Author Interview: Caroline Allen

Welcome to our first author interview of 2017! Here at The Writing Life blog, I have the great pleasure of chatting with authors across genres every Tuesday. Today, I’m happy to chat with tal…

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The Trouble with Apartment A

In Prague, I lived in a building a lot like the one(s) in this photo still from The Third Man. Not enough light; the faucets barely worked; there was a weird film poster of “Nanuk of the Nort…

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Mystery Monday@  Review of The Body In The Snow: A Bebe Bollinger Murder Mystery (Bebe Bollinger Murder Mysteries Book 1) by Christoph Fischer #bookreview

Book Description Fading celebrity Bebe Bollinger is on the wrong side of fifty and dreaming of a return to the limelight. When a TV show offers the chance of a comeback, Bebe grabs it with both han…

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About Pages of Shustah

The Pages of Shustah is a deck of Divination and Meditation cards developed and created in the early 1970s by Ann Maser and Cecil North. The Deck consists of 70 cards divided into 5 suits, with 14 …

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Keanu Reeves in “John Wick”!

Hello & Welcome to Miss TaffeytheChamp’s Blog! By any chance, are any of you familiar with Keanu Reeves’ recent action blockbuster hit simply entitled, “John Wick”? Well I am, and I would like …

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Like Dragons? Stoking the Flames

It’s finally here! I’ve been working on this project for a while but couldn’t say anything about it until now! I’m in this fabulous boxed set with 12 other fabulous authors.…

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A book to keep you awake until you finish

I’m deeply grateful to everyone who has purchased, read, and taken the time to review one of my books. All profits from my books go to help get dogs like Linus, Scampi, Trinity, Berkley, Wolfie, Lu…

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Michele PW – Love-Based Money & Mindset – PROMO Blitz

 

 
 
Personal Development/ Self-Help
Date Published:  December 2016
Make The Money You Desire Without Selling Your Soul
Publisher: Love-Based Publishing
Are you ready to step into a life of peaceful prosperity?
For many of us, money is a source of angst. Maybe there’s never enough and it’s a constant source of stress. Maybe no matter how hard you work, you’re never able to get ahead. Or maybe you’re in so much debt, all you feel is shame and despair.
If any of this sounds familiar, then you’re in for a treat. Love-Based Money and Mindset is designed to help you heal your relationship with money so you not only feel peaceful about it, but so you’re also able to attract all the abundance you want.
While this book is designed to help everyone who struggles with money issues, it’s particularly helpful for those who have (or want to have) a business. The bottom line: The more you can cultivate a love-based mindset, the more easily and effortlessly you’ll attract money into your life.
Other Books in the Love Based Business Series

Business, Writing

Publisher: Love-Based Publishing
Published: July 2014
 
Do you hate the way sales and marketing copy makes you feel? Sales-y? Inauthentic? Hype-y? Just plain icky? You’re not alone … and there’s a reason you feel that way. It’s because traditional sales and marketing copy (also known as direct response copy) sells by tapping into fear.
But, you don’t have to use fear – you can sell and market your business using love instead. And when you do that, you stop manipulating and twisting arms to get buyers, and instead start attracting, inspiring and inviting your ideal clients into your business.
Ahhh — doesn’t that sound wonderful?
In this book, copywriting and marketing expert Michele PW (Pariza Wacek) teaches you the philosophy and the foundational principles behind selling with love versus fear – the same principles she’s used to help her clients build their businesses over the years. Plus, she includes dozens of exercises so you too can easily implement love-based copy in your own business.
Whether you’re a seasoned entrepreneur or business owner or just starting out, you’ll discover valuable tips and strategies around selling and marketing with love. And not only will you feel great about it, so will your ideal clients.


Business, Writing
Publisher: Love-Based Publishing
Published: September 2015
 
If you’re a business owner, entrepreneur, expert, speaker, author, coach or consultant who would love to create marketing materials that attract, inspire and invite your ideal prospects to become ideal clients without sounding hype-y or sales-y, then this book may be exactly what you’ve been looking for.
In Michele’s first book, “Love-Based Copywriting Method,” she walks you through the philosophy of love-based copywriting and explains why traditional copy and marketing feels so icky. In this book, “Love-Based Copywriting System” she rolls up her sleeves and walks you though her exact system for writing copy that converts without feeling sleazy.
You’ll discover exercises, examples, templates and more — in fact, it’s designed to be a “copywriting course in a book.” You’ll get detailed, step-by-step teachings of everything from headlines to features and benefits to presenting your offer and more, so if you follow along and complete the exercises, by the end of the book, you’ve got your copy created.
Also as a bonus, it included a free workbook!


