Mid Rift
A Novel
Rebecca Rosenblat
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Join Jillian Briggs and her offbeat friends as they try to reinvent themselves! You’ll love getting to know (L-R below): Jillian’s husband Jeremy, who treats sex like a medical procedure; Darla the mysterious lesbian lawyer; Alison the gorgeous accountant who’s sworn off sex; Darla’s ex Dan, who helps the girls decipher man-speak; Cyn, the free-spirited sex therapist; Randy the gay fashionista; and, Jillian herself, who enjoys stretching out with her friends’ support. This group will have you laughing at life, while drawing you deep into their secrets, insecurities and triumphs. For anyone who’s feared hitting an age milestone, this hilarious story will walk you through any situation, with more understanding than you’d get from your best friend or therapist! Up for some insightful fun? Here’s your invitation to join the party! |
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Author: Rebecca Rosenblat Softcover ISBN 9781988058528 List: $14.95 US Hardcover ISBN: 9781988058535 List: $34.95 US Fiction: Novel Publisher/Imprint: Manor House Pages: 272 / 5x8” / Standard trade terms US/Canada/UK/World: Ingram (Other distributors also source/supply/sell this title)
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About the Author:
Rebecca Rosenblat, Registered Psychotherapist, Certified Sex Addiction Therapist, and Couple’s Counselor, has hosted various TV and Radio shows, where she’s given over a thousand hours of guidance to millions of people worldwide. Rebecca is also the best-selling author of eight books – An Eastern Seduction; Smooth as Silk; Broken Promises; How to Drive Your Lover Wild with Pleasure; Seducing your Man – the honeymoon was just the beginning; Sexual Power, Overcoming betrayal; and now, Mid Rift. Rebecca lives in Toronto with her family, where she runs her private practice, is an associate at a clinic, and does various forms of teaching, transforming thousands of lives. Her passion is to help people become the best they can be; and have the best relationships possible!
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Mystery of Hedgehog Hill
Adventures in Shroomville
Ron Dennis
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The Mystery of Hedgehog Hill, a Children-Young Adults novel, has earned many accolades and is honoured to be chosen by educators as an important featured part of the national Newspapers in Education program. (it was serialized by The Hamilton Spectator, other newspapers, throughout the fall).
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Title: Adventures in Shroomville Softcover ISBN 978-1-897453-32-2 $12.95 US/ $14.95 CDN
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About the Author/ Mystery of Hedgehog Hill Shroomville had been a happy little village, tucked away deep in a vast boreal forest whose bristling green canopy stretched beyond forever… Oh, one little detail makes this village stand out. You see, these villagers are tiny… about as tall as a typical adult’s size-nine shoe. And they live peacefully and happily in mushroom houses. Large, living mushroom houses… For Marshall Shroom, growing up here had been happiness itself - until his 13th year that is! Responding to a telepathic cry for help, Mars sets out on a quest to rescue his father and his best friend Portia from the clutches of the evil Maliset. With emerging new powers and the help of strange new friends, will Marshall succeed in his mission in time?
Ron Dennis was once young himself and has never fully recovered from that experience. Writing remarkably enjoyable books for children and young adults is his own form of therapy. The Hamilton Spectator serialized chapters from the book twice-weekly throughout the fall as one of the major newspapers participating in the highly praised national Newspapers in Education program fostering strong reading habits in young folk – a wonderful, gentle, fun adventure story.
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Break Up, Make Up or Shake Up
Redefining Relationships in Retirement, Isolation & Crisis
Cathalynn Labonté-Smith
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Are you in a difficult, unfulfilling relationship and you don’t know where to go from here? If so, you have three basic choices, outlined in detail in Cathalynn Labonté-Smith’s helpful, insightful new book Break Up, Make Up or Shake Up.
If your best choice is to break up, this book contains a wealth of information on all of the legalities, options and approaches available – in Canada, the US, the UK, Australia and New Zealand– along with planning advice, examination of needed documents and insightful case histories, tips on dealing with violence, and much more.
