title: Drown the Cat: The Rebel Author's Guide to Writing Beyond the Rules
author:  Dario Ciriello 
description: Dario Ciriello is a professional author and editor, and the founder (2009) of Panverse Publishing. Darios first novel, "Sutherland's Rules", a crime caper/thriller with a shimmer of the fantastic, was published in 2013. "Free Verse and Other Stories", a collection of his short Science Fiction work, was released in June 2014. His 2015 novel, a supernatural suspense thriller titled "Black Easter", pits love against black magic and demonic possession on a remote, idyllic Greek island. Dario is currently at work on a new thriller. Darios nonfiction book, "Aegean Dream", the bittersweet memoir of a year spent on the small Greek island of Skpelos (the real Mamma Mia! island), was an Amazon category #1 for several months in 2012. "Drown the Cat: the Rebel Authors Guide to Writing Beyond the Rules" (Panverse, July 2017) is his second nonfiction work. In addition to writing, Dario, who currently lives in the Los Angeles area, offers professional editing, copyediting, and coaching services to indie authors.
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  Cover design: Rebel Edit & Design – Freya Barker
  
  
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