Download or read book The Void Calls Us Home written by Nohelty Russell and published by Wannabe Press, LLC. This book was released on 2020-08-05 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rebecca never thought she was suicidal. However, that didn't stop her from jerking her car off the side of the road last night. Everybody thinks she swerved to hit a deer, but she knows the truth. She did it because a giant flaming being called from the void and beckoned to her to join it in the darkness. Was it a manifestation of her unconscious desire to die? Could the being really exist? Did it have anything to do with her sister's suicide just a year before? When Rebecca starts seeing the creature every time she closes her eyes, she has no choice but to find out the truth before it drives her mad. If you like H.P. Lovecraft, psychological horror, coming of age stories, or deep explorations of grief, loss, death, and junk, then make sure to pick up The Void Calls Us Home today.
Download or read book Direct Sales Mastery for Authors Volume 2 written by Monica Leonelle and published by Spaulding House. This book was released on 2024-04-29 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We believe that direct sales is more than any one platform, or any one modality. It's a network of platforms and strategies that form a foundation for your author business. When you try to define direct sales across any one axis, you lessen its impact. We didn't want to do that. We wanted to show you the full scope of what is possible with direct sales, which ended up being a lot of words. The book became so long that we actually split it into two books. When we looked at what we've already written, and what we have planned, we realized this really is the definitive guide to direct sales for authors. Direct Sales Mastery for Authors Volume 2 This volume dives deep into the StoryUrge Messaging Framework, which helps authors create strong marketing messaging that actually helps them sell a book. This goes far beyond a blurb or some ad copy. (Though it can be used to make those pieces better too!) The book then shows you how to apply the StoryUrge Messaging Framework across all five areas of direct sales: Website Landing Pages, Website Storefronts, Crowdfunding Launches, Subscriptions and Memberships, and Live Events and Signings. There are three major pieces of the StoryUrge Messaging Framework: Excitement - Why people should be excited about your project. This can include telling them about the tropes, characters, relationships, settings, special features, special offers, and more. Objections - Why people are holding back from your project. This includes general objections to your genre or niche, but can also include specific objections to you or your books. With direct sales, it is particularly important to include objections to the platform, method of sale, or business model as readers may not be as familiar with it as they are at retailers. (For example, we always advise our students to talk to their readers about why Kickstarter is not “begging for money” or similar to GoFundMe.) Psychological Triggers - Why people buy. Russell and I have extensive experience in marketing and sales and have collected these over the years. We have shared our secrets to creating exciting offers and messaging in one chapter of Get Your Book Selling on Kickstarter—Chapter 6—but we are greatly expanding on that in the second volume of Direct Sales Mastery for Authors to help answer all the awesome questions we’ve gotten on this topic in the last few years. Our psychological triggers section offers nearly 50 different buttons to push to bring people into your work across six categories: The X-Factors - These help you position yourself or your characters in a leadership position or several steps ahead of your readers Connection Deepeners - These help you position yourself or your characters as a peer to your readers (making you or your characters relatable and sympathetic) The Button-Pushers - These encourage action at a subconscious level Pleasure and Pain Inducers - These evoke visceral and resonant emotion in your readers Core Wounders and Healers - These take the audience on a transformational journey with you (for memoir), with themselves (for nonfiction), or with your characters (for fiction) Emotional Fantasies and Nightmares - These allow the audience to explore a different life in safety We teach how to use these triggers in the book itself (yes, even for fiction!), in the offer you are trying to sell, and in the marketing messaging you use to sell the offer. When all of this is in alignment, sales happen more easily!
Download or read book Get Your Book Selling on Kickstarter written by Russell P. Nohelty and published by Spaulding House. This book was released on 2022-03-01 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book you’ll find: Why using crowdfunding is an important avenue for authors and how authors are currently using it Choosing the right project for Kickstarter and designing your campaign Budgeting your campaign for profitability (and why it’s critical for your success!) The types of messages you should send to your audience vs. cold traffic How to run ads to your Kickstarter project Delivering your rewards for your Kickstarter project Keeping momentum going after Kickstarter
Download or read book The Fairy Queen written by Russell Nohelty and published by Wannabe Press, LLC. This book was released on with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Fairy Queen The Queen of Oz is dead. Long live the queen. Queen Aine certainly didn’t expect for Rose to be dusted five seconds after her coronation, but in the aftermath of the assassination, she became the new ruler of Oz, and is out for revenge against those that conspired against her friend. Meanwhile, back on Earth, a soulless Rose awakes from her coma, emotionless and numb to the world. She desperately longs to return to The Dream Realm, but her only hope in doing so rests with finding Hypnos and convincing him to reclaim his birthright. But how do you find a god that wants to remain hidden? That is a question Nimue desperately needs to know the answer to, as her salvation rests in locating the God of Nightmares, Epialas, and securing his blessing before her newly acquired powers tear her apart. If you love mythology, fairy tales, magical fantasy adventures, political intrigue, high stakes action, and star-crossed lovers, then you’ll enjoy the third book in The Obsidian Spindle Saga. Get it now.
