Michael Bailey

Bram Stoker Award(c) / Benjamin Franklin Award winning writer and editor Michael Bailey a Shirley Jackson Award nominee and founder of Written Backwards] offers an exploration into the madness of writing, editing, and publishing. Writing is a disease without a cure. Once infected, the virus is in the host for good, until death. Something first sparked a need to create, so what was it? What does it take to survive publishing and continuously improve one's craft?THE BEGINNING: A straight-to-the-point narrative pushes past impostor syndrome, examining the writer life in detail while defining / dissecting fundamentals required to finish a first draft manuscript: character, dialogue, voice, plot, conflict, theme, and setting. THE MIDDLE: The journey continues with a look into manuscript revisions, with advice on breaking bad habits and developing healthy skills to improving intrigue, prose, pace, tense, point of view, show vs. tell, imagery, framework, and structure. THE END: After mastering the art of self-editing, writers will be ready for manuscript presentation, with an understanding of book layout, as well as knowledge of the publishing industry in general, such as with solicitation, rejection, acceptance, promotion, and performance as a professional writer.A book for those who need to write.

A collaborative poetry collection by Bram Stoker Award-winning writers Michael Bailey and Marge Simon-dissecting a fiery world's relentless destruction. In Sifting the Ashes, over a hundred individual and collaborative poems explore what it takes to survive after all is suddenly taken. Combined life experiences of love, loss, and personal tragedy sift what's salvageable from the aftermath of fire, searching through the layers of ash for lessons about death, cremation, and the various stages of grief. What might be found in the remains after all is lost?

Use the power of behavioral finance to make smarter, better-informed decisions through every step of the investing processIn an economy where markets are more unpredictable than ever, emotions can derail the efforts of even the most experienced investors and wreak havoc on portfolio returns.Applying powerful behavioral finance concepts, Stop. Think. Invest. provides a framework for identifying personal biases and avoiding mistakes that can cost big profits. Based on the author’s extensive research and 100 key behavioral finance concepts, this guide provides a winning 12-step process you can use to successfully manage your trading and investing for long-term success, including:Begin the initial research into a new stockCreate an investment thesis—why are you buying the stock?Trade timing and size—when are you buying and how much?Make the initial purchaseReview the trade—round up or round downTest your original investment thesisStop. Think. Invest. reveals critical information about behavioral finance flaws, such as anchoring, confirmation bias, recency bias, and loss aversion.Unlike other behavioral investing guides, Stop. Think. Invest. offers a fully organized and practical approach to applying behavioral finance to everyday investing.

Human beings comprise earth's only death cult. Unique in our intellectual capabilities, we regard our dead with love, fear, sorrow, and awe. From the earthly corpse to the cosmic soul, we seek to speak with the dead, engage with them, and keep some essential part of them with us. Most of all, we hope not for their finite decay, but for its opposite: that those we love will live on after death, and that we will, too. Since the beginning of recorded history, artists, spiritualists, philosophers, and seekers of all kinds have taken the leap into the great mysteries of existence and the even greater possibilities of immortality. Fortunately for us, most of them lived to tell a tale or two. In Firbolg Publishing's second grimoire collection, we bring together an eclectic mix of fiction, poetry, essays and reflections, artwork, historical documents, and odd ephemera to explore centuries' worth of attitudes, expressions, and eccentricities regarding life, death, the afterlife, and the extraordinary spaces in between. Featuring artists both past and present, we take readers on a deep dive into the uniquely human way of exploring, experiencing, and expressing both the many blessings and profound tragedies of life, death, and what remains.Fully illustrated in color/black and white artwork and photography from both modern and historical artists and sources.

Enter a cruel palindrome world: a symmetric place where disturbing situations displace the common; where good acts transmute to evil ones; where windows and mirrors are often interchangeable ...In Palindrome Hannah, the debut novel by Michael Bailey, characters influence each other through arrangements of involuntary happenstance, forced to face the dark, unfortunate events in their lives and question coincidence.A segmented story of a mother and daughter intertwines the others in this composite novel. This hidden story, assembled from five separate narratives, introduces Hannah, the unique child with a palindromic name, and her young mother.With five stories heading one direction, and Hannah traveling the opposite, a greater story begins to unfold.A puzzle within a puzzle ...

Michael Bailey returns to the strange town of Brenden, Washington to expand the events of Palindrome Hannah. A family is torn apart after a horse foaling goes terribly wrong; a sickly man recounts getting mauled by his neighbor's dog; an undead priest is reborn into the world over a hundred years after his untimely death; two brothers run for their lives through a dead field of wheat. Holding all this together is a young boy named Todd, whose survival pivots on the balance of life and death, and a deranged mental patient with a burnt rose tattoo, whose reality is paradoxical. While his previous novel may have left you questioning coincidence, Phoenix Rose will leave you questioning your very own existence.

