Author Interview – London Tracy

Last book I purchased?

The last book I purchased was “You Do Know” which is about developing intuition.

What is your favorite meal?

Ribs.

What movie do you love to watch?

I love watching movies which star either Michael Douglas or Richard Gere.  Some of my favorites include Fatal Attraction, Internal Affairs and Basic Instinct.

What social issues interest you the most?

Homelessness.

What is your favorite color?

It’s a toss between navy blue and pink.

From HBO’s hit series, “Curb Your Enthusiasm” comes, “The Curse, a teleplay:” After Larry David quarrels with his lesbian neighbors, he finds himself under a seven-day curse of bad luck.

LONDON TRACY is an author, screenwriter and freelance writer. She lives in Los Angeles.

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Genre – Comedy

Rating – PG-13

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Website http://londontracy.wordpress.com

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#Free: Accountability Leadership @DiWorrall

Are You Still Living In Hope That Your Employees Will Follow Through On Expectations?

Ask anyone in charge of managing people to define their number one leadership challenge, and they’re likely to tell you that it’s achieving accountability for performance. CEOs, top executive teams, managers, and line supervisors all struggle to get the right things done, the right way, by the right staff, at the right time. When goals are met or exceeded, everyone’s a hero. But even the very best organisations face unforeseen challenges and sometimes fail to meet their goals. At such times the organisation must quickly be put on the right track, and this cannot be done without a strong culture of accountability.

Many organisations continue to implement traditional systems of accountability in an attempt to drive high performance in the workplace - only to see those efforts fail. The problem is, in many organisations accountability is viewed as something negative that happens to you when things go wrong. This kind of accountability never works over the long term. Real accountability is achieved through a step-by-step process that makes things go right.

Business leaders who employ the new principles of leadership accountability stand to multiply their chances of success and market leadership, reporting high performing characteristics such as:

· Cross-functional teams are the norm and are aligned, flexible, and adaptive to change.

· Delivering on or beyond expectations is the norm rather than the exception.

· Individuals and teams have a sense of ownership, and are focused, disciplined and collaborative, while holding each other accountable for outcomes.

· The din of organisational silence is replaced with communications which are engaging, high trust, and free flowing.

· Instead of entitlement, fear, blame and change resistance - organisational policies are driven by accountability, trust, and continuous improvement.

· Striving for excellence in customer service is embedded as a core business value.

· Company-wide culture embraces learning. It’s fun, friendly, and meaningful, and delivers great results.

The case for improved accountability in leadership has become critical for any leader with pragmatic desires for better business success.

In the #1 Amazon best seller, Accountability Leadership, you will find how great leaders are discovering a previously untapped goldmine of opportunity for personal, team and business transformation using the new science of accountability to build a high performance culture of accountability and responsibility.

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Genre - Business, Leadership, Workplace Behaviour, Human Resources, Executive Coaching

Rating – PG

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Author Interview – Lori Ryan

Do you plan to publish more books?

Yes! I hope to write many more books and have a huge number of series going eventually. I’ve got ideas for several new things that I’m working on and I have one proposal in to an editor right now.

Why do you write?

I began writing last year because I just had so many story ideas in my head trying to get out. It was almost as if I couldn’t not write. I think my head would have exploded. And, when I told a friend that I was thinking of writing a book, she said, “well, of course you are,” as if it were the most obvious thing in the world. I guess she knew something I didn’t.

Have you always enjoyed writing?

No. I never gave much thought to it before last year. My sister is a writer but I hadn’t thought about writing until I began to read a ton of romance novels and then ideas just began to hit me.

What motivates you to write?

Well, at first, it was just something I wanted to do to see what would happen. Now, it’s my fans. I can’t tell you how amazing it feels to get an email or a Facebook post from a fan or read a review from a reader and know people like my work. It’s the most amazing feeling and it makes me want to get you more books!

What writing are you most proud of? (Add a link if you like)

This book. I think my writing has been getting better and better. I think Negotiation Tactics is without a doubt my best book yet.

Jennie Evan’s heart broke when she lost her high school sweetheart and husband just after college graduation. She’s found some semblance of a new life with good friends and a job she loves at Sutton Capital, but she knows she’ll never love again. That part of her died with Kyle.

