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Successful essayist, columnist, writing instructor, and editor Estelle Erasmus will show you how to find your voice, write stellar pieces, and get published. In real-world, experience-based chapters, she coaches you to:
- mine your life for ideas and incubate those ideas
- choose the perfect format — essay, op-ed, feature article, and more
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- craft a perfect pitch
- protect your psyche from rejection
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THE CHICKS ARE BACK! CELEBRATING FEARLESS AND FEARSOME FEMALES WITH ALL-NEW STORIES.
Featuring all-new stories inspired by the classic Chicks in Chainmail series!
A boy and his dog. A girl and her tank. Tropes have been with us throughout all of history. Any girl would gladly trade in her skimpy armor for a tank. While a little bit of chainmail can take a chick far, heavy armor can take one even farther.
Besides, what's not to love about chicks in tank tops? From pure near-future military science fiction to Pride and Prejudice with zombies, AI tanks, and true love!
All-new stories by: Sharon Lee & Steve Miller, David Drake, Jody Lynn Nye, Kevin Ikenberry, Esther Friesner, Joelle Presby, Robert E. Hampson, A. C. Haskins, Lydia Sherrer & David Sherrer, G. Scott Huggins, Philip Wohlrab, Marisa Wolf, and Jason Cordova & Ashley Prior.
A season of change has blessed the Amish of Missouri's Promise Lodge, as mothers-to-be anticipate the arrival of their little miracles and one young man's life is about to take an unexpected turn as he sheds his bad boy reputation and embraces the value of faith and hard work.
Long-time residents of Promise Lodge welcome a wave of newcomers that includes a pretty potter who's come to help an expectant couple, and a hard-working dairy expert ready to manage the herds on the expanding Burkholder farm. Then there's Isaac Chupp, the handsome, charming son of a notoriously unyielding Bishop from nearby Coldstream. Isaac has recklessly rebelled against his dat, and his bad boy reputation precedes him. Now he seeks a fresh start, applying for work at Dale Kraybill's bulk store.
Proving himself reliable while Dale takes off for his wedding trip is Isaac's bold first step. But more miraculous awakenings may come as he settles into the warm new light of the faithful community. And while Promise Lodge celebrates an abundance of newborns as summer turns to fall, Isaac discovers a kindred soul who has her own share of challenges. In helping her, he just may find his true purpose in loving selflessly, building up, and giving back . . .
Great leaders know that cultivating people and teams is the key to sustained results, and in this book, Jan Salisbury equips leaders with the know-how and best practices of professional coaches to lead others through the coach approach. You will hear stories based on 12 years of developing leaders using the Leaders Who Coach model. After each chapter there are action steps you can use to give you a place to begin or continue your coaching practice within your own organization.
It’s hard today to remember how recently cancer was a silent killer, a dreaded disease about which people rarely spoke in public. In hospitals and doctors’ offices, conversations about malignancy were hushed and hope was limited. In this deeply researched book, Elaine Schattner reveals a sea change—from before 1900 to the present day—in how ordinary people talk about cancer. From Whispers to Shouts examines public perception of cancer through stories in newspapers and magazines, social media, and popular culture. It probes the evolving relationship between journalists and medical specialists and illuminates the role of women and charities that distributed medical information. Schattner traces the origins of patient advocacy and activism from the 1920s onward, highlighting how, while doctors have lost control of messages about cancer, survivors have gained visibility and voice. The book’s final section lays out provocative questions facing the cancer community today—including distrust of oncologists, concerns over financial burdens, and disparities in cancer treatments and care. Schattner considers how patients and their loved ones struggle to make decisions amid conflicting information and opinions. She explores the ramifications of so much openness, good and bad, and asks an important question: Has awareness backfired? Instead, Schattner contends, we need greater understanding of cancer’s treatability.
Maine is in prison for a crime she didn't commit.
For once, the prisoner's cry of 'innocence' is true. She didn't do anything wrong.
Being there of her own free will doesn't change the fact that she's locked up in a mythical prison, surrounded by the worst of the worst.
