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This book is designed to give you the tools you need in order to effectively communicate with others through influence and persuasion. Whether it be in a business setting, an interview, in front of an audience or even your friends and family, this how-to guide gives in depth knowledge on how to get others to think like you.

Does your client owe the principal or principle? Is your company moving forwards or forward? Do you have over ten years' experience, or more than ten years' experience? Proper use of the written and spoken word determines whether or not you move ahead in your career. In Booher's Rules of Business Grammar, business communication guru Dianna Booher identifies the top one hundred and one mistakes made in emails, social media sites, websites, presentations, and conversations every day.

As a literary agent, Noah Lukeman hears thousands of book pitches a year. Often the stories sound great in concept, but never live up to their potential on the page. Lukeman shows beginning and advanced writers how to implement the fundamentals of successful plot development, such as character building and heightened suspense and conflict. Writers will find it impossible to walk away from this invaluable guide - a veritable fiction-writing workshop - without boundless new ideas.

FBI special agent Devyn Nash is obsessed with taking down Coterie, a deadly group out to control the multibillion dollar a year diet product industry. The FBI's plan to expose Coterie places Devyn's best friend and her partner's fiancé in the crosshairs of this ruthless organization. Can Devyn protect her friend and bring the coldblooded killers to justice before they strike again, while distracted by injury, a sexist bully, and a long-distance relationship with a handsome Wyoming sheriff?

Morgan Hunter sacrificed everything for her career. She had yet to encounter anything she wasn’t willing to do to succeed...until now. When she uncovers evidence that the healthy foods she’s been hired to promote may be dangerous, she must reevaluate her priorities. As questions mount and the body count rises, she finds herself caught in the crosshairs of an organization that will stop at nothing to hide its secrets and protect its profits. With no one else to trust, Morgan is forced to seek help from the man she drove away but whom she never stopped loving....

Romance Writing 101 is your ultimate toolkit to bring your romantic vision to life. This friendly zero-fluff guide is written specifically for beginner writers. It is the key to unlocking your writing potential and creating an unforgettable romance novel.

Category romance is a precise art. With such a small word count, writing the perfect category romance is a little like writing a haiku. But how do you write a book in 17 syllables? In Crafting Category Romance, two-time RITA™-nominated author of nearly 100 books Amy Lane describes the rules of engagement, traps to watch out for, and how to leverage common tropes to create conflict, craft a character, develop a plot, and leave readers with a happy ever after that's different every time - all in a tidy package.

Have we advanced so far that we have arrived full circle with the technology of ancient times? Dr. James Bartlow thinks so. Appointed by the president of the United States to head the country's first national center for live fetal-tissue research, Bartlow stumbles upon an ancient, unknown technology that he believes will open the gateway to a whole new paradigm.

Laila Harrow knows the best way to track down anything—or anybody—ask Billie Farmer. As the brains of the Laguna Shores Research Club, Billie teaches fellow members how to reach into the ether and pluck out facts. Counting on Billie's guidance, Laila promises the St. Augustine Museum a catalogue of Florida Highwaymen paintings that will catapult her standing in the art world. But when Billie dies suddenly, Laila is forced to pull herself out of the darkness to think like Billie and follow the facts.

If you ever dreamt of writing a full-length fiction and stopped yourself because it is either too much work or too much skill, this book is for you. No motivational content; the book is to the point. It is a step-by-step guide with examples to help you learn the important elements of a fiction separately. Once you have developed command on the individual elements, you can take all the pieces together and join them to develop the plot as described in the book.

In terms of objective reality, a work of fiction is an elaborate lie. No writers think of themselves as liars simply because they write fiction, but that's the fact of the matter. And no other writing guide will admit to teaching you to be a better writer by showing you how to be a better liar - at least in a narrative sense. A good lie rings true. Verisimilitude, or the appearance of truth, is critical in a novel because audiences start the book knowing it is fiction.

In this suspense-charged, touching novel Counting on Trust, information is stolen from a US genetic engineering company (Omniprotein) by an employee, who's promised payment by a Chinese general. The general wants to profit from selling the company’s technologies in the military region of China he commands.

This book is a condensed collection of notes, thoughts, and practical advice for fiction writers of all shapes and sizes. Where The 24 Laws of Storytelling is a deep immersion in the art of storytelling, Write Your Novel is a much lighter passage through the halls of fiction writing. It’s a writing craft book that asks for a less weighty investment of time and energy.

It's hard for the aspiring writers to find a concise reference to creative fiction writing. On February 5, 2017, author Pawan Mishra delivered a video talk on "The Craft of Creative Fiction Writing" to the students of Lady Shri Ram College, New Delhi. The script of the talk has ever since become a popular reference for students of the creative writing and aspiring writers. The 21 fundamentals listed in the talk cover the most essential aspects of creative storytelling.

If you are interested in learning about the thrilling world of writing fanfiction, then why don’t you take some time to listen to this book, HowExpert Guide to Writing Fanfiction? If you’re a first-time fanfiction writer, I’ll guide you through the process from start to finish, and soon you’ll be posting your fics for the world to see in no time. You can even take the information you learn from this book and use it in writing other types of literature, such as the short story, novella, or novel.

When was the last time you had writer's block? You wanted very badly to write, but you couldn't think of what to write about! This collection of writing prompts will get your creative juices flowing and having you fill up page after page in no time, at all! This collection of writing prompts is a powerful and useful reference to use whenever you need something to kick-start your writing! And best of all, you have no excuse to not get started right away!

What makes time fly? Can time “drag”? Three short stories illustrate how the mind perceives time under various circumstances. Anger, frustration, love, murder, and apprehension distort perceptions of time in the first story entitled "A Timely Crack". The second story, "Brainstorm", illustrates how terror, ignorance, apprehension, and blackmail may distort the experience of time. Long effort and ultimate failure alter the perception of time in "Autobiography of a Stillborn Soul", the third story.

Estamos a principios de la primavera de 2016 en el castillo de Windsor, donde Isabel II ultima los preparativos de las celebraciones de su nonagésimo aniversario mientras saborea una matutina taza de té.

这是人类有史以来对宇宙“最长线路”最直观有趣的一次旅行，“零距离”探秘烈焰下的太阳；登录月球会会“当地人”；到色彩斑斓的土星中来一次真正的“腾云驾雾”……這是人類有史以來對宇宙「最長線路」最直觀有趣的一次旅行，「零距離」探秘烈焰下的太陽；登錄月球會會「當地人」；到色彩斑斕的土星中來一次真正的「騰雲駕霧」……

In Writing Unbound, Tom Newkirk argues that as a teaching profession, we shoot ourselves in the foot when it comes to writing. We fail to take advantage of a huge opportunity that is before us. That opportunity is fiction writing.