Or, are you ready to reconcile and make up? If so, you’ll also find some great advice on how to best go about making up and restoring your relationship, including better communication and the steps needed for successful results.
Perhaps, what you really need is a good shake up - a redefining of your relationship under new terms and conditions that are a departure from the past – terms that are fair and considerate to you both via mutual agreement. |
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“You’ll find terrific advice, illustrative true-life stories, key information, clear-cut approaches – and a good deal more - including tips on coping with all of this during a pandemic! It’s timely advice at any time and it’s all here in the pages of this well-written, remarkably informative book. This is your road map to whichever journey you choose – a highly recommended, informative must-read!” - Michael B. Davie, author, Great Advice
Cathalynn Labonté-Smith grew up in Alberta and moved to Vancouver, BC, to complete her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia (UBC). After graduation, she worked as a freelance journalist until present. She then became a technical writer in wireless communication and other high-tech industries. She went to UBC to complete a Bachelor of Education (Secondary) and taught English, Journalism, and other subjects at Vancouver high. As well, she has a Level I National Coach Certificate in Dragon Boating and Life Coach training. She currently lives in Gibsons and North Vancouver, BC. Blogs: www.wrtecup.wordpress.com and www.breakupmakeupshakeup.wordpress.com, both feature links to resources and other bonus companion materials.
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Creating Your Career
Mastering the Changing Nature of Work, Your Key to a More Successful Life!
Denise O'Brien
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Creating Your Career is an easy-to-read summary of the best advice you’ll ever receive about work. Since we spend almost 1/3 of our adult life at work, learning how to navigate it more easily and with greater levels of satisfaction is time well-spent. This book is packed with stories and advice that the author has gathered over many years and from thousands of conversations with others, at different stages in their work-life journey. Regardless of where you are in your work-life journey, this insightful book has something to offer you. |
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Title: Creating Your Career / Denise O’Brien |
“Creating Your Career will open your eyes to the opportunities and horizons that lie before you.” - Erin Davis, Inspirational Keynote Speaker, Best-selling Author, Professional MC, Writer, Broadcaster, Blogger
“... essential reading for professionals in these turbulent times. Dr. O’Brien shows you how to turbocharge your career by asking... the questions that will make the most difference wherever you are in your own world of work.” - Marilee Adams, Ph.D. bestselling author of Change Your Questions, Change Your Life
“I loved the book! ...personal stories, real life stats... a realistic and practical view of careers and life... a must-read for everyone, regardless of where they are on their work-life journey.” Carmel Perry, Coach Denise O’Brien, PhD, has completed post graduate studies in Adult Education, M.A. (Ed), and Industrial- Organizational Psychology, PhD. She holds the designation of Qualified Mediator (Q.Med), is an Adler Trained Coach (ACC) and was among the first to attain a Queen’s University Masters Certificate in Organization Effectiveness. With a career that has spanned more than 30 years, O’Brien has investigated, assessed, diagnosed, designed and facilitated workplace interventions generating win-win results.
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Beneath the Asylum
Jordan Grupe
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This asylum is full of secrets. Some worse than others...
A security guard in an infamous old mental hospital finds something unusual during his routine patrol of the basement tunnels: The sounds of a small girl crying.
The crying sounds are coming from behind a padlocked door in an abandoned section of the hospital, and he moves in to investigate. Unfortunately for him, this is no ordinary girl. What ensues is a story of mystery, intrigue, and suspense. At times horrifying and hilarious, this is a tale of one man’s journey to discover the truth in an asylum where not everything is as it seems, and not everyone is who they say they are...
