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Six Word Story Blitz

 

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Stories, Memoirs, Poems and Jokes all written in only six words

 

Six Word Stories, Book 2

Poetry, Short Stories

Release Date: February 18, 2021

Publisher: Hebe Publications

Six Word Story is a collection of stories, jokes, memoirs, and poems, all written in only six words.

Find horror, romance, thriller, hilarity, and tragedy all bundled in a few tiny words.

This collection of micro-fiction gives readers a chance to get an instant dose of story.

Six Word Story by Doug Weller includes the winner of the 2020 Six Word Wonder Contest, with over 1000 stories were entered. As well as publication, the winner receives a $50 prize as the Six Word Wonder 2020.

This is the follow-up book to Six Word Wonder by Doug Weller. Over 500 six word stories to surprise, entertain, and amuse.

@SixWordWonder has over 10,000 followers. You can find out more at dougweller.net

Here are a few six word stories to spark your interest:

– Undertaker paused when he heard tapping

– Today, I remembered I had dementia.

– Slowly completed her father’s bucket list

– Dear diary, he’s outside the door. . .

These stories and many more are played out over ten movements in Six Word Story.

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Six Word Stories, Book 1

 

Release Date: June 18, 2020

Six words to tell a story.

Not three, or eight, or twenty.

You may ask – is six enough?

Well, trust me, six is plenty.”

A collection of over five hundred stories, each one exactly six words long. Some stories are funny, some poetic, some vulgar, and some are a little disturbing. Each story has been lovingly crafted to amuse and entertain you in six words.

Doug Weller’s Six Word Wonder is a social media sensation, with over 10,000 followers on Instagram.

Now, for the first time, Doug brings his best tiny stories together in one collection.

Unlocking the cage, she stepped out.

Cupid. Tomorrow, aim for his head.

Home alone, but toilet just flushed.

Baby loves whining. Mother loves wine.

reader. I’m a very gifted mind…

I poured two glasses… then remembered.

Take a moment out of your hectic schedule to enjoy these Six Word Wonders.

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About The Author


Doug Weller is a writer of psychological thrillers and creator of the Six Word Wonder. His mission is to entertain, educate, and amuse.

His new book, Six Word Story, bring stories, jokes and poetry together. Each written in only six words.

Six Word Wonder is a social media sensation, with over 10,000 followers on Instagram @sixwordwonder

You can find Doug at https://dougweller.net

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Anne Ever After Blitz

 

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Return to Whispering Oaks, Book 1

 

Sweet Contemporary Romance

Date Published: February 15, 2021

From USA Today Bestselling author, Lynne Marshall comes a new sweet contemporary romance series, Return to Whispering Oaks. Anne Ever After is the first book in the series

The runaway returns…

Love is complicated, at least that was Anne Grady’s conclusion after a high school love triangle went terribly, and unpredictably wrong. Shortly after the tragic events, she left Whispering Oaks and heartbreak behind. Now twelve years later, she returns home to take care of her injured parents, and almost immediately runs into her first love, Jack Lightfoot.

Jack hasn’t forgotten his feelings for Anne, long after dating and losing Anne’s best friend. Now faced with her in his life again, even though only temporary, he can’t deny the spark still shimmering between them. Neither can she, but her job in Portland is waiting and her plan is to leave town a soon as possible.

Now, with love even more complicated, and those tragic memories threatening to pull them apart, Jack refuses to let history repeat itself. He must prove they are meant to be more than high school best buddies who once shared an amazing secret kiss. This time, no matter what it takes, Jack is determined to convince Anne the only place they belong is together.

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About The Author

Lynne Marshall


USA Today Bestselling author, Lynne Marshall has been traditionally published with Harlequin and Mills & Boon as a category romance author for fifteen years with thirty-one books. TULE Publishing is where she hit the USA Today list with the second book in the Charity, Montana trilogy, Their Christmas Miracle. She has now gone hybrid, self-publishing ten books. She is a Southern California native, has been married to a New Englander for a long time. She is an adoring grandmother, a woman of faith, a dog lover, a cat admirer, a meandering walker, a curious traveler, and an optimistic participant in this wild journey called life.

