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From Leashes to Profits -: A Comprehensive Guide To Start Your Dog Walking Empire

About From Leashes to Profits -: A Comprehensive Guide To Start Your Dog Walking Empire

From Leashes To Profits – A Comprehensive Guide To Start Your Dog Walking Empire

Start your journey as a dog-walking entrepreneur and discover the potential of turning your passion for furry friends into a lucrative business venture. Our book “From Leashes To Profits” uncovers from beginning to end how you can be the next dog-walking entrepreneur, step by step. First and foremost, starting a dog walking business requires a deep love and understanding of our furry friends. You’ll need to understand their individual needs, recognize their body language, and keep them engaged and satisfied during their walks. You’ll also need to stay abreast of the latest industry trends and regulations, as well as marketing your business to potential clients. With the right strategies and dedication, you can make your dream of becoming a successful dog walker a reality.

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Accomplished – The Path To Sustained Affiliate Marketing Success: “Mastering Affiliate Marketing for Long-Term Prosperity and Financial Freedom”

About Accomplished – The Path To Sustained Affiliate Marketing Success: “Mastering Affiliate Marketing for Long-Term Prosperity and Financial Freedom”

Unlock the door to financial freedom and professional fulfillment with “Accomplished: The Path To Sustained Affiliate Marketing Success.” This comprehensive guidebook is crafted to be your trusted compass on an exhilarating journey towards financial independence and professional accomplishment. With “Accomplished,” you’ll gain actionable knowledge and strategies to build a resilient affiliate marketing business that yields sustainable results. Discover the secrets to choosing the right niche, building a loyal audience, selecting the best affiliate programs, creating content that converts, and staying ahead of the competition. Whether you’re a beginner or a seasoned marketer, this book is tailored to suit a diverse audience. Don’t wait – buy “Accomplished” now and make your dreams a reality.

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Cape Corse

About Cape Corse

Britain is at war with Napoleonic France, and Lieutenant Snowden RN is sent to Bermuda to commission a fast cedar built schooner, Oleander. In the Mediterranean, the French control the island of Corsica, having defeated the short lived Corsican Republic, and Pasquale Paoli, the Republic’s leader, now an old man, is in exile in London. Snowden and Oleander are sent to Corsica to support a delicate and dangerous operation which could be of considerable assistance in defeating Bonaparte. In this fast moving, historically accurate and complex novel, the author evokes the era of the Napoleonic wars, set as they were against the background of scientific progress and the nascent Industrial Revolution.

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Learn English Grammar through Harry Potter by Manikantan SU

About Learn English Grammar through Harry Potter by Manikantan SU

“Learn English Grammar Through Harry Potter” by Manikantan is a grammar handbook that brings together the enchanting world of J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series with the essential principles of English grammar. It offers readers a unique learning experience that is both educational and entertaining.

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Rez Rez

Interview With Author Rez Rez

Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I’ve written and published more than a dozen books, all of which were non-fiction. “The Bullied Girl’s Boxing Club” is my first published novel, although I’m planning to add to that number (I have two others in the works). When I’m not writing, I’m either in the boxing gym or on my motorcycle.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
My latest book is “The Bullied Girl’s Boxing Club” (formerly The Bullied Girl’s Boxing Lesson). It was inspired by the classic idea of a bullying victim rising up against their tormentor. The twist: the victim and the bully are both girls, something that happens in real life but is rarely, if ever, talked about in fiction. Female bullying is real, and I wanted to create a story where a girl suffers from bullying and overcomes it.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I tend to write several books at once, and work on them simultaneously until one clearly shows more promise than the others. Then, I’ll go back to the others and see if there’s anything there I can use.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
Too many to count. Neal Stephenson’s Snowcrash was a huge influence. Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami is one of the best books I’ve ever read. Three Days of Happiness by Sugaru Miaki may be the best light novel ever written. And Robert Heinlein is an absolute master of the art form.

