Become A Freelance Writer
How To Turn Article Writing Into Cash
If you have anything to offer to customers in writing, than you have the possibility to make money online with article writing. Through article writing you are able to deliver fresh content and new ideas to a society that is begging for knowledge. What is great about article writing is that you have the ability to make money online not only through your website, but also by delivering fresh content to other websites as well.
The most common method people use to make money online with article writing is to use it as an advertising method. When you write articles you have the ability to market your website in a couple of manners. You can use keyword optimization throughout your articles to target specific keywords. By targeting the specific keywords in the title of articles and throughout the article you can climb higher on the search engines and increase your website traffic.
When you write articles one of the most important aspects to the article is the bio box at the bottom. This gives you a chance to talk about the basis of your website and what people will find on it in a couple sentences. After that, you then have the ability to place your website link giving people the opportunity to be directed to your website straight from the article. So how does this make you money?
The more traffic you receive to your website the better chance you have of selling products or making pay-per-click money. If you don’t have any traffic there is no point in having a website regardless of how much content it has on it. Once you generate a high traffic volume, which can be done through article writing, you have the potential to make money online by selling your products and through clicks.
If writing articles is one of your strong points and you want a way to make money online apart from your own website, there is a way you can do this. One way is to set up your own article writing business and promote it. You can start it right through your website and post in forums and on your website. This gives you the chance to make money by writing articles for other people’s websites.
Another way to make money online writing articles is to become a Freelance writer. There are always opportunities and job openings online for people who want to be freelance Writers. If you do a Google search for freelance writer there are close to 18 million searches, so the opportunity is waiting for you.
There are hundreds of ways to make money online, but article writing often gets overlooked by people. If you have the ability to deliver fresh content in quality writing, the ability to make money online with article writing is there.
Shon Cary
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6 Classic Writer Mark Taverner Old Time Radio Broadcasts on DVD (over 2 Hours 46 Minutes running time) $11.99 This unique old time radio DVD collectible features 6 digitized reels of classic Writer Mark Taverner radio broadcasts and over 2 Hours 46 Minutes of total running time on 1 DVD. Take a journey back through radio broadcasting history with this large audio library of OTR memorabilia. The golden age of old time radio has been rescued, digitized, and packaged into a gift set that any classic radio lo… |
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How They Did It: 25 bloggers, authors and writers share all their secrets about earning a living and how you can do it too. Ever wished you could ask other writers the secret to earning a full-time income? Some of the country’s most prominent freelancers and bloggers share their best advice, covering everything from jumpstarting your career, landing well-paid assignments, expanding beyond your comfort zone and avoiding scams, and much, much more.Get a special peek into the lives and work schedules of successful freelan… |
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How to Build an Article Writing Business and Earn $100 an Hour! (Work from Home Series) $4.79 If you are a writer struggling to make money from your craft then this is the book for you. It is possible to make serious money from writing if you know how. This 25 page guide presents a series of 10 lessons on exactly how you can build an article writing business and earn $100 an hour! Imagine… having your own business which allows you to get up when you want and work from the comfort of home… |
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Quit Your Rotten Job…and Become a Successful Freelance Writer Instead: The Quick and Easy Way To Launch a Writing Career RAVE REVIEWS”This is a good read. I have always wanted to be a freelance writer instead of doing a day job, and this has really made me think I could make it happen.”"I have read a few books about home-based jobs, but this one seems the most credible to me. I can see how I could put this into action and make it work.”"Wow! I never dreamed freelance writers could make over a million dollars a year…. |
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100 Native Americans Who Shaped American History $0.01 In this book readers will be fascinated to learn about a wide variety of men and women who have made significant impacts upon the history of the United States. Native Americans from various regions – spanning time from early European discovery to present day – are featured. Chronologically organized, the book begins with Dekanawida, the founder of the legendary Iroquois Confederacy. A diverse selection of other Native Americans are also included, such as Pocahontas, Metacomet, Geronimo, Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse, Will Rogers, Jim Thorpe, Jay Silverheels, and Dennis Banks. The book concludes with Sherman Alexie. a prolific and critically acclaimed writer. Readers will discover what Sacagawea contributed to the Lewis and Clark expedition; how Cochise went from formidable warrior to a force for peace; who was the first Native American woman to become a medical doctor; why Annie Dodge Wauneka was the first Native American to receive a Presidential Medal of Freedom; and much more! Bonnie Juettner is a freelance writer and has contributed to numerous American history textbooks for middle school and high school students. She has also contributed to Potrait of America, a series of reference books about the United States. |
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Arctic Homestead: The True Story of One Family’s Survival and Courage in the Alaskan Wilds $16.99 In 1973, Norma Cobb, her husband Lester and the their five children, the oldest of whom was nine years old and the youngest, twins, barely one, pulled up stakes in the lower 48 and headed north to Alaska to follow a pioneer dream of claiming land under the Homestead Act. The only land available lay north of Fairbanks near the Arctic Circle where grizzlies outnumbered humans twenty to one. In addition to fierce winters and predatory animals, the Alaskan frontier drew the more unsavory elements of society’s fringes. From the beginning, the Cobbs found themselves pitted in a life or death feud with unscrupulous neighbors who would rob from new settlers, attempt to burn them out, shoot them and jump their claim.The Cobbs were chechakos, tenderfeet, in a lost land that consumed even toughened settlers. Everything, including their “civilized” past, conspired to defeat them. They constructed a cabin—and first snow collapsed the roof. They built too near the creek and spring breakup threatened to flood them out. Bears prowled the nearby woods, stalking the children and Lester Cobb would leave for months at a time in search of work.But through it all, they survived on the strength of Norma Cobb—a woman whose love for her family knew no bounds and whose courage in the face of mortal danger is an inspiration to us all. This is her story.Author Bio: Norma Cobb is the last woman pioneer to sign up under the U.S. Homestead Act and become a homesteader. She and her family still live in the valley they settled. This is Norma Cobb’s first book. Charles Sasser has been a full-time freelance writer/journalist since 1979. He has published over 2,500 articles and short storiesand has over 30 published books to his name. He lives in Oklahoma. |
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Austrian Theatre Directors: Austrian Opera Directors, Max Reinhardt, Herbert Graf, Miki Mal r, Hans Thimig, Hubert Marischka, Hubert Lepka $19.99 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Austrian Opera Directors, Max Reinhardt, Herbert Graf, Miki Malör, Hans Thimig, Hubert Marischka, Hubert Lepka, Margarete Wallmann, Arnolt Bronnen, Hugo Thimig, Walter Felsenstein, Fritz Kortner, Gretl Aicher, Hans Müller-Einigen, Markus Kupferblum, Anton Aicher, Ernst Lert, Karl Von Marinelli, Leopold Lindtberg, Egon Hilbert, Ernst Lothar, Helmut Wiesinger, Herbert Wise, Ulrich Bettac, Heinrich Reif-Gintl, Julius Gellner. Excerpt: Ernst Joseph Maria Lert (1883, Vienna 1955, New York City) was an Austrian stage director , writer , composer , librettist , and music historian . He was the brother of conductor Richard Lert who was married to writer Vicki Baum . Lert studied music history, piano, and singing at the University of Vienna . In 1909 he was appointed the “regisseur ” of the opera house in Breslau where he remained for three years. In 1912 he became the director of the Oper Leipzig where he remained for seven years. In 1919 he took the position of theatre director at the Theater Basel , but left there a year later to become theatre director at the Opern- und Schauspielhaus Frankfurt . In 1924 he joined the directing staff at La Scala , leaving there in 1929 to become a theatre director at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City. He remained at the Met for two seasons. He spent his remaining career working as a freelance director with major theatres and opera houses internationally. He notably directed the world premiere of Gian Carlo Menotti ‘s Amelia Goes to the Ball which was presented on 1 April 1937 at the Philadelphia Academy of Music .As a music scholar, Lert published several biographies on notable musical figures and wrote the book Mozart auf dem Theater (Mozart and the Theatre , published 1918). He also contributed articles to numerous |