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Modern Day Shaman® Find a Deeper Connection to Life

 

Memoir/Personal Development/Spiritual Growth/Shamanism

 

Date Published: 5th January 2021

This very personal and deeply engaging book details the extraordinary spiritual journey of Sarah Ann Negus, the Modern Day Shaman®. It reveals how she allowed her spiritual gifts to shine through, so she can help other people in the world to find theirs. Her first book helps you to master your energy and to ‘see in the dark’, unshackling past conditioning and believing in the realms of infinite possibilities, so you can be the best version of yourself possible, both personally and professionally.

The key messages of her timely book, revealing to the world the true essence of how we are all shaman, is beautifully depicted in the numerous standalone quotations from the author, which add depth and richness to the reader’s experience, as demonstrated below.

Lasting change and personal growth are found

when you commit to all of you; mind, body and spirit.”

“This is not the truth.

It is my truth.

Take what touches your heart and leave the rest.”

Never be afraid of the dark.

Without it there is no light.”

This book is dedicated to you.

May you find your way.”

The author tells her true story of her personal spiritual and shamanic journey warts and all, through a series of exceptionally refreshing visual and engaging stories, accounts and reflections from her lived experience. It is true life, told as it was. She says that her purpose for writing her first book for other people is to:

  • inspire them to look within themselves for answers;
  • offer them the understanding that they are not alone;
  • show them they are powerful in their own right and can change their lives; and
  • offer simple practical tools that will help anyone to explore their own inner world and energy.

Sarah is the Modern Day Shaman®. She works with highly successful entrepreneurs, corporate executives and high-flying start-ups to help them find consistent successful growth in their lives. With 22 years of experience in the field of energy, and a lifetime of entrepreneurial highs and lows, Sarah brings a unique take on business.

She invites her clients to widen their vision, to think differently and shows them how to access their dreams in real-time. What sounds impossible and implausible is not.

Sarah experienced her spiritual awakening over 22 years ago while searching for a more meaningful and impactful way to live her life. She then set out on a 12-year shamanic apprenticeship journey, travelling to Peru and studying with the Shamans of the Amazon forest.

Over the years, Sarah mastered her craft and today she brings the power of ancient shamanism to modern visionaries and leaders, helping them to fully embody their highest potential. Sarah is a Modern Day Shaman®️ Extraordinaire.

Sarah works with highly successful entrepreneurs, corporate executives and high-flying start-ups to help them create consistent success and growth in their lives. With over two decades of experience in the field of energy, and a lifetime of entrepreneurial highs and lows, Sarah brings a unique take on business.

 

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Epilogue 

“Lasting change and personal growth are found when you commit to all of you; mind, body, and spirit.” 

Sarah Ann Negus 

“What is your highest potential?” I asked without expecting any response. 

I stood on the stage. The screen behind me filled with a huge image of me. The caption read, “Sarah Negus, Modern Day Shaman®. Activate Your Highest Potential”. 

This was the opening line of my speech. I looked out onto a sea of faces, all watching me, more than 100 people in the audience, curious, expectant and interested. 

I continued. 

“Can you imagine a little girl? She is sitting alone in the garden in a magic world? 

Can you remember as a child the sense of wonder you had? The focus you felt when playing or drawing or pretending? Can you remember your imaginary friends? This was you, as a child, experiencing an altered state of consciousness connecting with everything you are. 

Perhaps in your adult life you have witnessed a child daydreaming. Completely entranced by the colourful world they are creating as they play. 

That state is a lot harder for us, as adults, to access. Often the experiences of our lives have taught us not to go there and we have forgotten how to access our spiritual intelligence and have hidden it within. 

Let me ask you something further. 

“What would it look like to experience a spiritual life? To live your highest potential.
To access your spiritual intelligence.
I’ll give you a few clues. 

You would have deeper meaning in the things you do. You would possess purpose and confidence and hold full responsibility for yourself.
You would be able to effectively communicate from your truth.
You would know everything is possible.
You would live successfully.
And you would realise your potential in every moment.” The collection of eyes in the audience stared back at me. 

I paused. 

I felt the energy in my body, the heat rising and the tingle of my spine as I channelled the words from my higher self. If I looked into a mirror, I knew I would see my green eyes lighting up with an energy that is noticeably different to my everyday vibration. 

“What if I told you that you already are and you already do?” 

The energy in the room changed, dropping down from a slight busyness as the audience moved around, to quiet stillness. 

I knew this may have been counter intuitive for many people listening. But I continued, spurred on by the goose bumps taking over my skin. 