Download or read book The Red Rider written by Russell Nohelty and published by Wannabe Press, LLC. This book was released on with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Red Rider The end is nigh. The Dream Realm will fall. All is lost. Epialas has invaded the Dream Realm, and his monsters carve a path of destruction from Agrona’s Mountains toward the Emerald City, annihilating everything that stands in their way. The whole of Urgu’s survival rests on Red’s ability to secure a key that will open the door to Earth and allow Hypnos reentry into his kingdom for a final showdown with his evil brother. Back on Earth, Rose has found the God of Dreams, and they set out to save his kingdom, but can they find a way back to the Emerald City before Epialas burns everything to the ground? Find out in the fourth book of The Obsidian Spindle Saga. If you love mythology, fairy tales, magical fantasy adventures, political intrigue, and high stakes action, then you’ll love this series. Get it now.
Download or read book The Sleeping Beauty written by Russell Nohelty and published by Wannabe Press, LLC. This book was released on with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fairy tales are real. Rose Briar is a diabetic college student without insurance. She’s been scraping by through a combination of maxing out credit cards and relying upon the kindness of strangers. Unfortunately, she’s spent every dollar at her disposal. There’s no money left to buy her life-saving insulin. Without her medication, Rose falls into a diabetic coma. She tumbles into a deep slumber and wakes up in a fantastical place called the Dream Realm, where fairy tales and legends of old are still very much alive. She has one chance to wake up. She must trek across the world, visit the most powerful object in the land, the Obsidian Spindle, and entreat with the fates; the only beings powerful enough to send her soul back to Earth. But evil forces don’t want her to leave. They will stop at nothing to capture her and make sure she never goes home again. Now, with the help of her half-gorgon girlfriend and a mysterious red rider, Rose must race across the land fighting dragons, monsters, and the forces of the Wicked Witch, Nimue, in order to reach the Obsidian Spindle before her body dies on Earth and she’s trapped in the Dream Realm forever. Will she be able to wake up? Can she survive? Find out by reading The Sleeping Beauty today. If you love mythology, fairy tales, and dark fantasy, then you’ll love the first book in The Obsidian Spindle Saga. Get it now.
Download or read book Light as Air written by Jonny Morrison and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2022-09-30 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Light as Air offers readers freedom from unmet desires, a way to disrupt broken systems, and an invitation into a life of depth and creative action. How? By exploring the story of Jesus and the way his kingdom engages our dissatisfaction and invites us into the life we were made for. Jesus' kingdom is a political reality that overthrows broken systems, cultivates meaningful connection, and empowers us for creative action. Light as Air shows us how to live into and out of Jesus' kingdom in a way that gives hope to a dissatisfied world.
Download or read book Swish written by Doug Leaman and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2018-02-17 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After World War II, when basketball courts sprang up in Philadelphia neighborhoods, thousands of young men devoted their teenage years trying to become superstars. During the 1950s and 1960s, players like Tom Gola, Ernie Beck, and Dippy Carosi, and later Hal Lear and Wilt Chamberlain, recreated the game of basketball into an East Coast love affair. In May of 1949, at age thirteen, author Doug Leaman fell in love with basketball, and his quest for stardom revolved around a pair of sneakers, a ball, and the swishing of a net. From that day forward, the art of basketball dominated every aspect of his life. In Swish, he tells how he devoted his first two years on the court working on his two-handed set shot, and how, after researching his goal, Leaman was able to shoot the eyes out of the basket during his high school, college, and service time in the Marine Corps. Leaman shares his story to show how a young athlete who participates in sports can achieve tremendous results by hanging in there and never giving up. He believes that although most athletes wont become superstars or all-Americans, the competitive experiences, the drive, and the determination to excel enriches ones life fully.
