DR. MEL'S MESSAGE - From my novels to my other projects, no telling what you will read. This is the only place you will get to read about how I developed a screenplay into a novel and what is the driving force. I will talk about many things from films to books to acting to producing. It really will depend on where my mind takes me. I hope you will join me on this journey.
Are you ready for a better version of yourself? Self-improvement is always critical as we mature through life. Is the journey easy? Absolutely not. However, the more prepared we are in our lives, the smoother things transpire. Today's BOOK OF THE DAY, "Critical Alpha: Adjust Your Angle of Attack in Sport, Business & Life" by Aaron Jones is a gem filled with sage advice. Order your copy today!
Are you ready to take control of your life and achieve your goals? Critical Alpha is a strategic way of thinking that can help you do just that. In this book, you'll learn how to set and achieve specific, measurable goals, and how to develop your non-technical skills like leadership, teamwork, awareness, and creativity, which are crucial to success. You'll also learn how to cultivate determination and resilience, so that you can push through any obstacle and achieve your dreams.
Whether you're looking to excel in your corporate career, improve your personal relationships, or achieve your professional sporting goals, Critical Alpha can help you reach your full potential. So if you're ready to take control of your life and succeed, this book is for you. With Critical Alpha, you'll be able to Adjust Your Angle of Attack and achieve your goals like never before.
This personal development guide has been founded on principles of military aviation, and is set out in a clear and logical approach for you to start winning in sport, business and life. By applying the Critical Alpha approach to your life, you'll learn how to set clear goals, identify and overcome challenges, and stay motivated on the path to success. With practical and real-world examples, this book will give you the tools you need to take charge of your life and achieve your full potential. With the accompanying Critical Alpha Methodology app, available on Apple and Google Play, you can track your progress and stay on the path to success. Don't wait any longer to start living the life you deserve.
This personal development guide has been founded on principles of military aviation and is set out in a clear and logical approach for you to start winning in sport, business, and life. By applying the Critical Alpha approach to your life, you'll learn how to set clear goals, identify and overcome challenges, and stay motivated on the path to success. With practical and real-world examples, this book will give you the tools you need to take charge of your life and achieve your full potential. With the accompanying Critical Alpha Methodology app, available on Apple and Google Play, you can track your progress and stay on the path to success. Don't wait any longer to start living the life you deserve.
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Aaron, an experienced Coach and Mentor, has extensive expertise in helping organizations and individuals achieve their goals and reach their full potential. He has primarily worked as a Safety Consultant, offering a wide range of services to improve organizational performance and achieve goals. Through his experience with clients across various industries, including the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) under the Air Force Safety Management Program (ASAP), he has honed a coaching style focused on empowering clients to take ownership of their own growth, become self-aware and self-reliant. He holds a Master's Degree in Aviation Management (Human Factors) and completed a Certificate IV in Workplace and Business Coaching at the Open Door Coaching Group in 2015. With over 15 years of experience, Aaron has worked with a variety of clients across different industries and sectors, including the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) and major projects such as the Suburban Rail Loop Authority (SRLA) and Melbourne Airport Rail. Aaron also has hands-on experience as a coach as part of the iLEAD Program with the University of Newcastle.
Aaron's coaching style emphasizes empowering clients to drive their own growth and become more self-reliant and self-aware. With a strategic approach, he helps clients take control of their careers and reach their goals. Focusing on overcoming challenges, he promotes self-awareness, leadership, communication, and problem-solving skills. Using a range of diagnostic tools, he assesses clients' skills and creates a customized plan aligned with their goals. He uses results-driven measurable performance indicators to track individual and team progress. Aaron's goal is to enable clients to bring positive change in both their personal and professional lives.
Discover how to safeguard yourself from the increasing cyber-attacks happening every day with this easy-to-understand guide!
Cyber Operational Technology (OT) refers to the systems and devices that are used to control and monitor physical processes in industries such as manufacturing, power generation, and transportation. These systems are often connected to the internet, making them vulnerable to cyber-attacks.
OT systems are typically not designed with cybersecurity in mind and can be more difficult to secure than traditional IT systems.
You don't have to be a tech junkie to understand the basics of cyber security, and this book will show you how easy it can be to shield yourself from attackers!
As such, the security of OT systems is becoming an increasingly important concern, as cyber-attacks on these systems can have severe consequences, such as physical damage to equipment or disruption of essential services.
ICS stands for Industrial Control Systems.
These systems are used to control industrial processes and infrastructure such as power plants, water treatment facilities, and transportation systems.
Grab your copy, learn how to protect yourself, and give yourself the peace of mind you deserve!
What do you do when life doesn’t turn out the way you expect? When your idealistic world crumbles and disappointments, heartbreak, and abuse, batters down your door? When despair swallows you, and your dreams lay shattered at your feet? You can’t help but shout,where are you, God? Are you even real?
