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This book teaches you how to plan content that actually gets sales. Packed with journal prompts and worksheets, it absolutely creates superior content than the tired, mediocre content you're used to seeing all over the internet. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Sigma Female Boss is a group for Alpha and Sigma female personality types who want to throat-punch snoozy content creation and instead stand out and get attention using creative writing and personality-based ...

Teaching isn’t just about lesson plans, grading papers, and managing classroom chaos—it’s also about developing Olympic-level bladder control. If you’ve ever found yourself shifting uncomfortably at the front of the room, counting down the seconds until the next bell, this book is for you. I Need To Pee...But I Can't Leave My Class Unsupervised is a hilarious yet brutally honest look at one of teaching’s greatest challenges: never being able to use the restroom when you actually need to. From the first cup of coffee in the morning (a terrible mistake) to the desperate lunchtime ...

When two sharp-tongued sisters get called for jury duty, small-town justice doesn’t stand a chance. Eighty-seven year old Betty and her level-headed sister Barb expected a quiet week at the courthouse — some sandwiches, a little gossip, maybe a nap or two between testimonies. What they didn’t expect was murder. When a defendant drops dead mid-trial and the evidence starts pointing closer to home, Betty and Barb find themselves tangled in a web of deceit that stretches from the courthouse steps to the heart of Bayview itself. Between secret affairs, missing files, and one suspiciously ...

Betty & Barb: Casino Murder A Cozy Mystery Full of Sass, Suspicion, and Slot Machine Shenanigans Meet Betty (87, practically blind, definitely dangerous) and Barb (80, perpetually broke but weirdly lucky), two sharp-tongued sisters from Ohio with a talent for solving crimes and starting them. These senior sleuths just wanted a relaxing afternoon at their favorite casino—cheap cocktails, penny slots, and maybe a marshmallow or two roasted over a Bath & Body Works candle. But when Tony "The Count" Marconi slumps over at the poker table—dead as a doornail and twice as cold—the feisty duo...

Welcome to Starke, Florida—a town sweet on sugar and sour on secrets. Clara Bloom thought life as a small-town coffee shop owner would be simple: pour lattes, bake coffee cake, and gossip with her best friend Daisy. But when sabotage rocks the annual strawberry bake-off, Clara finds herself neck-deep in poisoned pies, stolen recipes, and more suspects than sprinkles on a cupcake. What starts as a search for a saboteur spirals into a web of lies, embezzlement, and dangerous secrets stretching far beyond the kitchen. From pearl-clutching socialites to clipboard-wielding inspectors, everyone...

The Teacher Side Hustle Email Newsletter Marketing Blueprint Book One in The Teacher Side Hustle Series Let’s be honest—teaching doesn’t exactly fund your dream life. (Unless your dream is surviving on caffeine and dry-erase fumes.) If you’re a teacher with a side hustle and a glimmer of hope that your talent might actually make you money, you’re in the right place. This is not another boring marketing book filled with jargon, fluff, or acronyms that make you feel like you missed a meeting. This is a smart, sarcastic, and occasionally cynical guide to building an email newsletter ...

Need a content planner that prioritizes great content to attract and draw in your dream audience? This is it!

When the truth rises, someone always gets burned… or baked. Clara Bloom just wants to run her bakery, avoid the local gossip mill, and perfect her strawberry crumble recipe. But when a dramatic collapse at the historic Florida Twin Theater puts her in the spotlight again, her quiet small-town life shatters like an overbaked pie crust. Soon Clara is neck-deep in secrets, old grudges, and a decades-old environmental scandal that someone will do anything to bury. With the sheriff warning her to stay out of it (like that’s ever worked), a whistleblower son seeking justice for his father, ...

Welcome to the Universe of Weirdos. We bring you a variety of subjects, with a comedic twist. Also featuring Wrestling with Criminals, strange stories, FAQ episodes, and a whole galaxy full of wackiness.Come for the stories, stay for the laughs, and explore this odd existence with us.