Download or read book Two Trees Make a Forest written by Jessica J. Lee and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2020-08-04 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This "stunning journey through a country that is home to exhilarating natural wonders, and a scarring colonial past . . . makes breathtakingly clear the connection between nature and humanity, and offers a singular portrait of the complexities inherent to our ideas of identity, family, and love" (Refinery29). A chance discovery of letters written by her immigrant grandfather leads Jessica J. Lee to her ancestral homeland, Taiwan. There, she seeks his story while growing closer to the land he knew. Lee hikes mountains home to Formosan flamecrests, birds found nowhere else on earth, and swims in a lake of drowned cedars. She bikes flatlands where spoonbills alight by fish farms, and learns about a tree whose fruit can float in the ocean for years, awaiting landfall. Throughout, Lee unearths surprising parallels between the natural and human stories that have shaped her family and their beloved island. Joyously attentive to the natural world, Lee also turns a critical gaze upon colonialist explorers who mapped the land and named plants, relying on and often effacing the labor and knowledge of local communities. Two Trees Make a Forest is a genre–shattering book encompassing history, travel, nature, and memoir, an extraordinary narrative showing how geographical forces are interlaced with our family stories.
Download or read book Love s Curriculum written by Jenny Hogg Ashwell and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2015-11-11 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As our companions through the current spiritual Awakening, Jesus, the archangels, and other spiritual teachers have gathered as the High Council and now share with us in Love’s Curriculum their messages of enlightenment. These Divine messages have a clear goal: To awaken us to the Love that connects all. You hold in your hands the High Council’s gift to you—a guidebook for this journey. Through Divine grace and enormous trust, Jenny Hogg Ashwell travelled a path from lawyer to student of spirituality and mother of three, to spiritual counselor and intuitive, to learn of her soul’s assignment to scribe Love’s Curriculum for the High Council and bring forth their messages to the world. It is with great humility, courage, and gratitude that she has done just this. Now, it is your turn. Let Love’s Curriculum gently awaken within you the memory of Love as you uncover your soul’s Divine purpose. Let it guide you to ignite Love in the world. The time has come to join in the Awakening. “We wish for you to read Love’s Curriculum. Within its pages you will find the Bounty of Love and Light to which you have been called—for which you have been dreaming and desiring to fill within you the void. Within its pages are the answers contained, the magic brought forth, the truth illuminated, for all to hear and see. Let Love’s Curriculum help you on your journey to awaken to Love. It is time.” —The High Council
Download or read book The Call of the Void written by S. M. Gaither and published by Random House. This book was released on 2023-06-08 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: War is building. Blood is spilling. And the gods are not pleased. Casia has survived her brother's attempts to crush her but the battle is just beginning. Bitter, wounded and carrying the curse of a dark upper-god, she journeys north to the elven court in search of allies. The Court of Moreth holds knowledge, secrets - and power. The kind of power that could shift everything in her favour. But only if she can survive it. Elander is losing his court, powers and divinity. But he's determined to stand behind Casia and bring his ancient, changeable allies to her side. He lost her once. He won't do it again. His devotion to her may be what destroys him. And when that destruction comes, it could change their entire world.
Download or read book Touching the Void written by Joe Simpson and published by Direct Authors. This book was released on 2012-12-12 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 25th Anniversary ebook, now with more than 50 images. 'Touching the Void' is the tale of two mountaineer’s harrowing ordeal in the Peruvian Andes. In the summer of 1985, two young, headstrong mountaineers set off to conquer an unclimbed route. They had triumphantly reached the summit, when a horrific accident mid-descent forced one friend to leave another for dead. Ambition, morality, fear and camaraderie are explored in this electronic edition of the mountaineering classic, with never before seen colour photographs taken during the trip itself.
Download or read book Womb Awakening written by Azra Bertrand and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-08-15 with total page 649 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rediscover the lost ancient mystery teachings of the Cosmic Womb • 2017 Nautilus Silver Award • Explains how each of us has a holographic blueprint of the Womb of Creation, our spiritual Womb • Offers practices to help awaken your spiritual Womb, experience the Womb of God within, and activate the Womb’s sacred magic of creation and manifestation • Looks at the power of the moon and its connection to sacred Womb Consciousness • Explores how the lost Womb mystery teachings were encoded in folk and fairy tales, the legends of the Holy Grail, and the traditions of Mary Magdalene and Sophia • Includes access to three guided Womb Awakening audio journeys The Ancients lived by a feminine cosmology of creation, where everything was birthed and dissolved through a sacred universal Womb. Within each of us, whether female or male, lies a holographic blueprint of this Womb of Creation, connecting us to the Web of Life. By awakening your spiritual Womb, the holy of holies within the temple of your body, you can reconnect to the transformative energy of Womb Consciousness and reclaim your sacred powers of creation and love. Drawing on mythical and spiritual traditions from almost every culture, Dr. Azra and Seren Bertrand reconstruct the moon-based feminine mystery teachings of a lost global Womb religion, tracing the tradition all the way back to the Neanderthals and beyond. They explore how these teachings were encoded in the symbolism of folk and fairy tales; the legends of the Holy Grail; the traditions of Mary Magdalene and Sophia; the maiden, queen, and crone archetypes; and the teachings of alchemy and the chakras. They show how sages and shamans across the globe all secretly spoke of the Cosmic Womb and the sacred creative powers of Moon Blood. The authors look at the power of the Moon and its connection to sacred Womb Consciousness, offering meditations and practices to help awaken your spiritual Womb and activate its sacred magic of creation and manifestation. They explain how to activate the energetic gateways of the Womb and merge the heart and Womb to make sexual union the highest sacrament of love. Revealing how we must reconnect with the Divine Feminine to rebirth the Divine Masculine and restore balance to our world, they show how, as we reawaken the powerful ancient path of the Womb Mysteries, we help return our world to harmony with the wild, untamed creative flows and cyclical rhythms of the cosmos.
