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Simple ideas, turned into rich stories.This short, easy-to-use guidebook tells you exactly how to turn a fleeting story idea into a solid premise strong enough to carry an entire novel. Story Idea: A Method to Develop a Book Idea will teach you: How to get more story ideas when your creative well seems to have run dry, how to use mind mapping to decide which story idea is the best one, and how to develop the premise, the starting point for any novel. Get rid of writer's block forever. It's time to reclaim your creativity!

Written by organizational change expert Robert Bogue, The Six Keys to Confident Change Management offers tools you can use to initiate and manage change. Whether you're doing a process improvement or reimagining the organization through digital transformation, you'll learn the keys you need to be confident and successful in your change. It starts with the process of creating clarity in your vision for the future before walking into discussions on how to manage either programs or projects and then how to motivate your peers or coworkers to actually do the change.

Psychological injuries and trauma suffered during childhood are extremely common. They lead to all sorts of addictive behaviors as well as anxiety, depression, and debilitating and life-threatening physical maladies. In Healing with Psychedelics, Chris writes about how to recognize the often-hidden histories that caused us as children to create a false self and changed how we operate in this world. He then takes us on his personal healing journey, revealing the details of his own experience and describing the process of psychedelic-assisted sacred-medicine therapy.

For 34 months, while wounded and struggling to survive in Korean War prison camps, Felix Ferranto recited the Lord's Prayer daily and dreamed of being free and with his family. Proper "attitude" and having learned enough of the Chinese language and culture during his time with the American Legation Guard in Peiping, China would be critical for his survival.

America is a land in which extremism no longer belongs to the country's shadowy fringes, but comfortably exists in the national mainstream. That is the alarming conclusion by intelligence analyst Daryl Johnson, an expert on domestic extremism with more than 25 years of experience tracking radicalized groups for the US government. In this book, Johnson dissects the rapidly expanding forms of American hatred and radicalization, including white nationalists, antigovernment militias, antifascists (Antifa), militant black nationalists, and extremist Islamic groups.

Behold! A small team of explorers marooned on a distant moon are in danger. The time is the future. The place is Eve. Alpha Team now find themselves on something of an enigmatic world that guards its secrets closely. On what began as a cataloging mission soon becomes a battle for the future of humanity. An ancient relic discovered. An age old feud reignited. Mysterious beings. Formidable predators. Reawakened pathogens.

Award-winning writer Bill Schelly relates how comics and fandom saved his life in this engrossing story that begins in the burgeoning comic fandom movement of the 1960s and follows the twists and turns of a career that spanned 50 years. Schelly recounts his struggle to come out at a time when homosexuality was considered a mental illness, how the egalitarian nature of fandom offered a safe haven for those who were different, and how his need for creative expression eventually overcame all obstacles.

Plot Fiction Like the Masters is an exercise in listening like a writer - listening with the purpose of figuring out how the plots of a few recognized masterpieces succeed in making one continue. The reason for proposing this as a way of learning plot-making is my own experience as a writer - that the most accomplished novelists are the greatest teachers and that their lessons may be drawn from a close study of their work. The three novels under consideration have all achieved astonishing success. They are all not only recognized masterpieces of their very different genres.

This audiobook is intended for individuals who want to learn how to analyze people through their nonverbal and verbal cues. If you want to learn the skill of human analysis, you can use the knowledge you can acquire from this book to improve and nurture your relationships, understand people’s personality types, and acquire a positive frame of mind when dealing with people.

Clarence and Annette have been together for 38 years. In 38 and Counting: Making It Last!, they share their story, experiences, and life long lessons to find and secure relationships. How will you find the right partner? How will you make the relationship last? Clarence and Annette answer these questions with five practical steps to relationship success.

If you’re haunted by fear and anxiety, or feel depressed and hopeless, this book will provide you guidelines in taking hold of the steering wheel of your life. CBT is so broad, encompassing other vital disciplines, that the chapters focus more on the topics that would change your way of thinking to a more positive one.

This audiobook will provide you with advice, tools, and methods to best utilize your time and thereby live your life to the fullest extent! Don’t let your life pass you by only to catch you regretting the lost time in your winter years. Be the master of your time. This audiobook will help you increase productivity, save time, and organize your life so that you can do the things that you want to do instead of what other people want you to do!

Empath: An Essential Blueprint for Understanding the Hidden Power of Highly Sensitive People is intended for persons, who want to harness their abilities as Empaths. It can also serve as a guide for individuals, who want to develop their skills as Empaths. There may be an incredible power of an Empath within you, but you're not aware of it. That power wants to be unleashed - only - you don't recognize it. If you often experience being too emotional, or being overly sensitive with people around you, and you feel drained with all the sensations you frequently endure, you may be an Empath waiting to be discovered.

This book bundle aims to gather knowledge about various proven willpower and negotiation techniques and deliver it to you in a practical, easy to understand, and actionable manner. Use it like you would use an instruction manual, for simply listening to it is not doing justice to yourself. When you understand the sciences and art of willpower and negotiation, it is easier to use them to create a life of your dreams. The concept of willpower alone has grown leaps and bounds in the last few decades.

This book is intended for individuals who want to start practicing Stoicism in their lives. If you’re a beginner, striving to become a Stoic, you’ve got the right book. This book is a beginner’s guide and not an in-depth discussion of the philosophy of Stoicism. Furthermore, it is presented in simple language that anyone can grasp easily.

In 1866, Peter Baxter's misfortune ends the day he leaves Badgerys Creek orphanage. Unsure of what to do next, Peter finds himself on a farm run by Mr. Brown. An aging man, Brown needs help and is happy to give Peter a place to live in exchange for his labor. Unbeknownst to Peter, Brown's past is riddled with dark secrets tied to the same orphanage, which he has documented in a red folder.

"A virgin birth? A virgin? Her?" God shouted at Freud while recalling his one night stand with Mary. Freud snorted another line of cocaine in celebration, believing that this story would help Nietzsche in his quest to fire God from Heaven Inc. Nietzsche, however, has other problems: the Norse gods are running amok on Earth, his board of directors are in a constant state of chaos, and syphilis pushes him into a past life that he would rather forget. How will he prevail?

Do you have problems with self-confidence? Most of us do. So, if we all have problems with self-confidence, how are things getting done? How are there successful people in the world? Are they really self-confident or are they faking it? If they are faking it, how are they getting by with it? Why can't you have the same success that everyone else does? Well, you can. All you have to do is boost your self-confidence and you will be surprised at how much your world will change.

Many people wonder through life without knowing their real purpose. They skip from job to job hoping to stumble into something they like, or can at least handle. There's no need to continue living like this. This book is here to help you learn how to do just that.

Many people hide behind the theory of creative chaos and how it leads to great achievements. But if you care enough to research the theory, you will find out that it doesn't apply to your everyday life. It applies to a universal structure of a pattern much greater than what your mind can perceive and imagine, so what seems like a disorganized and chaotic pattern now is actually a great plan that will unfold sometime in the future. This book, Time Management, will provide you with advice, tools, and methods to utilize your time best and thereby live your life to the fullest extent!