Best Selling Books by Briar Lee Mitchell

An easy-to-follow primer on the fundamentals of digital game design The quickly evolving mobile market is spurring digital game creation into the stratosphere, with revenue from games exceeding that of the film industry. With this guide to the basics, you''ll get in on the game of digital game design while you learn the skills required for storyboarding, character creation, environment creation, level design, programming, and testing. Teaches basic skill sets in the context of current systems, genres, and game-play styles Demonstrates how to design for different sectors within gaming including console, PC, handheld, and mobile Explores low-poly modeling for game play Addresses character and prop animation, lighting and rendering, and environment design Discusses the path from concept to product, including pre- and post-production Includes real-world scenarios and interviews with key studio and industry professionals With Game Design Essentials, you''ll benefit from a general-but-thorough overview of the core art and technology fundamentals of digital game design for the 21st century.

“For every reader who enjoys fast-paced adventure and spooky mystery . . . The Whistlebrass Clock People will draw you in and keep you turning the pages” (Q.L. Pearce, author of Ghost Hunters). Hidden within the centuries old Whistlebrass clock tower is a dark secret. When the planets align and the clock strikes twelve, an ancient prophecy will be fulfilled and an evil entity will be unleashed. Can Pike, a teenage psychic, avoid capture by the police and a legion of mechanical creatures long enough to unravel the mystery? Whistlebrass faces its darkest hour, and the clock is ticking. Don’t miss the first two books in the series: The Whistlebrass Horror and The Whistlebrass Strom Watcher!

"The allegedly haunted 100-year-old Mallard Hotel sits on a dramatic ocean-side cliff just north of San Francisco. The modern ghost hunters of the Peter Wren Agency have been called in to determine once and for all if the paranormal events are real. Skeptical reporter Martin Stewart, along with his fiancé Seville, join the team to report on the investigation. After a series of horrific events, Seville disappears. Martin is finally convinced there might be something paranormal in the old hotel after all. To find his fiancé he soon learns he''ll have to put aside mistrust and help the ghost hunters do battle with whatever is haunting the Mallard--no matter what the cost."--Page 4 of cover.

Millions of years ago, the deadly Megalodon shark, three times larger than our modern Great White Shark, roamed our seas, killing everything and anything in its path. Convinced it was extinct, scientists agreed the seas were safe from such a massive predator, until one surfaced off the coast of California, and our safety in or on the water was no longer such a sure thing.

In 1958, a hurricane wreaked havoc on Andros Island in the Bahamas. Not long after that, the Point-du-Lac logging camp mysteriously shut down when it turned into a diseased and ravaged place. Every attempt to repopulate the area with flora or fauna ended in failure. Desperate to solve this mystery, the Bahamian government asks for help from the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) from the United States. In response, the EPA sends husband and wife team, James and Casey Miller, who examine the area filled with dead trees, absolutely no animal life and discover a small pit filled with the cannibalized remains of several people. James and Casey, along with a writer and, a native of the island who remembers the hurricane of ''58, become stranded at the du Lac during an intense storm and encounter bizarre phenomenon which include high pitched screaming sounds and violent disturbances in the water. Most frightening though, are some strange lights that appear to pursue them, possibly with dark intent. Battling the freakish phenomenon along with the local, deadly wildlife and a fierce storm, the survivors struggle to endure the night and learn the origins of the strange lights that appear to haunt them.

Maple syrup, madness, and monsters. Welcome to the “go-to destination for every reader who enjoys fast-paced adventure and spooky mystery” (Q.L. Pearce, author of Ghost Hunters). It’s tough being the new kid in town. In fact, in a town like Whistlebrass, it can be a downright killer. Halloween is here, but the creatures roaming the night aren’t hunting for candy. One by one, the denizens of Whistlebrass are disappearing, including the kid sister of teen newcomer, Casey Wilde. Finding her won’t be easy—Casey is up against a suave sociopath, a legion of living shadows, and a reptilian humanoid capable of stealing his life force and crushing him into dust. It’s going to be a Halloween you’ll never forget. Don’t miss the next two books in the series: The Whistlebrass Storm Watcher and The Whistlebrass Clock People!