Tarnished Crowns doesn’t offer platitudes and clichés but the story of a nineteen-year-old girl from the Midwest who travels to Hollywood and receives an inside peek behind those glamorous doors. Her compromised life and broken relationships devastate her, leaving her depressed, confused, and searching for answers. In her desperation, she makes a deal with God. She gives him six months to prove He is who He says He is. Nothing could prepare her for what happened next. God unfolds an unexpected adventure filled with twists and turns and begins to reveal himself in powerful ways.
Learning to trust an unseen God is not easy, and Pam wrestles with him along the way, only to find that every conflict brings his reality closer. Her honest transparency receives understanding and God’s compassion. She discovers how to go from brokenness to wholeness–fear to faith–and resistance to surrender. Tarnished Crowns is her pilgrimage to the heart of God, where she found restoration, purpose, and destiny.
"This memoir is a major help to anyone who seeks to stay grounded in God...emotional, compassionate, and ideal for the Christian woman and those that work with women. Readers that enjoy transformational life stories will also find this book to be unforgettable." Literary Titan
2021 American Writing Awards Winner
Winner - Narrative Non-Fiction
Tarnished Crowns a Memoir:The Power of Purpose and Authenticity
"Thought-provoking and eye-opening, the book provides reflective advice that will offer help and comfort to those who experience depression and despair in the face of relentless difficulties. Candid, vivid, and deeply reflective, the book makes for an utterly engrossing coming-of-age read." Bookview Review
Beautifully captured... Candid and revealing.
"Thoughtful and keen, ... the reader will benefit to read it in multiple sittings as many portions deserves additional time spent pondering and applying its message. This a poignant, informative book by an author whose life has been dedicated to exploring the true meaning of living."
The Prairies book Review
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Pamela Rice is a licensed marriage and family therapist with a doctor of ministry degree who works in Los Angeles, California. As a former program director for a clinical psychiatric unit specializing in Christian therapy, Pam understands human suffering and believes in the power of faith to transform lives and restore hope.
Tell your readers a little about yourself, where you grew up,
where you live now, where you went to school, etc. Let them get to know the
personal you.
I live
on a farm with my partner and family. We have goats, chickens, ducks, rabbits,
and soon we will have horses. I’ve lived here for 3 years since the pandemic.
I was born in Syracuse, NY, and grew up in the suburbs. I’m 34 years old. I’m
the author of several books of fiction, memoir, and poetry. My essays have been
published in The New York Times, The Advocate, Original Plumbing Magazine,
and The Body is Not an Apology. My short story Dean and Teddy was
published in The Collection: Short Fiction From the Transgender Vanguard,
which won the Lambda Literary Award. I attended SUNY Purchase and Syracuse University
and have a Bachelor’s degree in Literature.
Besides writing, my passions include photography, animal care, nature, music,
snowboarding, and art. I am introverted but also thrive in communities.
What inspired you to author this book?
Mainly,
I wanted to show how hellish addiction can be inspired by my own experiences. I
portray a very flawed character and show how he recovers and becomes a better
person. It would be great if the story gave people hope.
READ CHAPTER ONE NOW AND SUBSCRIBE
You’re
an established author, with award-winning books including Refuse, I Know
Very Well How I Got My Name, and Show Trans. Why did you go with
Wattpad for this novel?
I prefer self-publishing. It allows me to have control over the process: the
timeline, the cover art, the promotion….in short, everything. I chose Wattpad
this time because I wanted to release this novel in installments, like a
television series. Over the next few months, readers will be getting “Season
One.” I also like Wattpad because it’s a community of people storytelling. I
thought this would be a productive place to reach everyday readers in this
modern age, where they can read on their phone or laptop. In the future, I will
be publishing paperback versions of the book.
Tell your readers about your book.
The
Stars Below is about a man named Damien. He is transgender, female-to-male,
and in his early 30’s. He has a drinking problem. He’s a writer, and he’s moved
from living with his parents and working at a library to a farmhouse in the
country to have solitude to work on his novel. When he gets there, he meets the
various boarders: a woman named Michelle who is very sexually charged and seems
to be constantly coming on to him. An androgynous goth named Alex. A friendly
cowboy named Jesse with whom he starts a would-be-romance. A little girl named
Ruby. And one starry night, a mysterious, handsome, cloaked man named
Alexander. Damien gets hooked on a drug, ketamine, which is a psychedelic. He
discovers eventually that all these people are actually one: a shapeshifter
with multiple personalities. He begins a passionate Dom/sub relationship with
Alexander, a demon who makes the shapeshifting possible. Damien’s drug use gets
worse and worse, and eventually he has to decide between his new family and
home with the shapeshifter or continuing to use ketamine and other harmful
substances.
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Why do
you write primarily transgender and queer characters?