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Batman Begins $7.99 From the Publisher: Based on the eagerly awaited new feature film the exciting origins of the ultimate crime fighter! Bruce Wayne is dead. The young heir to the Wayne empire disappeared seven years ago. His vast fortune has been given away, and the crime wave that began with the brutal murder of his parents has turned Gotham City into a living hell. The last holdouts against corruption the cops who can t be bought, the D.A.s who can t be intimidated are outnumbered and outgunned. They need help . . . fast. A world away, in a dank Himalayan prison, a nameless, hardened man fights every day to survive. He has spent seven years scouring the globe, studying the criminal mind, looking for an answer to the ugly riddle of his childhood. But something has been looking for him, too. Here, in the darkest places of his own anger, Bruce Wayne will discover his destiny and an ordinary man will become a legend. About the Author: For more than twenty years, editor and writer Dennis O Neil put the dark in the Dark Knight and was the guiding force behind the Batman mythos at DC Comics. O Neil began his career as Stan Lee s editorial assistant at Marvel Comics and went on to become one of the industry s most successful and respected creators. As a freelance writer and journalist, he has produced several novels and works of nonfiction, including the national bestseller Batman: Knightfall and The DC Comics Guide to Writing Comics, as well as hundreds of comic books, reviews, teleplays, and short stories. O Neil has written for almost all of DC s and Marvel s major titles, including Green Lantern, Shazam!, Spider-Man, Superman, Wonder Woman, Iron Man, Daredevil, Justice League of America, and Azrael. An expert on comics, pop culture, and folklore/mythology, O Neil is a popular guest at conventions and on radio and television. He lives and works in New York with his wife, Marifran. |
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Becoming A Toff? $15.95 Ralph Ironman’s astonishing rise from literally the ashes of a deprived family life in 1930s Leicestershire is a testament to energy, inquisitiveness and enterprise.Whether he’s relaxing en famille in Denmark, stalking moose in Sweden, or indulging in a little light industrial espionage in Florida, the author is constantly observing, collating and storing the ideas buzzing in his head.It’s really a story of survival. If your father pays you no attention and your mother is tragically depressed, you go out and find someone who cares. And that’s exactly what Sergeant Ironman did at the end of World War II.Sixty happy years of marriage, forty years of business life as a free-lancer all over Europe and the USA, and he has reached complete contentment – and, as he calls it, ‘toffdom’. Enjoy this inspiring and heart-warming life story from a man who has every reason to relish his success.Ralph Ironman was born in Leicestershire of working-class parents, and educated at local elementary and secondary schools. He subsequently received an engineering education at University College, Nottingham, before becoming a staff-sergeant in the Royal Engineers. After service in Holland and Germany he was demobilized and emigrated to Canada where he became the technical editor for the research division of a provincial hydro-electric power commission. After eight years, Ironman returned to Europe and held similar positions in England and Holland before deciding to become a freelance technical writer and editor. He subsequently built up a successful technical news and advertising sales service for a group of US publications. Ironman has lived in eight differentcountries and travelled extensively in some twenty more. He has a Danish wife and two daughters and lives for a major part of the year in Schleswig-Holstein. |
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Benton MacKaye: Conservationist, Planner, and Creator of the Appalachian Trail $60 Planner and originator of the Appalachian Trail and a cofounder of the Wilderness Society, Benton MacKaye (1879-1975) was a pioneer in linking the concepts of preservation, recreation, and regional planning. This pathbreaking biography provides the first complete portrait of this significant and unique figure in American environmental, intellectual, and cultural history.”A superb and much-anticipated biography of Benton MacKaye. Rich in detail (a sign of Anderson’s diligent research) and smart in its analysis (an indication of his supple intellect), the book brings the often-quirky MacKaye to life… A remarkable achievement.”— Journal of Forestry”A first-rate biography of a unique American thinker.”— Journal of American History”Anderson does an impressive job of bringing an enigmatic figure into sharper focus and shedding light on the long list of important contributions MacKaye made to the American environmental movement… A readable, engrossing biography.”— Appalachia”Anderson’s lucid, well-researched, and sensitive story provides an illuminating on-the-ground snapshot of the inner workings of the intellectual networks, social relationships, governmental and business institutions, particular projects, and downright good and bad luck that constitute the fabric of historical movements such as conservation and regional planning.”— Environmental History”This first detailed biography of MacKaye should become the standard account of his life and work.”— APA JournalLarry Anderson is a freelance writer and independent scholar. |
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Benton MacKaye: Conservationist, Planner, and Creator of the Appalachian Trail $9.69 Planner and originator of the Appalachian Trail and a cofounder of the Wilderness Society, Benton MacKaye (1879-1975) was a pioneer in linking the concepts of preservation, recreation, and regional planning. This pathbreaking biography provides the first complete portrait of this significant and unique figure in American environmental, intellectual, and cultural history.”A superb and much-anticipated biography of Benton MacKaye. Rich in detail (a sign of Anderson’s diligent research) and smart in its analysis (an indication of his supple intellect), the book brings the often-quirky MacKaye to life… A remarkable achievement.”— Journal of Forestry”A first-rate biography of a unique American thinker.”— Journal of American History”Anderson does an impressive job of bringing an enigmatic figure into sharper focus and shedding light on the long list of important contributions MacKaye made to the American environmental movement… A readable, engrossing biography.”— Appalachia”Anderson’s lucid, well-researched, and sensitive story provides an illuminating on-the-ground snapshot of the inner workings of the intellectual networks, social relationships, governmental and business institutions, particular projects, and downright good and bad luck that constitute the fabric of historical movements such as conservation and regional planning.”— Environmental History”This first detailed biography of MacKaye should become the standard account of his life and work.”— APA JournalLarry Anderson is a freelance writer and independent scholar. |
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Detour $15.99 In the fall of 1999, 23-year-old Simon hit the road on a journey that took her across the United States. Her inspired interviews with other young men and women suffering from manic depression comprise the heart and soul of this remarkable memoir.From The Publisher:By all appearances, Lizzie Simon was perfect. She had an Ivy League education, lots of friends, a loving family, and a dazzling career as a theater producer by the age of twenty-three. But that wasn’t enough: Lizzie still felt alone in the world, and largely misunderstood. Having been diagnosed with bipolar disorder as a teenager, she longed to meet others like herself; she wanted to hear the experiences of those who managed to move past their manic-depression and lead normal lives. So Lizzie hits the road, hoping to find a herd of her own. Along the way she finds romance and madness, survivors and sufferers, and, somewhere between the lanes, herself. Part road trip, part love story, Detour is a fast-paced, enduring memoir that demystifies mental illness while it embraces the universally human struggle to become whole.About The Author:Lizzie Simon, a graduate of Columbia University, was the creative producer of the Obie Award-winning Flea Theater in Manhattan. She recently was a consultant and field producer for the MTV special True Life: I’m Bipolar, which was inspired by Detour. The recipient of a grant from the Federation of Families for Children’s Mental Health, Lizzie is a frequent guest speaker and freelance writer. |
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Developmental Editing: A Handbook for Freelancers, Authors, and Publishers $22.5 Editing is a tricky business. It requires analytical flair and creative panache, the patience of a saint and the vision of a writer. Transforming a manuscript into a book that edifies, inspires, and sells? That’s the job of the developmental editor, whose desk is the first stop for many manuscripts on the road to bookdom—a route ably mapped out in the pages of Developmental Editing.Author Scott Norton has worked with a diverse range of authors, editors, and publishers, and his handbook provides an approach to developmental editing that is logical, collaborative, humorous, and realistic. He starts with the core tasks of shaping the proposal, finding the hook, and building the narrative or argument, and then turns to the hard work of executing the plan and establishing a style.Developmental Editing includes detailed case studies featuring a variety of nonfiction books—election-year polemic, popular science, memoir, travel guide—and authors ranging from first-timer to veteran, journalist to scholar. Handy sidebars offer advice on how to become a developmental editor, create effective illustration programs, and adapt sophisticated fiction techniques (such as point of view, suspense, plotting, character, and setting) to nonfiction writing.  Norton’s book also provides freelance copyeditors with a way to earn higher fees while introducing more creativity into their work lives. It gives acquisitions, marketing, and production staff a vocabulary for diagnosing a manuscript’s flaws and techniques for transforming it into a bestseller. And perhaps most importantly, Developmental Editing equips authors with the concrete tools they need to reach their audiences. |