What are you working on now?
I’m currently working on Devil Blade, about a kunoichi (female ninja) who makes a deal with a devil in order to save her sister.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
Sites like Awesome Gang give you amazing bang for your buck when you’re promoting a book. If you don’t believe me, just try it: create a free book promo, then post it here and watch the download numbers go up.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Write every day. Writing is a skill, just like drawing, and it needs to be practiced in order to be honed.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
“The only difference between Navy SEALs and everyone else is that we were brave for just five minutes longer”. I don’t remember the name of the SEAL who said this, but I’ve never forgotten the advice.

What are you reading now?
Be Useful by Arnold Schwarzenegger. One of the most motivating books I’ve ever read.

What’s next for you as a writer?
Finish Devil Blade and move on to the next script. Never stop writing.

If you were going to be stranded on a desert island and allowed to take 3 or 4 books with you what books would you bring?
I’ll have to get back to you on that one. That’s a long list to pare down to just three books.

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Trinity’s End

About Trinity’s End

An inevitable tragedy unfolds by a chance encounter, an untamable force and one mans greed fuelled ego and anothers insatiable genius. The impact of meteorite pieces develops a series of traumatic endings to the unwitting victims of a biological entity.
The FBI investigates several mysterious fatalities and work CDC scientists to study the entity but ultimately all fragments are destroyed. All except one which is developed in secret into a work-changing bio-engineered super treatment that becomes irresistible due to its seemingly miraculous effect on the body.
However the amazing powers prove too good to be true and eventually instigate a global catastrophe and decimate the global population and subsequent inevitable breakdown of civil society. Fateful and tragic endings are in store for the antagonists, however the lucky few survive and escape to a new life away from an unsustainable city life.

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Escape from Sleepy Hollow

About Escape from Sleepy Hollow

The Headless Horseman has returned. But what happens in Sleepy Hollow, doesn’t always stay in Sleepy Hollow.
Hamlin (Hammy) Nash grew up reading stories about the Headless Horseman, but he never expected to confront the diabolical beast in real life.

When a pair of school bullies steal Hammy’s valuable antique copy of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Hammy has no choice but to accept their fiendish challenge: spend Halloween night in an eerie cemetery with his two best friends.

The evening soon becomes a nightmare when a headless horseman appears out of the darkness and sends them scrambling for their lives.

The galloping beast chases the young trio through the graveyard and onto the streets of Sleepy Hollow, all the way to the Tarrytown Train Station where they find themselves trapped. Hammy and his friends have no choice but to board a train that spirits them into the dark heart of New York City. Their plight only gets worse when they discover their nemesis is still hunting them. Hammy and his friends must find a way to stop the headless horseman before it’s too late… if they can survive, that is!

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Reluctant Makeover

About Reluctant Makeover

The last thing I want is to give a rugged recluse a makeover. That’s what I keep telling myself, anyway.

I watched my mom’s friend Allison swoop into our lunch, armed with news of her son Griffin’s return from a year of cabin life. According to Allison, he’s in dire need of a transformation. With a beard that seems to have a mind of its own, hair wilder than a hurricane, and a wardrobe that belongs in a time capsule, Griffin screams “outdoor enthusiast.”

And then there’s me, Maisey, a hairstylist with a fashion sense that never falters. My mom, always eager to help, volunteers me for the task of turning Griffin into a presentable human being. I can’t say I’m thrilled about it, but I reluctantly agree, knowing I can’t refuse my mom’s requests.

Griffin, however, is far from thrilled about the prospect of a makeover. He’s a man who cherishes his off-the-grid lifestyle, and the idea of changing his look makes him cringe.

As Griffin and I come together, we’re thrown off by our unexpected chemistry. Sparks begin to fly, but not in the way we ever anticipated. Now, I have to decide what I want most: the carefully planned path I thought I knew or a man who offers me everything I didn’t even know I wanted…

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Mars G. Everson

Interview With Author Mars G. Everson

Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
Hi! I’m a fantasy and sci-fi author with three novels and a short-story already published, and many more in the pipeline. I just wish I had unlimited time to put to paper (or screen) all the books in my head!