Strawberry Cupcake Mystery When small-town baker Clara Bloom finds herself caught between cupcakes and corruption, the recipe for trouble rises fast. After the sudden death of her business partner, Clara’s quaint café in Starke, Florida, becomes the center of a corporate conspiracy that smells less like sugar and more like sabotage. When a mysterious ingredient, a forged invoice, and a trail of stolen secrets lead straight to a powerful food company, Clara must whisk up her courage and uncover the truth before she ends up as the next “special of the day.” With her sarcastic best ...

In the small, rusty dusty town of Starke, Florida, election season is the most cutthroat time of the year. A time when normal, “salt-of-the-Earth” citizens who are usually friendly, kind, and helpful turn on each other. It’s a game of hurling insults at the opposing political party. It’s a social media frenzy of keyboard warriors mixed with lambasting their opponents’ campaigns. Only when election season is over does the community resume its pleasing cozy country persona. It’s like Steel Magnolias meets The Walking Dead. But this year, the stakes have never been higher. When the...

Don’t Lick the Desk… And Other Teaching Absurdities Teaching: the noble profession where you shape young minds, inspire future leaders… and beg children not to eat the classroom furniture. If you’ve ever spent ten minutes explaining why glue sticks aren’t chapstick, dodged a flying shoe mid-lesson, or questioned your life choices after hearing “Miss, I think I swallowed my pencil”—this book is for you. Packed with laugh-out-loud stories, absurd encounters, and the unfiltered chaos of the classroom, Don’t Lick the Desk is a survival guide for the teachers on the frontlines....

An excerpt: As someone who regularly dumps all food groups into the same bowl usually containing a goulash of store-bought breaded chicken nuggets, microwavable sweet peas, alfredo sauce from aisle eleven, Dollar General cream cheese, butter and fried onions, I am probably the last person you want to ask about fine dining. At least by all good society’s standards (It’s kinda good, actually.) It’s no secret that I’m a middle-aged, divorced, obese pale woman hanging on to her mental faculties by their last strand with still no idea what I want to do with my life aside from traveling ...

Read this book if you can't stand yourself. Read this book if you avoid mirrors. Read this book if you want to lose your weight but need permission to like yourself as you are. Read this book if you have failed more than you've succeeded or even tried. Read this book if you want validation that your fluffy pain of armor was well earned and is now no longer needed. Do NOT read this book if you have zero sense of humor, are easily offended or need a safe space to whine about your feelings. We're all big girls here, we can laugh at ourselves and heal at the same time.

The Corner Scribblers is a small writer's support group in the Chattanooga area comprised of writers, authors, and storytellers from a wide range of skills and backgrounds. We come together once a month to discuss our current projects, recent accomplishments and to share what we have each learned about the craft. Within this cover, you will find a collection of holiday-themed flash fiction stories and poetry, displaying a small sample of those combined skills.

Forty-Something Fat Ass is not your average self-help book. Oh no, this one comes with stretch marks, a side of sarcasm, and a strong whiff of Ben-Gay. Told from the brutally honest, wildly funny, and slightly jaded perspective of a woman navigating the battlefield of midlife thighs-first, this book is your new best friend in paperback form. Whether you’re mourning the loss of your metabolism, avoiding mirrors like they owe you money, or wondering how your upper arms turned into bat wings overnight—this book sees you. It is you. And it’s here to remind you (in between burps and belly ...

Barbarians, dragons, mermaids, and wizards abound in this eccletic collection of fantasy from Chattanooga's own, The Corner Scribbler's. Forward and "An Oath's Other Edge" - a Shijuren universe short story - by guest author, Rob Howell.

This is a collection of flash fiction stories and experiences revolving around the conventions that we all know and love. If you have ever attended a convention, especially a fandom convention, then you know that anything is possible.

A quirky collection of flash fiction based in the realm of post-apocolyptic fiction with forward by Daniel Humphreys. From the Pollenocalypse to zombies, you're sure to feel right at home with the end of the world.

Fearless or feral? Liberating or life-threatening? The wild side of life takes many forms. It seeps through the cracks of our world in the form of stray cats, tenacious weeds, oppressive relationships, and haunting memories. These 14 stories by Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers explore the wildness that lives inside all of us—and what happens when we let it out.