The sick imagination of Michael Bailey brings you thirteen dark poems and thirteen tales of the macabre and some bonus content ] that will make you think twice before turning your room dark for the night. A young woman chews her fingernails raw, unable to stop; a television set dangles from an apartment complex window; a large chest is found containing only a banded bouquet of wilted flowers; a stitched bear named Thatch bleeds at the neck, his stuffing torn out; a man wakes up duct-taped to a mammoth wooden chair. Between writing the novels PALINDROME HANNAH and PHOENIX ROSE, Michael Bailey penned and published a number of short fiction and poetry pieces, some of which can be found in literary magazines and anthologies around the world. A few of these fallen dragon scales and flower petals are reprinted here, while others are completely original to this collection, Once you crack the spine, there's no going back. This second edition contains a bonus script and graphic adaptation of "Plasty," a collaboration with artist L.A. Spooner, and three previously unpublished flash fiction pieces.

A small collection of dark science fiction by Bram Stoker Award-winning author Michael Bailey. Includes "Darkroom" and "SAD Face" (novelettes), and "Fade to Black" (short story).DARKROOM: After living most of her life blindfolded, for fear of what she might see, Grace shifts though time in a series of strange experiments involving old-fashioned black-and-white photography in order to create a flipbook of her father aging in reverse. Near completion of her project, and no longer able to go through with it on her own, she brings along her likewise blindfolded and temporarily deafened sister, for fear of what they might also hear in their travels, and together they take snapshots, wandering their childhood home, hand-in-hand, albeit with added disabilities to protect them from that which doesn't hide so well in the past. The undeveloped, they soon discover, what they'd forgotten of their troubled youth, is perhaps more frightening than what they later develop in the darkroom. SAD FACE: Yuliya dons a prosthetic face designed to help her cope with Social Anxiety Disorder, the essential oil infused mask not only disguising her expression, but the wet city stench as it soothes. Time, it can only stop when someone takes a photo, and that's what they did, whoever made it; they took her picture and made her a mask to hide behind whenever social phobia bullied her. A dead-face: expressionless, eyes only visible through open sockets, mouth slightly parted; the way she imagined she'd look the day she died. And now, whenever someone sees her, or stares at her, wearing her Yuliya mask, they are looking at her past. Yet behind her SAD face, she sometimes finds confidence, until she takes it off to uncover the woman hiding beneath. FADE TO BLACK: A bonus short story that explores optophobia, the fear of opening one's eyes.

Written Backwards presents The Impossible Weight of Life, a painfully autobiographical collection of speculative fiction and poetry by Michael Bailey, author of previous collections such as Scales and Petals, Inkblots and Blood Spots, and Oversight. This time around, after an imbalanced world temporarily destroyed his vestibular system and flipped life upside-down (thanks to an extended bout of a strange condition called Bilateral Loss of Labyrinthine Function ), literally burned to the ground during California wildfires, then became threatened after rising from the ashes by acts of school violence, a flood, further fire evacuations, prolonged power outages, multiple uprootings, social injustice, political unrest, and finally a global pandemic, he decided it's time to bend the boundaries of the written word once more, in case, you know, the world rolls itself off the giant scale that balances life and death to end things once and for all.This collection contains Bram Stoker Award-nominated short stories such as "I Will Be the Reflection Until the End" and "Time Is a Face on the Water," but also never-before-published mind-benders created during his "highly-medicated" state of recovery, including a story about memory loss called "Fragments of Br_an," (composed on a typewriter that no longer exists, now ash), "Emergence of the Colorless," a statement about the beginning of the end of prejudice, and the far future "Oll Korrect," in which artificial intelligence is used to explore humankind. As for poetry, there are favorites such as "Loosed Earth" and "Shades of Red," but many new poems to help with balance, including "Hurt People Hurt People," "Night Rainbows," and "Paper Earth."13 stories. 13 poems. Time to crack the spine once more and see what kind of darkness and truths seep out...

Written Backwards presents The Impossible Weight of Life, a painfully autobiographical collection of speculative fiction and poetry by Michael Bailey, author of previous collections such as Scales and Petals, Inkblots and Blood Spots, and Oversight. This time around, after an imbalanced world temporarily destroyed his vestibular system and flipped life upside-down (thanks to an extended bout of a strange condition called Bilateral Loss of Labyrinthine Function ), literally burned to the ground during California wildfires, then became threatened after rising from the ashes by acts of school violence, a flood, further fire evacuations, prolonged power outages, multiple uprootings, social injustice, political unrest, and finally a global pandemic, he decided it's time to bend the boundaries of the written word once more, in case, you know, the world rolls itself off the giant scale that balances life and death to end things once and for all.This collection contains Bram Stoker Award-nominated short stories such as "I Will Be the Reflection Until the End" and "Time Is a Face on the Water," but also never-before-published mind-benders created during his "highly-medicated" state of recovery, including a story about memory loss called "Fragments of Br_an," (composed on a typewriter that no longer exists, now ash), "Emergence of the Colorless," a statement about the beginning of the end of prejudice, and the far future "Oll Korrect," in which artificial intelligence is used to explore humankind. As for poetry, there are favorites such as "Loosed Earth" and "Shades of Red," but many new poems to help with balance, including "Hurt People Hurt People," "Night Rainbows," and "Paper Earth."13 stories. 13 poems. Time to crack the spine once more and see what kind of darkness and truths seep out ...

