In the summer of 1891, 19 year old Rose Summerson ran away to Paris. Within months she became the toast of the town as a commercial photographer and fell in with a beautiful crowd of artists, aesthetes and bohemians. But when Rose’s past catches up with her she has to go big or (literally) go home.
Department 7W, a division of Her Majesty’s Secret Service, has been hunting down witches for five hundred years. But are they equipped to vanquish the dashing American advertising executive Flynn O’Neal? After a dark arts suffused scandal in New York, O’Neal is extradited to London – to continue stirring up trouble – and setting pulses racing.
13-year-old Emerald Katz is suddenly orphaned and sent to a very British Boarding School. But Emerald is not like other girls. She is devoted to Noel Coward, Janet Flanner, Sybille Bedford, and Cary Grant (none of whom are on the syllabus at Harcourt Hall). How will Emerald survive? It will not be easy. Hothouse flowers are both hard to cultivate – and keep alive.
It’s 1935 and Lottie Lyons, a young Californian, wants (more than anything) to be a reporter in Manhattan. She takes the cross-country train, carrying just one bag and a typewriter, checks into a boarding house, and starts pitching newspaper and magazine editors. But there’s trouble on the horizon: Ruthless competitors, glorious (and multiple) romantic prospects and a tempting call from Hollywood all threaten to derail her dreams.
It’s five years post-WWIII (“The Conflict”) and YapianTech, a Chinese conglomerate, just deployed a hostile takeover of US tech company Cobalt Industries, firing all of its bio-units (aka “humans”) – except Alex Taylor. Taylor is tasked to develop CODENAME: NIRVANA, an XR World to cure sadness because Big Pharma is in crisis. Or is there a more nefarious shadow strategy in place? Taylor uncovers DNA extraction programs, sentient AI-powered holograms, human-robot symbiosis and a link to the Andromeda Galaxy.
HOW TO STAY SANE IN A CRAZY WORLD (Hay House, 2014)
Gather up your pillows and a box of Kleenex, a novel and some tea . . . sink back against those soft pillows and dream. It’s time to rest, rejuvenate, and appreciate just how glorious life really is.
Why “teamgloria”?
I registered this domain in 2011, when I was working as a high-flying executive in NYC, and got diagnosed with three tumo(u)rs in my throat (and wrote a book about it). I had to be anonymous (due to the j.o.b) and so wrote as “gloria”, a sweeter character than I, in an effort to see the sunnier side of life. It worked. I now do. Eventually, teamgloria, inc became the name of my S Corp for my writing career. [Sophia Stuart]
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