5/29/2023 0 Comments Confessions of a Villain by Noa![]() ![]() But his difficult and violent past has taught him a thing or two, and he won’t give up that easily. He never dreamt it would be this competitive, brutal almost. You will get tips on how to position yourself and your book in your marketplace, based on my many years of doing this myself. NOA, an aspiring young boy from a broken home in the ‘burbs, nervously awaits a singing audition for an Australian TV talent show. With potential access to Business Author Academy, which helps with self-publishing information, my marketing support services are well-founded. = See my top-ranking self-publishing blog Plus, you want longevity in the market!Īfter five years of supporting others and self-publishing my own non-fiction books, I can best help authors market their books. Producing a great book is a huge deal you cannot simply produce a book and share it on your Facebook profile to great success. They are ploughing headlong into contracts, which do nothing to market their presence in a long-term way. But I fear that many authors are not putting targeted research and the readers' desires first. Many wonderful authors have sought my advice and support in self-publishing. Is that you also? For me, doing a communications degree was helpful to learn different styles of writing and editing. ![]() ![]() Ever since I took those feeble first steps into marketing my own book in 1996, I wanted to find out the best way to reach my market. ![]()
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5/29/2023 0 Comments Undergrounders by david skuy![]() Playing hockey makes him feel like a kid again, but keeping his double life a secret proves to be more difficult and dangerous than he ever could have imagined. He agrees, knowing he can never tell them about being homeless. ![]() He suits up and heads to the community rink, where he befriends regular kids who welcome him into their game and onto their team. Available now at your favourite book stores or online. It’s non-stop action in The Band of Merry Kids. Pip and his Band of Merry Kids race to save an innocent family from the evil clutches of the Sheriff of Nottingham. Stolen hockey gear, but hockey gear nonetheless. A wild adventure story set in Merry Old England. Lewis takes him under his wing and leads him to his new home among a group of kids living in an abandoned underground shopping mall who call themselves the "Undergrounders." Now renamed "Mouse," Jonathan runs errands, delivers packages and panhandles for food money.Īn escape from this life underground comes to him in the form of hockey gear. Can playing hockey help a street kid get his life back?Īfter his mom dies, and the landlord kicks him out, 12-year-old Jonathan faces the loneliness and danger of life on the streets - until he meets Lewis. ![]() 5/28/2023 0 Comments Elizabeth strout lucy barton![]() ![]() Of course, a large part of the fascination lies in the fact that this isn’t just Lucy’s recent past but our own too. Indeed it’s a truly monumental piece of work – one that you can’t help feeling deserves a less mischievously banal title (can you imagine a male writer calling a book Lucy By the Sea?). Strout isn’t the first writer to go there, but she certainly makes magnificent and thrilling use of it in this, her most nuanced – and intensely moving – Lucy Barton novel yet. ![]() The disarming situation described at the opening of Elizabeth Strout’s new novel might seem fantastical, the stuff of a million post-apocalyptic movies, were it not for the fact that every single one of us has recently lived through it. ![]() ![]() ![]() Nice condition.An informative video regarding the rare newspapers hobbyis shown at the bottom of the listing!Please Note: All of our offerings are 100% authentic! We do not offer reprints or reproductions of any kind. Given the subscription cost, libraries & institutions rather than individuals were the primary subscribers of these high-quality editions. Complete in 32 pages, this is the rare rag edition that was produced on very high quality newsprint, with a high percentage of cotton & linen content, allowing the issues to remain very white & sturdy into the present. (see) has another heading with five related photos and continued text of: "Volume 1-The Gathering Storm" This publication published his World War II collection before it went into book form making this an early example of his famous work.News, sports and advertisements of the day. 1 The Gathering Storm 1948 Newspaper (Note: additional images are located below the description) Shown is an original & historic old newspaper, offered to enhance your collectible interest: THE NEW YORK TIMES, April 17, 1948* Sir Winston Churchill* The Second War War* Volume 1 - The Gathering Storm* Installment 2 - Peace At Its ZenithThe front page has a two column heading: "By Winston Churchill: The Second World War" and more with photo of Churchill. ![]() ![]() WINSTON CHURCHILL The Second World War Vol. ![]() ![]() ![]() Following successful protection of these landmarks, project director George Calderaro and other proponents formed the Tin Pan Alley American Popular Music Project to continue and commemorate the legacy of Tin Pan Alley with various advocacy and educational activities. ![]() The agency designated five buildings (47–55 West 28th Street) individual landmarks on December 10, 2019, after a concerted effort by the "Save Tin Pan Alley" initiative of the 29th Street Neighborhood Association. In 2019, the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission took up the question of preserving five buildings on the north side of the street as a Tin Pan Alley Historic District. It originally referred to a specific place: West 