Speaking Kind Words - Best Selling Book on iTunes / Amazon

Speaking Kind Words

Relationships suffer greatly when partners no longer speak kind and loving words to one another. Saying the same words over and over, day in and day out, can become common place and those once powerful words lose some of their potency. In fact, do you remember the phrase, “Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can never hurt me?” That really isn’t true. Not only can words hurt, but so can the lack of kind and loving words. Husband and wife team, Rob and Janelle Alex, share with you a method to bring back and even add new loving words to your relationship. Following the approach presented in Speaking Kind Words will improve and bring a new outlook to your relationship.

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Life Bank

Life Bank

Daniel is an unemployed businessman desperate to find work. After a slew of interviews that fail to bear any fruit, he is approached by a middle-aged man named Raphael who presents him with a unique opportunity to gain financial freedom. Raphael hands him a red bankbook called the Life Bank that converts a portion of Daniel’s life directly into money. A drop of blood and a signature are all that’s required. But when the money runs out, Daniel will lose his soul.

After some thought, Daniel takes the offer and spends the money freely, oblivious to any potential ramifications.

Life is good—for a time. But when an enormous financial setback causes Daniel to lose most of his savings, he must withdraw even more from his account to stay afloat. As he moves forward, his habits take a heavy toll on his life and relationships. Finally, his luck runs out, and his actions catch up to him. Can he turn his life around? Or has his fate already been sealed?

An engaging dramatic tale, Life Bank is a gripping novel about a man, his money, and his choices.

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Palace of The Three Crosses - Award Winning Book

Palace of The Three Crosses

4 Star Award Winner Authors Talk About It Book Contest

Brandan and Joachim have returned from the brink of Hell, but everyone questions if they are truly healed and one with Asha.

As each prince tries to readjust to life, they must face the funeral of their father and their missing mother.

They each take on the responsibility of ruling a country with new wives by their sides, but can they and the countries survive the trials that will ensue because of their choices?

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Palace of The Twelve Pillars - Award Winning Book

Palace of The Twelve Pillars

4 Star Award Winner Authors Talk About It Book Contest

The Peace Summit was in shambles, the prince kidnapped.

When the rival king realizes he kidnapped the wrong prince, hostilities escalate. Loyalties to each other and country are tested for the twin princes of Crato, Joachim and Brandan.

Joachim, captive of King Waldrom, faces deception and betrayal as he struggles to find his way home. Brandan, at home with a father focused on rescuing Joachim, wrestles with his own demons as he searches for his place in the world and the favor of his father.

Torn from the safety and peace of their childhood, they are thrust into a world where bonds of family, brotherhood and roles as heirs to Crato are tested. Through war, spiritual journeys, death and marriage, will they choose the path of good or evil? Who can be trusted, as the world they know slips into a whirlpool of chaos?

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Ego Is The Enemy

Ego is the Enemy

“While the history books are filled with tales of obsessive visionary geniuses who remade the world in their image with sheer, almost irrational force, I’ve found that history is also made by individuals who fought their egos at every turn, who eschewed the spotlight, and who put their higher goals above their desire for recognition.” —from the prologue 

Many of us insist the main impediment to a full, successful life is the outside world. In fact, the most common enemy lies within: our ego. Early in our careers, it impedes learning and the cultivation of talent. With success, it can blind us to our faults and sow future problems. In failure, it magnifies each blow and makes recovery more difficult. At every stage, ego holds us back. 

Ego Is the Enemy draws on a vast array of stories and examples, from literature to philosophy to his­tory. We meet fascinating figures such as George Marshall, Jackie Robinson, Katharine Graham, Bill Belichick, and Eleanor Roosevelt, who all reached the highest levels of power and success by con­quering their own egos. Their strategies and tactics can be ours as well. 

In an era that glorifies social media, reality TV, and other forms of shameless self-promotion, the battle against ego must be fought on many fronts. Armed with the lessons in this book, as Holiday writes, “you will be less invested in the story you tell about your own specialness, and as a result, you will be liberated to accomplish the world-changing work you’ve set out to achieve.”

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The Para-Portage of Emily - 4 Star Award Winner Authors Talk About It Romance Contests

The Para-Portage of Emily

(Shadow Seduction Series Book 1)

4 Star Romance Novel from Authors Talk About It Romance Novel Contest

Emily Macque, a young, beautiful junior partner in her father's law firm, is but a heartbeat away from love or destiny. Duty brings Emily to a frozen Island estate two-hundred and fifty miles north of Chicago. Devotion requires she delve into the property history to settle an estate probate. Death lures her into the arms of the shadows seduction created by the flickering light and dark shadows. 

