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Featured Post: Times of Clouds and Sun by michael hager

Featured Post: Times of Clouds and Sun by michael hager

Michael Dane Hager writing credits include a novel, poetry, short stories, theatrical plays, and film scripts. He was formerly Managing Editor for the largest English newspaper in Mexico. His first novel Just Beyond the Edge, was published in 2011. In August, 2008, his play The Last Ride premiered at an international regional theater. In 2020, he completed his second novel In the Times of Clouds & Sun. He has won awards and grants for his poetry and published an anthology of his poetry titled, Reckoning of the Heart. His film scripts have received numerous laurels from major film festivals. He is currently working on a short story collection titled, Wayward Messages. In addition to his writing credits, he is an accomplished songwriter with over 40 songs recorded by a variety of artists. He lives with his wife of 52 years, Christina, in Fort Collins, Colorado.

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Featured Post: Awaken Your Purpose: 28 Days To Discover Your Life Purpose, Identify Your Dream Business, and Take Your First Steps to a Prosperous Life by Erica Carrico

Featured Post: Awaken Your Purpose: 28 Days To Discover Your Life Purpose, Identify Your Dream Business, and Take Your First Steps to a Prosperous Life by Erica Carrico

I am an award-winning Life Purpose and Business Coach, empowering women to create 6- and 7-figure soul-aligned businesses while expressing their true purpose. Through coaching and speaking, I help soulful entrepreneurs scale their businesses into global empires, leave their 9-to-5 jobs, and earn a lucrative income doing what they love.

With a BS in Psychology, a Master’s in Business Management, and over 12 years of international business leadership experience, I built a multi-million-dollar coaching business in just four years—while raising two kids. My passion is guiding women to transform their lives by creating successful, purpose-driven businesses.

A cancer survivor, single mom, and former corporate professional, I know firsthand the challenges of building a business under pressure. I scaled my business to six figures while recovering from cancer and breastfeeding my baby, then grew it to seven figures while navigating a divorce.

I’ve traveled to over 50 countries, lived in Australia for 10 years, and turned my hardships into a powerful mission—helping women worldwide achieve financial freedom and purpose-driven success.

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Featured Post: Reaching for Forever by Tara Eldana

Featured Post: Reaching for Forever by Tara Eldana

I am a recently retired, multi-award-winning staff writer for a weekly community newspaper chain in metro Detroit. I became hooked on romance fiction when my 11th-grade English teacher rejected my book report, saying the book was much too easy for me, and insisted I read and report on Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca.

After some life-changing health issues, and covering over a dozen murder and criminal sexual conduct trials, I decided to write the kind of stories I like to read, stories with happy endings.

I love the romance genre and love letting my characters take control of their stories. I write under the pen name of Tara Eldana.

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Featured Post: In still waters by Natalie Shpet

Featured Post: In still waters by Natalie Shpet

The author says:

“This book is not just a thriller – it is something more that makes us think about the actions and essence of the person himself! that one is truly not born a murderer, but one who becomes one.”

She continues ‘In my youth, I wrote scripts for school plays, and my literature teacher said that I had immense talent and should write my own book. To be honest, I took it as a joke and nothing more. However, in 2023, when my husband and I watched films (I won’t reveal the titles; I want readers to piece together this puzzle over time), I can only say that Jonathan Rhys Meyers starred in one of the films, while Jake Gyllenhaal starred in the other. That’s why I dedicated my book “In Still Waters” to them! Thanks to Jake, my character Toby Clark was born, and thanks to Jonathan, Milosh Dobrev came to life.’

About the author:

Natalie Shpet was born and raised in Moscow, now lives in the suburbs in a house with her large family. Natalie and her husband have four children. The writer has two higher educations: psychologist and manager. During her school years, Natalie wrote scripts for plays and therefore her school literature teacher said that she had enormous talent, and she needed to write books! In 2023, Natalie began writing her first novel, In Still Waters.

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Featured Post: The Price of a Future by Jackie Ross Flaum

Featured Post: The Price of a Future by Jackie Ross Flaum

A hint of romance, a fight worth risking everything for, and a pair of engaging leading characters–—that’s the kind of book I like to read so that’s the kind I write.
When I’m not writing, I am a water aerobics enthusiast, amateur jewelry maker, struggling bridge player, and devoted grandmother.I grew up in Kentucky, went to college at the University of Georgia where I had way too much fun, and graduated from the University of Kentucky. After college, I worked for the Associated Press then became a reporter for “The Hartford Courant” in Connecticut. My two daughters were born there. My newspaperman husband got a job in Memphis and we moved there. I became a freelance speechwriter, publicist, and marketing person for major local companies, but my favorite gigs were with the Memphis City Schools and the Memphis Symphony Orchestra. I retired, and began doing what I’d wanted to do since sixth grade: write fiction.
I wrote short stories that appeared in such anthologies as “Now There Was a Story”, “Low Down Dirty Vote II and III”, “Mayhem in Memphis,” and “Mystery, Crime, and Mayhem”. Since I liked short stories, I tried my hand at a longer form and wrote a novella of love and murder, “The Yellow Fever Revenge.” What I really wanted to write a novel, and so was born the civil rights era suspense/thriller series, Sterling Brothers Ltd. So far the series includes “Justice Tomorrow,” “The Price of a Future,” and coming soon, “Wigs, Mustaches, and Other Disguises”.
Since every writer needs a support group, I am the immediate president of Malice in Memphis a Killer Writing Group.

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Featured Post: Year of Reckoning, Emergence by Barbara Gilbert

Featured Post: Year of Reckoning, Emergence by Barbara Gilbert

Barbara Gilbert was born in Ft. Jackson, SC.
After graduating high school in 1985 she entered the United States Air Force, serving seven years as a SSgt in two separate career fields before being medically retired.
While running a family computer business she completed a double major and received her bachelor’s degree in business management and computer information systems. Later she was offered a teaching position at a Charter High School.
There she taught English, Computer Applications, Computer Repair, Consumer Math, Physics, and Earth Science. In the Public-School System, she taught Computer Applications, Web Design, E-Commerce, and Principle of Business. She was also the Technology Coordinator for the school.
Moving back to her spiritual home in Montana she again taught Earth Science and Computer Applications (MAC), until a second medical disability ended her teaching career.
Her hobbies include photography, painting, Ham Radio, SCUBA Diving, and a host of other interests that keep her busy on good days, and she manages to get by on the bad ones.
Writing got started with a NaNoWriMo challenge to her sons.
She published her first book “Future Apocalypse, Beginnings–A Time Travel Series” in May 2019 and republished a 2nd edition with additional information in 2022. She published the second and third installments in the series in May and November 2020, “Future Apocalypse, Journey to the City of Technology & Homeward Bound.”

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