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Developmental Editing: A Handbook for Freelancers, Authors, and Publishers $22.5 Editing is a tricky business. It requires analytical flair and creative panache, the patience of a saint and the vision of a writer. Transforming a manuscript into a book that edifies, inspires, and sells? That’s the job of the developmental editor, whose desk is the first stop for many manuscripts on the road to bookdom—a route ably mapped out in the pages of Developmental Editing.Author Scott Norton has worked with a diverse range of authors, editors, and publishers, and his handbook provides an approach to developmental editing that is logical, collaborative, humorous, and realistic. He starts with the core tasks of shaping the proposal, finding the hook, and building the narrative or argument, and then turns to the hard work of executing the plan and establishing a style.Developmental Editing includes detailed case studies featuring a variety of nonfiction books—election-year polemic, popular science, memoir, travel guide—and authors ranging from first-timer to veteran, journalist to scholar. Handy sidebars offer advice on how to become a developmental editor, create effective illustration programs, and adapt sophisticated fiction techniques (such as point of view, suspense, plotting, character, and setting) to nonfiction writing.  Norton’s book also provides freelance copyeditors with a way to earn higher fees while introducing more creativity into their work lives. It gives acquisitions, marketing, and production staff a vocabulary for diagnosing a manuscript’s flaws and techniques for transforming it into a bestseller. And perhaps most importantly, Developmental Editing equips authors with the concrete tools they need to reach their audiences. |
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Developmental Editing: A Handbook for Freelancers, Authors, and Publishers $17.35 Editing is a tricky business. It requires analytical flair and creative panache, the patience of a saint and the vision of a writer. Transforming a manuscript into a book that edifies, inspires, and sells? That’s the job of the developmental editor, whose desk is the first stop for many manuscripts on the road to bookdom—a route ably mapped out in the pages of Developmental Editing.Author Scott Norton has worked with a diverse range of authors, editors, and publishers, and his handbook provides an approach to developmental editing that is logical, collaborative, humorous, and realistic. He starts with the core tasks of shaping the proposal, finding the hook, and building the narrative or argument, and then turns to the hard work of executing the plan and establishing a style.Developmental Editing includes detailed case studies featuring a variety of nonfiction books—election-year polemic, popular science, memoir, travel guide—and authors ranging from first-timer to veteran, journalist to scholar. Handy sidebars offer advice on how to become a developmental editor, create effective illustration programs, and adapt sophisticated fiction techniques (such as point of view, suspense, plotting, character, and setting) to nonfiction writing.  Norton’s book also provides freelance copyeditors with a way to earn higher fees while introducing more creativity into their work lives. It gives acquisitions, marketing, and production staff a vocabulary for diagnosing a manuscript’s flaws and techniques for transforming it into a bestseller. And perhaps most importantly, Developmental Editing equips authors with the concrete tools they need to reach their audiences. |
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Eco-Chic Weddings: Simple Tips to Plan an Environmentally Friendly, Socially Responsible, Affordable, and Stylish Celebration $12.95 Every year, weddings become more extravagant, expensive, and wasteful. Many couples want to opt out of the nuptial and reception Olympics in favor of a special day that can remember without regrets. They seek an affordable, environmentally friendly, socially responsible, and stylish celebration, but they need help. After her own eco-chic wedding last October, stylist/freelance writer Emily Anderson launched a blog to share tips about creating weddings that reflect your life philosophy. This book crystallizes her time-saving discoveries about choosing a venue; finding caterers or restaurants; floral displays and other decorations; the reception menu; and more. |
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FabJob Guide to Become a Freelance Writer $19.99 Kelly Boyer Sagert,NOOK Book (eBook), English-language edition,Pub by FabJob Inc. |
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Faith Deployed: Daily Encouragement for Military Wives $3.51 If your spouse, or someone you know, has been deployed recently, the stress of that situation will resonate with you. Jocelyn Green speaks directly to the wives of deployed seamen, marines, airmen, and soldiers, via the experiences of their spouses.This book is not a “ten easy steps” for a painless life, instead, it is a collection of devotions that squarely addresses the challenges wives face when their husbands are away protecting freedom. Challenges like: how does a military wife maintain a strong sense of patriotism without allowing her country to become an idol? What good can possibly come from moving every two to three years? And how can I be sure that God has a purpose for my life that is as strong as His purpose for my husband’s? The foundation of this devotional is the unchanging character of God and the anchor of Jesus Christ, even amidst the shifting circumstances of a military family. Jocelyn Green is a freelance writer who pens articles for dozens of magazines, and is a frequent contributor to the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities publications. While her husband served in the Coast Guard, Jocelyn realized the need for encouragement for those left behind. She and her husband have two children, a dog, a cat, and a graphic design business specifically serving the U.S. Coast Guard. For more information, see www.jocelyngreen.com. |
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Faith Deployed: Daily Encouragement for Military Wives $7.49 If your spouse, or someone you know, has been deployed recently, the stress of that situation will resonate with you. Jocelyn Green speaks directly to the wives of deployed seamen, marines, airmen, and soldiers, via the experiences of their spouses.This book is not a “ten easy steps” for a painless life, instead, it is a collection of devotions that squarely addresses the challenges wives face when their husbands are away protecting freedom. Challenges like: how does a military wife maintain a strong sense of patriotism without allowing her country to become an idol? What good can possibly come from moving every two to three years? And how can I be sure that God has a purpose for my life that is as strong as His purpose for my husband’s? The foundation of this devotional is the unchanging character of God and the anchor of Jesus Christ, even amidst the shifting circumstances of a military family. Jocelyn Green is a freelance writer who pens articles for dozens of magazines, and is a frequent contributor to the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities publications. While her husband served in the Coast Guard, Jocelyn realized the need for encouragement for those left behind. She and her husband have two children, a dog, a cat, and a graphic design business specifically serving the U.S. Coast Guard. For more information, see www.jocelyngreen.com. |
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Fender Benders $7.99 In his first three novels, Bill Fitzhugh created new strains of homicidal insects, sliced open the illegal transplant business, and sinfully skewered the Church and Madison Avenue with the same spear. Now he turns his attention to the hitmaking machinery of Music City, U.S.A.Depending on your point of view, Fender Benders is either a skewed look at the country music industry or a clear-eyed view of a damn screwy business. It’s a Grand Old Opera complete with murder, treachery, greed, drugs, twangy music, a love triangle, and the best fried swimps you’ll ever put in your mouth.First off, some folks down South have taken to dropping like flies. One minute they have a headache, the next they have a date at the funeral home. Seems some lunatic is tampering with boxes of headache powder, lacing them with sodium fluoroacetate. It’s a nasty death, but at least it’s quick, and it makes you forget you had a headache.Second off, Eddie Long wants to move to Nashville and become a country music star, but right now he’s stuck in Hinchcliff, Mississippi. Eddie’s big break comes with a contract to tour the Mississippi casino circuit. While he’s on the road, his wife dies, the victim of an apparent serial killer. The emotional turmoil of his wife’s death causes Eddie to write the best song of his life. He takes it to Nashville, hooks up with a hoary management company, and launches his career.Meanwhile, Jimmy Rogers is a freelance writer covering the Mississippi music scene. He loves writing and a girl named Megan. Jimmy decides early on that he is going to write Eddie’s biography. But as he’s researching Eddie’s wife’s murder, Jimmy comes to a surprising conclusion. He can’t proveit, but publishing it might make his own career.Megan is a smart, talented, and popular radio personality in a tiny market. But she wants a faster way to Easy Street. So she turns to Eddie. In Nashville.Before it’s all over, everybody’s planning to make a killing one way or another |
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Five Men Who Broke My Heart $10 In this honest, hilarious, fiercely intelligent memoir, journalist Susan Shapiro dares to do what every woman dreams of: track down the five men who’d broken her heart and find out what really went wrong. Between the ages of thirteen and thirty-five, Susan had plunged into love, heart-first, five times. One bad breakup was more hurtful and humiliating than the next. With insight and daring, Susan chronicles her six-month-long journey back down a road strewn with romantic regret. Although for years she’d blamed her boyfriends for their flagrant infidelity, ludicrous faults, and immature foibles, to her shock she can now suddenly pinpoint the exact moment where she herself screwed up each relationship. A successful freelance writer living in Manhattan, Susan Shapiro was in the midst of a midlife crisis she called her “no-book-no-baby summer.” Married for five years to Aaron, a workaholic TV comedy writer always on the road, she was beginning to wonder if she’d remain book- and babyless forever. Then the phone rang, and it was Brad, a college flame who’d become a Harvard scientist with a book coming out. Susan offers to interview him, and she winds up launching into all the intense, invasive questions she’d always wanted to ask him. To her surprise, he answers them! This ignites a spark that sends her on a cross-country jaunt back through her lust-littered past. While Brad is still single, she finds that Heartbreaks Number Two, Three, and Four are not. George, a theater professor, and Richard, a music biographer, are happily married with children. Tom, a handsome blond lawyer in L.A., is getting divorced. Just as it’s becoming easy to worm her way back into her exes’ goodgraces, she crashes head-on with David, a wry Canadian root canal specialist. (“It’s the equivalent of what you did to me emotionally,” she tells him.) She then gut-wrenchingly relives the agony of splitting up with her first love all over again. Yet somewhere between the tantalizing what-ifs |