What flames the timeless passions spanning the decades? Love, desire or obsession? 

Colin Jorgenson, once a Great Lakes mariner, is a strong man haunted by love and loss. How long will he return each night, gripped by desire, hoping to find the woman he has loved for a century? 

Beneath the pristine Island beauty, passions hungered, lingered in the ardent darkness. His passions, fueled by decades of loneliness and longing, could no longer be denied. Will they face eternity together or love in secret as dark things are to be loved between the shadows and the soul?

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In Extremis - Award Winning Book

In Extremis: A Hellhound Novella

4 Star Award Winner Authors Talk About It Book Contest

1888. Whitechapel. Think you know the story? You don't know Jack... 

James Maybrick had secured his legacy as the most infamous serial killer of all time…his diary would one day shock the world. 

Thomas Quinn wants revenge…his actions will give birth to an organisation of unspeakable power. 

Together, they unwittingly set in motion a plan that will one day lead to the serial killer, Obadiah Stark. 

Stark became The Tally Man. 

They were The Brethren. 

Maybrick is known to history by another name… 

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Sexy Challenges Slow Motion - Free on iTunes

Sexy Challenges has put Slow Motion available again for FREE on iTunes.  Now everyone can have a Sexy Challenge to try out in their relationship.  Plus we have included a free Mission Date Night Adventure to double your pleasure.  

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Sexy Challenges are sacred and sensual experiences for lovers. Allowing them to connect in a physical and spiritual way. With the believe that sex and intimacy is part of your spiritual path we can relax and enjoy the passion that flows between lovers.  

Slow Motion allows you to simmer down a bit and enjoy the process leading up to the wild passion that will follow.

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Blue Screen of Death

Blue Screen of Death

Techno-Magic. Adversity. Acceptance.

Colby regains a magical gift he never knew he lost in the first place. His reawakened power draws more enemies than the bullies he faces daily in school. There’s no time to learn the complicated rules of his magic. Colby creates a technological solution that merges magic with his mobile devices.

With the help of his quirky family and friends, Colby faces down new challenges. The magical world collides with modern times and technology. Ancient creatures are draw to the boy with a new magic. A boy who must learn to accept himself if he hopes to control the forces battling within and without.

Caught in the middle of a war that has waged since the beginning of time, Colby and his friends must learn to fight back, and learn fast. Not everything is how it appears and the battle to survive won’t be an easy one, but Colby has no choice if he wants to withstand what’s coming.

“If you like new ways of doing magic, witty dialogue, and a modern feel, then you’ll love Hashtag Magic!”

Blue Screen of Death is a young adult urban/contemporary fantasy and is the first installment in the Hashtag Magic series. The second book, Control ALT Delete, is now available. Look for the upcoming third installment Web of Trolls.

Start with the first book in the series inspiring the Hollywood screenplay “Hashtag Magic”.

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The War of Art

The War of Art

Think of The War of Art as tough love... for yourself.

Since 2002, The War of Art has inspired people around the world to defeat "Resistance"; to recognize and knock down dream-blocking barriers and to silence the naysayers within us.Resistance kicks everyone's butt, and the desire to defeat it is equally as universal. The War of Art identifies the enemy that every one of us must face, outlines a battle plan to conquer this internal foe, then pinpoints just how to achieve the greatest success.Though it was written for writers, it has been embraced by business entrepreneurs, actors, dancers, painters, photographers, filmmakers, military service members and thousands of others around the world.

"As I closed The War of Art, I felt a surge of positive calm. I now know I can win this war. And if I can win, so can you." - From the foreword by Robert McKee, screenwriting guru"

[The War of Art] aims to help readers channel creative energy, unlock potential and overcome the fears that stop us from reaching our fullest potential. With courage, following the right formula and working hard, the book proposes that passion can be turned into purpose." - Ellen Degeneres book pick

"Resistance is the voice in the back of our head telling us to back off, be careful, go slow, compromise. . . . [Steve Pressfield is] the godfather of the resistance, the five-star general in the war against fear." - Seth Godin