“Sarah, listen.” 

I did and continued to speak. 

“Let us talk about spirituality in more depth. At one extreme we have a man living in a cave in the Himalayas dressed only in a loin cloth, spending 18 hours a day in meditation. Devoting his life to the search for oneness, a cosmic experience with the divine that merges his energy with the Universe and fills him with bliss. 

I do not see many of you willing to go for this option, although I could be wrong? A few twitters, giggles and eye twinkles showed me they were with me. 

Then we have the other end of the spectrum. A person living as a victim to life, to society, to everything that has ever happened to them with no idea that they have the power to change anything, especially their thoughts and feelings. 

And then, we have you. Somewhere in between, the middle ground. No loin cloths, but an understanding that you hold the power to change. 

You have learned many things. You understand to some variable extent, your emotional self. You are purpose led and you want to make a difference and give back. You have a desire to feel good by doing good. 

Yet, you are searching. You know something in your life – even if other people see you as successful – is missing. 

There is an itch you cannot quite scratch that can be felt in the background of your everyday life. It drives you to strive for more. 

I know. I used to feel overwhelmed without knowing why. I had the recurring thought I was running out of time. Time to do what? I was not sure. I distracted myself with pain, illness, material things and busied myself with mindless over-giving. All the time, I ignored my real purpose, disconnected from my higher self. When I was asked what I really wanted I did not know. I simply wanted more. 

Which brings me to another asked and often unanswered question. 

What is more? 

More stuff, bigger car, bigger house. Maybe a boat, more money, more external success? 

Maybe? 

But when you have those things the itch remains. In the middle of your mind, in your body and floating in your energy. 

Maybe the itch is the motivating force that brought you here. 

You want to know more. You are curious.
You are open. 

You want to find a sense of contentment, of inspiration, of deeply held knowing throughout your whole being of success and of impact. 

Wouldn’t that feel like bliss to wake up and feel like that every day? 

Getting up each day building your legacy, designing your life towards change for the better in our crazy world? 

Now that excites me. And it is exactly what I help create and guide people towards. 

I am the Modern Day Shaman®. I am here to shift your consciousness. To show you everything you need is within. To encourage you to live, think and behave from a place of spiritual intelligence, from your higher mind and from your heart, so you know success in your being. 

The way to spiritual intelligence does not have to be hard. You have not got to have numerous car crashes like me. 

You do not have to experience disease, depression or chronic fatigue to notice that perhaps you are on the wrong track, in the wrong job, or simply ignoring your soul purpose. 

And, you do not have to trek out to Peru to experience Ayahuasca and learn from the indigenous shamans to understand how connected and powerful you are. I did all that for you. 

So, if you are in denial it’s a place in Egypt the Nile. Yeah, joke telling is not my superpower, but facilitating personal growth through spiritual work is! My work marries ancient philosophical teachings and modern mindset work to show you how you can become the fullest expression of you and achieve all you want to in the modern way of being. 

Shamanism is that philosophy. Science can track its origins back 30,000 years both ethnologically and archeologically. It has been around for a while. Its common theme is being connected to the Earth, or Mother Earth as it was named by our ancestors, everything on it and to the wider consciousness of the Universe, which the ancient people called Father Sky. 

Today, I use shamanism as a way to help you gain knowledge of yourself by experiencing all that you are in an altered state. Ayahuasca shows your spiritual truth and will purge you of the things you no longer need. Shamanic journeying does the same. 

I will leave you now with a gift. 

The gift of your breath. 

I find breath fascinating. When we inhale, we create a new shape with ourselves. Try it. 

Inhale. 

When we exhale, we let go of that potential easily, effortlessly, without thinking of it and especially without regret. 

Exhale.
We do not hold on to it and think, I want to keep that breath, I cannot let that breath go because I will never find another one like it. 

We do not think consciously, I will breathe in and be a whole new me, a more fulfilled me, a more open me, a more fabulous me. Although that is what is happening. Each moment you let go of the past, the old, the no longer needed. Each moment you welcome in the new. 

Every moment you change.
This change is inevitable, and it is happening within you. I think that is pretty amazing. 

You are amazing.
A miracle.
You are your highest potential in being you. 

Out of the whole expansion of the Universe, you, imperfectly perfect in your uniqueness have landed here on this beautiful planet. 

