who have the will to write is the core of this practical book. Based on extensive classroom experience, the book explores how teachers can help students tap into their own life experiences, model the habits of a writer, and make use of the tools of the trade.

Inspired by real bloodstains and from detailed research comes arefreshingly different historical romance between a god-fearing woman and aknown murderer MyHusband: The Extraordinary History of Nicholas Brome combines fifteenth century imagery with themes of morality andforgiveness in a historical novel that takes inspiration from a true story oflove and murder. It explores the life of Nicholas Brome, a Warwickshire lordwith a violent, blood-soaked past, through the soul-searching of his third wifeand widow, Lettice Catesby. Their residence, Baddesley Clinton, featuresprominently in the novel, and still stands as a historical property people cantour today - including Nicholas’ grave where he demands to be buried standingup. An enduring punishment - but is it a just one? When Lettice married Nicholas, 25 yearsher senior, she believed she knew all there was about his violent past and themurders he committed. He had pleaded to the King and the Pope for pardon andboth Lettice and God had long ago forgiven him. But on his deathbed, Nicholasconfesses once more and this time there can be no forgiveness. Shocked,desperate, Lettice examines all she knows of his life for an explanation: hischildhood torn apart by the power struggles between Yorkists and Lancastrians,the promise and pain of his marriages, his love of family and his amends forhis violent behaviour. An inspiring story of love and loyalty in the face of avery real fear of Hell.