"A vital gem . . . a kick in the ass." - Esquire

"I've never read a self help book that wasn't fatuous, obvious and unhelpful. Until The War of Art. It's amazingly cogent and smart on the psychology of creation. If I ever teach a writing course this would be one of the first books I'd assign, along with the letters of Flannery O'Connor." - Jay McInerney, author of Bright Lights, Big City and Brightness Falls

"Yes, The War of Art is hell. But Steven Pressfield is our Clausewitz who shows how you too can battle against The Four Horsemen of The Apologetic: sloth, inertia, rationalization and procrastination. Shakespeare, Rembrandt and Beethoven all are proof of what you can do with talent and General Pressfield." - Frank Deford, author and NPR commentator

"A marvelous help for anybody who has ever encountered the resistance of a blank page, an empty canvas or an unyielding musical scale." 
- Stan Berenstein, co-creator of The Berenstein Bears

Steven Pressfield is the author of the novels The Legend of Bagger Vance (made into the movie starring Matt Damon and Will Smith), Gates of Fire, Tides of War, Last of the Amazons, Virtues of War, The Afghan Campaign, Killing Rommel, and The Profession. His nonfiction includes The War of Art, The Warrior Ethos, and the upcoming Turning Pro. His books are included in the curriculum at West Point and the Naval Academy, and are on the Commandant's Reading List for the Marine Corps. 

In 2012, Pressfield will launch his independent publishing company, BLACK IRISH BOOKS with his longtime editor, agent, publisher, and friend, Shawn Coyne.

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Let's Swim To The Moon

Let's Swim To The Moon

Let’s Swim to the Moon blends the sensual power of the moon, the sexy caress of water and your intimate play in a way that will awaken your spirit. Each and every time you do a Sexy Challenge with your lover you deepen the power of your intimacy and the power of your love. Doing this particular challenge you will soak up the energy of the moon and return the favor by sharing your sexual energy with this lunar resource.

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My Extraordinary Life

My Extraordinary Life

Through my grandmother’s eyes, I can see clearly
The way things used to be,
The way things ought to be,
The way things really are.
Ed Cunningham

Long ago, my grandma thought I should write a book about my life. For years, I wondered, “What’s so special about my life?”

I finally got it. I was physically very different. In this book, I tell of my many struggles and many successes. For the first time, I share my innermost thoughts on life as a triple amputee.  

This book is the story of my life.  

This book describes the life of a congenital triple amputee who overcomes incredible odds and finds happiness. This life was quite ordinary and yet, the more one reads into the story, it was nothing short of extraordinary.

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Darkly Dreaming - 4 Star Award Winning Book - Authors Talk About It Book Award Contest

Darkly Dreaming

4 Star Award Winner Authors Talk About It Book Award Contest

Rae and best friend Layla are in France, to escaping the misery Rae’s created for herself by dreaming her life away. She’s left her confused husband behind while she tries to summon the courage to leave him for once and for all. At a street festival they are infected with the Vampire virus by a rebellious vampire and Rae finds herself living a new and terrifying existence. She struggles to retain her essential self, which she has only just worked so hard to re-discover, but she is struggling against new and powerful drives and desires. She and Layla are taken to join the vampire Pride by Guillaume, the Pride Leader. He explains their new evolution into stronger, faster, more intelligent beings, which heal quickly, and only feed on blood, but are not the vampires of legend. They are not undead, and they are not immortal. 

They discover that she and the other vampires have special gifts which are different for everyone, and not always immediately apparent. Rae and Layla are Pretty ones, which means they can beguile other vampires with their Glamour. They soon, and embarrassingly learn that unchecked this Glamour causes the Need- intense and uncontrollable sexual desire- on contact with another vampire, any other vampire. Rae also discovers that vampires don’t dream. She has lost her escape, just as life gets so terrifying. Then she finds out that fresh blood can fill her mind with narcotic mists of her victim’s memories. She is determined to retain her humanity and refuse to kill, but how can she resist such temptation?

She falls head over heels in unrequited love with Guillaume, and goes into battle against the rebellious vampires. The consequences are immense, and mean the whole Pride faces the death penalty from the Vampire High Council.

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The House That Death Built

The House That Death Built

Getting in was easy. Getting out... will be another matter. 

*** 
It was supposed to be just one more job: in, out, and millions the richer. But when four thieves break into THIS house, they discover the owners were ready. And waiting. 

Now, the thieves find themselves in a deadly maze of traps. Traps designed not only to steal their lives, but their sanity. 

