English Storytelling

No one likes to be sold to, but everyone loves a great story. That’s why average brands pitch, but smart brands communicate. Get ready to rise above the average.

Jonathan Paul is a 26-year-old Trinbagonian author currently living in San Francisco, California. Born and raised on the twin-island Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, he grew up thoroughly enjoying the creative and performing arts: writing essays, performing poetry, acting, and playing the alto saxophone. He left Trinidad and Tobago with an Open Scholarship for his performance in the Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examinations and attended Amherst College where he double majored in Mathematics and Psychology.

It’s not easy being unabashedly famous. Fame. Fortune. Younger men. Being mistaken for different actresses who are slightly prettier and more famous than you. It’s all part of the gig, and Mary Lynn Rajskub is a pro. Hilarious and self-deprecating, Feme-ish is Rajskub’s debut collection of essays. Smart, satirical, and relatable, this book gives new meaning to the word icon, as Rajskub navigates the entertainment world against the backdrop of her own quirky idiosyncrasies.

A Child’s Personal Twilight Zone: Imagining New Possibilities highlights three stories originally published in Reimagining The Twilight Zone: A Young Fan’s Stories, a speculative memoir by Elayne Zalis that explores how The Twilight Zone sparked her imagination when she was a child in Miami in the late 1950s and early ’60s. The young TV fan and the woman she becomes collaborate across space and time to reimagine their favorite episodes of the classic television series. While tapping into a shared memory bank, they retreat to a personal Twilight Zone that nurtures creativity and invention.

Forgive him, Father, for Stephen Colbert has sinned. He knew it was wrong at the time. But he went ahead and did it anyway. Now he’s begging for forgiveness. Based on his popular segment from The Late Show, Stephen Colbert and his team of writers now reveal his most shameful secrets to...

Do you wish you could more fully engage your employees? Or reduce turnover by 25% or more? Do you need to quickly align staff around the organization's long-term strategy? Or achieve double-digit growth? Then this groundbreaking audiobook is for you.

A well-crafted story has the power to literally mold reality, win over hearts, and change minds! The story is the most powerful tool humans have ever discovered. But what makes up a great, expertly constructed story? What’s the difference between a good story and really f--king great story?

The creators of the podcast The Dollop present illustrated profiles of the weird, outrageous, NSFW, and downright absurd tales from American history that you weren't taught in school. The United States of Absurdity presents short, informative, and hilarious stories of the most outlandish (but...

Iceland, Greenland, Northern Norway, and the Faroe Islands lie on the edges of Western Europe, in an area long portrayed by travelers as remote and exotic - its nature harsh, its people reclusive. Since the middle of the 18th century, however, this marginalized region has gradually become part of modern Europe, a transformation that is narrated in Karen Oslund's Iceland Imagined. This cultural and environmental history sweeps across the dramatic North Atlantic landscape, exploring its unusual geography, saga narratives, language, culture, and politics, and analyzing its emergence as a distinctive and symbolic part of Europe.

The common factor between inspiring leaders, influential marketeers, and great salespeople is that they inspire action in the people around them. How do they do this? By telling well-told stories.

An exuberant and irreverently funny novel about one gorgeously messy friendship-feud-unrequited-love-affair set in Sydney across eighteen years. Nell Argall and Eve Bowman are both brilliant, odd, and friendless. When they meet on the brutal battlefield that is their posh all girls’ high...

An infectious and utterly charming fictionalization of the iconic Helen Gurley Brown’s early years at the helm of Cosmopolitan, and the intrepid group of women she took under her wing to create one of the most talked about magazines of all time. In 1965, Helen Gurley Brown, a soft spoken...

Storytelling is an essential business skill. We use stories in a variety of ways to attract customers, partners, investors, and build our team. Your audience needs to understand why you do what you do, and your powerful storytelling skills must emotionally hook them. A pie chart can’t communicate emotionally the way stories do. This book will teach you how to put your listeners in a “Mind Movie” so that they see it, taste it, smell it, touch it, and most of all, feel it—so that your leadership becomes magnetic, memorable, and impactful to drive the results you seek.

A Simon & Schuster audiobook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every listener...

Branding is a way for a business to make it to the top, plus improve its operations. This audiobook comprises years of experience, created to allow a complete beginner to grasp how the most powerful companies and small businesses handle branding.

From a marketing standpoint, the Catholic Church has access to the most scarce and prized resource in our contemporary economy - uninterrupted attention. First-time author Damian P. Hanley explains in detail how the Church - at the parish level - can leverage this resource and use web 2.0 media to engage millenials and iGen - generations plagued by addiction, vacuous materialism, and a severely diminished opinion of the Church. Catholic churches are struggling to connect with young people in an authentic and relevant way.

Step Into Your Brilliance will...Reveal the solution and simple process to becoming "The Expert" in your industry! Burst your limiting beliefs around becoming a positive storyteller and successful social media entrepreneur! Teach you how to rapidly grow the right network that will explode your business! Show you how to create a magnetic pitch that will attract prospects and leads wherever you are! Give you the tools and resources to manage your business...and much more!

The world of works needs linguists. Linguists possess a unique set of analytical skills that are applicable in any professional context. In this book, along with developmental activities to help you use the tools and skills you already possess to navigate your career next steps, author Anna Marie Trester shares stories of professional linguists to help answer the perennial question, "Linguistics? What can you do with that?"

It occurred to standup comic and comedy writer Carol Liefer that she had to stop telling one of her favorite stories—seeing The Beatles perform at Shea Stadium—because it dated her. But then she thought: What's that about? "I see now that when you deny your age, you deny yourself, and when you lie about your age, you become your inauthentic twin. But most important, when you lie about your age, they win." And, of course, by 'they,' she means the terrorists. In this uproarious audiobook, Leifer reveals all—her age, her outlook, her life philosophy—with a no-holds-barred approach.

While many entrepreneurs and innovators have brilliant ideas, they desperately need the skills to successfully articulate their vision to investors, prospective customers, employees, and stakeholders. In this informative and empowering book, David Riemer breaks down the storytelling clutter so you can gain the attention you need to succeed. If you have a groundbreaking invention in mind or have a plan to solve worldwide problems, Get Your Startup Story Straight is the tool you need to create better customer-focused solutions, motivate more backers, and dominate in the market.