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Five Men Who Broke My Heart: A Memoir $7.99 In this honest, hilarious, fiercely intelligent memoir, journalist Susan Shapiro dares to do what every woman dreams of: track down the five men who’d broken her heart and find out what really went wrong. Between the ages of thirteen and thirty-five, Susan had plunged into love, heart-first, five times. One bad breakup was more hurtful and humiliating than the next. With insight and daring, Susan chronicles her six-month-long journey back down a road strewn with romantic regret. Although for years she’d blamed her boyfriends for their flagrant infidelity, ludicrous faults, and immature foibles, to her shock she can now suddenly pinpoint the exact moment where she herself screwed up each relationship. A successful freelance writer living in Manhattan, Susan Shapiro was in the midst of a midlife crisis she called her “no-book-no-baby summer.” Married for five years to Aaron, a workaholic TV comedy writer always on the road, she was beginning to wonder if she’d remain book- and babyless forever. Then the phone rang, and it was Brad, a college flame who’d become a Harvard scientist with a book coming out. Susan offers to interview him, and she winds up launching into all the intense, invasive questions she’d always wanted to ask him. To her surprise, he answers them! This ignites a spark that sends her on a cross-country jaunt back through her lust-littered past. While Brad is still single, she finds that Heartbreaks Number Two, Three, and Four are not. George, a theater professor, and Richard, a music biographer, are happily married with children. Tom, a handsome blond lawyer in L.A., is getting divorced. Just as it’s becoming easy to worm her way back into her exes’ goodgraces, she crashes head-on with David, a wry Canadian root canal specialist. (“It’s the equivalent of what you did to me emotionally,” she tells him.) She then gut-wrenchingly relives the agony of splitting up with her first love all over again. Yet somewhere between the tantalizing what-ifs |
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Freelance Writing for Greeting Card Companies: 2nd Edition $11.99 The Freelance Writing for Greeting Card Companies, 2nd Edition targets important areas every writer needs to know in regards to being self-employed, as well as, how to own a small greeting card business. The expansion of this book provides the updates needed for the writer of today to meet the demand for freelance writers in the greeting card market.The 2nd Edition takes you into the world of the Internet to explore the technology which has opened the door for freelance writers and artists. Information about the card companies can be located easier, quicker, and at anytime of the day or night, seven days a week. Response time between the writer, publisher, and editor has been shortened to a matter of hours or days instead of weeks or months. A writer will be able to track the changing trends and submission guidelines. The 2nd Edition will show how to use the Internet to a writer’s advantage. You will find web sites that will offer a variety of freelance writers opportunities never before known or unreachable outside the Internet world such as: chat rooms, bulletin boards, or forums so writers can communicate with other writers. This type of networking is ideal for finding answers or obtaining valuable information about a company, organizations, writing groups, and available resources.By the time you finish reading this book, you will be more aware of what it takes to be self-employed as a freelance writer (a sole proprietor) and gain the knowhow to conduct the research necessary to become a proficient and successful freelance writer for greeting card companies or to own your own greeting card business. |
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Freelance Writing for Magazines and Newspapers $4.25 Unlike the mass of freelance writing books aimed at readers who fondly hope to become wealthy freelance writers any which way they can, Freelance Wiling: Breaking In Without Selling Out is for educated people whose primary motivation for trying to get into print is the wish to effectively communicate their ideas, skills and discoveries in appropriate publications. Few books are directed to the potential writer who wants to follow his or her own path. If fulfilling your sense of responsibility to your subject, to your audience, and to yourself is important to your satisfaction as a writer, Marcia Yudkin’s concise and sensible handbook is for you.Since receiving her Ph.D. in Philosophy from Cornell, Marcia Yudkin has taught at Smith College and the University of Massachusetts, and has published fiction and nonfiction in Art Times, Yankee, the New York Times, Psychology Today, the Boston Globe, Ms., the Village Voice and other periodicals. She is the author of Making Good: Private Business in Socialist China and coauthor of the American Philosophical Association’s Guidebook for Publishing Philosophy. |
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Great Jobs for Geology Majors $0.01 A degree in geology is a rock-solid step toward success!You’ve worked hard for that geology degree. Now what? Sometimes the choice of careers can seem endless; the most difficult part of a job search is narrowing down your options.Great Jobs for Geology Majors will help you choose the right career out of the myriad possibilities at your disposal. It provides detailed profiles of careers in your field along with the basic skills necessary to begin a focused job search. You’ll soon be on the fast track to landing a job that satisfies your personal, professional, and practical needs.Great Jobs for Geology Majors will help you:Determine the occupation that’s best suited to you Craft a résumé and cover letter that stand out from the rest Learn from practicing professionals about everyday life on the job Become familiar with current statistics on salaries and trends within the profession Go from geology major to:Volcanologist • Soil scientist • Economic geologist • Geodynamacist • Laboratory technician • Paleoceanographer *Architect • Petroleum engineer • SurveyorBlythe Camenson is a full-time writer of career books and director of Fiction Writer’s Connection, a membership organization providing support for writers. She has taught freelance writing courses and conducts novel-writing workshops. |
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Gwen $1.99 No matter what the world throws at her, Gwen Peters rises to the challenge. Feisty, curious, with a flare for the dramatic, she dreams of a life on the stage like her idol E. Pauline Johnson, a Mohawk poet and performer who dazzled Gwen during a stunning performance in a London theatre. When Gwen is orphaned, she seizes the opportunity to become a Home Child and is trained for placement as a maid for a family in Canada. So begins her long journey away from her friends on the streets of turn-of-the-century London to service in a wealthy household in Toronto.But when trouble strikes in Toronto, Gwen escapes into the night. Angry and alone, she undertakes a long dangerous trek, following the train tracks back to the only safe haven she knows: Cedarbrae, the Home in Peterborough. Her adventures include an encounter with a bear and flight from a raging forest fire. Gwen’s courage brings her to a welcoming family in Brantford and new friends from the Six Nations Reserve near Pauline Johnson’s childhood home. Carolyn Pogue draws imaginatively on the story of her own grandmother’s experiences as a Barnardo Home Child to bring a little-known piece of Canadian history to light in this exuberant story of bravery and resourcefulness. With the young, vibrant Gwen, Pogue gives readers of all ages a character to cheer on with every step of a journey that comes alive in a manner both familiar and wonderfully strange.Carolyn Pogue is the author of fourteen books of fiction and non-fiction and also writes poetry and drama. Her writing appears in periodicals such as Canadian Living, Synchronicity, The United Church Observer and Peace Magazine. She is a freelance writer and lives in Calgary, Alberta. |
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How to Win X Factor $12.95 Since it was first screened in 2004, the X Factor has become essential weekend viewing, with regular TV audiences of over 12 million – but the question remains, how do you win? How do you impress the judges, the cruel Simon Cowell, the twinkly Louis Walsh, the beautiful Cheryl Cole. Is it the singer or the song? Is it the presentation? The support from your friends? Your background? Your attitude? Or is it the hairstyle? Or the well timed tears? TV writer Keeley Bolger takes a light-hearted look at the show, the controversies over vote rigging, and the supposed rivalry between the judges and contestants and offers her tips – not all of them obvious – on how to win the coveted title. She also delves into the history of TV talent shows and profiles the judges and previous winners of the X Factor. Keeley Bolger is a London-based freelance journalist who has written extensively about X Factor, TV, music and pop culture for The Sun and other media. |
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I’ve Lost My What: A Practical Guide to Life After Deafness $15.95 Baffled by your new inability to hear? Know someone who is? Then I”ve Lost My WHAT: A Practical Guide to Life After Deafness is for you. It talks about assistive devices, the psychology of adult-onset deafness, communication, relationships, cochlear implants, hearing aids, the Americans with Disabilities Act, telephone use, and daily life for people who”ve gone deaf post-lingually. This book should be required reading for anyone who”s lost their hearing or works with late-deafened individuals. I”ve Lost My WHAT could very well be the late-deafened adult”s Bible. –Michele Bornert, Late-deafened freelance writer A top-notch reference for those who become deaf. –Mary Clark, former executive director, Hearing Loss Link Shawn learned all this stuff the hard way. Now he”s making sure you won”t have to do it too. –Cheryl Heppner, Exec. Dir. Northern Virginia Resource, Center for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Persons |