Inspired by the author's own intriguing experiences as a security guard at a psychiatric hospital, the novel Beneath the Asylum follows a guard’s journey of horrific discoveries on probing a hidden maze of tunnels beneath a decaying old mansion on the site of a mental hospital. |
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Title: Beneath the Asylum / Jordan Grupe
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“Some of the best horror I’ve read since Stephen King’s “Shining”... will have you checking under your bed. Just in case.” - Lucas Whorley, r/nosleep author of After Alice
“Hey there folks it's me Mrcreepypasta. The best part of any good horror story for me is the mystery... delivers on that amazingly well. Every chapter adds more and more to the growing tension and results in a terrifying and incredible read.” - Mrcreepypasta, host of Youtube show with 1.5 million followers
“A terrifying, gripping tale full of unexpected twists and turns from Jordan Grupe, a master story-teller with first-hand experience working at a psychiatric hospital and exploring its known-to-be-haunted decaying old mansion” - Michael B. Davie, author, The Late Man
Jordan Grupe is a Hamilton, Ontario-based author and artist, whose writings are often shared with a vast audience in the hundreds of thousands via the websites Reddit.com (under profile Jgrupe) and YouTube as well as author website: JordanGrupe.com. The author and his works are also featured on an array of other websites, including amazon.com; various books retailers and publisher website, manor-house-publishing.com.
Beneath the Asylum is his first novel. Although it’s a work of fiction, it draws its inspiration from the author’s own experience as a security guard at a psychiatric hospital with a dilapidated, and reportedly haunted, old mansion on its grounds. |
First Person Singular Vol. 2
85 Very Short Stories of Wit & Wisdom
Ross Ulysses Munroe
When I was 18, I went to my friend Jocko’s Century cottage on an island in the Kawartha Lakes for a weekend getaway with buddies.
The majesty of Nature abounded, and I had an epiphany sitting on the dock with the lake all around. The wind had riffled the water with a thousand dancing maidens, glistening in the waning sun.
Looking closer, a scene began to develop in every wavelet, each individually telling its own story and together, forming a grand tapestry of a unified whole. Such is the manner in which my life has played out since. And this experience has set the tone for the pages that follow, both the sublime and the mundane.
- Ross Ulysses Munroe
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Title: First Person Singular Vol. 2 Available for purchase-order Available from Ingram (and other distributors) |
Great short stories! Ross is one of the best around!’ -Mitch Gold ‘I love the stories, Ross, and they’re beautifully written!’ -Fern Levitt ‘Delightful, masterful storytelling!’ -Karim Mirshahi ‘Beautiful work!’ -Maria Ricossa ‘Very visual writing...’ -Tom Fiore ‘I love this... Thanks for the journey, Ross!’ -Kenneth John McGregor Ross Ulysses Munroe is an award-winning creative talent, having served as Executive Editor and writer of a number of periodicals with his wife Virginia, a children's book, various screenplays and short stories and more. He also produces and directs story-driven jazz videos and has received special recognition at the acclaimed NXNE Film Festival. Ross is known for his humour and incisive perspective on the human condition. Ross' latest work is showcased in Volume 2 of his series, First Person Singular — a collection of short stories, essays and insights certain to provoke and entertain. From the sordid to the sublime, Ross' writing is primarily drawn from his personal experience, in a delightful and unconventional mix of irony and pathos. |
Snowman
R.J. Keeler
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The poems in Snowman are full of intelligence, humor, and craft. I found myself through Keeler’s love of language and ability to capture broad experiences – from the scientific to the political to the personal – moved one minute and laughing out loud the next. A book like no other, brimful of uniqueness and surprise. - Yvonne Higgins Leach, poet-author of Another Autumn
Snowman presents a remarkable collection of intriguing and thought-provoking poetry from R. J. Keeler -Michael B. Davie, author, Hammertown |
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Title: Snowman |
R. J. Keeler began writing in 1970 under the direction of Guy Owen.
Keeler’s second book of poetry Snowman, contains poems from over thirty years of writing. His style ranges from traditional forms (sonnets, villanelles, sestinas) to less formal arrangements, and in content from science to silliness, to love and death.
His writing tends to be distinct from many academic writers, for whom he has a mild distain.
Keeler has been published in over seventy literary journals and has won (or been named a finalist in) several contests and awards.
He is currently completing the set of poems for his third book of poetry.
He currently lives on Vashon Island, Washington. He is a minor Luddite, thus can only be can be contacted by email at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .
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Your Personal Marketing Playbook
The Art of Creating Social Capital On and Offline
Susan Crossman & Paula Hope
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“I have read every author on the topic of referrals to build my expertise. This book is exceptional...I couldn't put it down! It is engaging and you can apply it to your business immediately.” - Victoria Trafton, Referral Expert
“The perfect recipe for personal marketing on steroids! A practical, real-life guide for building a powerful Referral Content Marketing Plan! Paula and Susan have crafted a masterpiece…” - Husam Jandal, Digital Rainmaker
“Paula Hope and Susan Crossman's new book brings together the pieces of a puzzle that eludes most people and it’s the answer you've been seeking.” - James Burchill, Bestselling Author, Coursepreneur™ & Producer |
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Authors: Susan Crossman & Paula Hope Softcover ISBN 9781988058474 List: $14.95 US Hardcover ISBN: 9781988058481 List: $34.95 US Publisher/Imprint: Manor House Non-Fiction: Business / Marketing Pages: 220 / 5x8” / Standard trade terms US/Canada/UK/World: Ingram (Other distributors also source/supply/sell this title)
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About the Authors:
Susan Crossman is an online marketing consultant, who helps her clients develop, manage, and leverage the web-related content they need to grow their business with clarity and authority.
She has an extensive background as a professional writer and marketer, and she is tenaciously focused on helping her clients untangle the often overwhelming task of showing up more powerfully online and leveraging the internet’s vast possibilities for revenue generation. She’s also the best-selling author of Content Marketing Made Easy.
Paula Hope is a sought-after referral marketing consultant, coach, speaker and trainer who helps talented business professionals become happily booked solid through referrals.
Paula has seen first-hand how powerful referrals can be in the corporate world and now, as a consultant focused on assisting professional service providers to exceptional success, she takes great delight in sharing her information with her clients. She is also the author of Stop The Saboteurs.
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Shattered Earth
Approaching Extinction
Dr. Ian Pranttis
"Each chapter is a shard of Broken Glass. Each one leads us closer to the revelation that we can make a difference in the Climate Crisis if we band together and act now. - Windy Lynn Harris
Claudiu Murgan, author: Ian Prattis’s previous books - Failsafe: Saving the Earth From Ourselves; New Planet New World, and Our World is Burning – should be part of our schools’ curriculum. Shattered Earth is no exception... abrasive message... the existing ecological balance is broken and only a sudden halt of destructive actions fuelled by greed and power can dim down the effects. A must-read for all who care about their legacy."
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Author: Dr. Ian Prattis Softcover ISBN 9781988058504 List: $14.95 US Hardcover ISBN:9781988058511 List: $34.95 US Non-Fiction: Climate Publisher: Manor House Pages: 144 / 5x8” / Standard trade terms US/Canada/UK/World: Ingram Fiction: Novel Publisher/Imprint: Manor House (Other distributors also source/supply/sell this title) |
About the Author:Poet, Global Traveler, Founder of Friends for Peace, Guru in India, Zen teacher and Spiritual Warrior for planetary care, peace and social justice, Dr. Ian Prattis presently lives in Ottawa, Canada and encourages people to find their true nature, so that humanity and the planet may be renewed. He mostly stays local to help turn the tide in his home city so that good things begin to happen spontaneously. Dr. Ian Prattis is Professor Emeritus at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. He is an award winning author of seventeen books. Recent awards include Gold for Redemption at the 2015 Florida Book Festival, 2015 Quill Award from Focus on Women Magazine for Trailing Sky Six Feathers and Silver for Environment from the 2014 Living Now Literary Awards for Failsafe; Saving the Earth From Ourselves. Audience:
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First Person Singular
84 Very Short Stories of Wit & Wisdom
Ross Ulysses Munroe
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There are the little events in life. And there are the significant events in life. Individually, they all seem to have their place. But what happens when we take them together as one?
A unified picture begins to emerge, much like an impressionist painting, a mandala, a lenticular image, an autostereogram, yielding up an underlying theme that sews one's experiences into a deeper narrative, rendering a profile of the myths we are living out.
