Video Light

< [Necromancer - Level 1] > They were lying to us. The adventurer guild, the royals, the hexamists. All liars, Jay thought, trailing his finger over a skull. From the eye-sockets of an empty skull, a pair of floating beady eyes glanced up at him, waiting for his command. Jay pointed into the forest. “Hunt.” *** In a village blanketed in shadows, Jay seeks escape from his mundane life as a butcher. Desperate for adventure, he braves a treacherous path to the local Adventurer's Guild, hoping to discover his true calling. But fate intervenes, as it always does. With newfound abilities and ...

Why does this keep happening to me? Kidnapped again by the Iron Fae, I must survive long enough to get back to my friends in the Night Realm. But when undeniable truth starts spilling from Ruslan’s lips, I’m left questioning everything. The web of lies and deceit thickens, and I’m at the center of a prophecy that started it all.

An original novel set in the Halo Universe and based on the New York Times bestselling video game series! It is 2553, and the three-decade long Covenant War that defined a generation has suddenly drawn to a close. Yet, in the remotest parts of human space, tensions remain that threaten to...

An original full-length novel set in the Halo universe and based on the New York Times bestselling video game series! August 2558. Rion Forge was once defined by her relentless quest for hope amidst the refuse and wreckage of a post-Covenant War galaxy—years spent searching for family as much...

The boundaries between life and death are so fragile, and Jay knows it better than most. Surrounded by both living and undead, he feels trapped, not only by his circumstances but by his conscience. Betrayal always follows his shadow, and friend or foe has never seemed so similar. But what if he could be the first to break any illusions of trust? With the Mage Hunters closing in, he has to decide if he'll take up the mantle of the betrayer and how far he's willing to go to secure his place in the world. Yet, kingdoms are teetering on the brink of oblivion; there is no safe haven to flee to, ...

In M. John Harrison’s dangerously illuminating new novel, three quantum outlaws face a universe of their own creation, a universe where you make up the rules as you go along and break them just as fast, where there’s only one thing more mysterious than darkness. In contemporary London...

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of life-changing fiction brings her signature “emotional, heart-tugging” (Woman’s World) prose to this wise and worldly novel of forgiveness and hope in the City of Lights. In Indiana, Ashley Baxter Blake and her husband are about to take an...

Now including a new translation, this is a chilling piece of Russian dystopian fiction by Dmitry Glukhovsky and the basis of the bestselling computer games Metro 2033, Metro: Last Light, Metro: Exodus, and the highly-anticipated Metro 2039 A WORLD IN DARKNESS. A SINGLE HOPE. The year is 2033...

In a treacherous swamp, Jay finds himself bound to a sinister witch through a pact he reluctantly struck. In exchange for her life-saving healing, Jay has agreed to serve the witch by hunting down her enemies. Asra, his wounded vampire companion, depends on harnessing the witch's dark powers to survive, making the pact a necessary but uneasy alliance. Jay believes this vampire's partnership is his only chance to steal necromancy secrets from her so-called academy. As Jay navigates this intricate web of bargains and secrets, he must grapple with the consequences of his choices—balancing ...

Whether you are in marketing or internal communications, it's crucial to tell your company's story in a digital media world that can't get enough video content. But what video content actually creates a connection and an impact with your audience?

The story behind the creation of the Disneyland Main Street Electrical Parade. Corporate politics, resistance, lies, and subterfuge almost closed this event before it opened. In this exposé of a famous place at a turbulent time, we look behind the façade at the making of a uniquely successful parade that has been viewed for four decades by a hundred million people. This is how the magic happened, and it wasn’t always charming, but the distractions only crystallized the spirit and determination of those who came together to build something truly extraordinary.

Your camera isn't the problem. Your lighting is. A viewer decides whether to keep watching within the first few seconds — almost always before your content has had a chance to prove itself. Poor lighting is the single most common, most fixable reason creators lose viewers before they've said a word. Lighting for Content Creators is a practical, no-fluff guide built specifically for home-based YouTubers, Twitch and livestreamers, TikTok/Reels/Shorts creators, and video podcasters recording without a studio, a crew, or a five-figure budget. Every technique inside has been scoped to what one...

There has never been a bigger celebration of the history of Star Wars games than X-WINGS, LIGHTSABERS, AND SCORPION VADER. Written by videogame industry veteran Chris Baker—who spent three years at LucasArts himself—the audiobook collects several long pieces he has written on the subject in recent years: some for Rolling Stone's Glixel.com in 2017, one for YouTube channel Superhero.VG, and another reflecting upon his time at LucasArts.

A blinding flash … then darkness. Bria Ford and her three closest friends are stranded on a country highway in the middle of a November night. No phones. No car. No lights. Helpless and hundreds of miles from home, they put their lives in the hands of handsome Jonah Page and his flinty sister, East, strangers who somehow know Bria better than she knows herself. As the group bonds to adapt to a new, yet old, way of life, the secrets of Bria’s past provide them with the means to survive the extremes of Mother Nature, and the even more frightening extremes of human nature. Quietly suspenseful, The Light explores how the stories we tell ourselves shape the person we present to the world, and what happens to that person when the world falls away. 

Monty and Onnie Newton, along with their young son Sirus, escape the violence of a city after the fall and find a house in the middle of a field that's perfect in every way...except that the lights never turn off.

It's been over a year since all the adults disappeared. Gone. In the time since every person over the age of 14 disappeared from the town of Perdido Beach, California, countless battles have been fought: battles against hunger and lies and plague, and epic battles of good against evil. And now, the gaiaphage has been reborn as Diana's malicious mutant daughter, Gaia. Gaia is endlessly hungry for destruction.

Marshall Seaver is being haunted. In the first installment of this chillingly compelling trilogy, sixteen-year-old Marshall discovers that something beyond our world is after him. The eerie clues pile up quickly, and when people start dying, it's clear whatever this is - it's huge. Marshall has no idea what's happening to him, but he's soon convinced that it has something to do with his best friend, Cooper, who's been missing for over a week.

An avid gamer is trapped in his favorite video game when it’s shut down. – With the stakes raised can he and his friends survive? Transformed into a vampire Ambrose has to adapt to being undead. However, what happens if it comes with unexpected side effects? Can he stay true to the person he was before or will he turn into the character he played? When one friend wants to go and another wants to stay, whose side will he take?

When Fran Goode kissed me goodbye four years ago, he took my heart with him. Sure, there were reasons we broke up, but they all seem silly now. And I know I should have moved on long ago, but the man's burned into my memory: his smile, his kiss, those long, unforgettable nights in his bed. So instead, I find myself driving up a mountain, on the eve of an O'Leary blizzard, to Fran's remote cabin. I need to see him again, to look into those gorgeous dark eyes.

Light begins at Stonehenge, where crowds cheer a solstice sunrise. After sampling myths explaining First Light, the story moves on to early philosophers' queries, then through the centuries, from Buddhist temples to Biblical scripture, when light was the soul of the divine. Battling darkness and despair, Gothic architects crafted radiant cathedrals while Dante dreamed a 'heaven of pure light.' Later, following Leonardo's advice, Renaissance artists learned to capture light on canvas.