28th Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues in the Flower District of Manhattan a plaque (see below) on the sidewalk on 28th Street between Broadway and Sixth commemorates it. Tin Pan Alley was a collection of music publishers and songwriters in New York City that dominated the popular music of the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. ![]() 5/28/2023 0 Comments Against empathy by paul bloom![]() ![]() ![]() It muddles our judgment and, ironically, often leads to cruelty. Far from helping us to improve the lives of others, empathy is a capricious and irrational emotion that appeals to our narrow prejudices. ![]() In Against Empathy, Bloom reveals empathy to be one of the leading motivators of inequality and immorality in society. Nothing could be farther from the truth, argues Yale researcher Paul Bloom. Many of our wisest policy-makers, activists, scientists, and philosophers agree that the only problem with empathy is that we don’t have enough of it. We often think of our capacity to experience the suffering of others as the ultimate source of goodness. ![]() ![]() ![]() This book isn't very long, it just doesn't doesn't have a very good climax or turning point.or maybe it's just not memorable. ![]() ![]() I don't even remember why the friends finally agreed to come over to his house after such a long time of avoiding it. I remember about three things that happened during that visit and then the rest of the book is lost on me. The reader finds out just how well lived in Sloth's house is when his friends come for a visit and a meal. Sloth is ok with these surroundings, but when he hears of a friend's birthday party being planned just below his window, he wonders why his friends never want to spend time at his house. Sloth lives in a tree in a comfortable, well lived in, yet cluttered home. The story didn't stick with me before and it really isn't sticking with me now. I found this older book about 6 years ago and I think I've only read it one other time before pulling it off my shelf for my birthday this year. ![]() ![]() ![]() Graham had bought the watercolor after it was exhibited in 1866 at the Old Watercolour Society, the first work of Burne-Jones that he acquired. In a letter of May 30, 1868, to Burne-Jones, William Graham accepted the painter’s offer of first refusal of a version in oil of his watercolor Le Chant d’Amour (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston), or The Love Song, which is signed and dated 1865. He was created a baronet in 1894, and was also a recipient of the Légion d'Honneur, as his work was extremely popular in France, and in Italy as well, from a relatively early date. ![]() Between 18 Burne-Jones worked principally in watercolor, afterwards concentrating on oil painting. He designed stained glass and tapestries for Morris' firm and was also a gifted book illustrator. The Victorian painter Edward Burne-Jones was a friend of William Morris from their time at Oxford, and later of Dante Gabriel Rossetti and John Ruskin. ![]() 5/28/2023 0 Comments Weathering Rock by Mae Clair![]() ![]() If I’m not camped out at my keyboard or have my nose buried in a book, I’m likely looking up blurry images of cryptids on Google, sorting through vintage photographs, or imagining life as a cat. I am a member of the Mystery Writers of America, the International Thriller Writers, and a past president of the Central Pennsylvania Writer’s Organization. You’ll find threads of archaic tales, cryptids, and mysterious places woven throughout many of my novels. I have a passion for folklore, myth, and urban legends and that attraction often factors into my writing. It took me a while to find my niche, but I’ve settled comfortably into the mystery/suspense genre (with a just a dash of romance tossed in). Since then, I’ve been composing nonstop, and have dabbled in multiple genres over the years, writing everything from fantasy, westerns, and horror to inspirational fiction, romance, and sci-fi. ![]() I wrote my first childish “masterpiece” at six and was immediately bitten by the writing bug. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read Weathering Rock. Read this book using Google Play Books app on your PC, android, iOS devices. ![]() Probably why I write some of the stuff I do. Weathering Rock - Ebook written by Mae Clair. (or maybe I do)….I saw a UFO when I was six. Mystery, Supernatural Suspense, Romantic Suspense ![]() ![]() ![]() What starts as child-like mischief and innocent secret-keeping becomes pranks, lying and, by the adventure’s climax, a threat to all of Themyscira, if not the world itself. ![]() No, rather she insists on Diana keeping her secret from her mother and all her aunts, and, worse, she seems to be an increasingly bad influence. ![]() There’s something not quite right about this new friend Mona, however, and it’s not just that she’s retained the all-gray coloring of a statue. The next day, Diana finds the new friend that she had quite literally made has indeed come to life, and for the first time ever she has someone her own age to play with. If her mother so wanted a child that she was able to create one out of clay, desire, and prayer, perhaps Diana could create a friend in the same manner. “It seems like I’m either too old or too young for everything,” Diana thinks.Īnd that’s when inspiration strikes. “We haven’t played with your dolls in forever,” she remarks “Well, I guess you’re too old for that now.” ![]() Her awkward, in-between status is illustrated in a scene in which one of her aunts-every Amazon on the island being an aunt of hers, of course-finds her sulking near her toys and picks one up. This Diana is no longer a child, but not yet an adolescent, and is therefore feeling more alone than usual. ![]() |