"Pure magic! Frank has an original way with language. His sideways, off kilter look at everyday occurrences energizes his stories." -FRANK RUTLEDGE Frank Sobo's short stories resonate with adults everywhere who have lived life tongue in cheek. His career New York to Pittsburgh, Boston, London and Chicago as an award winning art director, director/cameraman, and author brings the snappy language of advertising into his tales. He colors outside the box to bring his readers the painfully humorous glimpses at youth, maturity and aging with the wit and wisdom of a man who has lived --- really lived his life.

Frank Sobo returns to the front shelf with DNA STEW, a collection of forty hilarious stories that allow the reader to see the world through a new pair of eyes. "Frank- if you could work a live skunk in here as part of a menage a tois, I think you can kill the entire gerbil business. -KEVIN BURRIS "Aha, proof that Satan really is behind Halloween!" -TODD POSSEHL "Your writing style is akin to getting into a racy sports car in mid-journey, exhilarated and totally enrapt." -NELLIE GREGORY "Frank- I underlined some words in your book so I can increase my vocabulary." -ALLEN ROSS "As always, you are still the jester of the unbelievable reality." - FRANK RUTLEDGE

On a bright autumn day, Flynn Marlowe lost his best friend, a beagle named Barley, while out on a hike in Seattle’s Discovery Park. On a cold winter day, Mac Bowersox found his best friend, a lost, scared, and emaciated beagle, on the streets of Seattle. Two men. One dog. When Flynn and Mac meet by chance in a park the next summer, there’s a problem -- who does Barley really belong to? Flynn wants him back, but he can see that Mac rescued him and loves him just as much as he does. Mac wants to keep the dog, and he can imagine how heartbreaking losing him would be -- but that's just what Flynn experienced. A “shared custody” compromise might be just the way to work things out. But will the arrangement be successful? Mac and Flynn are willing to try it ... and along the way, they just might fall in love.

An invaluable creative tool for all songwriters, poets, and teachers! Schirmer's Complete Rhyming Dictionary is the ultimate rhyming dictionary with more than 96,000 one-, two-, and three- syllable rhymes! In addition to providing numerous rhyming options, the book also contains helpful sections on the role of rhymes in songwriting such as: What is a rhyme? Must a song rhyme? Difference between writing lyrics and writing poetry Usage of rhymes Spontaneous creation True rhymes versus false rhymes Rhyme schemes Inner or internal rhymes

Faced with her husbands infidelity, Ellen Gold has no place to hide. She must confront the reality of her dead marriage. But at 50, she cant figure out where shes been, where she is and where shes going. Tapping a wellspring she doesnt know she has, Ellen finds the strength to wrestle with her frailties. Just as she starts to win, a high school boyfriend charms her into bed...then disappears. Ellen must again fight rejection. All her doubts and fears rise up to engulf her. With humor and intellect, and help from friends who know her better than she knows herself, Ellen takes charge of her own life. Her experience is one that most women, and some men, will see as a metaphor, and roadmap, for their own lives.

All anyone wants is to be read like a page-turneropened, flipped through, enjoyed. People want to be connected with, used, loved, if only privately by an exclusive person or set of people. We want to be read like books because we write ourselves like books; narratives of character, theme, plot. And we read ourselves, too, what weve written in our minds. Its scary, says Ana; her brow coldly sweats. Imagine its a dreamscape, I say, squinching. The trees are sleepwalkers. They sway and breathe. Their canopies are the umbragical skulls of scatterbrained giants. from Fools