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
My latest book is the second part of a grimdark fantasy trilogy, The God Engine, with book 1 “Thralls of a Tyrant God” and book 2 “Pawns of a Cruel God” published earlier this year. Book 3 is coming out in December!

This trilogy has no clear-cut inspiration but has a million subtle references and specific things that inspired it, from the Stormlight Archive and the Malazan Book of the Fallen to Mad Max and Fallout, with a sprinkle of Batman and X-Men references, and a splash of Weiss&Hickman’s fantasy novels.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
Not really, I mostly write late at night after I put the kids to bed, so it means I usually fall asleep with my laptop open. Thank the gods for auto-save!
I used to write early in the morning before going to work, but that’s not doable with school-age kids. I’d have to get up at 5 am to get any writing done, and that’s a no-no.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
This is tricky because every book influences you and sets you on a path of approaching or going away from certain things. But I love all kinds of genres, not only fantasy and sci-fi, so I’m heavily influenced by literary fiction. It doesn’t mean I imitate or take things from them, but there are some subtle flavors of David Mitchell, Kazuo Ishiguro, Vonnegut, Pynchon and Murakami in my books, but also lots of comic-books and manga, with standouts like Grant Morrison, Alan Moore, Naoki Urasawa, Takehiko Inoue and many others having a huge impact on my style. And then of course: Tolkien first and foremost, with LeGuin, Asimov, Bradbury, Guy Gavriel Kay, Weiss&Hickman, Sanderson, Erikson, Cook, Wolfe… too many to mention, really.

What are you working on now?
I’m finishing my grimdark trilogy as I mentioned before, while plotting the next few books in my head and deciding which one I’m most excited about, which is awful because you have all these little book ideas and you have to choose one and push the rest months or years down the line. That sucks.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
There’s not one method, but connecting with people on Twitter used to work before it god X’ed and now it’s kind of wasteland. So I’m looking for the next place that allows me to connect to readers and the writing community in general. I’m on bluesky for now, plus TIktok.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Just keep swimming.

Really. Like Macklemore says “If I did it for the money I’d a been a f*cking lawyer”

And after five books or so (written, not necessarily published, I have a lot of them in drawers) you’ll gain confidence in your ability to write yourself out of whatever hole you’re in. Literary and in life.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
I’m not sure. Like Gildor says in LOTR: “Seldom give unguarded advice, for advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill”. Which is in itself advice on not giving advice 🙂

What are you reading now?
*looks at his bedside table in shame*.. I’m reading Takehiko Inoue’s Vagabond and Naoki Urasawa’s 20th Century Boys on the manga side of things, while going very slowly through Elantris and the Hail Mary Project on the scifi/fantasy niche, and when I have a couple minutes to spare I read indie authors on my kindle or phone.

What’s next for you as a writer?
Write more books! And mostly connecting with my readers. It’s a very lonely task and there’s very little outside gratification, so each new reader, review, or comment is really necessary as fuel to keep you going.
Also, keep switching gears and try out different styles and genres. I have a cozy fantasy in the back of my mind and a samurai fantasy itching to get out on the page.

If you were going to be stranded on a desert island and allowed to take 3 or 4 books with you what books would you bring?
But if I had to take just one printed book it would be The Lord of the Rings, bar none. If I could take two books, the other one would be The Silmarillion. That’s because they fulfill every need for me. Book 3 would probably be The Bone Clocks or The Thousand Autumns of Jacob deZoet by David Mitchell. And the fourth would be a tie between Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace and House of Leaves by Mark Danielewski.

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Library of Lives: Despair & Outcast

About Library of Lives: Despair & Outcast

Have you ever asked the question “Will I be remembered?” Many people asked themselves that especially when clashing swords in battle. Or even the great beasts like dragons ask themselves the same thing. They are always wondering if they shall be remembered after their death or will they disappear into nothing?
But fear not because each and every life is being recorded in a library that never seems to stay in one place. It is stored and maintained by a man only known as the Caretaker. This library of lives holds the stories or lives of each individual that’s ever lived.

