Once Upon a Time Bitches

Once Upon a Time Bitches 

Design Your Fairytale Life, Control Your Destiny, and Become the Hero in Your Story 

That’s Branden on the cover. Yes, she has a boy’s name, a Mom bod, and her tattoos are not photoshopped. And yes, she doesn’t look like your typical author or self-help Instagram sweetheart. But besides being a wife, mom to six kids (plus others with fur), business owner, Branden is the author of this new book: a fast paced, in your face, expletive laced, nothing held back message to women everywhere: There is no magic fairytale, but if YOU work at it enough you can come pretty close to creating your version with a happily ever after. But first, no more whining and no more damsel locked in a tower, bullsh*t. Is it possible to design a fairytale life? Control your destiny? Be the hero in your story? Branden thinks there is and she wants to help you. 

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The Part Time Startup: Your Path to Financial Freedom While Building Your Career

The Part Time Startup: 

Your Path to Financial Freedom 

While Building Your Career 

Trying to grow a business while still having that full time job? In this book, we dive into what it takes to build a business while working full time. There are a lot of people who glamourize the idea of quitting your job, and jumping in to create a startup – which you are more than welcome to do of course. Or, you can be one of those super successful people who not only have a successful career, but also a successful business!

  

We start with the key things any start up needs, giving you insight into helpful things to consider as you start your business. Then we take you back – as far back in time as middle school. We then go through what kind of internships and educational choices you’ve made or are going to make. Next, we investigate how your choices shape your ability to deliver professional success, and how that impacts your ability to maintain what is important in your life. As we finish reviewing ourselves, we piece together how to integrate your success with how to develop and grow your new business.  

Learn how you can convert your passion into success, integrating your whole self with your mission. Then use your integrity and vision to give you the freedom, confidence, and security we all seek in our lives.

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Excerpts From An Abstract Mind

Excerpts From An Abstract Mind

Life is unpredictable. We are given no map at birth, and yet we wade through the adventure together, learning different things along the way while collecting experiences. Excerpts from an Abstract Mind is a poetry collection about the chance encounters, lessons learned, and ideologies acquired by author Ewana Hines as she plays witness from the sidelines of life.

She tells stories about a frightening Ouija board and a caged lion that yearns to be free, but she also delves into philosophy and personal battles. For instance, there are times in this mad life when we must run and other times when we must stand and fight. Ewana enumerates the importance of trying while asking questions and then answering them.

The book is a passionate tango between fervent beliefs and carnal flesh. At times, it dances past political correctness on its path toward the priceless treasure of love for self, the Lord, and our fellow human. This journey unfolds through the lenses of poetry and narrative storytelling. Come and see where the abstract mind will go.

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The Neighbor: A Sweet, Clean, Instant Love Romance (Love at First Sight Book 2)

The Neighbor:

A Sweet, Clean, Instant Love Romance (Love at First Sight Book 2)

Courtesy of Estelle’s pledge to save herself for marriage, her life is an endless loop of working, cooking for one, and sleeping alone. That’s it. She hopes for a Prince Charming, but none have appeared at her door. To complicate her life, her neighbor is none other than gorgeous Dr. Percy, a Greek god of good looks. She’s heard his many women shrieking in ecstasy through their shared bedroom wall, even with a pillow over her head. When she appears at his door, needing an onion, a spark links them together as their fingers touch. Oh, my! This could go way beyond what she can imagine.

Dr. Percy loves women, lots of them, and they love him. When he and Estelle share a meal, sparks fly, and he wonders if this is the woman who will reign in his bed adventures. Is Estelle his woman to love for a lifetime?

Can a chance encounter over soup and bread be a life-changer for both of them? Will Estelle be more than just a bed-partner—can she become the life-partner of his dreams? Can Dr. Percy give up his many one-night relationships for a life-long one with Estelle?

The Neighbor is a sweet, clean 45-minute romance, a happy-ever-after story and the second in the series: Love at First Sight, but it can be read as a stand-alone tale.

Merry Goodman Romances are sweet contemporary or inspirational tales of love and connection with some sizzle and always a happy-ever-after. They are short reads that warm your heart and give flight to your imagination!

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Dance of the Heart

Dance of the Heart

Dance of the Heart takes you on a relatable and heartfelt journey through everyday hardship and joy. Revealing heartbreak, confusion, and the unexplainable through poems, you are sure to be captivated while taking part in the soul-searching adventure contained within this collection.

Penned by a high school student who relates to searching for identity and trying to understand love, Dance of the Heart is a perfect balance between identification and inspiration. Grace VanSciver urges you to see the beauty in ordinary moments, seize the opportunities presented by life, and cherish important relationships.

