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A Story is a Promise & The Spirit of Storytelling    by Bill Johnson
Price: $3.00 USD. 75120 words. Published on April 9, 2011. .

A Story is a Promise offers new writers a way to study and understand how popular novels become so successful. For writers considering self-publishing, it offers techniques for revising a manuscript to achieve its full potential. This is the book agents recommend to their authors. The Spirit of Storytelling explores how the great storytellers create characters with deeply realized inner lives.
Doggirl    by Robin Brande
Price: $6.99 USD. 54350 words. Published by Ryer Publishing  on April 28, 2011. .

Riley Case has always been an expert with dogs--it's people she doesn't understand. She's been keeping a low profile at her high school--well, except for that incident with the birds--but when the chance comes to use her talents as a dog trainer to help the drama department win a national competition, she knows she can't stay in the shadows any longer.
Of Love and Vengeance    by Roger Laird
Price: Free! 4660 words. Published on August 10, 2011. .

Love is a powerful thing, not just between lovers, but also between friends. The desire for vengeance can be even stronger. Draco is about to experience this first hand. When duty compels him to avenge the death of his best friend, it becomes his primary obsession. How will this obsession affect his relationship with his new wife? Will Draco and Julia be ripped apart by his desire for vengeance?
The Treadmill    by Andrea Adriani
Price: $0.99 USD. 7570 words. Published on September 16, 2011. .

The Roman Province of Judaea, Anno Domini XXXIII. The main character, a demon, acts as a puppeteer who pulls the strings of the other characters. They are the unaware spectators and actors of an evanescent show, which references to a plausible historical reality and eventually compels the reader to get lost in the maze of a metaphysical symbolism.
Wittenberg    by Brennan Smith
Price: $6.99 USD. 27080 words. Published on October 5, 2011. .

A prequel to Shakespeare's Hamlet. To win his lady’s favor, a Swedish soldier conspires to kidnap Hamlet off the streets of Wittenberg, unaware that Hamlet's brother has come in secret to woo the lady for himself.
The Ostraka Plays - Volume FIVE - CONSTANTINOPLE, ITS DREAMS    by Francis Hagan
Price: $1.99 USD. 27370 words. Published on January 22, 2012. .

Constantinople, once the greatest city ever known, has degenerated into a grotesque; a carnival of buffons and butchers who stumble with abandon and glee through this city's mazes and its endless riddles. In this play, the City is both a meditation and an escape – a dream in which the past imagines the present.
Mastering Story Structure - A guide for writing unforgettable plays    by Bill Johnson
Price: $0.99 USD. 22120 words. Published on January 27, 2012. .

Bill Johnson uses reviews of Romeo and Juliet, The Heidi Chronicles, Death of a Salesman, Hamlet, and The Iceman Cometh to teach the art and craft of writing powerful plays. Using this guide, you'll be able to learn about writing plays from masters of the craft.
How to Write and Sell Your Plays    by Cenarth Fox
Price: $4.99 USD. 42610 words. Published on June 4, 2012. .

Lessons on how to write different types of plays and on different ways to have them performed.