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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  # Captivity
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### M. Leonora Eyles
  
  
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  CHAPTER I
  
  
  CHAPTER II
  
  
  CHAPTER III
  
  
  CHAPTER IV
  
  
  CHAPTER V
  
  
  CHAPTER VI
  
  
  CHAPTER VII
  
  
  CHAPTER VIII
  
  
  CHAPTER IX
  
  
  CHAPTER X
  
  
  CHAPTER XI
  
  
  CHAPTER XII
  
  
  CHAPTER XIII
  
  
  CHAPTER XIV
  
  
  CHAPTER XV
  
  
  CHAPTER XVI
  
  
  CHAPTER XVII
  
  
  CHAPTER XVIII
  
  
  CHAPTER XIX
  
  
  CHAPTER XX
  
  
  CHAPTER XXI
  
  
  CHAPTER XXII
  
  
  CHAPTER XXIII
  
  
  CHAPTER XXIV
  
  
  CHAPTER XXV
  
  
  CHAPTER XXVI
  
  
  CHAPTER XXVII
  
  
  CHAPTER XXVIII
  
  
  CHAPTER XXIX
  
  
  CHAPTER XXX
  
  
  CHAPTER XXXI
  
  
  
  
  
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  CAPTIVITY
  
  
  by
  
  
  M. LEONORA EYLES
  
  
  Author of _Margaret Protests_
  
  
  1922
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  TO E. J. R-S.
  
  
  You have often said that you could never write a book. You have
  
  
  written this one just as surely as Beatrice wrote the Vita Nuova for
  
  
  Dante. Until I talked with