The sixth volume of the Horror Writers Association's annual Poetry Showcase has arrived, and it's full of the lyrical dark delights fans thrill to Edited by Bram Stoker Award-winner Stephanie M. Wytovich, this volume includes new work by featured poets Michael Arnzen, Michael Bailey, and Saba Syed Razvi, as well as nearly 50 others.

This book examines what the Bible says in regards to persons with severe and profound intellectual disabilities as well as how the church is called to care for those individuals.

An engaging and practical introduction to econometrics, Real Econometrics: The Right Tools to Answer Important Questions, offers thorough coverage of the most frequently used methods of analysis. Grounded in contemporary understandings of causal inference, the text invites students to extract meaningful information about important economic policy issues from available data. Bailey's emphasis on practical applications, combined with a lively and conversational narrative and a diverse array of examples and case studies, provides students with a solid foundation in the analytical tools they will use throughout their academic and professional careers. The second edition includes new conceptual exercises, revised appendices, and additional code and guidance for R software.

Known as the 'Queen of the Danube, ' Budapest is the vibrant and stunning capital of Hungary. This city not only blends the mystique of the East with the style of the West, but also combines the modern with the exotic. Ultimately, this destination offers something for everyone. As the most largely populated city in the country, and possibly one of the most densely populated cities in Europe, it is filled with an energy that is unmatched by other European capitals. Divided by the River Danube, the spectacular Chain Bridge adjoins the colorful but sedate hilly Buda to the west of the river, with the lively but flat plains of Pest in the east. buda, or Old Buda, is also on the west side of the Danube and is an extension of the Buda to the north. Though originally a Roman outpost during the 1st century, the city of Budapest was not created until 1873, when the areas Buda, Pest, and Old Buda ( buda) were unified. These areas are now aligned by nine bridges, and include six islands within the city limits. What results is a world-class classical music city, that comes alive with a youthful energy. It is no wonder that Budapest has often been described as the Paris of the East. Not only is the beauty of the city's epic, faded grandeur a draw for visitors, but so are the ornate traditional baths, elegant boulevards and classic caf s. However, not every aspect of Budapest is stuck in the past. In recent years, the city underwent a significant remodeling in preparation to bid for the summer Olympics. Though it eventually withdrew its bid, the city has still benefitted from rebuilt sections on both sides of the Danube.

Richard Hoggart: Culture and Critique provides a detailed and critical analysis of Hoggart's life and work. Some of the contributions come from a personal knowledge of and collegial friendship with Hoggart and help us to know more about particular aspects of his biography. Other contributors have sought to fit Hoggart within a British tradition from Matthew Arnold, through F.R. Leavis to E.P. Thompson and Raymond Williams. Read in their entirety, this lively collection of essays raise fundamental questions about culture and the arts, moral and aesthetic sensibility, educated citizenship and social democracy, and will be of interest to students and academics in social history, literary criticism, media studies and cultural sociology.

From the mind of award-winning author and editor Michael Bailey comes Inkblots and Blood Spots, a painfully beautiful collection of short stories and poetry that reaches deep into the imagination, breaking hearts and boundaries along the way...In a lyrical and uninterrupted dance, Bailey entwines evocative literary short fiction with rhythmic poetry and comes full circle in one seamless collection. His stellar performance is accompanied by the stunning artwork of Daniele Serra, winner of the British Fantasy Award, and an Introduction by the legendary Douglas E. Winter. Stories include the Bram Stoker nominated "Fireman / Primal Tongue," which also received an Honorable Mention for Year's Best Horror; "Dandelion Clocks," a haunting, melodic tribute to the tragedy of 9/11; "I Wanted Black," where a young boy's birthday is anything but cause to celebrate; "Mum," a tale of two sisters unfolding like the bandages on their mother's badly burned body... Take a surreal stroll through a carnival in "Underwater Ferris Wheel," where the biggest attraction may be your last ride; witness a pregnant woman's harrowing encounter with soul-stealing faerie in "Not the Child"; and find out why it gets cold in a little girl's room at night when she sees "A Light in the Closet."