Only a few times has it ever been known to purposely go to a destination for a specific person. But in the matter of a man known as Edward who’s facing despair like no other–and Fiona a woman who struggles to regain her place in a world that only wants to consume her, or will they overcome?. Their lives were chosen specifically by the library because their stories were being threatened. But it’s up to them on how they will face their foes.
Will they triumph and overcome their fearsome enemies or will they fall?

These are their stories.
Their very lives being faced with terrible challenges. Now how will they overcome them?

By the approval of the Library of Lives, these stories shall be shared with the world so that those who read them may be entertained. Some may even be given assistance for any challenges in your own life story. The first and second stories of a series that were deemed worthy by the Library.
I welcome you to the Library. I’m the Caretaker.
The Library of Lives is the exciting new breakout series by author Ryan H. Bullock. When he’s not chasing his own dragons, or penning a new story, Ryan enjoys reading, drinking ale and throwing axes. Stick around to see what else this fantasy writer will have for you in the months and years to come.

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Risky Business, Another Murder

About Risky Business, Another Murder

When a man engages in risky business, it’s not surprising he’s dead.

When Donald Woodlawn, an investment advisor from Lynchburg, is shot dead in their quiet town, Sheridan Hendley can’t help but wonder why. As the secrets of his questionable financial dealings with investment clients unravel, she discovers that a dangerous combination of gambling debts and alcohol drove him to target rich and powerful men.

Multiple layers of risk and Sheridan’s quick thinking leads to many suspects. Danger lurks around every corner. As the threats mount, Sheridan’s determined to peel back the layers of deception and uncover the killer.

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Bound by Kat Kinney

About Bound by Kat Kinney

Teacher by day, fantasy writer by night, West Caldwell was forced to live in secret long before werewolves and vampires accidentally outed themselves on social media, causing a worldwide freak out. One slip of his rare Omega magic bound Topher Greer to him against his will. Now that magic threatens to fracture even further—just as shapeshifters are being abducted off the streets of Austin, Texas.

Topher Greer, EMT and former prisoner of the most dangerous vampire coven in Texas, is one of the few who can sense the presence of undead blood. He’s been marked for death by the Vampire Nation—who hold his brother hostage. Things with West Caldwell are… complicated. Pack law doesn’t forbid relationships between newly changed werewolves and their sires. But West has more walls around his heart than a high-security vampire prison.

To avoid the coming war and save his brother, Topher will have to turn to the most unlikely of allies—and untangle the feelings between him and West Caldwell for once and for all.

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The Tale of the Young Witch

About The Tale of the Young Witch

Winner of Literary Titan Silver Book Award July 2023
Winner of Readers’ Favorite Bronze Medal – YOUNG ADULT – FANTASY – EPIC September 2023.

When the age of witchcraft and sorcery died out, the world moved on, and most people believed they would never see its magical influences ever again. But it wasn’t so. The past has an uncanny habit of reinventing itself in the present, and the magic surrounding witchcraft cannot easily be undone.

Now in 1901, 450 years after the perceived death of witchcraft, an unsuspecting teenager, Amelia Twigg, is about to discover that not only does magic and witchcraft still exist, but it has found in her a vessel in which to manifest itself.

When a floating broom in her cellar makes it clear that magic is still around, Amelia is initially skeptical. But when it becomes apparent that she is indeed a witch, with powers that she could scarcely believe, she is hesitant to use them, fearful of the consequences and the future.

All that, however, is quickly put aside when she becomes the target of a secretive cabal who are intent on unlocking the secrets of witchcraft for their own uses once more.

Now, relentlessly hunted by this group, Amelia must find a way to stay one step ahead as she comes to terms with her abilities. But can she evade them long enough to learn how to use the powers she has been granted? Or will they find her before the magic inside of her can truly become effective?