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Just Ask Leadership: Why Great Managers Always Ask the Right Questions $19.95 How do you become a great leader?The answer’s simple: Just Ask.The world is filled with people who have all the right answers. What it needs aremore people who have all the right questions.Leadership guru Gary Cohen explains how to empower yourself and your peopleby presenting open-ended questions designed to engage and inspire. Just AskLeadership provides the insight and skills you need to strategically “question” yourorganization to greatness.“Gary’s book can raise everyone’s awareness of the social andintellectual power of asking rather than telling.”—Tom Pritzker, CEO, Hyatt Corporation“A thoroughly engaging, well-researched book that haschanged the way I run my business.”—Kayle Neeley, CEO, EZ Payroll & Staffing,and former Vice President, Norwegian Cruise Line“Gary’s concept of Just Ask Leadership is new andilluminating. It is what we do as leaders.”—Matt Wisk, President, My Points, Inc.“For innovative thinking and getting a new slant on anold problem, Gary Cohen is incomparable.”—Marcy Syms, CEO, Syms Corporation“Gary’s approach applies to schools as well as businesses.Administrators can empower teachers and teachers can empowerstudents simply by asking thoughtful, open-ended questions.”—Arne Duncan, U.S. Secretary of EducationGary Cohen, president and cofounder ofACI Telecentrics, Inc., expanded the companyfrom two people to 2,200 employees,took the company public, and reached $32million in revenues at the company’s peak.ACI grew at an average compounded rateof over 50 percent for almost 13 years. Currently,he is partner and founder of CO2Partners, LLC, in Minneapolis, where heworks as an executive coach and consultant.Eric Vrooman is a freelance writer living inMinneapolis. He has taught |
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Just Ask Leadership: Why Great Managers Always Ask the Right Questions $1.49 How do you become a great leader?The answer’s simple: Just Ask.The world is filled with people who have all the right answers. What it needs aremore people who have all the right questions.Leadership guru Gary Cohen explains how to empower yourself and your peopleby presenting open-ended questions designed to engage and inspire. Just AskLeadership provides the insight and skills you need to strategically “question” yourorganization to greatness.“Gary’s book can raise everyone’s awareness of the social andintellectual power of asking rather than telling.”—Tom Pritzker, CEO, Hyatt Corporation“A thoroughly engaging, well-researched book that haschanged the way I run my business.”—Kayle Neeley, CEO, EZ Payroll & Staffing,and former Vice President, Norwegian Cruise Line“Gary’s concept of Just Ask Leadership is new andilluminating. It is what we do as leaders.”—Matt Wisk, President, My Points, Inc.“For innovative thinking and getting a new slant on anold problem, Gary Cohen is incomparable.”—Marcy Syms, CEO, Syms Corporation“Gary’s approach applies to schools as well as businesses.Administrators can empower teachers and teachers can empowerstudents simply by asking thoughtful, open-ended questions.”—Arne Duncan, U.S. Secretary of EducationGary Cohen, president and cofounder ofACI Telecentrics, Inc., expanded the companyfrom two people to 2,200 employees,took the company public, and reached $32million in revenues at the company’s peak.ACI grew at an average compounded rateof over 50 percent for almost 13 years. Currently,he is partner and founder of CO2Partners, LLC, in Minneapolis, where heworks as an executive coach and consultant.Eric Vrooman is a freelance writer living inMinneapolis. He has taught |
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Let Me Go $11.99 The extraordinary memoir, praised across Europe, of a daughter’s final encounter with her mother, a former SS guard at Auschwitz. In 1941, in Berlin, Helga Schneider’s mother abandoned her, her younger brother, and her father. Thirty years later– when she saw her mother again for the first time– Schneider discovered the shocking reason: Her mother had joined the Nazi SS and had become a guard in concentration camps, including Auschwitz-Birkenau and Ravensbrück, where she was in charge of a “correction” unit and responsible for untold acts of torture. Nearly three more decades would pass before their second and final reunion, an emotional encounter at a Vienna nursing home, where her mother, then eighty-seven and unrepentant about her past, was ailing. Let Me Go is an extraordinary account of that meeting. Their conversation– which Schneider recounts in spellbinding detail– triggers childhood memories, and she weaves these into her account, powerfully evoking the misery of Nazi and postwar Berlin. Yet it is her internal struggle– a daughter’s sense of obligation colliding with the inescapable horror of what her mother has done– that will stay with readers long after the book has ended. Helga Schneider was born in 1937 in Steinberg, now in Poland, and spent her childhood in Berlin. When her mother left the family, she was brought up first by her stepmother and then in a boarding school. She has lived as a freelance writer for many years in Bologna, Italy. |
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Let Me Go $14 The extraordinary memoir, praised across Europe, of a daughter’s final encounter with her mother, a former SS guard at Auschwitz. In 1941, in Berlin, Helga Schneider’s mother abandoned her, her younger brother, and her father. Thirty years later– when she saw her mother again for the first time– Schneider discovered the shocking reason: Her mother had joined the Nazi SS and had become a guard in concentration camps, including Auschwitz-Birkenau and Ravensbrück, where she was in charge of a “correction” unit and responsible for untold acts of torture. Nearly three more decades would pass before their second and final reunion, an emotional encounter at a Vienna nursing home, where her mother, then eighty-seven and unrepentant about her past, was ailing. Let Me Go is an extraordinary account of that meeting. Their conversation– which Schneider recounts in spellbinding detail– triggers childhood memories, and she weaves these into her account, powerfully evoking the misery of Nazi and postwar Berlin. Yet it is her internal struggle– a daughter’s sense of obligation colliding with the inescapable horror of what her mother has done– that will stay with readers long after the book has ended. Helga Schneider was born in 1937 in Steinberg, now in Poland, and spent her childhood in Berlin. When her mother left the family, she was brought up first by her stepmother and then in a boarding school. She has lived as a freelance writer for many years in Bologna, Italy. |
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Make a Real Living as a Freelance Writer: How to Win Top Writing Assignments $5.99 Step-by-step instructions on how writers can earn top dollar writing for magazines are provided in this book. Secrets are revealed about what the high-paying magazines really want, how to build relationships with editors, how to ascertain which sections of a magazine are open to freelancers, what kinds of stories are in demand, what to do if a deadbeat publisher doesn’t pay up, how to market reprints, and how to become an expert in one’s chosen writing field. Basic terms like query, clips, and source sheet are defined for beginning writers, and tips on everything from coming up with an idea to pitching a syndicated column are also included. Writers learn about the little-known sources top freelancers use to find new stories and experts. In addition, they learn how to get their first paying assignments even if they have no prior clips, how to negotiate for better pay, how to find high-paying magazines that aren’t swamped with queries, and how to worm their way into editors’ inboxes even if their e-mail addresses aren’t publicized. |
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Make a Real Living as a Freelance Writer: How to Win Top Writing Assignments $15.95 Step-by-step instructions on how writers can earn top dollar writing for magazines are provided in this book. Secrets are revealed about what the high-paying magazines really want, how to build relationships with editors, how to ascertain which sections of a magazine are open to freelancers, what kinds of stories are in demand, what to do if a deadbeat publisher doesn’t pay up, how to market reprints, and how to become an expert in one’s chosen writing field. Basic terms like query, clips, and source sheet are defined for beginning writers, and tips on everything from coming up with an idea to pitching a syndicated column are also included. Writers learn about the little-known sources top freelancers use to find new stories and experts. In addition, they learn how to get their first paying assignments even if they have no prior clips, how to negotiate for better pay, how to find high-paying magazines that aren’t swamped with queries, and how to worm their way into editors’ inboxes even if their e-mail addresses aren’t publicized. |
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Modular Mansions $0.23 $39.95 U.S.Still think of modular houses as trailers? Have a look into the future of home building by walking through over twenty inspired modular retreats ranging from quaint cottages to elegant, expansive mansions. See how modular homes have become significantly more sophisticated, with beautiful, spacious designs that rival the size and quality of many custom stick-built homes. Modular Mansions is the first book of its kind to showcase an assortment of dream homes that highlight the benefits of modular craftsmanship. Author Sheri Koones illustrates the many reasons why modular building is a smart way to go for today’s savvy homeowners. Learn how a modular home can save you money, why they take less time to build, why building in a climate-controlled environment is better than on-site construction, what kinds of design features and amenities are now available, and much, much more.About the AuthorSheri Koones began writing about home construction after doing extensive research to complete the renovation of her own home several years ago. She found a niche in empowering other homeowners to become more knowledgeable about completing their own construction projects. Sheri’s other books include From Sand Castles to Dream Houses and House About It. She is also a columnist and freelance writer. |
