At 96 pages and in full color, Pajama Party! is a guide to every step of the process: how to find a theme; how to make your own invitations, party favors, goodie bags, and decorations; what to serve, including fun recipes; plus games and crafts. In all, a treasure trove of ideas for keeping the party going all night long. (Hey, who ever sleeps at a pajama party anyway?) Stationary set: Eight fabulous notecards with mismatching envelopes. Use them as invites or thank-yous. Truth or Dare Spinwheel: What PJ Party would be complete without a Truth or Dare game? Includes enough thoughtful, thought-provoking truths and outrageous fun dares to keep your guests laughing all night long. Scrapbooking Paper: Sixteen sheets of mismatched patterns and colors. Cootie Catchers: Eight cootie catchers with lots of room for crazy fill-ins of your choice. Autograph Album: Have your guests fill out the pages of this keepsake album. Stickers: Six sheets of alphabet and party stickers for labeling scrapbooks, notebooks, anything!

Are you a perfectionist? An artist? A leader? An introvert, or an extrovert? What's your personality profile? Marvelous & Fabulous Me Quiz Book is the 128-page, full-color guide to finding out all about who you really, really are. 50 personality quizzes offer insights into mood, preferences, personality types, fashion sense, passions, and more. Pick up a pencil, and learn more about yourself than you ever thought possible. Personality Revealer Spinwheel: Line up your different personality types to reveal your own unique personality profile! This wheel offers a surprise with every spin—and your lucky numbers to boot! Zany Zodiac Poster: What's your sign? Are you a mysterious Scorpio? An Aquarius who wants to save the world? A beauty-loving Libra, or earthy, ambitious Capricorn? Tarot Cards: Tarot cards have a long tradition of fortune-telling and divination. Shuffle and spread the 21 cards—and discover your thoughts and desires, and possibly the future. Cootie Catchers: Consult everyone's favorite fortuneteller with six sheets of cootie-catcher paper. Doodle Pad: It's funny how a doodle can tell all! Use this pad whenever you get the urge, and see what it tells you. Stickers: Six sheets of LittleMissMatched stickers help personalize your stuff.

An all-in-one creativity kit for tween girls, this writers toolbox includes a 96-page full-color book of motivation and technique, three writers journals, a rhyming dictionary. and inspirational poster, a deck of word cards, and story-starters. Pkg. Consumable./08.

I walk all the way up Hollywood Boulevard to Grauman's Chinese Theatre: past tourists snapping shots; wannabe starlets sparkling by in miniskirts with head shots in their hands and moondust in their eyes; rowdy cowboys drinking with drunken Indians; black businessmen bustling by briskly in crisp suits; ladies who do not lunch with nylons rolled up below the knee pushing shopping carts full of everything they own; Mustangs rubbing up against muscular Mercedes and Hell's Angels hogs. It's a sick twisted Wonderland, and I'm Alice. Here is a story like no other: The unforgettable chronicle of a season spent walking the razor-sharp line between painful innocence and the allure of the abyss. David Sterry was a wide-eyed son of 1970s suburbia, but within his first week looking for off-campus housing on Sunset Boulevard he was lured into a much darker world — servicing the lonely women of Hollywood by night. Chicken—the word is slang for a young male prostitute—revisits this year of living dangerously, in a narrative of dazzling inventiveness and searing candor. Shifting back and forth from tales of Sterry's youth—spent in the awkward bosom of a disintegrating dysfunctional family—to his fascinating account of the Neverland of post—sixties sexual excess, Chicken teems with Felliniesque characters and set pieces worthy of Dionysus. And when the life finally overwhelms Sterry, his retreat from the profession will leave an indelible mark on readers' minds and hearts.

Now updated for 2015! The best, most comprehensive guide for writers is now revised and updated, with new sections on ebooks, self-publishing, crowd-funding through Kickstarter, blogging, increasing visibility via online marketing, micropublishing, the power of social media and author websites, and more—making The Essential Guide to Getting Your Book Published more vital than ever for anyone who wants to mine that great idea and turn it into a successfully published book. Written by experts with twenty-five books between them as well as many years’ experience as a literary agent (Eckstut) and a book doctor (Sterry), this nuts-and-bolts guide demystifies every step of the publishing process: how to come up with a blockbuster title, create a selling proposal, find the right agent, understand a book contract, and develop marketing and publicity savvy. Includes interviews with hundreds of publishing insiders and authors, including Seth Godin, Neil Gaiman, Amy Bloom, Margaret Atwood, Leonard Lopate, plus agents, editors, and booksellers; sidebars featuring real-life publishing success stories; sample proposals, query letters, and an entirely updated resources and publishers directory.

On my third birthday, my father, in an attempt to get me to stop sucking my thumb, gave me a gun. “Today son, you are a man,” he said, snatching the little blue binky from my little pink hand. So I shot him. So begins Mort Morte, a macabre, coming-of-age story full of butchered butchers, badly used Boy Scouts, blown-up Englishman, virginity-plucking cheerleaders, and many nice cups of tea. Poignantly poetic, hypnotically hysterical, sweetly surreal, and chock full of the blackest comedy, Mort Morte is like Lewis Carrol having brunch with the kid from The Tin Drum and Oedipus, just before he plucks his eyes out. In the end though, Mort Morte is a story about a boy who really loves his mother.