Planet Earth in this particular solar system. Exactly the right distance from the sun to sustain life. 

You are a miracle. 

As I finished speaking, I felt my energy filling the room. Had I touched their hearts? I did not know but I had opened mine. I had shared my truth. Not the truth, but the truth coming from my unique life. The truth of knowing my highest potential is now. 

It took a while, but I found my way back to me. 

About the Author

Sarah Ann Negus is a modern-day shaman. She grew up in South London and has spent her life finding out who she really is. Her journey of discovery, in this her first book, takes you from lost to found in the most alternative of ways. Sarah’s experience was not easy, but she believes that coming home to your true self does not have to be a fight or a struggle.

As a child she learned that not everyone saw what she did, and she hid her gifts. Coming back to them as an adult, she slowly remembered her purpose and promised to share them.

Sarah runs a successful mentoring and public speaking business working with entrepreneurs and executives who understand their energy is a powerful driving force for growth, both personally and professionally. She facilitates an altered state of consciousness for her clients which allows them to observe themselves and the world differently as a result. They take actions from a new belief system, which empowers them to achieve what they previously believed was impossible. Her clients typically say; “This has been life-changing”.

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Old Mrs. Kimble’s Mansion Blitz

 

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Suspenseful Drama

 

Date Published January 2021

Publisher: Speaking Volumes

 

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Forty-four-year-old Forrest Alderson isn’t at all sure of his motives for returning from self-imposed exile to Asher Heights, West Virginia, to see his hometown for the first time since he graduated from college. All he knows for certain is it’s something he has to do if he is to find out whether he can break free from the tragedy that compelled him to flee or whether he is forever doomed to be imprisoned by it.

He has spent the intervening twenty-three years in sacrificial preparation, striving obsessively to become enormously wealthy with one exclusive goal: to at long last take possession of Old Mrs. Kimble’s mansion, no matter the cost, and let that magnificent structure he has coveted since he was a poor boy stand as proof to one and all that native son Forrest Walker Alderson has done himself proud.

Or could it be his return is motivated – as his attorney, Olivia Fillmore, fears – by revenge, an evil desire to rub his great wealth and success into the face of the one person who caused him to hermit himself away all those years without a wife, children, or even a close friend?

To have any chance of finding the answers he so desperately needs, Forrest will have to struggle through a challenging new romance, an addiction to a perilous old love, a sensational murder trial, and the inevitable decision about what to do with the rest of his life.

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Wyandotte Bound

 

Adventure, Western

Publisher: Speaking Volumes

Published: January 2020

Bound, like many other strong words, finds its meaning in the perceptions of those it affects. To the Van Sheltons, it is positive and deep-rooted, defining their ties to a vast amount of land abundant in the timber, cattle, and silver that make them the wealthiest and the most powerful family in the town of Wyandotte and influential throughout the state of Nevada.

To J.D. Rohr, who has no money and few prospects, bound is a hopeful force, driving him to Wyandotte, where he assumes the identity of Jesse Bodine in a desperate attempt to live in obscurity, hiding from his reputation as one of the West’s most feared gunfighters.

For Dr. Frederick Albert Carlisle, an aristocratic Boston physician who becomes Jesse’s friend despite their romantic rivalry, bound is a magnetic lure that compels him to abandon his Beacon Hill mansion, his upper-class privileges, and his affluent patients in a quest to give meaning to his life by serving poor westerners sorely in need of his healing knowledge.

As for Honoria Lowell Blaire and Lillian Tomlinson Wellesley, blue-blooded descendants of two of New England’s oldest and most distinguished families, bound represents the chains that will bind them to “a God-forsaken wilderness” if they choose to live with the men they love instead of clinging to their pampered lives among America’s nobility.

And for the incomparably beautiful Jolene Lloyd, being bound is the same as virtual imprisonment when she is coerced into saving her family from financial catastrophe by being shackled to a ruthless, emasculated tyrant driven by hatred and bitterness to take control of Wyandotte and force the mighty Van Sheltons to grovel at his feet.

These and the other men and women of Wyandotte, the good and the bad, battle for a quarter of a century to determine their region’s fate during the fading years of the Western Frontier.