The only way out is the front door. 
The only way to get there is to survive. 
And the only way to survive is to be willing to do anything, to suffer all... and to lose everything.

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Motivating Yourself the Sexy Way

Motivating Yourself The Sexy Way

Motivation is one of the most amazing forces in our universe, but did you know it is also one of the sexiest forces in the universe? Motivating Yourself the Sexy Way explains the connection between your motivation and your sexuality. Once you learn how your motivation matches up with the stages of your sexuality, your motivation will take on a different light. You will be led through the stages - both your sexual experiences and your motivational experiences - from anticipation to relaxation and all the incredible experiences in between.  

You will learn how energy effects your motivation in the most sensual of ways.  

"While the climactic state is an explosion of energy, the blissful state is an implosion of energy. " 

Motivating Yourself the Sexy Way is designed to blast you through the motivational process allowing you to understand the energetic boosts as well as the times when things stall. Knowing the stage of motivation you are in will help you stay motivated instead of giving up like so many people do. 

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Palace of The Twelve Pillars (Book One)

Palace of The Twelve Pillars

The Peace Summit was in shambles, the prince kidnapped. 

When the rival king realizes he kidnapped the wrong prince, hostilities escalate. Loyalties to each other and country are tested for the twin princes of Crato, Joachim and Brandan. 

Joachim, captive of King Waldrom, faces deception and betrayal as he struggles to find his way home. Brandan, at home with a father focused on rescuing Joachim, wrestles with his own demons as he searches for his place in the world and the favor of his father. 

Torn from the safety and peace of their childhood, they are thrust into a world where bonds of family, brotherhood and roles as heirs to Crato are tested. Through war, spiritual journeys, death and marriage, will they choose the path of good or evil? Who can be trusted, as the world they know slips into a whirlpool of chaos?

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Amina: The Silent One - Award Winning Book

Amina The Silent One

5 Star Award Winner Authors Talk About It Book Award Contest

Amina: The Silent One brings vividly to life the grim realities facing women in India today, the grinding, filthy poverty, and debasement with which most Indian women must contend in their daily lives. This book will shock you and rip your eyes open. Through the magic of fiction, it tells an awful truth in human terms that cannot be told in any other way. 
The degradation of women in India is nearly universal, and ranges from their second-class status in society, often excluding them from educational and professional opportunities, to their frequent physical and psychological brutalization, often involving assault, rape, and sexual slavery. 

The anglicized educated Indian and the western industrialized world is appalled at the horrific news reports—all too frequent—of women attacked in public places, beaten, degraded, raped, and murdered. The situation and treatment of women in India is simply incomprehensible to most modern educated people. The media carries the hair-raising news reports; we shake our heads in outrage, confused that such cruelty and debasement of women is commonplace in a country that has long had the benefit of western cultural influence, education, and governmental systems. 

Yet the awful reality women endure in India completely escapes us because we are unacquainted with the actual, tangible details of their lives and the world they inhabit. 
In her latest work, Indian national and accomplished novelist and poet, Fiza Pathan has gone a long way in removing the obstacles to a true understanding of the hellish reality most Indian women experience. Her characters are fully imagined and alive to the reader, and she does not stint in telling the gruesome, shocking truth. She is candid and unsparing; she does not use euphemisms or false niceties in telling the tragic story of a Mumbai India slum family that, against all odds, produces a female musical prodigy. 

This novel will get under your skin and stay with you for a long time. Pathan’s characters live and breathe; you are sure to remember them; the sordid details of their lives and their struggles and heartbreaks materialize before our very eyes. Amina: The Silent One goes a long way in opening our lives and hearts to the plight of women in India and may actually be an agent of positive change in Indian society. 

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BreakThrough Promotions

Author Services We Love

We interview so many people for our podcast, Authors Talk About It that we have connected with several amazing people out there helping authors.  One of our favorites is 

BreakThrough Promotions 

BreakThrough Promotions was founded by PJ Nunn in 1998 and rapidly grew to be an internationally recognized agency representing books and authors of all genres. In the past 15 years, PJ has developed contacts and freelance associates around the globe who work with her to help her clients achieve their goals. The publishing industry is constantly evolving and there’s no one single promotional strategy that works for everyone. PJ is diligent and determined to find the strategy that works best for each of her clients and then to help them design a custom-fit campaign that will establish their own unique brands, increase name recognition and help them achieve their publishing goals.

