"A practical and heartening guide for those navigating the book industry for the first time." —Publishers WeeklyThe confusion and guessing games of the querying process end here. From two industry experts who built and work with the tools literary agents use daily, a step-by-step, proven guide for turning queries into representation, backed by real data and exclusive insights from over four million queries.For the first time ever, ...

The local minister is killed and hung from the church's tree in his underwear. In the hunt to find out who did it and why, more questions get ask than the folks of the town want answered. A suspect is arrested and put on trial. But soon the suspect is not the only one on the spot. The minister has a long reach, and although a "Godly" man, he had a past.

In Illusive Secrets: Discovering the Power of Self-Honesty, James P. McDonald demonstrates the power self-honesty has to change our lives, and he asks with tender compassion if we have the willingness to meet our true selves.With each secret he discovers, McDonald inspires us to look inward as the means of transcending our fear-based state of consciousness. His candid demonstrations reveal thoughts and experiences we all have, but very few of us are willing, or able to explore. Eac...

Who Would I Be Without is a thoughtful and sometimes shocking account of an ordinary man's quest for peace. Based on a true story, this passionate and philosophical story follows Nathan Vrite, an ordinary man living an ordinary life filled with seemingly ordinary obstacles.Nathan spent much of his life tending to outward appearances and covertly seeking approval from the world around him in reaction to the single negative message many of us unknowingly believe every day: I'm not go...

In Illusive Secrets2: Embracing Your True Self, James P. McDonald continues his candid demonstration of the capacity self-honesty has to change our lives. Through each self-deception McDonald shares, he empowers us to look at our own lives with transformative honesty and tempts us to find the small measure of willingness needed to meet our true self. If we want peace and happiness, this book is the perfect tool to help on our journey toward the uninterrupted experience of love.As w...

The 1850s United States witnessed a far-reaching political, social, and economic crisis. Symptomatic of this, a wide range of narrative fiction from sentimental novels to sensational drama identifies a foundational link between liberal institutions and performative utterances. Auctions, trials, marriages, and contracts, this fiction contends, all depend on the self-constituting authority of words and performances which anybody and everybody can appropriate and are always subject to misfiri...

The confusion and guessing games of the querying process end here. From two industry experts who built and work with the tools literary agents use daily, a step-by-step, proven guide for turning queries into representation, backed by real data and exclusive insights from over four million queries.For the first time ever, aspiring authors have access to unprecedented querying data that transforms guesswork into strategic action. More than 500,000 authors have used Q...

In this beautifully written meditation book, best-selling author Karen Casey sensitively examines the challenges of love: the love we give friends, family, a lover, even ourselves.Worthy of Love offers 52 (weekly) inspiring quotes and short readings for those who struggle to love and be loved."The irony is that the harder we look for love, the more blurred our vision. Only when we become quiet and trust that love is our birthright do we discover it...

In this book, Law of Attraction: Secrets for Successfully Attracting and Manifesting Abundance in Your Life Using the Law of Attraction, you will get to learn the guiding principle within the law of attraction, far from the literal sense of physical attractiveness. You will learn that contrary to popular belief, happiness and prosperity are not determined by your pre-disposition, and they also do not result from sheer good luck. Instead, they are results of your conscious effort to open yo...

We have got one life and we want so many things from that single life. It is not possible to get each and everything you desire for, still there are many things which you deserve and you should have them. But it is seen that many people are not able to get from life even what they deserve. Lack of willpower may be one of the reasons which are hindering you from achieving your goal. We all want to stay fit and happy in our life and to obtain a healthy lifestyle we need more self-‐control to...

It would be easy to assume that, in the eighteenth century, slavery and the culture of taste--the world of politeness, manners, and aesthetics--existed as separate and unequal domains, unrelated in the spheres of social life. But to the contrary, Slavery and the Culture of Taste demonstrates that these two areas of modernity were surprisingly entwined. Ranging across Britain, the antebellum South, and the West Indies, and examining vast archives, including portraits, period painti...

“Short story writers have needed a book like this for decades. ... It's spectacular.” — Kristine Kathryn Rusch, multi-award-winning author & editorFully revised and current, this second edition addresses every change in the short fiction landscape since the classic original edition came out a decade ago.“Doug has gone through this new volume carefully, updating every possible detail. That makes the second edition as indispensable to the short fiction writer as the ...