In the fall of 2014, the University of Washington Certificate in Popular Fiction program brought together thirteen emerging writers to learn the secrets of writing genre fiction. Over the next nine months some writers left and others joined, all learning what works and what doesn't in the creation of popular fiction from novelist James Thayer. In this anthology, twelve of those writers present collected stories and novel excerpts, an assortment of adventure, fantasy, horror, literary, sci-fi, thriller, young adult, genre fiction.