Well, first off, because I write what I know. I’m a transgender man. Secondly,
I think it’s important that other trans people see themselves reflected in
media. I’d especially like to see more books and movies about transgender
people that are written by transgender people. In this novel, like my others,
the trans protagonist is very flawed. Why do I do this? Why don’t I portray
ideal versions of trans people for good publicity? After all, there are enough
negative stereotypes out there, why add to it? Simply put, perfect characters are
not what literature is about. Especially in The Stars Below, I want
readers to watch the journey of Damien, as he grows into a better person. I
want them to see his humanity: that he’s struggling just like the rest of us. I
think there’s a place for trans superheroes and antiheroes in media. I’m better
at creating the latter.
Elliott
DeLine (born 1988) is a writer from Syracuse, NY. He is the author of the novel Refuse, the novella I Know Very Well How I Got My Name, Show
Trans: A Nonfiction Novel, and No
Poster Boy: Trans Fag Essays. In June 2021, he released his
first poetry chapbook, Lessons Learned from Chickens.
His essays and excerpts have been featured in The
New York Times, The Collection: Short Fiction from the Transgender Vanguard,
Original Plumbing Magazine, and The
Advocate. He currently lives in upstate NY.
Praise:
“Elliott’s writing also helps
people with similar experiences feel less alone… {He} honestly shares his struggles
and his insights, and this sharing helps us all feel our common humanity beyond
our gender identities or orientation.” -Dana
Spiotta, Author of Stone Arabia and Wayward
“Like so many of the classic
gay and lesbian novels from the earlier part of the 20th century, these works are
sure, years from now, to enjoy wider readership and recognition as pioneering
examples of transgender writing. Moreover, DeLine’s well-crafted storytelling
and skill at cultivating voice prove that, far from being a niche genre, transgender narratives by transgender authors are
a welcome and still underrepresented presence in contemporary fiction today.”-Jameson
Fitzpatrick, poet, Kirkus Review.
“Elliott is
writing at the cutting edge of modern-day culture—with his relentless and
compassionate narration of young people living out complexities of multiple
sexes, genders, and sexualities. His visually and textually dynamic memoir and
fiction thoroughly engage the reader and give us a window into the everyday living of life in-between rigid boundaries of male and female, man and
woman, straight and gay.”-Minnie
Bruce Pratt, author of S/he, Crime Against Nature, and Inside the Money Machine.
“[Refuse is]
a witty and provocative debut novel chronicling a young, intelligent, and deeply
insecure protagonist, Dean, through his ambivalent attempts at securing love
and connection within and without the transgender community.”-TT Jaxx, Lambda Literary Review
“Elliott
DeLine is an ambitious, witty, self-deprecating, thoughtful writer whose debut
novel Refuse could meaningfully be
compared to the work of Dennis Cooper (with far less violence), Brett Easton
Ellis (with far fewer chemical substances), David Sedaris (with not as many
belly laughs) and Leslie Feinberg (with a much less mournful air). Conversant
with the queer coming-of-age narrative, the disaffected-youth novel and the
transgender memoir—as well as the feminist and gender theory that each of these
literary genres has inspired—DeLine pushes back against the familiar, and safe,
conventions of these sources to produce a captivating story populated by fully
rendered, completely believable characters who, while not always likable, and
never the objects of pity, somehow manage to make an affective claim on the
reader. With this as his debut effort, DeLine, not yet out of college, is a
writer to watch.”-Jerry
Wheeler, Out in Print Queer Book Reviews
“Refuse is a stunning debut
“novoir” about an over-observant young outsider with really great hair who is
outside everything – including the transgender community – but keeps a great
deal bottled up inside. Funny, cynical, tough, vulnerable, honest, deluded,
sagacious, self-loving and self-loathing, Refuse is
irresistible.”-Mark
Simpson, author of Saint Morrissey
I'm excited to bring you today's BOOK OF THE DAY, "Sarcaun: The Journey" by Simone Voltaire. One of my favorite genres is science fiction, especially involving otherworldly beings and universes. Today's BOOK OF THE DAY is no exception and is the perfect read to take you on an incredible journey. I highly recommend this book. Order your copy today!
For millions of years, gifted Gens lived on Earth until they decided to leave to protect their kind from humans. Thousands of years later, Princess Norellyia is sent from Sarcaun on a trip to Earth in order to change her attitude. While living with a family on Earth, she discovers a secret about the daughter, Melanie. She intervenes and ends up rescuing Melanie from trouble. In the meantime, chaos ensues on the planet of Sarcaun as evil is unleashed through the portal created by her departure to Earth. Norellyia finds herself on a journey that will change her life forever.
Simone Voltaire is a first-time author who has always loved reading a variety of genres, including the classics, science fiction, fantasy, and mystery books. The creativity and captivating imagination that she enjoyed reading inspired her to put her own imagination into words to share with others. Her father, Arnauld Voltaire, who himself wrote plays and stories, is the one who encouraged her to pursue her goal of writing. She first started by writing short stories that she shared with friends and family but eventually decided to set a goal of writing a book. Sarcaun: The Journey was written over a few years and is an integration of many short stories and adventures that she had written that entailed the world of Sarcaun when she first started writing. The book has been positively reviewed by Sarah Poulette from US Review of Books. She is currently working on completing book two of Sarcaun.