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No Laughing Matter $8.99 Norman Hudis, born 1922 started as a junior reporter and joined the RAF in the Second World War. Towards the end of his five-and-a-half years’ service, he was on the editorial staff of the Cairo-based Air Force News and traveling, as the war’s youngest war correspondent, the length and breadth of the Middle East. Post-war, aiming to become a playwright, he had a modest success with his first effort, Here is the News – enough for Pinewood Studios to offer him a screenwriting contract. Then he went freelance as a prolific writer of B movies. Hudis-scripted, low-budget The Tommy Steele Story was a million-pound box-office success and Hudis was then offered a long-term contract by its producer Peter Rogers. With director Gerald Thomas at the helm, the Carry On production trio was complete, for the three of them went on to film Carry On Sergeant and five others, including the archetypal Carry On Nurse – top British box-office film of its year. Following the huge Carry On success, he moved to America in response to offers. There, he has written for The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Marcus Welby, Simon and Simon, Baretta (Mystery Writers of America Edgar Allan Poe Award), The Story of Esther (three awards), Hawaii Five-O, and Cannon, amongst others. Hudis now works for producers in both countries. |
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Office Spa: Stress Relief for the Working Week $1 From the creator of the bestselling Office Yoga (150,000 copies sold) comes the ultimate guide to sanity and serenity in the workplace. Office Spa presents more than 50 fun, simple, stress-relieving ideas that help make a day at the office feel more like a day at the spa. Beat the mid-morning blahs with an invigorating herbal tea steam. Alleviate anxiety with a Hara Power tummy massage. Treat tired toes under the desk with relaxing reflexology. Author Darrin Zeer taps into the healing principles behind aromatherapy, acupressure, meditation, reflexology, and even feng shui, creating quick and effective pampering treatments that are easy enough to do on the commute, at the computer, or in the conference room. Brimming with playful illustrations by Frank Montagna, this delightful desktop reference offers a suite of soothing ideas to relax, refresh, and renew. Author Biography: Darrin Zeer spent seven years in Asia studying the Eastern arts of healing. He currently divides his time between California and Hawaii. A writer and consultant to corporations such as Pixar, Golden Door Spa, and Four Seasons Resorts, he specializes in helping people become more calm, balanced, and effective in their work and personal lives. He is the author of Office Yoga. Frank Montagna is a Los Angeles-based freelance illustrator whose work has appeared in a variety of publications, including New York Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, Cosmo Girl, Modern Bride, and Glamour Germany. |
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Office Spa: Stress Relief for the Working Week $7.99 From the creator of the bestselling Office Yoga (150,000 copies sold) comes the ultimate guide to sanity and serenity in the workplace. Office Spa presents more than 50 fun, simple, stress-relieving ideas that help make a day at the office feel more like a day at the spa. Beat the mid-morning blahs with an invigorating herbal tea steam. Alleviate anxiety with a Hara Power tummy massage. Treat tired toes under the desk with relaxing reflexology. Author Darrin Zeer taps into the healing principles behind aromatherapy, acupressure, meditation, reflexology, and even feng shui, creating quick and effective pampering treatments that are easy enough to do on the commute, at the computer, or in the conference room. Brimming with playful illustrations by Frank Montagna, this delightful desktop reference offers a suite of soothing ideas to relax, refresh, and renew. Author Biography: Darrin Zeer spent seven years in Asia studying the Eastern arts of healing. He currently divides his time between California and Hawaii. A writer and consultant to corporations such as Pixar, Golden Door Spa, and Four Seasons Resorts, he specializes in helping people become more calm, balanced, and effective in their work and personal lives. He is the author of Office Yoga. Frank Montagna is a Los Angeles-based freelance illustrator whose work has appeared in a variety of publications, including New York Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, Cosmo Girl, Modern Bride, and Glamour Germany. |
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Office Spa: Stress Relief for the Working Week $0.99 From the creator of the bestselling Office Yoga (150,000 copies sold) comes the ultimate guide to sanity and serenity in the workplace. Office Spa presents more than 50 fun, simple, stress-relieving ideas that help make a day at the office feel more like a day at the spa. Beat the mid-morning blahs with an invigorating herbal tea steam. Alleviate anxiety with a Hara Power tummy massage. Treat tired toes under the desk with relaxing reflexology. Author Darrin Zeer taps into the healing principles behind aromatherapy, acupressure, meditation, reflexology, and even feng shui, creating quick and effective pampering treatments that are easy enough to do on the commute, at the computer, or in the conference room. Brimming with playful illustrations by Frank Montagna, this delightful desktop reference offers a suite of soothing ideas to relax, refresh, and renew. Author Biography: Darrin Zeer spent seven years in Asia studying the Eastern arts of healing. He currently divides his time between California and Hawaii. A writer and consultant to corporations such as Pixar, Golden Door Spa, and Four Seasons Resorts, he specializes in helping people become more calm, balanced, and effective in their work and personal lives. He is the author of Office Yoga. Frank Montagna is a Los Angeles-based freelance illustrator whose work has appeared in a variety of publications, including New York Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, Cosmo Girl, Modern Bride, and Glamour Germany. |
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People From Quanzhou: Zhu Wen, Lai Changxing, Chen Boda, Li Huanzhi, Choy So-Yuk, Xu Rongmao, Philip Wong, Zhang Gaoli, ni Zhiqin $9.25 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Zhu Wen (born, 1967) is a Chinese short story writer turned director. The cover of the translation of I Love Dollars and Other Stories from China, translated by Julia Lovell, published by Columbia University PressZhu Wen was born in 1967 in Quanzhou City, Fujian Province. He attended Southeast University in Nanjing, and graduated with a degree in electric power. After working as an engineer in a state-owned thermal power plant for five years, he quit his job in 1994 to become a freelance writer. His first published short story, I Love Dollars, was denounced by some critics as the “shameless and indecent novel of a hooligan.” In 1998, he instigated and became identified with the Rupture movement(duanlie) to voice dissatisfaction with the literary establishment. He sent questionnaires to about 70 writers, about 55 of which responded. The responses were sarcastic and mostly expressed discontent, and later spawned publications that nurtured more independence among writers. In an introduction to Zhu Wen’s short stories, translator Julia Lovell characterized his ‘trademark narrative style’ as “a loosely punctuated, first-person voice in which speech, both direct and indirect, run on within sentences of descriptive prose, designed to capture the unceremonious, free-flowing rhythms of action and dialogue in contemporary China.” The cover of What is Garbage, What is LoveAs a writer, he was labeled as part of a ‘newly-born generation’ (xinshengdai) movement. He began writing short stories and novellas in 1991. He has written the following novellas: His only novel-length work is What is Garbage, What is Love. (). A selection of his short stories were translated by Julia Lovell and published by Columbia University Press in January 2007. Zhu decided to … More: |
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Person (Brandenburg) $19.99 Kapitel: Carl Klinke, Friedrich Schoenfelder, Hermann Von Pückler-Muskau, Erwin Strittmatter, Günther Rechn, Rainer Ehrt, Sieghart Von Arnim, Gottfried Von Jena, Hermann Wilhelm Vogel, Aemilius Wagler, Wilfried Schwuchow, Berthold Von Ploetz, Max Borrack, Mato Kosyk, Johannes Vogel, Friedrich Von Delius, Ernst Von Delius, Ernst Jähde, Hartmut Dorgerloh, Christian August Bähr. Aus Wikipedia. Nicht dargestellt. Auszug: Erwin Strittmatter (14 August 1912 in Spremberg – 31 January 1994 in Schulzenhof near Dollgow/Stechlin) was a German writer. Strittmatter was one of the most famous writers in the GDR. Strittmatter was born the son of a baker. After graduating from the Realgymnasium at the age of 17, he started an apprenticeship as a baker. Later, he worked as baker, waiter, chauffeur, zookeeper and unskilled laborer. In 1940 he volunteered to the Waffen-SS but was rejected. During the Second World War Strittmatter served as a member of the Ordnungspolizei in the SS-Polizei-Gebirgsjäger-Regiment 18, which was involved in the deportation of Jews from Athens. In October till December 1941 his unit was stationed at Cracow, probably as guards of the Krakau Ghetto. Later Strittmatter completed courses in anti-partisan warfare and was deployed in Slovenia, Finland und Greece. Strittmatter deserted near the end of the war and continued to work as a baker while also working as a correspondent, later as an editor for a newspaper. In 1947, he became head official of seven municipalitites. In 1954 Strittmatter began working as a freelance writer. Strittmatter married Eva Strittmatter, who went on to become one of the most successful poets of East Germany, in 1956. In 1955 he was awarded the National Prize of the GDR for his novel Tinko, in 1961 he received the Lessing award of the GDR. On 31 January 1994, Erwin Strittmatter died after long illness. …http://booksllc.net/?l=de |