Chad Thompson sees the heartache Jennie hides from the world. Despite the chemistry he and Jennie always fight against, Chad vows to keep their relationship friendly. Anything more would hurt Jennie and Chad knows he can’t cause her more pain.

When their well-meaning friends throw Jennie and Chad together in a plot designed to push their comfort zone, Jennie ends up in more danger than anyone could have foreseen. Chad knows he can protect her, but he isn’t able to protect his own heart in the process.

Fans of Sutton Capital have been waiting for Jennie and Chad’s story. Dive in and fall in love right along with them!

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Genre –  Romantic Suspense

Rating – R

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Author Interview – Dave Wolverton

Location and life experiences can really influence writing, tell us  where you grew up and where you now live? I grew up in Oregon, living in the country near forests of Douglas Fir and pines.  I learned to love nature and the woods, and I think that my love of biology is shown in everything that I write, whether it is set on this world or another.

Currently I live in Saint George, Utah—near the redrock country of Zion’s Canyon and Bryce.

How did you develop your writing? As a writer, you tend to learn your craft by looking at the work of others.  So often, you soak it up subconsciously, but as an author, I think consciously about the subjects that I write about.  So, for example, I decided long ago that I wanted to combine my love for philosophy and biology in my tales, and if you look at my first novel, On My Way to Paradise, or my latest novel, A Tale of Tales (which is still under construction), you’ll see my loves shining through.

When I was writing Paradise, I was reading a lot of Fantasy Realism from Latin American authors like Borges and Marques, but in my writing today you’ll probably see more of . . . me.  I think that as an older author, you tend to have developed and defined your own voice.

What is hardest – getting published, writing or marketing? I found that for me, marketing is the toughest.  I love writing, and getting published was pretty easy for me.  But I think that naturally I’m a pretty shy person, and I don’t really like to market.  Other writers will probably be surprised by that statement, because I’m so much more proactive than most other authors.  But I have to fight my natural shyness, and I don’t always win.

What marketing works for you? With marketing, it usually isn’t any “one thing” that works.  I write my blogs, and that has helped a lot.  I have some 70,000 followers on Twitter, and that helps, too.  My facebook page has 5000 friends, so I’ve had to start a new one.  I run Facebook ads, and those seem to be helping.

So I see my marketing effort as being like a stool, with several different “legs” to support my platform.  If one leg were taken away, I’d still continue to function pretty well.  And of course I’m always looking for more things to try.

Turn the page…open your eyes…and look into the future

They unleash the power of dreams and unlock the secrets of the universe.

They bend time, twist perception, and put a new spin on the laws of physics.

They show us who we are, what we may become, and how far we can go.

They are the Writers of the Future. Experience their vision.

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Genre - Science Fiction/Fantasy

Rating – PG13

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The Magistrate (The Prisonworld Trilogy) by Keira Michelle Telford

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Five years ago …

An explosion shakes the ground and sends a plume of thick black smoke up into the air, a raging ball of fire beneath it. Debris is thrown up and comes crashing back down to earth: bits of stone and brick, chunks of twisted metal, and scraps of human flesh.

The entire western elevation of Hamilton House—an imposing Victorian building located on the Victoria Embankment in the EC4 zone of London, right at the edge of the Square Mile—is destroyed, leaving a gaping, fiery hole from which the screams of the injured echo into the deserted Inner Temple Gardens beside it.

After the blast, and the brief moment of hollow silence following it, the normally tranquil area around Victoria Embankment is flooded with noise.

Sirens.

Fire.

Police.

Medics.

In the coming hours, the news will report that the Home Secretary is dead, along with several senior Section Five officers. Many more people—other Section Five officers included—were injured, and the first to be dragged from the wreckage by a couple of passing pedestrians is a forty-odd-year-old man. His shoulder-length light brown hair, which is normally pulled back into a neat ponytail, is bedraggled and scruffy. Dressed like a proper gentleman—in other words, a toff—he’s wearing an expensive suit, complete with waistcoat and silk puff tie.

His tweed flat cap falls off, getting trampled on as the two conscientious humanitarians pull him across Inner Temple Gardens and lie him down on the soft green grass away from the fire and the smoke, helping him to breathe.

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Genre - Lesbian Romance/ Dystopian/ Neo-Victorian

Rating – R (18+)

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Website http://www.ellacross.com/

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