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Media Writer’s Handbook

 

A Guide to Common Writing and Editing Problems

Writing, Editing

Popular with all audiences. The eight chapters in Part 1, “Improving Immediately,” provide opportunities for rapid and dramatic improvement in both writing and speaking skills. The book concludes with Part 4, Quick Reference, equally popular with Part 1 among students, teachers, mass media professionals and reviewers. It gives them more than 1,500 fast-check answers for words frequently confused, words frequently misspelled, irregular verbs, wordiness and trite expressions.

A thorough review. Parts 2 and 3 provide a thorough review of grammar and punctuation, the tools of a communicator’s trade. These 22 chapters are filled with detailed explanations, examples and advice on parts of speech, punctuation, sentence functions and structures, and syntax.

Speed and convenience are enhanced by the comprehensive table of contents and the index.

Free student workbook and an instructor’s manual. Teachers may obtain a workbook for students and an instructor’s manual free upon request. They can be used to supplement writing and editing courses or to provide a complete language skills course.

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One Minute Past Christmas

 

An Appalachian Christmas Short Story

Family Life

Publisher: Regency Solutions

One Minute Past Christmas is the story of a Greenbrier County, West Virginia, family in which a grandfather and his granddaughter share a special ability — they call it a gift — that enables them to briefly witness each year a miraculous gathering in the sky. What they see begins at precisely one minute past Christmas and fills them with as much relief as it does wonder. But they worry that the “gift” — which they cannot reveal to anyone else — will die with them because it has been passed to no other relative for forty-four years.

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About The Author

 

George T. Arnold, Ph.D.

 

 

 

George T. Arnold, Ph.D., is a professor emeritus in the W. Page Pitt School of Journalism and Mass Communications at Marshall University where he taught news and feature writing, language skills, ethics, and media law for 36 years. He worked full-time for seven years as a newspaper reporter to finance bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Marshall, and he has a doctorate in journalism and mass communications from Ohio University.

 

His textbook/resource book, Media Writer’s Handbook, a Guide to Common Writing and Editing Problems, is in its seventh edition and third decade of continuous publication. It has been purchased at more than 300 colleges and universities in the United States and abroad.

Dr. Arnold is the author of more than 50 professional and academic articles and has written a short story, One Minute Past Christmas, and two novels, Wyandotte Bound, and Old Mrs. Kimble’s Mansion.

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Chokecherry Girl Blitz

 

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Young Adult, Coming of Age, Multi-Cultural Fiction

 

Date Published: 2/16/21

Publisher Acorn Publishing

It’s 1958. Racial tension and class disparities have everyone on edge in a small Montana town. Despite their differences, three women of the community become the unlikeliest of friends.

BOBBI VERNON is a quirky teen, who will do whatever it takes to drive her teacher’s new Chevy convertible. Adding to the already volatile mix, she meets Pretty Weasel, an Indian basketball player, who calls her Chokecherry Girl. She dreams of dating him and wearing his class ring.

PATSY OLSON, after two failed marriages, is desperate to get her life back. After opening a beauty shop with a shaky bank loan, she watches Coach Vernon, Bobbi’s father, arriving for school each day. Attracted yet wary, she needs the business of the town ladies, including the Coach’s wife, Lois.

MARY AGNES LONE HILL, an alcoholic Crow Indian who was sent far away to a brutal Indian school as a child, now cleans houses for the town ladies and longs to end her estrangement with her son, Pretty Weasel.

These three women are drawn together through an illicit love affair, a stolen car, and a shooting that changes their lives forever.

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Barbara Meyer Link

Award-winning California author and poet, Barbara Meyer Link, has had three stories aired on KVPR, a National Public Radio Affiliate. Her poetry and fiction have appeared in numerous literary magazines and small presses. She also received the Sacramento State University Bazzanella Prize for fiction. Her memoir, Blue Shy, was published in 2010 and awarded first prize in the Sacramento Friends of the Library First Chapter contest. She co-authored Coffee and Ink, a handbook for writing groups and was a past editor of Sacramento’s Poetry Now. In addition, she was a poet/teacher for California Poets in the Schools for over fourteen years. Most recently, she was awarded second prize for poetry at the Mendocino Coast Writer’s contest.

Partial list of publications. American River Review, Poetry Now, Mindprint Review, Anima, Missouri Review, Women’s Compendium, Hardpan, Earth’s Daughter’s, (2014-2016) Whitefish Review, Dead Snakes, Noyo Review, Piker Press (on Dec 5, Dec 12)

Blue Moon Literary & Art Review (2019, 2020)

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