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Powerful Medicine: Vitamin D: Shedding Light on a Worldwide Health Crisis $9.99 “Vitamin D deficiency is a world-wide epidemic, with over one billion people at risk for its associated diseases.” www.vitamindcouncil.orgPowerful Medicine: Vitamin D is the inside scoop on what has become a very real health crisis around the world.Inside these pages you’ll find out exactly how vitamin D operates in the body and what happens when it’s not available for protection. A deficiency in vitamin D is the main reason we have skyrocketing incidence of Cancer, MS, Diabetes, Osteoporosis, Depression, Season Affective Disorder, Autism, Hypertension and more.And what can healthy levels of vitamin D do for you? To start with, activated vitamin D can: halt tumor growth and reduce tumor size, improve heart health by regulating blood pressure, improve insulin production and regulate blood sugar levels, improve chances of survival from cancer related surgery, keep bones healthy by regulating calcium levels, improve mental health and provide protection from the common cold, viruses and much, much more.By reading this book you are stepping onto a path that will ultimately protect you and your loved ones from the natural consequences of vitamin D deficiency.In light and health, Lucinda Messer, N.D.Dr. Messer is a naturopathic physician and graduate of the prestigious Bastyr University. She has been in private practice for 15 years; specializing in women’s health, nutritional and anti-aging medicine. Dr. Messer’s writings on anti-aging, the thyroid and natural hormone therapies, have been widely published and she’s frequently asked to speak on nutritional medicine. You can find Dr. Messer on the web at www.powerfulmedicine-vitd.com and www.DrLMesser.com.Her co-author Sidse Powell is a freelance writer with an undergrad in biochemistry and alumni of Seattle’s The Film School. www.sidsewrites.com.The illustrations and cover were designed by Riley Dickens, a freelance artist with disciplines in film, animation, 2D/3D design, |
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Preparing for Leadership: What It Takes to Take the Lead $0.01 What makes a great leader? Confidence? Trust? Vision? The ability to inspire? The answer is complex, yet it’s something that can be learned. The good news is that most great leaders are made, not born, and many of the characteristics associated with effective leadership can be assessed, trained, and developed. Based on the best-selling seminar by the American Management Association, Preparing for Leadership gives you practical advice for how to: •Get noticed by learning how to act and talk like a leader. •Become an expert teambuilder, coach, and communicator. •Gain and use power and influence positively. •Guard against the pitfalls of intraorganizational politics. •Identify and build strategic alliances. •Elicit support. •Motivate others. Containing practical tools including assessments, tips, and checklists, Preparing for Leadership shows you how to take your organizations into the future, inspire everyone around you…and achieve way beyond what is expected! Donna J. Dennis, Ph.D., is a leadership development professional whose clients have included Kraft Kennedy, the Layne Christensen Company, Johnson & Johnson, and British Petroleum. She is an Executive in Residence with the Institute for Corporate Productivity in St. Petersburg, Florida. Ms. Dennis lives in Princeton, New Jersey. Deborah Dennis Meola is a freelance writer who lives in Skillman, New Jersey. |
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Quilting and Color Made Easy: Everything You Need to Know about Color, Fabric, and Quilting-From Start to Stunning Finish $11.61 Quilting and Color Made Easy is the ultimate resource for polishing your quilting skills and exploring new fabric colors and textures. If you’ve ever started a quilt and found that you needed more guidance than the pattern offered, you’ll find all the help you need in this user-friendly book. From cutting patchwork pieces more accurately using quick rotary-cutting techniques to choosing and marking a stunning quilting design, you’ll discover newer, speedier methods and sewing tips that will save you time, improve your accuracy, and help you become a better quilter. Choosing colors and fabrics is probably the most exciting part of quiltmaking, yet many quilters feel unsure about combining colors, textures, and prints. Explore the many color exercises and the workbook section included in this book. You’ll learn to make more satisfying color choices, create sparkle with an accent color, and combine colors in the right proportions for more eye-catching quilts. Nothing is more fun to play with than color! Once you know how to make color choices with confidence, you’ll be amazed at how harmonious your quilt colors are! Susan McKelvey and Janet Wickell are well-known teachers and quilters. Susan has written several books on quilting and color and teaches throughout the United States. Through her company, Wallflower Designs, she designs and distributes quilting books, patterns, and supplies. Janet is a freelance writer and editor and has contributed her technical knowledge and expertise to countless quilting books. She teaches both quilting and hand-marbling on fabric classes. |
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Rembrandt and the Boy Who Drew Dogs: A Story about Rembrandt van Rijn $8.51 Titus dreamed of being an artist like his famous father, but his father didn’t think he was old enough to learn. Even so, Titus was determined. He peeked over his father’s shoulder, watching as lines wiggled across the paper. As if by magic, a view of the Amstel River appeared. • “I’m going to do that,” Titus thought. • Author Molly Blaisdell transports young readers to the city of Amsterdam in the 1650s. It is a time when Rembrandt van Rijn is at the height of his artistic powers—and when his young son Titus longs to imitate his father and become a great painter. But Rembrandt tells the boy he is too young to learn to draw and paint. How can young Titus change his father’s mind? Here is a warm-hearted story for children with illustrations that capture the atmosphere of seventeenth-century Holland and suggest some of the genius that radiates from Rembrandt’s own magnificent paintings. • THE AUTHOR: Molly Blaisdell is a freelance writer who has published books for children on a variety of subjects. She lives with her husband, Tim, and their four children in Woodinville, Washington.• THE ILLUSTRATOR: Nancy Lane is a freelance illustrator and creator of artwork that ranges from community murals, logos, and courtroom drawings to licensed T-shirt designs, and children’s books. She is also the illustrator of the children’s book, Renoir and the Boy with the Long Hair, published by Barron’s. |
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Running the Books: The Adventures of an Accidental Prison Librarian $11.99 Avi Steinberg is stumped. After defecting from yeshiva to Harvard, he has only a senior thesis essay on Bugs Bunny to show for his effort. While his friends and classmates advance in the world, he remains stuck at a crossroads, unable to meet the lofty expectations of his Orthodox Jewish upbringing. And his romantic existence as a freelance obituary writer just isn’t cutting it. Seeking direction—and dental insurance—Steinberg takes a job as a librarian in a tough Boston prison.  The prison library counter, his new post, attracts con men, minor prophets, ghosts, and an assortment of quirky regulars searching for the perfect book and a connection to the outside world. There’s an anxious pimp who solicits Steinberg’s help in writing a memoir. A passionate gangster who dreams of hosting a cooking show titled Thug Sizzle. A disgruntled officer who instigates a major feud over a Post-it note. A doomed ex-stripper who asks Steinberg to orchestrate a reunion with her estranged son, himself an inmate. Over time, Steinberg is drawn into the accidental community of outcasts that has formed among his bookshelves — a drama he recounts with heartbreak and humor. But when the struggles of the prison library — between life and death, love and loyalty — become personal, Steinberg is forced to take sides.Running the Books is a trenchant exploration of prison culture and an entertaining tale of one young man’s earnest attempt to find his place in the world while trying not to get fired in the process.  |
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Running the Books: The Adventures of an Accidental Prison Librarian $16 Avi Steinberg is stumped. After defecting from yeshiva to Harvard, he has only a senior thesis essay on Bugs Bunny to show for his effort. While his friends and classmates advance in the world, he remains stuck at a crossroads, unable to meet the lofty expectations of his Orthodox Jewish upbringing. And his romantic existence as a freelance obituary writer just isn’t cutting it. Seeking direction—and dental insurance—Steinberg takes a job as a librarian in a tough Boston prison.  The prison library counter, his new post, attracts con men, minor prophets, ghosts, and an assortment of quirky regulars searching for the perfect book and a connection to the outside world. There’s an anxious pimp who solicits Steinberg’s help in writing a memoir. A passionate gangster who dreams of hosting a cooking show titled Thug Sizzle. A disgruntled officer who instigates a major feud over a Post-it note. A doomed ex-stripper who asks Steinberg to orchestrate a reunion with her estranged son, himself an inmate. Over time, Steinberg is drawn into the accidental community of outcasts that has formed among his bookshelves — a drama he recounts with heartbreak and humor. But when the struggles of the prison library — between life and death, love and loyalty — become personal, Steinberg is forced to take sides.Running the Books is a trenchant exploration of prison culture and an entertaining tale of one young man’s earnest attempt to find his place in the world while trying not to get fired in the process.  |
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Running the Books: The Adventures of an Accidental Prison Librarian $0.99 Avi Steinberg is stumped. After defecting from yeshiva to Harvard, he has only a senior thesis essay on Bugs Bunny to show for his effort. While his friends and classmates advance in the world, he remains stuck at a crossroads, unable to meet the lofty expectations of his Orthodox Jewish upbringing. And his romantic existence as a freelance obituary writer just isn’t cutting it. Seeking direction—and dental insurance—Steinberg takes a job as a librarian in a tough Boston prison.  The prison library counter, his new post, attracts con men, minor prophets, ghosts, and an assortment of quirky regulars searching for the perfect book and a connection to the outside world. There’s an anxious pimp who solicits Steinberg’s help in writing a memoir. A passionate gangster who dreams of hosting a cooking show titled Thug Sizzle. A disgruntled officer who instigates a major feud over a Post-it note. A doomed ex-stripper who asks Steinberg to orchestrate a reunion with her estranged son, himself an inmate. Over time, Steinberg is drawn into the accidental community of outcasts that has formed among his bookshelves — a drama he recounts with heartbreak and humor. But when the struggles of the prison library — between life and death, love and loyalty — become personal, Steinberg is forced to take sides.Running the Books is a trenchant exploration of prison culture and an entertaining tale of one young man’s earnest attempt to find his place in the world while trying not to get fired in the process.  |
