![]() Trick or Treat, Scholastic (New York, NY), 1989.Īpril Fools, Scholastic (New York, NY), 1990. The Lifeguard, Scholastic (New York, NY), 1988. WRITINGS:Įvil on the Bayou, Dell (New York, NY), 1984. ![]() MEMBER: Humane Society of the United States, National Wildlife Federation, Doris Day Animal League.ĪWARDS, HONORS: Children's Choice Award, International Reading Association, 1989, for The Lifeguard Book for the Teen Age selection, New York Public Library, 1990, for Trick or Treat Edgar Award nomination, Mystery Writers of America, for Help Wanted. Hobbies and other interests: Animals, reading, watching movies, listening to music (country, ethnic, pop, soundtracks), collecting, traveling.ĪDDRESSES: Agent-c/o Author Mail, Simon and Schuster, 1230 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10020.ĬAREER: Ochsner Foundation Hospital, New Orleans, LA, ward clerk, summers, 1970-72 Hallmark Cards, Inc., Kansas City, MO, writer, 1975-84 freelance writer. Education: University of Southwestern Louisiana, B.A., 1975. ![]() PERSONAL: Born April 1, 1952, in New Orleans, LA daughter of Dick (a petroleum engineer) and Louise (a homemaker maiden name, Watts) Tankersley married Rick Cusick (a book designer, calligrapher, and graphic artist), October 4, 1980. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Why can't he get any phone calls through to his wife and son in the outside world? Why doesn't anyone believe he is who he says he is? And what is the purpose of the electrified fences surrounding the town? Are they meant to keep the residents in? Or something else out? Each step closer to the truth takes Ethan further from the world he thought he knew, from the man he thought he was, until he must face a horrifying fact-he may never get out of Wayward Pines alive. As the days pass, Ethan's investigation into the disappearance of his colleagues turns up more questions than answers. Nestled amidst picture-perfect mountains, the idyllic town is a modern-day Eden. The medical staff seems friendly enough, but something feels.off. Welcome to Wayward Pines, population 461. He comes to in a hospital, with no ID, no cell phone, and no briefcase. ![]() But within minutes of his arrival, Ethan is involved in a violent accident. Secret service agent Ethan Burke arrives in Wayward Pines, Idaho, with a clear mission: locate and recover two federal agents who went missing in the bucolic town one month earlier. ![]() The one-million copy bestseller that inspired the Fox TV show. The Wayward Pines Trilogy (20122014) is a mystery/thriller/science fiction novel series by American author Blake Crouch. ![]() ![]() The narrators, a mysterious chorus of boys who grew up with them and are now grown men, are haunted by the Lisbon affair even now. The Virgin Suicides, Eugenides’ first novel, focuses on the Lisbon girls, five teenage sisters who killed themselves within a year of each other in the 1970s–Cecilia, Lux, Bonnie, Mary, and Therese. ![]() I barely took notes while reading The Virgin Suicides. Eugenides is one of the few authors I would read solely for their writing style. I only wish Eugenides wrote more novels, but I can see why he hasn’t–both of his novels, while they feel effortless, are obviously the result of a great deal of work. ![]() Middlesex, which I adored, was able to combine its fascinating plot with marvelous details and astonishing imagery. For me, Jeffrey Eugenides’ novels are the perfect balance between plot and character. ![]() Plot, for me as a reader and as a writer, is king. You see, part of the reason I adore fantasy and sci-fi is the sheer abundance of wild plots and premises that range from the interesting to the epic. I’m not fond of languorous character studies. ![]() ![]() An iambic foot is a light stress followed by a heavy stress, as in ‘To COOL’, while an anapaest is two light stresses followed by a heavy stress, as in ‘from his FLIGHT’. The metre of ‘Where the Sidewalk Ends’ is a mixture of iambic and anapaestic feet. The poem rhymes: the first two stanzas rhyme abcccb (where ‘wind’ and ‘begins’ are taken to be rhymes in the first stanza), and the third stanza is essentially a shorter version of the form used in the first two stanzas, retaining only the final four lines and doing without the first two, and so rhyming aaab. ![]() The poem comprises three stanzas of six, six, and four lines respectively. ![]() ![]() The fact that children know how to reach this limit or threshold, and then to go beyond it into the magical world beyond, strongly suggests that the world Silverstein is hinting at is one of play, imagination, and freedom, which adults tend to lose once sight of once they get too used to sticking to the path, viewing the sidewalk as merely a means of getting from A to B. And if those chalk arrows also direct us somewhere, their gesturing is less a directive than a friendly tip, a wink to the reader that another way, and another world, exist just out of sight. ![]() ![]() ![]() In the same year, CATCHPLAY also provided financing and local production support to director Martin Scorsese’s passion project Silence, making it the first international production filmed entirely in Taiwan. CATCHPLAY and partners also control exclusive distribution rights to these films in Taiwan, China, Hong Kong and Macau, with The Revenant generating outstanding box office results from these territories in 2016. In early 2015, we closed a partnership deal to invest in New Regency’s three enthralling titles, namely The Revenant, Assassin’s Creed and Splinter Cell, marking the first investment of a Taiwanese company in major Hollywood productions. ![]() Both investments generated considerable box office performance in Taiwan and China respectively. In the same year, we invested in the locally produced film, Paradise in Service and co-produced 20 Once Again with CJ Entertainment for the Chinese market. ![]() ![]() In 2014, in addition to distributing the movies CATCHPLAY loves, we embarked in earnest co-production and investment projects, venturing into content creation. ![]() |