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Nora The Screenplay by Charles J Harwood

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This easy to read screenplay is centred around the fickle yet pervading aura of celebrity culture in Western society. Biographies are published about lives that have hardly begun and the media tell the audience what they need to read, plugging only an airbrushed and commercial view of what is real. Incidentally, the screenplay is being adapted into a novel on my other blog . Story of Celebrity Culture The other extreme is often written about, the woman with 10 husbands or a story about the man who committed the biggest tax fraud. We don’t hear about the in-between, the ordinary and very real lives of people struggling with everyday problems. I decided I would bring the lives of two such people together. Vince is a playboy millionaire and owner of a string of nightclubs. He is the sort of celebrity who has a publishing deal with a top magazine to print a series of exclusives about his private life that in fact are a promotional ruse. His teeth are airbrushed white and his skin ...

Gone Too Far: 3 Psychological Thrillers about Taboo is now in Paperback

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This large thriller trilogy comprising full length novels (collectively around 250,000 words) is now available in paperback as well as Kindle. The novels of which this book comprises can also be purchased singly.                      Psychological Thriller Trilogy This fabulous trilogy of novels is centered upon a common theme: the forbidden. Three such situations of taboo can be found within. The hostage and the captor; the voyeur and the performer; the teacher and the pupil. Here exists a line that should never be crossed – but what if it were? Some scenes are toe-curling, others a little more disturbing. Blurbs are provided below. The Shuttered Room Little do they know their captive holds a deadly secret. Jess’s idyllic life is shattered when she is taken hostage and held in an upstairs room by 3 thugs. In a failed escape attempt, she cuts a hole in the bedroom...

Should I Sell My Books Through Google Play and Google Books?

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Google has revamped their old Google Books Partner program to enable self published writers to upload their books onto their platform in both Google Books and Google Play. After uploading my books on Google’s digital platform, have found some pros and cons on using Google Books Partners for selling my books. The Difference Between Google Play and Google Books Google play is basically a digital platform comprising a choice of uploads centered upon hobbies and leisure for Android-powered handsets and computers. Similar to its former Android Market, forms of entertainment include apps (games and gadgets), ebooks, movies/TV, music and magazines. Google Play is a unified shop where customers may upload various modes of entertainment from one store. Selling Books on Google Google Books, formerly known as ‘Google Print’ has been around longer than Google Play. As well as commercially available books, this program comprises scanned images of books that are out of print or no l...

Selling Gbooks through the Google Partner Center

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The Google Books and Google Play program enables the self published writer to sell ebooks online from one dashboard. All you have to do is to sign up for the Google’s Partner program. Within a few steps, your books will show up on Google Books searches and also on Google Play. How to Get your Books onto Google Play The writer may consider uploading a completed novel onto Amazon’s KDP platform, Smashwords or Kobo. But Google has also a platform where the writer may upload books where they may become more visible on searches. The system is a little fiddly and the pros and cons of selling your books on Google play are explained in another article. For now, I shall take you through the steps. Firstly, enroll for the Google Partner Program. You will need a Google account into order to do so. Once enrolled, you will need to complete all fields on a ‘Book Catalog’ page. How to Publish Books on Google Play You will need to collate some information on your book in order to fil...