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Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time $23.95 Fresh out of college and following a brief and disastrous stint playing minor league baseball, David Goodwillie moves to New York intent on making his mark as a writer.Arriving in Manhattan in the mid-nineties, Goodwillie quickly falls into one implausible job after another. He becomes a private investigator, imagining himself as a gumshoe, a hired gun—only to realize that he’s more adept at bungling cases than at solving them. When, in his stint as a freelance journalist, he unveils the Mafia in a magazine exposé, he succeeds only in becoming a target of their wrath. As a copywriter for a sports auction house, he imagines documenting the great histories hidden in priceless artifacts but finds himself forced to write about a lock of Mickey Mantle’s hair. Even when he seems to break through, somehow becoming the sports expert at Sotheby’s auction house—appearing on major news networks, raking in a hefty salary—he’s lured away by the promise of Internet millions…just in time for the dot-com crash. Teeming with the vibrancy of a city in hyperdrive, Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time recounts a dizzying and enthralling search for authenticity in a cynical, superficial—and suddenly dangerous—age.In his heartbreaking and hilarious struggle to become a big-city writer, Goodwillie becomes something more: an important voice of the lost generation he so elegantly describes. |
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Starting Your Career as a Freelance Writer (Second Edition) $24.95 If you’ve always dreamed of making a living as a writer, this book will take you where you want to go. Starting Your Career as a Freelance Writer, Second Edition, demystifies the process of becoming a writer and gives aspiring writers all the tools they need to become successful freelance writers, get their names in print, and start earning a healthy income from writing. Completely revised and updated, the second edition includes an entirely new section on the “online writer,” discussing how to set up your own website, whether you need a blog, how to effectively participate in social networking sites, and information on electronic publishing, POD and more. New chapters provide guidance on writing for international markets and other writing opportunities such as ghostwriting, speech-writing, technical writing, copyediting, teaching, etc. This indispensable resource walks writers through the process of developing marketable ideas and then finding appropriate markets for those ideas. It includes effective tips on how to set writing goals; make time for writing; hone research and interview techniques; create outlines and first drafts, approach editors (online and offline), and prepare and submit material. Writers will also discover the vital business issues of freelancing such as rights and contracts, plus how to manage income, expenses, and taxes. Author Moira Allen has more than 30 years experience both as a freelance writer and as an editor; her tips come from a keen understanding of what works from both sides of the desk. Whether readers are looking to support themselves as full-time freelancers or supplement an existing career, no one wanting to make money as a writer can afford to be without this book. |
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Starting Your Career as a Freelance Writer (Second Edition) $24.95 If you’ve always dreamed of making a living as a writer, this book will take you where you want to go. Starting Your Career as a Freelance Writer, Second Edition, demystifies the process of becoming a writer and gives aspiring writers all the tools they need to become successful freelance writers, get their names in print, and start earning a healthy income from writing. Completely revised and updated, the second edition includes an entirely new section on the “online writer,” discussing how to set up your own website, whether you need a blog, how to effectively participate in social networking sites, and information on electronic publishing, POD and more. New chapters provide guidance on writing for international markets and other writing opportunities such as ghostwriting, speech-writing, technical writing, copyediting, teaching, etc. This indispensable resource walks writers through the process of developing marketable ideas and then finding appropriate markets for those ideas. It includes effective tips on how to set writing goals; make time for writing; hone research and interview techniques; create outlines and first drafts, approach editors (online and offline), and prepare and submit material. Writers will also discover the vital business issues of freelancing such as rights and contracts, plus how to manage income, expenses, and taxes. Author Moira Allen has more than 30 years experience both as a freelance writer and as an editor; her tips come from a keen understanding of what works from both sides of the desk. Whether readers are looking to support themselves as full-time freelancers or supplement an existing career, no one wanting to make money as a writer can afford to be without this book. |
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Ten Ways To Your Cat’s Happiness $15.95 When Evan McGorkle moved to Manhattan more than fifteen years ago, he harbored big dreams. He had a bachelor’s degree in English and a few unpublished stories; he burned with the anticipation of earning a living as a writer. Part of his dream came true; he published two historical romance novels. Neither one met with much success.Now, to pay the bills, Evan works as a freelance copy editor; even so, he still aspires to become a best-selling author. Based on living with two of his own felines-Mickey and Falina-he hopes he can hit it big with a new light-hearted advice book on the emotional care of cats. He pitches his idea to well-known publicist Charles Loundering, who shows interest in the project. Now, Evan must finish his book and find a publisher.His romp around the Manhattan publishing world brings him unexpected moments, both funny and challenging. It introduces him to a colorful, idiosyncratic cast of New Yorkers-from a beautiful singer to a smart, young coffee bar owner to a sight-impaired musician. His budding relationships with these people awaken in him an unsettling realization: outward shine can mask deep human flaws. |
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The Magus of Java: Teachings of an Authentic Taoist Immortal $16.95 The story of John Chang, the first man to be documented performing pyrokinesis, telekinesis, levitation, telepathy, and other paranormal abilities. • The author, a mechanical engineer, provides scientific explanations of how these powers work. • For the first time, the discipline of Mo-Pai is introduced to the West. In 1988 the documentary Ring of Fire was released to great acclaim. The most startling sequence in the film is that of a Chinese-Javanese acupuncturist who demonstrates his full mastery of the phenomenon of chi, or bio-energy, by generating an electrical current within his body, which he uses first to heal the filmmaker of an eye infection and then to set a newspaper on fire with his hand. Ring of Fire caused thousands to seek out this individual, John Chang, in pursuit of instruction. Of the many Westerners who have approached him, John Chang has accepted five as apprentices. Kosta Danaos is the second of those five. In his years of study with John Chang, Danaos has witnessed and experienced pyrokinesis, telekinesis, levitation, telepathy, and much more exotic phenomena. He has spoken with spirits and learned the secrets of reincarnation. Most important, he has learned John Chang’s story. John Chang is the direct heir to the lineage of the sixth-century b.c. sage Mo-Tzu, who was Confucius’s greatest rival. His discipline, called the Mo-Pai, is little-known in the West and has never before been the subject of a book. Now, John Chang has decided to bridge the gap between East and West by allowing a book to be published revealing the story of his life, his teachings, and his powers. It will surely expedite what may well become the greatest revolution of the twenty-first century–the verification and study of bio-energy.Kosta Danaos is a former engineer for General Dynamics, a martial arts instructor in jujutsu and tai ch’i chuan, and a freelance writer with more than 150 publications to his credit. When not |
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The Magus of Java: Teachings of an Authentic Taoist Immortal $16.95 The story of John Chang, the first man to be documented performing pyrokinesis, telekinesis, levitation, telepathy, and other paranormal abilities. • The author, a mechanical engineer, provides scientific explanations of how these powers work. • For the first time, the discipline of Mo-Pai is introduced to the West. In 1988 the documentary Ring of Fire was released to great acclaim. The most startling sequence in the film is that of a Chinese-Javanese acupuncturist who demonstrates his full mastery of the phenomenon of chi, or bio-energy, by generating an electrical current within his body, which he uses first to heal the filmmaker of an eye infection and then to set a newspaper on fire with his hand. Ring of Fire caused thousands to seek out this individual, John Chang, in pursuit of instruction. Of the many Westerners who have approached him, John Chang has accepted five as apprentices. Kosta Danaos is the second of those five. In his years of study with John Chang, Danaos has witnessed and experienced pyrokinesis, telekinesis, levitation, telepathy, and much more exotic phenomena. He has spoken with spirits and learned the secrets of reincarnation. Most important, he has learned John Chang’s story. John Chang is the direct heir to the lineage of the sixth-century b.c. sage Mo-Tzu, who was Confucius’s greatest rival. His discipline, called the Mo-Pai, is little-known in the West and has never before been the subject of a book. Now, John Chang has decided to bridge the gap between East and West by allowing a book to be published revealing the story of his life, his teachings, and his powers. It will surely expedite what may well become the greatest revolution of the twenty-first century–the verification and study of bio-energy.Kosta Danaos is a former engineer for General Dynamics, a martial arts instructor in jujutsu and tai ch’i chuan, and a freelance writer with more than 150 publications to his credit. When not |