It is the Rorschach analysis of our souls. And it has no name. |
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Title: First Person Singular – A novel Author: Ross Ulysses Munroe Softcover ISBN 9781988058542 List: $14.95 US Hardcover ISBN: 9781988058559 List: $34.95 US Fiction: Short Stories Publisher: Manor House Pages: 144 / 5x8” / Standard trade terms US/Canada/UK/World: Ingram (Other distributors also source/supply/sell this title) |
About the Author:
Ross Ulysses Munroe is an award-winning creative talent, having served as Executive Editor and writer of a number of periodicals with his wife Virginia, plus a children's book, various screenplays and short stories and more.
He also produces and directs story-driven jazz videos and has received special recognition at the acclaimed NXNE Film Festival. Ross is known for his humor and incisive perspective on the human condition.
Ross' latest work is showcased in his book First Person Singular, a collection of short stories, essays and insights certain to provoke and entertain. From the sordid to the sublime, Ross' writing is drawn from his personal experience, in a delightful and unconventional mix of irony and pathos.
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The Cancer Conundrum and Ways of Dealing With It
Using Hypnotherapy, Spiritualism and Conventional Treatments to Help You Feel Stronger
Louise Evans
“Cancer taught me to slow down and appreciate what I have. It made it very clear life is a gift and should not be taken for granted. Nearly dying prompted me to fully live. I hope that on reading my book you will explore hypnotherapy and the other treatments that helped me and may help you as well to become mentally and physically stronger and capable of truly enjoying life. You’ll also read the inspiring stories of my fellow cancer patients and perhaps find solace and comfort as they did in embracing unconventional treatments that offer benefits. It’s time to reprioritize our lives, focus on what is truly important to us and enjoy life to the fullest. We are survivors.” - Louise Evans
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ISBN 978-1-988058-43-6 Publisher: Manor House Non-fiction: Autobiography, self-help Author: Louise Evans Format: Trade paperback List: $19.95 CDN Page Count: 144 Trim: 6” by 9” Audience: General audience / Cancer survivors Author resides: New Westminster, BC, Canada Contact: 905-648-2193 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Canada-US-World Distribution: Ingram
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"A great read! As a retired hypnotherapist-counselor I found it an easy-to-follow, interesting read... full of helpful suggestions for anyone with cancer… well presented, insightful, informative" - Emi Kordyback, Hypnotherapist, and former Registered Clinical Counselor
Louise Evans B.A., M.Ed., C.Ht., R.C.C., has worked as a hypnotherapist/counselor in private practice over 20 years (www.louiserevans.com), with offices in Kitsilano and Metrotown, BC. Louise has Canadian and British dual citizenship and has lived in Canada since 1979. Originally from Scotland she graduated with a BA degree and a Teaching Certificate and on arriving in Canada taught sciences at the secondary level for several years. Louise trained with the Canadian Society of Clinical Hypnosis (BC Division). She obtained her Masters in Counseling Psychology at UBC and Master Clinical Hypnotherapist at the Pacific Institute of Advanced Hypnotherapy. She has trained with some of the best teachers in the world and continues to attend workshops and lectures. Hypnotherapy also helps her when presenting in front of large audiences. Louise Evans has been cancer-free since 2015 and lives with her husband in Vancouver. She can be reached at: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Sales / Marketing: Author signings events and book tour TBA. Author has large following via blogs and newsletter and often appears on radio-TV-Internet shows and as speaker at workshops, seminars – book is expected to draw media interest and strong sales. |
Coven of the Soul Sisters
Laverne Stewart
Best-selling author Laverne Stewart (Angels and the Afterlife; Healing After Homicide, Haunted Heart) offers a gripping new read with Coven of the Soul Sisters. Her novel chronicles the plight of those accused of witchcraft and sentenced to death in 1690s New England. Then, this intriguing novel catapults forward into current times where reincarnated victims and persecutors of the past find themselves again grappling with religious beliefs and zealots inflicting suffering on non-believers – and witchcraft to some remains an unforgivable sin punishable by death.
