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Showing posts with label creative writing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label creative writing. Show all posts

Monday, February 17, 2020

I Heard You Wanted to Write a Book

HOLD UP! I HEARD YOU WANTED TO WRITE A BOOK
ANNOUNCING… STORYTELLERS ACADEMY!!!
Storytellers Academy, is launching March 23, 2020 and is an online course designed to teach you how to SELF-PUBLISH your NONFICTION book.
ASPIRING AUTHORS…. GRAB YOUR FREE eBook!! 
Hi, I’m Paulette Harper
Known as the Author’s coach, I’ve committed my life to helping women who have experienced emotional trauma. I teach them how to change the narrative and turn those painful experiences into impactful transformational stories. 
As an author, my book, That Was Then, This Is Now: This Broken Vessel Restored, achieved national recognition, becoming a finalist in the 2009 Next Generation Indie Book Award. My second book, Completely Whole, was the 2011 recipient of the prestigious Readers Favorite Award. 
In 2017, I also received national acclaim for my book, Secret Places Revealed, winning the Emma Award for Best Inspirational/Spiritual Romance.
I’ve been coaching authors for over eight years and now…… I’m excited to offer our online course:
“How to Write, Publish and Market Your Nonfiction Book inside Storytellers Academy. 
If this applies to you… keep reading!! 
This eBook is only a sample of what to expect inside the course!
ASPIRING AUTHORS it can be yours for FREE! 
I’ve coached nonfiction authors do this process and achieve this goal: 
BECOME A PUBLISHED AUTHOR…. but you must 
  • Be willing to implement the program and do the work 
  • Be willing to financially invest in the course and yourself 
  • Be willing to put in the time to get it done
  
Here are a few things you’ll learn inside this FREE eBook:
STEPS to Mapping out your Story
TIPS for Marketing your Published Book
HOW To decide on a Topic for your Book
 THIS COURSE FOR?
This course is for: those who want to write inspirational, self-help, memoirs, technical, how-to books and transformational stories.  
This course is ideal for: coaches, aspiring authors, women entrepreneurs, divorcees, married, singles with kids, healers, ministers, ex pastor wives and those who have lessons they want to package in a book. 
Download here
Join our FB group where you’ll find tips and tools to help you get a jump ahead!! https://www.facebook.com/groups/storyacademy1/
For those of you who prefer my premium one on one coaching, I’m accepting clients. Schedule a “FREE” Write to Publish discovery call here: https://Letschatcoachpaulette.as.me
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Monday, March 31, 2014

Doctor How and the Illegal Aliens


Doctor How and the Illegal Aliens

by Mark Speed


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BLURB:


Doctor How’s famous megalomaniac brother Doctor Who sold his fictional life story to the BBC half a century ago, painting himself as a lone hero. Disillusioned, their four cousins dropped out. For fifty years, Doctor How has held the line against the forces of darkness and stupidity. And he’s not that happy, since you ask.


Illegal aliens try to hack How’s Spectrel (TARDIS is a very rude word where he comes from), just as he suspects his estranged cousin Where has been compromised. When reports come in of mysterious attacks by alien creatures, Doctor How has to rely on his new companion Kevin, a petty criminal from south London, and Trinity, a morphing super-predator, as he counters this threat to humanity’s existence. Bungling agents from MI16, long desperate to capture the Time Keeper’s technology, hamper How’s efforts to combat the alien menace. Can Doctor How keep ahead of MI16, save Where and combat the alien threat?
EXCERPT:
“So is that your –”
“No it’s not my TARDIS, Kevin!” hissed Doctor How. “That’s a misnomer.”
“A?”
“A misnomer.” Kevin looked at him blankly. “It means wrong name. It’s a misnomer put out by the BBC. TARDIS is actually a very rude word in my native language and nearly one in yours if you changed the ‘a’ for a ‘u’. A certain someone who will remain nameless thought it would be terribly amusing. According to the BBC, TARDIS is supposed to mean Time And Relative Dimension In Space.” The Doctor was now ranting wildly. “Can you believe the sheer gall of these people? Like they actually know, like they understand how the physics works?” The Doctor glared at Kevin, who shook his head.
“Let me tell you what it’s like. It’s like a troop of monkeys – and I mean monkeys, like baboons; not chimpanzees, not even apes – coming up to your very sophisticated saloon car with individual climate-control for each passenger, and a hi-fi system that would fool a bat. As you drive your state-of-the-art car through a safari park this troop of purple-bottomed baboons comes up to your car and calls it “Oog”. And then – and then – then they have the cheek to first of all capitalise the entire thing, so it’s not Tardis, it’s T-A-R-D-I-S, just to spell out the first letters of exactly what these monkeys think the physics is that they can’t even begin to comprehend. And after that they march down to another baboon who calls himself a lawyer and they register it as a trademark. So if I wanted to write my own biography, my autobiography, and I wanted the boneheaded human reader to understand the concept by way of using the word TARDIS, some baboon with a Technicolor™ bottom specialising in intellectual property law could demand money with menaces through the good courts of baboon society. And this,” spluttered the Doctor, “And all this after I saved your – forgive my crude colloquialism here – after I have saved your sorry collective Technicolor™ asses on more occasions than I can care to remember.”
Silence hung in the air. The Doctor was breathing deeply.
“You has got issues, innit?” said Kevin


AUTHOR Bio and Links:
Mark Speed has been writing novels since he was fifteen. His comedy writing has appeared in newspapers as diverse as the London Evening Standard and The Sun, and been broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Extra. He performed his solo comedy, The End of the World Show, at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2011 and 2012. He is currently working on the five-volume Doctor How series.
Amongst other postgraduate and professional qualifications, he has a Master’s degree in Creative Writing from City University, London. In 1995 a chiropractor told him he’d never run again. Sensibly, he gave up chiropractors, runs every day and has completed several marathons and a couple of Olympic-length triathlons.
NLP founder Dr Richard Bandler called him a ‘polarity responder’.
Links:
http://www.doctorhow.tv/
https://www.facebook.com/DoctorHow.tv
https://www.goodreads.com/MarkSpeed
One randomly chosen commenter will win a $50 Amazon/BN.com gift card, so be sure to follow Mark's tour and comment often. You can find his schedule at http://goddessfishpromotions.blogspot.com/2014/02/virtual-book-tour-dr-how-and-illegal.html