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Cygnus Stine

Interview With Author Cygnus Stine

Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
Hi, I’m Cygnus Stine, Akila Gberen.
I write books in the Sci-Fi series, Thrillers, Horror, Fantasy and Action and Adventure. I also write Non-fiction, and Self help books.
I am a graduate of HIPDET University Cameroon, and a Lecturer of Computer Programming in British American Polytechnic, Nigeria.
I hide in my writing cave day and night, creating an atmosphere to enable me make sure I teleport through my day dream, get into different dimensions but the one i took interest most was the Alpha dimension to get you those Sci-Fi books plus, getting information about different universes, Creatures and the X-Species. But i didn’t want to remain so long in the F-Dimension otherwise i could grow older than my mother could recognize me anymore.
I Jump from the world of computing and programming into Business Administration and Management which enabled me earned distinct certificates of Fellow as a fellow of The British American Business School (FBABS), Chartered Institute of Finance and Management CIFMA LLC USA (FCIFMA), American Institute of Management and Finance United Kingdom (FAIMFIN UK).
If you really think like i do sometimes, you don’t care about my certifications and achievements more eminently than the bottom-line results i can deliver.
Check my works starting on the Home Page of www.csakila.com or type my name on Amazon.com, Rekutan Kobo, Nook and other 55+ Market places in the world, which one you prefer I’m still there, and if I’m not yet there, give me a message on my Author Contact page or my website or email to csakila.author@gmail.com and you’ll see my books on your door step as well.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
AI Territory: I am a Mother – Age of the Corrector
Was inspired by the Ultron

What authors, or books have influenced you?
Nick Stephenson of YourFirst10kreaders is the the key influencer to my soul. Then i was thrilled by Bryan Cohen of Best Page Forward, and then Derek Doapker of Bestseller Secrets, and Dave Cheson of kindlepreneur.com.
Though i believe i was going to be an Author one day as i was coming up from Secondary school, it never occured to me i was going to write more than two or three books in life until i encountered these guys.

What are you working on now?
I am currently on the AI Territory, to complete the series and then i discovered the Characters; Sophroon, Karoon, Thamaroon and Sataroon etc are created in the Alpha Dimension and F-Dimension are growing beyond my control. Maybe i will jump into writing some books that talks more about them than humans.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
I am a new Author, I haven’t promote my books in any of the Promotion site yet, this is my first time.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
When it storm and twirled, it happens only to uproot the wrong trees.
But the indomitable stands unshakable.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Better to start and make mistakes than to wait for perfectionism and never make it at all.

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Chrono Code 1: The Relics of Time

About Chrono Code 1: The Relics of Time

Explore the time fabric on a mind-bending trip with the “Chrono Code: Unraveling Time’s Riddle” series. The secrets of time, the universe, and their profound effects on our existence are explored in this stimulating and thrilling selection of science fiction books for adults.

The team of specialists led by Dr. Theresa Mitchell, a bright physicist, are solving the mystery of the Chrono Code, a potent force that regulates time itself. The intricate network of time-traveling adventures, technological advancements, and moral conundrums that readers are drawn into with each novel will keep them on the edge of their seats.

Theresa and her crew go to the past, future, and other dimensions as they look into enigmatic temporal anomalies and encounter famous individuals and key moments in history. As they stretch the limits of time, they discover the Chrono Code’s actual meaning and come face to face with evil cosmic beings, mysterious groups, and moral dilemmas that call into question their fundamental conceptions of reality.

The “Chrono Code” books encourage readers to reflect on important issues such as the effects of tampering with time and the responsibility of doing so. As Theresa and her crew deal with cosmic dangers, make difficult decisions, and safeguard the balance of time throughout the universe, the stakes get greater and the mysteries deeper with each new chapter.

Explore the “Chrono Code: Unraveling Time’s Riddle” series if you’re looking for exciting experiences, perplexing ideas, and moral dilemmas that will leave you thinking long after the final page has been turned. Discover the genuine solution to time’s conundrum by traveling with Theresa and her team on a voyage that transcends both reality and the realms of the imagination.