“Eloquent, well written and researched… Stewart draws you in and holds you captive. As you turn the pages you cannot help but hold your breath knowing what may lie ahead. The fictionalized account of one of the darker periods in American history seems more real than dramatized. A stunning achievement. “
- Tracy Riva, Midwest Book Review
“… Coven of the Soul Sisters … was almost a memory of sorts. This could have been one of my past lives. Laverne weaves a story that brings emotions to the surface and makes you feel that you are one of the characters. You just need to keep reading to see what will happen next.” - Patti LeBlanc, Spiritual intuitive.
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“Being of Irish decent and living in Atlantic Canada, I dove into Coven of the Soul Sisters with anticipation of reading a story about my people from afar and the First Nations communities that welcomed us to this beautiful land. Author, Laverne Stewart was clever to keep me wondering the country origin of the Celtic couple that boarded the ship, in the 1600’s, as they fled witch hunts to find peace with relatives in the New England states of America. Curiosity taunted me to the end. We all have our own way to savour a good read. Mine is to never to turn back a page. I believe my first take on my first read is what I need! - Julia Bannister, Director, Ceili Kids of Canada,
About the Author of Coven of the Soul Sisters:
Laverne Stewart, best-selling author of non-fiction titles Angels and the Afterlife, and Healing After Homicide, first turned her hand to fiction with Haunted Heart, an historical romance novel set in past and present periods in her hometown of Fredericton, New Brunswick. With Coven, she further explores the realm of fiction and the supernatural. The critically acclaimed author is also a former award-winning career journalist of 30 years, with major newspapers, radio and CTV television.
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Title: Coven of the Soul Sisters / Laverne Stewart Softcover ISBN 978-1-988058-36-8 / $19.95 CDN Hardcover ISBN 978-1-988058-37-5 / $39.95 CDN Manor House / Rights Agent: Nigel Yorwerth Release: Oct. 15 / 2018 Stats: 288 pages, 6x9” Fiction: Novel / Historical Romance / witchcraft World: Ingram
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Marketing: Book trailer and book, signings, events TV-radio-print media interviews in works, author has large following: Prior book, Angels & The Afterlife, in 2010 was top bestseller in Atlantic Canada, June-October 2010 – and Healing After Homicide sold over 1,000 copies within days of its 2017 release.
Book Launch Event: TBA (likely Fredericton and signings to follow in other centers, such as Toronto) |
Great Advice! Your 7 Keys To A Better Life!
Home Ownership Help / Landing a Good Job or Career / Starting-Running Your Own Business / Building Your Brand with Marketing / Living a Happy, Healthy Lifestyle / Furthering Your Education / Nurturing Your Relationships
Michael B. Davie
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Title: Great Advice! / Author: Michael B. Davie Softcover ISBN: 978-1-988058-32-0 / $24.95 Hardcover ISBN 978-1-988058-33-7 $39.95 Non-Fiction: Business Self-help-advice Manor House: 144 pages (Hardcover = case laminate) World-wide Distribution: Ingram
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“You owe it to yourself to check out Great Advice! For the Times of Your Life! a remarkable new book full of helpful advice on a range of topics, including home ownership, financial planning, starting-running a business, and more – a self-help book that’s packed with easy-to-follow expert advice to help you make the right decisions-choices on the important matters in your life. Read this book and become successful!” - Susan Crossman, author, Passages to Epiphany and Content Marketing Made Easy
"Great advice for every stage in your life, from starting out to starting retirement. The experts quoted in this book also offer tips on home ownership, financial planning, and making the right education choices.
"You'll also find great advice on mending and building relationships - a wealth of information designed to make you happier and more successful in life - I highly recommend Great Advice!" - Rebecca Rosenblat, psychotherapist, speaker, counselor, and author, Overcoming Betrayal
Marketing-Sales-Audience:Book-signing events, TV, radio, print interviews, and social media promotions and events. With strong opening sales, universal appeal and helpful advice, this book appears headed for best-seller status.
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