Bad weather draws something wicked to the town of Whistlebrass, “a go-to destination for every reader who enjoys fast-paced adventure and spooky mystery” (Q.L. Pearce, author of Ghost Hunters). Mudslides unleashed by the torrential rains have revealed an archeological oddity, a Viking village on the banks of Lake Wanweird. Young Casey Wilde’s excitement about the discovery soon turns to alarm when a friend shows up with a Viking artifact and wild story about an axe wielding monster. In the blink of an eye, Casey soon finds himself in the center of an ancient feud—and lives are at stake. With the fate of his friends hanging in the balance, Casey must solve a mystery involving a Viking king, a colonial ghost, a carnival fortune teller, and a calculating cat named Carlisle. And it looks like another storm is on its way Don’t miss the next third book in the series: The Whistlebrass Clock People!

Briar Lee Mitchell interviewed over twenty serial and rampage killers, to gain insight into their lives today. Some have been incarcerated for decades and their outlook on life, their crimes and what purpose they might have was discussed in detail with interesting and sometimes unusual results. “Care is just a word until someone like Briar comes along and gives it true life.” - Monk Steppenwolf, serving a life sentence in Michigan for killing five people in 1964 “You have extraordinary heart to what you’ve done. You’ve gone, along, into prisons and interviewed what most people would consider to be the most dangerous class of criminals and that not to trash them, but to give them a voice. You are, of course, awesome…” - Bernard Eugene Giles, incarcerated for life in Florida for murdering five women in the 1970s “Briar Lee Mitchell strips away the sad labels that our society clings to by speaking directly to those who live next door, and walk side by side with us on city streets. She provides absolute proof what when pushed to the edge anybody can become the ‘Breaking News’ and shows that empathy and compassion is the only way to prevent the next tragedy. We can all benefit from learning what sets a person off and possibly preventing the next bloodbath. Briar, I hope you accept my truth and thank you for allowing me to share my growth as a human being with you.” - Respectfully, Scott E. Dekraai, The Seal Beach Killer “A different kind of Project, Briar Lee Mitchell shines a light on They and Me – SKs of past with Darkened Pathways. - Dennis L. Rader, A.K.A., BTK – Bind, Torture, Kill, serial killer incarcerated in Kansas “There are trees in the FOREST.” - Keith Hunter Jesperson, The Happy Face Killer, incarcerated in Oregon

An explosion in a chemical factory turns an ancient German cathedral into an inferno. Unable to save the centuries-old structure, firemen and townspeople watch in horror and sadness as the venerable building, standing since the time of Charlemagne, crumbles to the ground in flames, smoke and ash. The true horror though, is what had been imprisoned deep beneath the stone monstrosity and is released into an unsuspecting world. Villicus Shanks, a powerful vampire during the Middle Ages, a time when vampires warred amongst themselves to feed on the few humans left alive during the plague, was imprisoned by those who feared him the most—his own kind. Let loose back into a world brimming with money, greed, power, and huge herds of people, Villicus’s thirst for blood and revenge seems unquenchable until he meets Amanda Brax, a human woman, who steals the heart he thought he no longer possessed. His love for her is tested when he finds the two vampires who imprisoned him, Bale and Nikonar. The two bloodsuckers, who are shocked at his surviving such a lonely and devastating imprisonment, seek his destruction once more by trying to take Amanda from him.

Samantha Bloodworth, reporter for the Digital Science Times, is on assignment in Antarctica. While covering the maiden flight of a unique experimental aircraft dubbed "the tin kite," Sam and the pilot, Dupcheck, crash onto the ice and plunge into a deep crevasse. They''re lost, they have no radio and Dupcheck is unconscious. Freezing and trapped in the crevasse, Sam is near death. Then the famed explorer Shackelton seems to appear to help her survive against the odds. Unsure whether or not this encounter is a hallucination, Sam finds she must trust her own instincts in this deadly location t.

Renovations are underway at McMurdo Base in Antarctica and part of the old library is going to be torn down. As soon as the last section of the building is destroyed, the workers make a grisly discovery-embedded in the ice is a remarkably well-preserved corpse. Reporter Samantha ''Sam'' Bloodworth takes it upon herself to try and solve the mystery of the ice man, dubbed Mr. X. Sam discovers that a scientist flew out of the valleys 27 years ago and was never heard from again. She heads out to the valleys to find out what research he might have been working on and uncovers a possible motive for Mr. X''s demise. But as Sam heads back to McMurdo and radios ahead that she knows what happened, she discovers she may suffer the same fate as Mr. X.