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William H Coles
The Gift and Other Stories explores mysteries of human desires and the unique ways each of us struggles to fulfill our meaning for existence. Each story is unique in time…
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William H. Coles
The Illustrated Fiction of William H. Coles 2000-2012 presents the collect award-winning fiction of William H. Coles including fourteen short stories, five short shorts, a novella (The Surgeon's Wife), and…
A collection of thirty-three award-winning stories and a novella by William H. Coles, creator of the educational website–storyinliteraryfiction.com. Also available in full color print and as eBook, published as Illustrated…
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A collection of thirty-three award-winning stories, a novella, and two graphic novels by William H. Coles, creator of the educational website–storyinliteraryfiction.com. Also available in Black/White print as Short Fiction by…
A collection of thirty-three award-winning stories, a novella, and two graphic novels by William H. Coles, creator of the educational website–storyinliteraryfiction.com. Full Color Edition, also available in Black/White as Short…
Sister Carrie is a novella about a sister who must mother her younger sister when their parents die. The younger sister falls in love with a foreigner with a dark…
Nine short stories about American life, unrequited love, familial distrust, and unfair parental control, and a novella where cultures clash and humans survive with caring and selflessness overcoming the default…
Mike Boudreaux, as a trauma surgeon Chief of Service, must discipline an impaired surgeon performing unnecessary and dangerous surgery for the obese. He is Boudreaux’s former teacher and mentor, and…
Darwin Hastings is seventeen and his dying aunt sends him from Pittsburgh to New York to a new guardian, a famous wealthy football player. He expects to recapture the love…
The literary story is an art form created in the imagination. Using principles and guidelines, this clearly-written, succinct manual helps authors create structure, and action and drama in their wiritng…
Literary stories have structure, are created with imagination, and provide meaning and enjoyment for the reader. This book tells how to learn the process of story telling and improve your…
Facing Grace with Gloria and Other Stories explores mysteries of human desires and the unique ways each of us struggles to fulfill our meaning for existence. Each story is unique…
Darwin Hastings is seventeen and his dying aunt sends him from Pittsburgh to New York to a new guardian, a famous wealthy football player. He is excited and afraid; he…
Tour of Duty is a fiction novel-literary and historical–set in France, 1960-1966, at the height of the cold war and written with strong characterization, conflict, and dynamic plots. Major characters…
An admired and lauded surgeon climbs to the top of his profession. But his callous and questionably moral determination angers colleagues and friends who vow to destroy him. When his…
An essential guide for every writer of fiction. Learn: Character, Narration, Structure, Dialogue, Point of View, Writing in Scene, Drama (Conflict-Action-Resolution), Humor, Revision
An educative volume with essays about the process of creating fictional story; interviews with authors, editors, publishers, and a Pulitzer Prize winner on the writing process; and original short stories…
William H Coles, Jr
An essential guide for every writer of fiction. Learn the following: Character Narration Structure Dialogue Point of view Writing in scene Drama (conflict-action-resolution) Humor Revision
McDowell An admired and lauded surgeon climbs to the top of his profession, but his callous and questionably moral determination angers colleagues and friends who vow to destroy him. He…
A New Orleans aristocrat and doctor, Clayton Otherson, is an aging national leader in the field of trauma surgery who begins to injure patients with his unacceptable technical and judgmental…
A successful woman lawyer falls in love with a TV-evangelist accused of sexually molesting a child. He is convicted and while on appeal he escapes and she follows him to…
A successful married woman lawyer falls in love with a TV-evangelist accused of sexually molesting a child. He is convicted but escapes and she follows him to Africa. When she…
A literary psychological thriller by award-winning author William H. Coles. Two orphaned sisters, facing a future of want and loneliness, quarrel when the older sister, responsible for her dependent teenage…
