You’re on a job interview – you’ve been asked to accompany the boss to an important business dinner – which fork do you use, how do you handle conversation, how do you conduct yourself? Laura Mathewson answers those questions and more in this quick and easy to read guide to Business Dining Tips.
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James Patters recently commented on the Amazon – Hatchette battle over ebook prices. Now, Nick Gillespie comments on the whole mess: Can you believe those…those…those…sons of bitches at Amazon? After launching almost 20 years ago and making virtually every book—new, used, dead-tree, electronic, audio, and I’m guessing any day now, olfactory—available to everyone in America [...]
We hear stories about Hollywood studios stealing the stories of authors and not paying. Could it really happen? Best-selling author Tess Gerritsen thinks it happened to her, and has filed suit. Gerritsen is the author of the very popular Rizzoli and Iles books about a Boston police detective and the medical examiner. The books have [...]
While there are no magic incantations that will make us better writers, there are definitely a number of proven methods to help flatten the learning curve. Award-winning novelist and writing instructor Vic DiGenti shares some of his hard-earned craft lessons in this first of a series of “Crafty Writer” booklets designed to help you become [...]
Here is a farrago of wit, humor and whimsy for the literate. Perhaps you share the author’s enchantment with the lyrical quality of words. This quality is best educed by rymes (reformed spelling). However, rymes alone are not enough. They must have something clever and entertaining to say. The author has labored to fulfill that [...]
Two traditional publishers, HarperCollins and Simon and Schuster have struck deals with eBook distributors Oyster and Scribd. These distributors charge customers a monthly fee and allow them to download books. It’s a business model very similar to Netflix, which charges a monthly fee for watching movies. The two publishers have licensed about 10,000 older titles [...]
Follow a day in the life of Mickey, Lizzie, Charlie and Nikki as they learn how they can positively impact each others lives. With the ever-increasing problem of bullying, It All Starts With You aims to raise awareness to the subject while spreading a message of positivity and change. Too many kids are affected by [...]
This is a non-fiction book about life; about dreams; about happiness. We dream of a perfect, happy life. So what is a perfect, happy life? And how do we get it? I journeyed far and long to find the answers. Eight years later I returned with them. This book will take you on that same [...]
