Katharine Campbell – författare

Having the big idea is merely the beginning. Raising and using venture capital is pivotal to the success of many an ambitious new venture, but venture capital is more than money. It's far too expensive to be treated merely as cash, and if used well, far more critical to the successful venture.This can be a daunting process.

Smarter Ventures leads you inside the world of European venture capital, and takes you step-by-step through the venture cycle.

By holding a mirror up to both sides of the money-raising process, Katharine Campbell shows how entrepreneurs can better understand venture capitalists - and vice versa – leading to more productive relationships and smarter ventures.

Katharine Campbell explains how venture capitalists think, what they are looking for and why. Learn how to spot the good -and the bad – investors, and equip yourself with the tools and the knowledge to seal a successful partnership.

Smarter Ventures is the bible of the European venture capital market and your complete companion to the venture cycle.

"Smarter Ventures is essential reading for anyone interested and involved in new ventures and venture capital – whether funding it, using it, providing it or teaching potential entrepreneurs…. The book is so complete it is almost a funding cookbook…. Anyone involved in enterprise, as a practitioner, venture capitalist or academic, should regard Smarter Ventures as required reading."

- Book Review, Financial Times

Rosaline''s ex-fiancé is a god. 

At least, that''s what he claims to be. He could be a purple gnome for all Rosaline cares, she just wants him out of her life. 

Unfortunately, his presence is the result of a curse she brought upon herself when she stole the sacred relics of Ilona the Godslayer. 

Since the ill-advised theft, her luck changed for the worse in several ways. Her brother died, she was betrothed to that awful swine, and put into an enchanted sleep for almost eight hundred years. To add insult to injury, her fiancé was somehow still alive when she woke up. 

It seems the only way to turn her luck around and get rid of her evil ex, is to return the relics she stole. 

Unfortunately, a lot changed while she was in that enchanted sleep. For one thing, everyone now spends most of their time staring at the magic rectangles they keep in their pockets. For another thing, moving human bones across international borders requires a permit.

If Rosaline is to return the relics and break her curse, she has to learn to navigate this new and remarkable world of paperwork and machines.

Luckily, she gets a little help from a friend. 

Mark Reid is working toward a master''s degree in forensic anthropology. His near-perfect life is turned upside down when what he thinks is a perfectly preserved eight-hundred-year-old corpse turns out to be a princess who is still very much alive.

Now, he must help her integrate into the modern world while somehow convincing her that this holy quest to return the relics she stole is a bad idea.

In this sequel to Love, Treachery, and Other Terrors, seventeen-year-old Augustine has a near-perfect life. His mother and stepfather adore him, he is looking forward to a promising career as a knight, and he''s pretty sure the doctor''s daughter likes him as much as he likes her. Aside from the occasional duel with his cousin, he doesn''t have any real problems. 

Until he''s kidnapped by a band of highwaymen. As if tying him up and dragging him away from home wasn''t bad enough, the ruffians start spouting nonsense about how he is the illegitimate son of some horrible, honorless, murdering prince named Justin. 

Augustine, of course, doesn''t believe these vile rumors. By his mother''s own account, her late husband was the perfect man in every imaginable way. She would never lie to him about something as important as his father... right?

In this quirky, medieval fantasy Augustine must find a way to escape his captors and uncover who he really is. It''s a story of providence, heroism, and learning to embrace the truth.