Disguised as an oni demon, Maine hopes to find the key to Chaos's realm.
That key could be Earth's last chance of survival, and it's being held by the creature who killed her father.
Turns out mythical prisons are just as gang-ridden as human ones. Except here, people don't use a shiv. They use a fireball.
Can Maine survive prison politics and terrible food long enough to find the key? Or will she be metaphorically stabbed in the back in the form of a disintegration spell?
Death isn't final. But it should be . . .
When Maine took up her troll father's mantle, she thought he was dead.
She was right. Sort of . . .
Finding out that an aspect of him went to another world comes as a surprise.
Maine has to get over her shock because he's been fighting a secret war for decades and he needs her help.
Now she must traverse the fabric of reality and join her father's fight to stop the forces of Chaos before they destroy not only her world, but all known worlds.
Can Maine, Sage, and the Noff come out on top in the fight for all living beings everywhere?
Defeating the world-ending demon was only the beginning. Now Maine must wrestle with the very fabric of reality.
Maine defeated the Corrupter, saved the world, and is dating the man of her dreams. Things should be smooth sailing from now on. She deserves a boring, normal-ish life, doesn't she?
Fate has other ideas in mind. The defeat of the Corrupter left a power void that needs to be filled.
A strange mist surrounds Rainwater. Most dismiss it as a weird weather phenomenon, but creatures who enter the mists don't leave the same.
Maine has no choice but to figure out why the returned are enhanced as she fights powered-up mythical creatures and a Baba Yaga cabin with giant T-Rex legs.
As if that wasn't enough, Maine discovers that the mist has been sent by Chaos himself. What's that phrase about the hardest battles being reserved for the strongest warriors?
Maine, Noff, Sage, and their allies must stand up and fight once again. The danger posed by Chaos isn't a threat to bring about the end of days . . . It's threatening the end of all existence.
Win the war, or watch everyone she cares for die.
When Maine took on her father's mantle, her intention was to protect a single village. No one said anything about every living being on the planet.
The Demon has built a mythical stronghold in Rainwater and is gunning for the Nexus-the center of all magic on Earth.
He'll have to go through Maine and her celestial army first, but he wouldn't have it any other way.
Facing insurmountable odds, Maine has gathered every last mythical creature willing to stop the Demons.
She knows that it's not enough. Not even close.
Can Maine stop an evil so powerful that even the Devil bows to it? Or will all life on Earth end here?
Maine cast a good luck spell to save the love of her life from prison, but at what cost?
Magic is controlled by chaos, and with every instance of magically-enhanced good luck comes some corresponding bad luck. Sage is free, but so is the Demon who created the Mantle.
The Demon has escaped from his celestial prison. He is gathering his minions and is gunning for the Mantle.
But the Mantle isn't the only weapon the Demon wants. There are other, more powerful items around . . . and none more so than Father Time's Clock.
A device that gives its wielder the ability to control the rivers of time? Maine is royally screwed.
Maine, the Noff, and their allies have to stop the Demon from ushering in the apocalypse. But time is literally against her.
Will Maine have what it takes to stop a Demon so powerful that even the forces of Heaven couldn't contain him forever? Or is the beginning of the end for the legacy passed down from her father to her?
Can Death die?
Someone is trying to kill Death. As in the Grim Reaper, San La Muerte, King Yama, Maveth, Death. Yeah, that guy.
But if Death dies, who takes his place? That is the eternal question. Maine is hoping to avoid finding out the answer.
She and Noff have taken on the harbinger of souls as their client, vowing to protect him as he competes in The Conjuring-the high stakes card game played by supernatural beings.
Death is the reigning champion, and he has everything to lose.
Participating in the event requires him to be vulnerable, and someone is gunning for him. Who is anyone's guess. But when you are the literal end to everyone and everything, you tend to rack up the enemies.
Can Maine and Noff save Death from dying? Death, mythical creatures, and card-games . . . It's going to be one hell of a con.