Download or read book More Than a Song written by Jessica Hornsby and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2021-05-14 with total page 75 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is worship? When you hear the word worship, what comes to mind first? What does it mean to truly worship God? In October of 2019, I was wolunteering at my church’s middle school weekend retreat. during some downtime, I asked a few of the girls what has been their favorite part of the retreat thus far. The majority of them said “worship”, meaning the praise and worship segment of the service. There was nothing wrong with their answer, but it got me thinking. Do these students know what it really means to truly worship the Lord? Do they know why they lift their hands, or are they doing it merely because it is just a common action in our church? Do they know that worship is more than just a song? My prayer is that everyone who chooses to read this book will discover a new found desire to worship the Lord as well as be encouraged and challenged to strengthen their daily walk with the Lord.
Download or read book A place called Mississippi written by and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Filled with serendipitous connections and contrasts, this volume of Mississippiana covers four hundred years. It begins with a selection from "A Gentleman from Elvas," written in 1541, and ends with an essay the novelist Ellen Douglas wrote in 1996 on the occasion of the Atlanta Olympic games. In between is a chronology of some one hundred nonfictional narratives that portray the distinctiveness of life in Mississippi. Most are reprinted, but some are published here for the first time. Each section of this anthology reveals an aspect of Mississippi's past or present. Here are narratives that depict the settlement of the land by pioneers, the lasting heritage of the Civil War, the pleasures and the pastimes of Mississippians, their food, art, rituals, and religion, the terrain and the travelers, and the conflicts that brought enormous changes to both the landscape and the population. In its wide cultural perspective, A Place Called Mississippi includes an early description of the Chickasaws, a narrative of a former slave, "Soggy" Sweat's famous "Whiskey Speech" on Prohibition, and an account of how W. C. Handy discovered the blues in a deserted train station in Tutwiler, Mississippi. Among the selections are narratives by Jefferson Davis, Belle Kearney, Walter Anderson, Ida B. Wells, Richard Wright, Craig Claiborne, Richard Ford, William Faulkner, and Eudora Welty. Written by and about blacks, whites, Native Americans, and others, these fascinating accounts convey a variety of impressions about a real place and about real people whose colorful history is large, ever-changing, and ever-mystifying.
Download or read book Across the Void written by S.K. Vaughn and published by Skybound Books. This book was released on 2019-07-02 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A visceral space thriller—perfect for fans of Arrival and The Martian—following the sole survivor of a catastrophic accident in space that leaves her drifting in the void with only the voice of her estranged husband, a NASA scientist, to guide her back to Earth. Commander Maryam “May” Knox awakes from a medically induced coma alone, adrift in space on a rapidly failing ship, with little to no memory of who she is or why she’s there. Slowly, she pieces together that she’s the captain of the ship, Hawking II; that she was bound for Europa—one of Jupiter’s moons—on a research mission; and that she’s the only survivor of either an accident—or worse, a deliberate massacre—that has decimated her entire crew. With resources running low, and her physical strength severely compromised, May must rely on someone back home to help her. The problem is: everyone thinks she’s dead. Back on Earth, it’s been weeks since Hawking II has communicated with NASA, and Dr. Stephen Knox is on bereavement leave to deal with the apparent death of his estranged wife, whose decision to participate in the Europa mission strained their marriage past the point of no return. But when he gets word that NASA has received a transmission from May, Stephen comes rushing to her aid. What he doesn’t know is that not everyone wants May to make it back alive. Even more terrifying: she might not be alone on that ship. Featuring a twisting and suspenseful plot and compelling characters, Across the Void is a moving and evocative thriller that you won’t be able to put down.
Download or read book Mo u rning Joy written by Kalan Chapman Lloyd and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-09-07 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mo(u)rning Joy is the story of parents looking forward to the birth of their first child. But the child was never born. In this memoir Kalan Chapman Lloyd shares her experience with stillbirth, her sequent pregnancy and what she ultimately learned: devastating as it is, that life does get better and the pain will ease.