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Karen E. Osborne

Interview With Author Karen E. Osborne

Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I’m an award-winning and Amazon Kindle best-selling author of four women’s fiction/suspense novels–Reckonings (award-winning family saga/suspense), Tangled Lies (award-winning murder mystery), Getting It Right (suspense women’s fiction recognized by Essence Magazine as a Best Read), and True Grace, my latest and first historical fiction set in 1924 Harlem, NY, launched on September 7, 2023.

My author life followed a career traveling the world as a consultant, trainer, university adjunct faculty member, and motivational speaker.

I believe in generosity and giving back. I hosts a weekly video podcast What Are You Reading? What Are You Writing? supporting fellow authors and readers. I chair the board of directors for Easterseals Florida, helping the differently abled, and serve on the board of my local church.

Native New Yorkers living in Florida, my husband Robert and I have two grown children and three grandsons.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
True Grace was inspired by my extraordinary paternal grandmother. The premise of the book is true, as are many of the details. However, because she isn’t alive to fill in the blanks, I had to research the era as well as make lots of things up — which I love to do. That’s why I write fiction.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I don’t think I’m unusual. Characters have conversations in my head. I meet someone or hear something and immediately see how their looks, or mannerisms, or clever remarks could find their way into one of my stories. I try to write at least 20 pages a week, hang out with writer-friends, read all the time. Don’t outline but constantly thinking through plot lines and twists. Pretty typical, I’d guess.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
I love Kristen Hannah. The Four Winds influenced by latest book. I read a lot of Michael Connelly, and other writers in his genre. All my books have short chapters and a page-turning pace that I enjoy in his work. I’m a William Shakespeare nut. The five acts of his plays and the arc of the stories taught me a lot. S. A. Cosby, Maya Angelou, Tony Morrison, Jane Austin, Nora Roberts, Walter Mosely, James Baldwin, and an absolute favorite — August Wilson, all taught me a lot.

What are you working on now?
Justice for Emerson will be published November 21, 2024. It’s a genre-blending, contemporary murder mystery, romance, with a touch of historical fiction because many of the scenes take place in 1968 in Viet Nam, and Bangkok.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
I’m delighted to be introduced to Awesome Gang and look forward to meeting your followers. I post most days on Instagram, Facebook, and LinkedIn. Plus I have a YouTube Channel and video podcast. I’m on BookBub and belong to the NovelNetwork. Always looking for new ways to meet readers.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
1. Writers write. You have to carve out the time.
2. Study your craft. Always. Continually.
3. Writers read. Read lots in the genre you’re writing, but also other genres. To learn and grow.
4. Join a writer’s group. Make writer friends. Find beta readers
5. Edit, polish, edit, and polish some more.
6. Believe.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
My son, who is an award-winning short story writer, told me to believe in my novel and not give up. Keep sending it out no matter how many rejections you receive. It was the best advice. Once you land that first contract, more come. I’m grateful.

What are you reading now?
The new Robert Galbraith — The Running Grave. Loving it.

What’s next for you as a writer?
I have quite a few engagements coming up. I try to keep my website up to date and I’m always happy to be invited to book clubs.

If you were going to be stranded on a desert island and allowed to take 3 or 4 books with you what books would you bring?
The complete works of William Shakespeare
The complete works of August Wilson
The latest (and unread by me) S. A. Cosby and Nora Roberts

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The AI Job Seeker’s Handbook: Strategies for Success

About The AI Job Seeker’s Handbook: Strategies for Success

Are you ready to take your job search to the next level? “The AI Job Seeker’s Handbook: Strategies for Success” reveals the cutting-edge strategies that will empower you to secure your dream job in today’s competitive market. Say goodbye to the days of sifting through endless job listings and submitting applications into the abyss. This book is your key to navigating the evolving job landscape with confidence, using the very technology that’s transforming the hiring process.
Inside, you’ll discover:
🚀 AI-Powered Tools: Learn how to harness the incredible capabilities of artificial intelligence to supercharge your job search. From personalized job matching to interview preparation, you’ll be amazed at how AI can be your ultimate job-seeking ally.
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Jeremiah Beck

