Day: September 11, 2024

Rise of the Dragon Volume 1

by J.E. Maier

Genre: Romance, Drama, Light Urban Fantasy 

Breaking Free

Rise of the Dragon Volume 1

by J.E. Maier

Genre: Romance, Drama, Light Urban Fantasy 

 

In her debut novel, J.E. Maier mixes Korean drama with modern America in this series about fate, love, and fame.

In this Romance-Drama turned Urban Fantasy, Jenilyn is a young woman caught in a perpetual state of duality. Of the world or not of the world, she has always struggled with opposing concepts. Equivalent to constructively organized chaos, she exists in two dimensions; an organized, put-together version she shows the world, and a chaotic, unhinged side she only shows those close to her.

In the aftermath of a messy divorce, she’s staring down the crossroads of change and thinks she has the next chapter of her life all figured out. With ten years of unorthodox experience under her belt, she creates what she believes is the perfect business model, with plans to move the entire operation to Chicago in a matter of months.

The only thing she hasn’t figured out? Dating in a technological world. She doesn’t know if she wants to find love again, and with her native language on the verge of extinction, begins to think her late grandmother was right; she must cast aside the idea of love and contribute to the matriarchal lineage with a member from the quickly fading tribe. After all, if love isn’t an option, folk preservation is the next best thing, even if she is only one-fourth indigenous.

Until a chance encounter changes her life’s trajectory, that is. When the five zany members of an internationally famous musical group, Blackmirror, walk into her life, her world quickly gets turned upside down. Fascinated by the group’s boyish charms at a time she’s looking to experience the world, she’s invited to attend their concert, where she learns just what it takes for the five mates to put on a large-production show. Unfortunately, the joyful moment is cut short when one of the musicians gets injured, and eager to help as always, she offers her assistance.

Her counterproductive helpfulness lands her in a meeting with the band’s manager, who surprisingly asks her to join the agency, and following the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, she moves sixty-five hundred miles away from her home. With the fresh location comes a new job and a unique living situation, further pushing her boundaries and limitations. Hellbent on making memories and mistakes, she discards conventional notions and relishes a bit of calculated hedonism when a fake romance forces her into the spotlight.

While finding her footing at a new company, learning the nuances of a foreign culture, and tail spinning into the fringes of the entertainment industry, she finds herself embroiled in a cultural conspiracy and discovers her past might not be what it seemed.

♫ Let’s not waste time falling in love. Let’s rise in love.

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J.E. Maier has been dreaming up cinematic stories since she was a girl. With exuberance, she prowled the streets of her hometown, recounting her nightly visions to friends. Soon, her fantasies turned to lyrical prose, scribbling tidbits into the pages of notebooks with no idea how to implement them. In adulthood, she utilized her artistry in the creative industry by getting her hands on any project she could. Unfortunately, Covid had a way of leveling the world, and while confined to her home, her imagination soared, leading her to what she believes is her calling.

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by Rachel Wills

 Adventures in ADD & Addiction

Memoir

This is a coming-of-age saga that highlights the perils and peaks of living with misdiagnosed ADHD, learning disabilities, dysfunctional family dynamics and rock and roll. It’s equal parts funny and frenetic. The author weaves in the way she documents periods of her life through eclectic music, as she takes you along with her on bittersweet, misadventures. Get lost everywhere (GPS wasn’t a thing yet), including in Jamaica, Israel, and Canada and learn what it’s like to grow up missing social cues, not getting sarcasm, misplacing and replacing entire wardrobes, and navigating life smart but spacey.

About the Author

Rachel Wills is a Licensed Professional Counselor who specializes in working with adults with ADHD and co-occurring disorders. After living on both coasts’ multiple times, she returned to her home state of Maryland and set down roots. She’s active in her local long-term recovery community, synagogue and neighborhood. However, she used to admittedly, be ‘all over the place’ and couldn’t choose just one profession and stick with it if her life depended on it, which it did. Ms. Wills was told by a child psychologist that the severity of her ‘minimal brain dysfunction’ (now commonly referred to as ADHD) would preclude her going to college. Yet, she completed two vastly different graduate school programs (the first while backpacking throughout the country and living in a consensus-based community).

Her constant sense of feeling ‘different’ and ‘other-than’ which once led her to abuse substances and job hop became her greatest asset – empathy. Today, Ms. Wills is proud to call herself a wildflower among orderly roses. She’s still not the most organized but is fervent about helping others learn to become their own best advocate and embrace themselves for who they are.

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Smashwords

by Stephen Rice

 A young woman battles loss and addiction growing up in Saint Paul and finds her way to live her dream of becoming a Blues drummer.

About the Author

Stephen was born and raised in Henderson, NY. He moved to Saint Paul, MN to attend Hamline University. After working a variety of jobs, he began a career as a computer programmer. An interest in writing words preceded his interest in writing code.

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by Lillian Eve Moore

 A Guide for Healing and Claiming What’s Yours

 Self-help, personal development, psychology, spirituality, 

trauma healing

Date Published: August 5, 2024

Everything you want: all the riches of the world, the depth, beauty, the fun.

Everything you want is in the underworld of your psyche.

This is where our capacity to experience lives.

Yet, most of us barely know what is happening in our own mind and are at least a little terrified of who we might really be.

Just as our wishes and dreams live in the underworld of our psyche, so do our worst fears, the things we desperately want to run from. This is the treasure.

Our traumas, patterns, addictions, seedy desires, and repressed memories once welcomed and transformed by the light of our consciousness give us our greatest power, creativity, and magnetism.

This is your guidebook to your underworld that you might claim everything that you are.

About the Author

Lillian is a co-founder of Mindlight and the Mindlight Institute, which has trained thousands of people to integrate trauma. She has been studying and practicing the healing arts since she was a child. She was a volunteer for the Stress Project that helped veterans heal from PTSD, has led trainings for Google Vitality Labs and SXSW.

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