Sarah Dobbs

A practical, easy-to-read guide that aims to help undergraduate students cope with the demands of English and Creative Writing degrees. Written by lecturers and industry professionals with decades of experience in professional writing and higher education, this book also includes hints and tips from previous students.

A truly astonishing, illustrated history of Science fiction, covering fantasy, and horror, with forays into crime, mystery and the gothic. Using timelines, online links, illustrations, posters, movie stills, book covers, and more, this amazing new book propels us into the well of modern imagination, from its roots in Frankenstein, through Verne, H. G. Wells, the late gothic and weird horror of Lovecraft to the mass market sensationalism of the Pulp magazines. The Pulps then invoked a new generation of writers (such as Ray Bradbury and Robert Bloch) of the Golden Age before many transitioned to screenwriting for the movies and early TV (Psycho, Star Trek, Twilight Zone), inspiring, in turn, the invasion of superheroes, gigantic spaceships, and dystopian landscapes onto our data-streaming tablets and computers. The book explores the interplay between great writers, (Asimov and Arthur C. Clarke) and story-telling directors (Kubrick, James Cameron, Ridley Scott, Christopher Nolan, George Lucas) who create powerful Sci-Fi, reflecting and challenging the developments of technology, science and society. Each have played a major role in this all-consuming, speculative form of world-building, from its early manifestation as a shocking literary event, to the mass market sensation is today.

In Manchester Fleur is drifting through life haunted by her murdered boyfriend Daniel. In Japan Chinatsu is trying to escape a passionless marriage to Yugi Hamogoshi, a man with a secret who won't let her go. Fleur and Chinatsu used to be schoolfriends. Fleur and Chinatsu had a bond. Fleur and Chinatsu had dreams. This is the story of what happens before they can be together again. A cross-cultural thriller like no other, Sarah Dobbs' KILLING DANIEL exposes the secret lives of contrasting people with unflinching insight and lyrical prose. This is a cross-cultural thriller like no other

Ding-dong the witch is dead. Art teacher Evie Rice never got along with her mother Alice, but is left reeling when she commits suicide. When Alice forced her to have an abortion at 14, hot-headed Evie vowed never to go back to Wigan, or to speak to her mother again. But troubled Evie is about to discover her mother's shocking secret past. Will setting the record straight about Alice finally set Evie free?

Dr Sarah Dobbs is a lecturer in English and Creative Writing. She has taught at a variety of universities including the University of Manchester, Lancaster University, Edge Hill and The Open University. 'Creative Writing for Creative People: Beginners' has been compiled from Sarah's experience of teaching Creative Writing over a number of years. If you've ever wanted to write, this book is for you. This guide is an easy-to-follow ten week course that was designed to help you gain experience in character, plot, script, dialogue and lifewriting. Readings are included in the book, in order to encourage analysis of other writers and your development. Sarah is the author of 'The Red Balloon', 'Game, Set, Love-Match' and the forthcoming 'Killing Daniel'. Her short stories and scripts have been published, broadcast and performed internationally, including at the Bolton Octagon, ADC Theatre and the BBC. You can follow Sarah on Twitter @sarahjanedobbs