BreakThrough Promotions has been a dream to work with for spreading the word about my debut book in the Webb's Glass Shop Mysteries. She scheduled a variety of venues that included Virtual Chatroom Spots, Blog Reviews and even live Radio Interviews. I received timely and accurate e-mails for the scheduled events and there were even reminders to keep me on track. When a glitch occurred, it was quickly resolved. Her reputation is well deserved.

     – Cheryl Hollon, author of Shards of Murder and the Webb Glass Shop mysteries

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The Full Moon Approaches

The Full Moon Approaches:

Merging Moon Energy, Earth Energy, & Sexual Energy 

While some say that love makes the world go 'round, the world is actually made up of energy. Hey! Wait! Isn't love really energy, too? Yep. Grab your romantic partner and get ready to go on a journey that will help you better understand three key energies in your life because when you do you will love the moon, the earth and yourself more than you ever have before. You'll discover how to connect to them, get them to work for you, and in turn grow a beautiful relationship with them. Moon Energy, Earth Energy, and Sexual Energy are powerful resources for you to become fully conscious of and tap into. When you allow the three to interweave together in your world you will likely be blown away by the synchronicity and serendipity that begins to show up in everyday life. Confidence, deep spiritual connection, and amazing success will be at your fingertips. Filled with great wisdom and a ton of exercises, ceremony and ritual, The Full Moon Approaches: Merging Moon Energy, Earth Energy & Sexual Energy is sure to cast a magical spell upon you, your relationship and your life.

This book could just change the energy flow of your life for the better.  Using these techniques you will see a marked difference in your life.  Believe me I am attest to that.  

Peace and Love,

Rob 

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Deliver Her

Deliver Her

On the night of Alex Carmody’s sixteenth birthday, she and her best friend, Cass, are victims of a terrible car accident. Alex survives; Cass doesn’t. Consumed by grief, Alex starts cutting school and partying, growing increasingly detached. The future she’d planned with her friend is now meaningless to her.

Meg Carmody is heartbroken for her daughter, even as she’s desperate to get Alex’s life back on track. The Birches, a boarding school in New Hampshire, promises to do just that, yet Alex refuses to go. But when Meg finds a bag of pills hidden in the house, she makes a fateful call to a transporter whose company specializes in shuttling troubled teens to places like The Birches, under strict supervision. Meg knows Alex will feel betrayed—as will her estranged husband, who knows nothing of Meg’s plans for their daughter.

When the transport goes wrong—and Alex goes missing—Meg must face the consequences of her decision and her deception. But the hunt for Alex reveals that Meg is not the only one keeping secrets.

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His Wicked Desire - 5 Star Award Winning Book

His Wicked Desire

5 Star Award Authors Talk About It Contest

He's found himself a wicked witch...

Brye Morgeaux is a half-witch, half-warlock who always relied on her beauty-especially when it came to men. After a run-in with a particularly vicious warlock, Brye's face is left scarred, forcing her to look to who she is on the inside. And what Brye finds is darker than anything she'd imagined...

Then she's handed a terrible ultimatum-join the warlock clan, or watch her family die.

Josh Copeland has known the Morgeaux family for years, and has been waiting for the time when Brye would see him as something-anything-more than a friend. As she battles darkness from within and without, he realizes the woman he loves might just be her own worst, wicked enemy. Now Josh must find a way to show Brye who she really is...before she kills him.

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Self-Car for Hairdressers - 4 Star Award Winning Book

Self-Care For Hairdressers

4 Star Award Authors Talk About It Contest

Contrary to popular belief, hairdressing is a very stressful job. Hairdressers are trusted to help people with their image and help them feel better about themselves. I meet hairdressers all over the country who work really hard, yet they have lost their way creatively or are burned out and unhappy, wondering if they should do something else to make a living. They make very little money, and they move from salon to salon, hoping the next position will be better. Hairdressers do all sorts of things to control the anxiety, depression and anger in this very demanding career choice. This book focuses on what they don't teach you in beauty school. 

In these pages, you'll discover: 
--Why many stylists leave the industry, burned out and underpaid, even though they may be booked in the salon. 
--Why a lot of stylists are exhausted and losing sight of their hopes and dreams for their life. 
--What they don't teach you in beauty school. 
--Ways to manage stress, recognize the signs of burnout, start to dream again, and reconnect with your purpose, joyfully discover the professional that you were meant to be, and make the money you deserve. 

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