Using incredible emotional perception and a deep understanding of human insecurity and doubt, Grace helps you consider your own feelings and perceptions in situations you encounter. She is thankful to all who have inspired her along the way and hopes that through her poetry, you also will be inspired to dance the dance of your heart.

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Magic Lessons

Magic Lessons

Celebratory and Cautionary Tales about Life as a

(Single, Gay, Transracially Adoptive) Dad 

Every family has a story--but very few have a story like Joseph Sadusky and his sons, Daveon and Mark. 

In Magic Lessons, Joe shares a look back as he, a single gay man, decided to build his family through transracial adoption. In a lighthearted collection of stories and lessons learned, Joe humorously but honestly describes the process as he set out to adopt two older children, and what happened after they came together under one roof and became "us."

Along the way, Joe details how often he was, in his own words, "amazed, aggravated, mind-blown, jaw-dropped, befuddled, exasperated, and awed-both in good ways and bad, both by my kids and by the many players who have had a part in our family story overall." 

By revealing lessons learned about being "other," as well as Joe's own parenting mistakes, Magic Lessons provides a guide for anyone who is part of, or considering, an alternative family structure.

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Lightwarriors

Lightwarriors

Charlene “Charlie” MacLeod, was born with the very rare and dangerous ability to light fires by the sheer power of her will. This power makes her both an object of fear and a target for exploitation. At only six years of age Charlie returns from a day trip with her father, Jack MacLeod to find that her mother murdered by government agents bent on capturing her to exploit her powers. 

For the next two years Charlie and Jack go on the run, barely managing to stay ahead of the federal government. During this time Charlie finds herself facing a number of moral dilemmas as she is repeatedly forced to use her power to survive and protect herself and her father from capture. 

Eventually, Charlie and Jack are captured by the NSA and taken to their Fallow Point Compound in South Carolina.  Charlie is convinced to submit to experimentation on her powers by Robin Striker, an old friend of her father’s, who poses as an ally. Charlie ultimately learns that Robin is manipulating her and attempts to escape. During the course of this escape Robin fatally shoots Jack, and Charlie proceeds to incinerate him along with the entire Fallow Point compound.

Two weeks later, David and Catherine McAuliffe, a young couple gifted with similar powers to Charlie, discover Charlie in Central Park New York. David and Catherine adopt Charlie as their own daughter but quickly find themselves the target of the NSA which now seeks to kill Charlie and anyone who knows of her existence. 

Once again on the run, Charlie is attacked in the night by a government Asset and fatally poisoned. After a near death experience it becomes clear that Charlie is more than just a pyrokinetic, though neither she nor her adoptive parents yet realize her true importance.

Without any other options, David takes Catherine and Charlie to his father’s home in northern Scotland where he learns that Charlie is gifted with the power to unlock a pair of legendary weapons capable of channeling incredible power.

David’s father, James Lenox, encourages David to have Charlie unlock one of the weapons and to train her to use her power for good. Having previously rejected their powers in favor of trying to live a normal life both David and Catherine are resistant to James’ advice but in the end to encourage Charlie to unlock one of the weapons and begin her training.

Not long after Charlie begins her training, a new threat emerges in the form of the Black Empire, a malevolent nation led by men and women who have chosen to use their powers for selfish gain. Charlie, David and Catherine are taken by the Black Empire and separated. Charlie is first subjected to torment. Then she is offered both the promise of power and revenge for the deaths of her father and mother.

Since the death of her parents, Charlie has carried around a tremendous amount of anger and a powerful desire for revenge. Charlie knows that this desire is wrong and has been taught from an early age to fear her power and to believe that using her power is dangerous and wrong. Still she cannot let go of her anger and desire for her revenge and is tempted by the promise of revenge and the freedom to use her power at will.

Charlie struggles internally with her own anger and desire for revenge and nearly gives in when she is brought face to face with Robin Striker, whom she had previously believed she had killed. 

After narrowly rejecting revenge, Charlie escapes with David and Catherine only to be confronted by Robin who challenges her to face him one on one. Charlie accepts, knowing that she will easily kill him and quickly finishes Robin off with a decapitating sword stroke.

After killing Robin, Charlie along with David and Catherine are recaptured by Black Imperial troops and Charlie is forced to face her own inner darkness. With some difficulty Charlie rejects temptation and learns to control her anger and desire for revenge. Though she still hates the people she views as responsible for the deaths of her mother and father and her own suffering Charlie learns that she can control these feelings and reaffirms her desire not to misuse her power.

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