Interview With Author Jeremiah Beck

Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I’m originally from Wisconsin. Living the cliché, I grew up on a dairy farm after a short stint in the suburbs. 25-years-ago, I got a job in radio broadcasting and have worked in that field ever since, traveling the world, meeting incredible people, and having the time of my life on the air. In 2019, I began work on a book idea that I’ve had for years, and finally published this year, fulfilling a childhood dream! I live in New Orleans now, which is the greatest city I’ve ever called home, despite my love for Madison, Wisconsin.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
My debut novel is entitled “Recollection.” It’s about a radio DJ with highly superior autobiographical memory (HSAM) or “hyperthymesia,” a condition that causes you to remember every single detail of your life, and the emotions attached to those memories never fade. When considering a title, I found the dictionary definition of recollection to fit the themes of my novel, as well as the hook, so I went with it.

The inspiration came after reading an article about someone with this syndrome, and the difficulties that faced in life after witnessing a tragedy they could never forget or get over. This was the catalyst for creating my main character, Jeremy Peoples, as a school shooting survivor with hyperthymesia, and a habit of making terrible decisions to avoid his unavoidable memories.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I don’t know what constitutes unusual. I’m a pantser through and through, so I find it hard to write and follow an outline. I come up with a premise, the beginning, the main characters, and then an ending, and that is what I need to begin the journey of how “those characters” will get to “that ending” from “that beginning.”

What authors, or books have influenced you?
John Irving’s book “A Prayer for Owen Meany” was the book that most influenced “Recollection.” I wanted to create something that dealt with spiritual themes and life struggles, while at the same time operating within a plot that was an interesting journey, with tension and genuinely high stakes.

I’ve also loved Dennis Lehane, JD Salinger, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemmingway, (yes) Stephen King and John Kennedy Poole’s book “A Confederacy of Dunces” remains an all-time favorite. “Columbine” was a fascinating exploration of the Littleton, CO school shooting.

What are you working on now?
A novel about grace… and how to unkill someone. If you like “Recollection,” then I think the themes, characters and storyline will be exactly what you’d expect from my follow-up.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
I’ve used several book promo sites, and continue to try and master Amazon Ads and Facebook ads, but if I’m honest, I’m still learning how best to promote my book, and can’t say that I’ve “mastered it.” I’m on a “direct-to-reader sales path” currently, so many of my efforts are in that direction, currently, as I build my platform and community.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Publishing the book is Day 1 of your career as an author, not Day Final. Once you hit submit, you go from “I’m writing” to “I’m an author.” One is a hobby. The other is a career. Treat it as such and work accordingly… but if the writing becomes a chore, then reevaluate. Being a business-owner (author) can be a chore, but try hard to keep it from robbing the joy of writing.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
You’re not publishing a book, you’re starting a business. Do not expect some publishing company is going to offer you $100,000 for your book while you sit back and write the next one. Publishing a book is either a hobby or a career change, so define your goals early.

What are you reading now?
The Hour I First Believed by Wally Lamb.

What’s next for you as a writer?
I will be at the 19th Annual Louisiana Book Fest in Baton Rouge on October 28, and then taking the month of November for NaNoWriMo. By December 1st, I’ll have at least 50,000 words toward my next book, in hopes of publishing in 2025.

If you were going to be stranded on a desert island and allowed to take 3 or 4 books with you what books would you bring?
A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
The Stand by Stephen King
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Franny & Zooey by JD Salinger

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Robert J Bruton

Interview With Author Robert J Bruton

Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
Robert Bruton, American author of a three-book fictional series on legendary hero General Belisarius.

