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Ready to build a picture book? First, you’ll need the right tools. Listen to this title in the Writer’s Toolbox series and discover plenty of tips and tools to get you started. Soon you’ll be writing and showing stories like a pro!

If words describe a feeling or some words rhyme, you're listening to a poem. How else do you know? Quick, fun examples help you understand the beauty of poetry.

As a species, we have an extraordinary ability to create works of art that elevate, expand and transform what it means to be human. The novels of Henry James can communicate the inner world of one human being to another. The music of Wagner or Schubert takes us on an emotional roller-coaster ride as we give ourselves up to their sublime sounds. These are the expressions of what Marcus du Sautoy calls ‘the creativity code’.

In Plotting a Fantasy Novel, you’ll discover how to create a novel outline in five easy steps. Fantasies are our secret escape to utopia. And with the right tools and techniques, you can create many more escape gateways by writing compelling fantasy novels…novels your readers will be itching to get their hands on. If you dream of seeing your name among the masters of storytelling, it’s time to learn the secrets.

Introducing "Social Media Influencer: The Ultimate Guide to Building a Profitable Social Media Influencer Career" - your indispensable blueprint designed to navigate the intricacies of the social media landscape effectively. This guide is enriched with strategies endorsed by industry experts, beneficial for both novices and veterans in the influencer domain, aiming to guide you through the competitive social media environment.

In my book How to Start Run and Grow a Truly Passive Rental Property Business, I will teach you how to make money by investing in rental real estate as a landlord entrepreneur. If you’re considering using real estate investing to obtain financial freedom, build wealth, or contribute to your retirement, this book is for you.

Monetization—the word has got a new meaning today. In these difficult times, people are trying to monetize just about anything and everything. Some are hitting the jackpot, achieving multiple monetization streams on a single product they have. While others are just wasting away, not quite able to come to grips with the concept of monetization. Here is an audiobook that tells you how you go about monetizing things. How you can add to your income by putting in minimal effort, and ensuring that that income keeps on flowing into your bank account.

No matter how exciting the plot, it's the people in a story who make it memorable. The techniques and examples in Creating Romantic Characters will help you produce provocative, exciting, forceful characters with dynamic stories. Whether you're writing romance novels, stories which include romantic relationships, or general fiction, this book will help you create charactes who are romantic and heroic, adventurous and mysterious - larger than life.

Behind every acclaimed work of literature is a trove of heartfelt decisions. The best authors put painstaking - sometimes obsessive - effort into each element of their stories, from plot and character development to dialogue and point of view. Veteran editor and teacher Richard Cohen draws on his vast reservoir of a lifetime's reading and his insight into what makes good prose soar.

Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself by Dr. Joe Dispenza is a guide on how to move toward our real potential. He shows us how mind and matter are related, and gives us the tools that we can apply not only to the body, but to any aspect of life.

McEwen espouses the pleasure to be found in slowing down, both for the ease and comfort of the thing itself (taking time to go for a walk, to write down one's dreams, to read, to talk, to pray), and for its impact on creativity. There are chapters on walking, talking, drawing, dreaming, on "making space", on pausing/praying, on telling stories. World Enough and Time is aimed at the educated general listener, could be used as a creative primer, and will be of interest to creative-writing students and artists in every genre.

Discover how to cultivate inner strength, develop a growth mindset, navigate life's challenges with resilience, and build positive relationships. Learn how self-discipline shapes your career, education, finances, and well-being, fostering personal growth in every aspect of life. Embark on an empowering journey towards personal excellence with “The Power of Self-Discipline" by Purnima Banerjee. This insightful guide is your roadmap to unlocking your potential, embracing self-mastery, and achieving lasting success. Are you in control of your choices, or do distractions often dictate your ...

Imagine what life would look like if you had the secret key to unlock the door to the 1 trillion US dollar e-learning industry and build a reputation for yourself as a 6-7 figure online educator - working from home and living life on your own terms? If you’re looking for a flexible, profitable, and lucrative online business opportunity, look no further! Starting an online tutoring business can be incredibly rewarding and fulfilling, both personally and financially.

Eating Cheesecake Together. Get your copy of the best and most unique Cheesecake recipes from BookSumo Press! Come take a journey with us into the delights of easy cooking. The point of this cookbook and all our cookbooks is to exemplify the effortless nature of cooking simply. In this book we focus on Cheesecake. Different Kinds of Cheesecake is a complete set of simple but very unique Cheesecake recipes. You will find that even though the recipes are simple, the tastes are quite amazing. Besides recipes you will learn about the following: Introduction to Cheesecake Understanding Basics ...

When Sue Monk Kidd was in high school, a home economics teacher wrote a list of potential occupations for women on the blackboard: teacher, nurse, librarian, secretary. “Writer” was nowhere to be found. On that day, Kidd shut the door on her writerly aspirations and would not revisit the topic until many years later when she announced to her husband and two children that she was going to become a writer. And so began her journey into the mysteries and methods of the writerly life.

Growing cannabis is a fun and rewarding experience, but it is also challenging and takes a certain amount of time and money. For a first-time grower with limited resources, an indoor garden is probably too costly of an option. This audiobook will help you get started with growing marijuana. Cultivating and growing plants is an enjoyable and rewarding pastime, so remember, spend lots of time with your plants, and have fun.

Burnout is among the most critical topics in healthcare as it deprives us of our most important resource - the talents and passion of those who perform the difficult work of caring for patients and their families. The purpose of this work is to provide not only a taxonomy of burnout within the landscape of healthcare, but also to provide pathways for healthcare professionals to guide themselves and their organizations toward changing the culture and systems of their organization.

Artificial intelligence is shaping our world in fascinating ways, from digital assistants to self-driving cars. But AI can seem complex and intimidating. This fun and engaging book unravels the mysteries of AI for pre-teens and teens ages 10-19 in an accessible way. In ‘AI for Smart Pre-Teens and Teens Ages 10-19’, you will learn all about the building blocks of AI, including machine learning, deep learning and neural networks. The book covers the history of AI from early computational systems up through the cutting-edge innovations powering the future. You will discover how AI already ...

Give your English students a choice and a voice! How can we make each lesson different and engaging? How about letting our English student co-create their assignments! This new collection of reproducible 'Search and Share' activities and worksheets for English teachers gives your students a choice and a voice. Each one-page lesson encourages curiosity, deepens research skills, expands word knowledge, and sparks student discussions. How? We ask our English students to find contemporary sources, summarize information, evaluate evidence, and reflect on their relevant experiences with a ...

For 14 years, five-time Edgar winner and MWA grandmaster Lawrence Block wrote a monthly column on fiction for Writers Digest magazine. These columns yielded four books regarded as classics: Telling Lies for Fun & Profit, Spider Spin Me a Web, The Liar's Bible, and now, The Liar's Companion. Listen to The Liar's Companion and gain inspiration to create outstanding fiction.