Business, Marketing
Publisher: Love-Based Publishing
Published: April 2016
As an entrepreneur, small business owner, coach, consultant, speaker, author, and/or expert, you know marketing is the lifeblood of growing a successful business. Yet, for so many of us, marketing is also one of our biggest struggles.
Well, that’s all about to change. In Love-Based Online Marketing, Michele PW walks you through exactly how to create an Online Marketing Plan tailored specifically to you and your goals so you can grow a business you love AND that loves you back!
And the best part, thanks to the Assessment included in this book, your Online Marketing Plan will be based around your Marketing Love Factor. This means you’ll not only love your marketing (really! Even if you’ve always hated it before!), but you’ll also be empowered to market your business in the exact, perfect way for you.
So if attracting, inspiring and inviting your ideal prospects to become ideal clients and customers without being hype-y, sales-y or slime-y feels like a breath of fresh air, this book may be exactly what you’ve been looking for. 
 

 

When Michele was 3 years old, she taught herself to read because she wanted to write stories so badly.
As you can imagine, writing has been a driving passion throughout her life. She became a professional copywriter (which is writing promotional materials for businesses), which led to her founding a copywriting and marketing company that serves clients all over the world.
Along with being a copywriter, she also writes novels (in fact, she just published her first two psychological thriller/suspense/mystery novels called “The Stolen Twin” and “Mirror Image'”) plus, she is also the author of the “Love-Based Copy” books, which are a part of the “Love-Based Business” series and cover both business and personal development.
She holds a double major in English and Communications from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Currently she lives in the mountains of Prescott, Arizona with her husband Paul and southern squirrel hunter Cassie.
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Hwyl Llandeilo Lit Fest Programme Update

The programme of the Llandeilo Lit Fest – or Hwyl Llen Llandeilo in Welsh – is taking shape.To keep you up-to-date about the exciting programme, here are some highlights from our planne…

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TAVISH by Jane Stain ~ TIME TRAVEL ROMANCE ~

 
 Time Travel Romance
Date Published: January 1, 2017

Tavish was the best boyfriend Kelsey ever had, but seven years ago he disappeared. She coped with her heartbreak by finishing her doctorate in Celtic Artwork, and now her career is taking off. Except Tavish is back, but not in a good way. He keeps showing up at her job sites and butting into her business – all the while wearing that stupid sexy kilt.

But she’s here to see the ruins, not Tavish. So she’ll just have to show him who’s boss at this site. Because rumor has it that under these cliffs at Dunskey Castle lies the ancient palace of the kings of Alba. Gggrr. Why does he seem to know more about it than she does?

Excerpt
“Are you sure you can’t come by, Sasha? This necklace is odd. The patterns aren’t matching up with any in the computer. It’s still searching, but it’s going slower and slower.”
Sasha’s redheaded face appeared in the corner of Kelsey’s screen.
“No, I have to lecture this afternoon, sorry. But tomorrow’s the weekend, maybe then. I just logged in so I could see. Fascinating. Maybe you’ll catalogue an entire newfound strain of Celtic expression.”
“Wouldn’t that be something?”
Kelsey wanted to say more.
But bare chested Tavish MacGregor came bustling into her tent from the tower house, where a bunch of other construction workers were busy. Bronze haired and brown eyed like Kelsey, he had been a nosy construction worker at every last one of her Scottish clients’ places so far, and always stubbornly wearing that red and green plaid great kilt that made him so darn sexy she could just…
Oh no.
Kelsey sat up straight and smiled at her client, who seemed to be getting dragged in on the hem of Tavish’s kilt.
“I’ve got to go, Sasha.”
“Business?”
“Yeah, call you back tonight.”
Typical. Tavish had wandered away from his own work and was looking at hers.
“‘Tis not ‘Celtic jewelry,’” he said to Mr. Blair. “Nay, it be not auld warld.”
And he said this in his sexy accent that had drawn her to him in the first place. Not to mention those twinkling brown eyes that could see into her soul whenever they wanted. And those strong arms that had made her feel so loved and cherished, all those years ago. And his fighting prowess that had protected her a time or two…
Kelsey blinked herself back into the present and turned to her client, to gauge his reaction to what Tavish had told him.
Mr. Blair looked skeptical, but patient.
“Hold on, nae. Let the doctor finish her appraisal, lad.”
Ha, Lad. Good thing someone was around who could put Tavish in his place. She didn’t trust herself to try—and besides, she was a professional woman now, not the teen she’d been when she and Tavish knew each other.
She gave her client a patient conspiratorial smile, which he returned. This made her feel warm inside. He respected her expertise, unlike some people.
With the young virile man and the grey stooped man both watching, she finished her complicated high-tech tests on the necklace. Unwilling to believe what she saw and trying not to scowl, she tested a silver goblet next, and then an ornate bronze breastplate.
Finally, she had to admit that Tavish was right. 
 
 
 
 

 

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