Opposites attract, and so much more in The Making It series. This collection features all five books in the collection, and it is a trope paradise where everyone has a happy ever after. Starting with Making It Fit, all the way through Making It Legal, love always wins in this gay romance collection. Making It Fit When my best friend on the force Federico was killed in the line of duty, I swore to him as he died in my arms, I would take care of his baby brother, Victor. I never went back on my word. Victor moved back to our hometown after college, and he needed a place to stay. The kid was going to live next door to a crack house in a bad part of town, but I knew his older brother would haunt me if I allowed that to happen, so I demanded he move into my spare bedroom. When he showed up on my doorstep, his transformation from an awkward teenager to a striking young man floored me. Victor was everything I had ever wanted—smart, smoking hot, and innocent—but there was no way he could handle a rough around the edges cop like me. I kept my paws to myself, until one day Victor told me he had never been with another man before. He wanted advice on how to get a boyfriend, and how to keep him. That broke me. I’d show Victor how to please a man, all right. Me. Making It Spark Aaron had tormented me all through high school. He was the athlete who always had a girl on his arm, and another in the backseat of his convertible. I was the sensitive theater geek and knew I was different, while he was the jock determined to make my life a living hell. Years later, he put out a fire in my building and ignited one inside of me. Of course, he was straight. Every man I fell for preferred skirts to me. But something was different about Aaron now. He wanted to be my friend, and straight guys normally didn’t hang out with me. So, I dragged him to a gay bar, hoping to scare him away. Instead, when a drunk guy got handsy with me, Aaron kissed me. Like, tongue in mouth full-on kissed me. Straight guys didn’t kiss gay guys, right? Making It Spark Landon Smith has a problem. He’s socially awkward, prefers coding over cocktails, and occasionally wears mismatched socks. His life is full, working as an adjunct professor at the local college, and volunteering as a tutor for underprivileged youths. Then his worst nightmare moves in next door to him, a macho ex-marine who just won’t leave him alone. They have nothing in common until the brawny man begs Landon to tutor him. He agrees, but only after Angel promises to keep his paws to himself. Angel Perez is the devil, or at least that’s what Landon thinks. But, there’s something about how he fills his skin-tight jeans that Landon can’t get out of his head. And to make matters worse, he’s feeling emotions he never has before. The domineering man is determined to claim Landon, who is terrified of giving in to his urges. Making It Glitter Blake Anderson will do anything to survive, even taking a seasonal gig as a Christmas elf at the local shopping mall. Embarrassing, yes, but if that’s what he must do to pay the rent, he’ll wear the skintight green hose and the silly wig. At first it is almost unbearable, but then he’s reunited with his teenage crush, who’s having his own string of bad luck. Eddie Garza is the last person you expect to don a Santa costume, but when his business is nearly destroyed, he only has two options, either start turning tricks for cash, or put on the red suit and ignore the screaming of tiny little tots. What makes it worthwhile is working with his friend from years ago. Eddie hasn’t ever thought of Blake romantically, but now he wants to shove the snotty kids off his lap and replace them with the cute redhead. Will Santa find true love with his glittery elf? Making It Legal Diesel has a problem. He’s been a highly paid escort for years, but he’s nearing his fortieth birthday. In the world of prostitution, that’s when you hang up your jockstrap and find a real job. Unfortunately for him, he has no other skills to fall back on, and he’s spent most of his earnings living beyond his means. He wants to go legit, but when a wealthy man from Brazil makes him the offer of a lifetime, he decides to turn one last trick. Santiago Bolsonaro moves to the United States in order to escape his arch-conservative political family in Brazil. The first few months are a dream come true, and when his visa is about to expire, he decides to do something extreme in order to stay in the states. He hires an attractive escort to marry him, so he can get his green card. At first it is a simple legal arrangement. But, like most business deals, it becomes complicated. Like, really, really complicated.

“What do you want for Christmas, big boy?” Blake Anderson will do anything to survive, even taking a seasonal gig as a Christmas elf at the local shopping mall. Embarrassing, yes, but if that’s what he must do to pay the rent, he’ll wear the skintight green hose and the silly wig. At first it is almost unbearable, but then he’s reunited with his teenage crush, who’s having his own string of bad luck. Eddie Garza is the last person you expect to don a Santa costume, but when his business is nearly destroyed, he only has two options, either start turning tricks for cash, or put on the red suit and ignore the screaming of tiny little tots. What makes it worthwhile is working with his friend from years ago. Eddie hasn’t ever thought of Blake romantically, but now he wants to shove the snotty kids off his lap and replace them with the cute redhead. Will Santa find true love with his glittery elf? Making It Glitter is the fourth book in the Making It series. It features a wacky matchmaker with a gift for the occult, reunited orphans, and an exotic dancer with a heart of gold. And, of course, a happy ever after. This romantic comedy is the perfect blend of romance and comedy, and fans of Felice Stevens, Lauren Blakely, and David Sedaris will love it.

Set in the classic time of 1972, this story is about a battle between the ancient and respectable company of corset makers owned by Sir Cyril Strumpet The Third and his arch enemy, Sidney Rabbit who sets up his own company Aphrodisiac, a place of swinging, knicker-clad females.