Robert was born in Detroit but left with his parents after the riots of 1968 drove them to Minnesota. He grew up and spent his childhood days playing ice hockey, collecting stamps, and running cross-country. Robert was active in politics at a young age, and he recalls playing the role of Jimmy Carter during a mock debate before the 1976 presidential election. His dad was the mayor of his town.

After graduating from high school, Robert went to a liberal arts school where he studied Greek and Roman history. He spent his junior year at the Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium, where he studied philosophy and classical languages.

After graduating, Robert went to a major seminary where he began studies in Sacred Scripture and theology. After leaving the seminary, he became an intelligence officer with the CIA and developed a fascination with political intrigue. Robert got married and recently celebrated his thirtieth wedding anniversary. He served in several overseas assignments, including one country that was once part of the Eastern Roman Empire. It was there that he gained a love for the region’s hospitality and tradition of toasting.

He has traveled extensively throughout the countries that once constituted the Roman Empire and spent a great deal of time in Rome and Istanbul, where his three-part historical fiction series takes place.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
Empire in Apocalypse
Two things: first, the story of Belisarius and Antonina is one of the great love stories of the Roman era, and today, when adultery is often justification for an immediate divorce, Belisarius’s unconditional love for his wife offers an inspirational challenge. Second, when I finished my Master’s thesis on the role of climate change in the decline of the Roman Empire, I wanted to find a way to show this story to people who are concerned about this issue in our times but wouldn’t make it through the first chapter of a history book. This novel tells the personal story of the impact from a man whose life ambitions were ruined by cold summers and the world’s first pandemic.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I can’t think of any

What authors, or books have influenced you?
Count Belisarius

What are you working on now?
I am currently taking a break from writing additional books, and am focusing on promoting the three that are in the process of being published.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
I am still discovering new methods and approaches, this being my first book.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Don’t give up. Even if it takes years and years to write and publish a book, it is well worth it.

What’s next for you as a writer?
I am thinking of writing a ficitional series set in the Mayan era.

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Empire in Apocalypse

About Empire in Apocalypse

Three years after that fateful scene of his wife’s infidelity in the cellar of the Vandal king, Belisarius is still a troubled man. He sees her betrayal in the way his servants won’t look him in the eye, in the disrespectful smirks from his fellow generals, and in the mesmerizing sway of his wife’s hips. Worst of all, he sees it in the charm of a handsome godson who seems to outcompete him for his wife’s affection.

To distract himself, Belisarius throws himself into the ominous challenge before him: reclaiming the Roman lands lost in Italy half a century earlier. Always outnumbered but rarely outwitted, Belisarius and his five-thousand men occupy and hold Rome against a siege by a hundred-thousand wild Goths. Despite this, his wife’s indiscretions undermine the serenity that should follow his success.

Far away, on a fiery island in the North Atlantic, Hibernian monks investigate a mysterious plume of smoke blanketing the sky and covering the earth in shadows. Their leader, Brendan, makes an ominous discovery about the possibly grim future of humankind and must do whatever it takes to relay the disturbing revelation to the Empress in Constantinople.

Belisarius is determined to fight on, regardless of the darkened sky, crop failures, and starvation that vex his men. Against all odds, he completes his conquest of Italy and, upon reaching the Gothic capital of Ravenna, is offered the crown of the Western Empire for himself. To end the bloody war, he pretends to accept the offer but is recalled to Constantinople before he can properly secure the Empire’s victory. In Constantinople, he faces the judgment of a suspicious imperial couple and a punitive redeployment to a resurgent Persia.

Carried on divine winds, Brendan sails across the known world to deliver his foreboding message of the coming Apocalypse. Not even Theodora, Empress of the East herself, can discredit the monk’s portentous story of the erupting mountain, a darkening over all the earth, and widespread famine. When the bubonic plague reaches Constantinople’s harbor, unleashing death in the city and threatening the life of Justinian, it seems as though Brendan’s prophecy about the End of Days has arrived.

Belisarius must face the cold, hard truth Brendan brings that the new world order he is working to establish may be burning to the ground.

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