Write Now Literary is pleased to be coordinating a blog tour for Edward King. This tour will run August 23. Book your own tour here. Book Title: The Works of Christ My Proof of God's Existence Genre: Christian, Poetry, Inspirational Paperback ISBN: 9781498464451 About The Works of Christ... In August 2010, Edward King was in a traumatic car accident that nearly ended his young life. From this accident, he had an incredible out-of-body experience. This is his story along with a collection of simple poetry designed to help one come closer to Christ. TO PURCHASE: https://www.xulonpress.com/bookstore/bookdetail.php?PB_ISBN=9781498464451&HC_ISBN= About Edward King...Edward King is a positive-writing author, who tells us about how to look at things in a positive perspective. With his inspirational writings, he has come a long way from being at on verge of death to being able to inspire many people with both his life and his writings. With his quick healing from the death-defying car accident, Edward King goes through everyday looking to God for all of his answers and finds so much inspiration. He writes to show everyone the God he knows. CONNECT SOCIALLY: Excerpt... Sometimes we lose vision, and we're blinded by our desires, but the Lord always cares about us, and he always inspires a servant of his to show each of us some clues that he will always love us, and his guidance, we'll never lose. From our birth to our death, he will always be there to cleanse us of our sins and enable us to care and love every one of our brothers and sisters in his name, for he loves us so much, he totally cleansed everyone's shame. Thanks for joining me for another Fab Friday and a Fabulous Release! Please be so gracious as to leave a comment below, I would love to hear from you!
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It's a #writerwednesday and today I'm sharing a throwback novel for many of you who aren't familiar with it. Is The Grass Really Greener shares the lives of 5 best friends, struggling with individual challenges. Each woman is comparing her own life to the lives of one of the other women in the group, desiring to have a different life. Yet, none of them truly know the other's deepest secrets. Today, beautiful, feisty, and smart Pavielle is facing the largest challenge and scare of her life. Read on... “Damn!” Pavi said aloud as she slammed the phone down on its cradle. She breathed a deep sigh, reflecting on the phone call. Dr. Schwartz wanted to see her in the office today. That could only mean one thing…she might be dealing with the “C” word. Pavi recalled the morning that she had first found the swelling when she was finishing her shower before heading off to work. Santiago, her boyfriend, had already left for work after spending the night with her. She was finishing a hot and refreshing shower, reminiscing about the night before, when she started her breast self-exam. It was something she had done every month since she was a teenager, and an act she recommended to all of her family and friends. Pavi was diligent about being a health conscious person, working out, eating healthy, meditating, routine doctor visits, and staying as stress-free as possible. It can’t be what I think it is…is it? No I’m being neurotic that wasn’t anything, just a little swelling, she thought to herself. Perhaps I have some type of bacterial infection under my arm, she attempted to reason with herself. She knew that it wasn’t there last month…or was it? Before she allowed her anxieties to kick in, she got out the shower, dried off and made the call to Dr. Schwartz’s office for an appointment. That had been almost two weeks ago, and now she was getting the phone call that she had anticipated and dreaded simultaneously. She turned away from her desk and stared out the window at the fountain in the park across the street- seeing but not seeing. Her view of the square was exquisite, but it didn't hold her attention at the moment. Tapping a long Platinum Pink lacquered nail against her pearly white teeth, her mind was a million miles away. Strategic planning was her strength, not indecision. Indecision was for the weak, it was for the confused. She lived life on her own terms and dictated what did and did not happen. And that's what she was about to do now. She took her long, red hair and pulled it up into a messy bun, and plopped down into the high-backed tan leather swivel chair. Picking up the phone, Pavi dialed extension 5387 for her assistant Carolyn. “Yes, Ms. Herrera?” “I have three appointments today and I need you to reschedule them for me for some other time or preferably another day.” “Okay, let me know which ones you would like to change. You have an 11:30 with Pete Ogilvie, a 3:15 with Nicholas Hambrick and a 1:00 lunch with Sharon in accounting, and that’s been rescheduled twice,” Carolyn stated with a bit of warning in her voice. If Pavi decided not to keep these appointments, it would be Carolyn’s responsibility to cancel, and she knew that Sharon was not happy about the two canceled luncheons already. She would never take her frustration out on Pavi, but Carolyn would definitely feel the effects of Sharon’s exasperation. “Damn,” Pavi said again for the second time in less than five minutes. “Cancel my three o’clock with Nick until next week, and I’ll contact Sharon. It’s already after eleven so Pete’s probably on his way. Update my calendar for Nick and send a birthday card to Mike Eggers.” Pavi hung up the phone before Carolyn could reply. Carolyn didn’t take offense at it; she knew that Pavi had just received a call from her doctor’s office and she had been distracted all week. Carolyn made a mental note to get Pavi a Thinking of You card. Pavi had been a wonderful boss over the course of the past two years since Carolyn had been working at the real estate management firm, and was always thoughtful of what was going on in Carolyn’s life. “Sharon…I’m rescheduling our luncheon this afternoon. Yes, the reports are in now, but I have to handle something that can’t be helped. I’m sorry, but you’ll just have to consult your schedule and tell me what available opening you have on Monday. Yes, sure, I promise we can meet on Monday for lunch…on second thought scratch that; let’s move it to first thing Monday at nine, are you open?” Pavi listened with a small thread of patience as Sharon consulted her calendar. They scheduled their meeting for Monday morning at nine, and Pavi hung up to prepare for her meeting with Pete Ogilvie. Life would go on. Download ITGRG... About Chelle Ramsey... Women's fiction author and blogger, Chelle Ramsey brings a refreshing perspective into the lives of her readers and wants them to find entertainment, healing and inspiration in each novel. Using real problems and challenges faced by ordinary people, Chelle wants readers to become empowered to rise above life's adversities, with faith in God, and belief in themselves. Her stories are relatable to individuals of diverse demographics, who have suffered a loss, been hurt, have low self-esteem, have lost hope, or need a word of encouragement. She strives to take your emotions on a roller coaster ride, one page at a time. Chelle holds an MBA in Human Resource Management, which she puts to use in her Human Resources role by day, while she writes her fiction novels at night. And in her spare time, she’s a blogger, freelance writer, and ghostwriter. Her most important roles are those of a wife and mother of three. During her “me time,” she becomes enraptured with the enthralling stories of Terry McMillan, Nora Roberts, James Patterson and Stuart Woods. Chelle Ramsey resides in a rural community in Atlanta, Georgia and enjoys writing, family time, and watching NBA games. She hosts the annual 20 Days of Love authors’ blogging campaign, March Madness authors’ giveaways campaign, and showcases other authors on her blog at www.chelleramsey.com/beautifully-inspired-blog. Her novels can be found online at Chelle Ramsey Amazon. LINKS: WEB: www.chelleramsey.com BLOG: http://www.chelleramsey.com/beautifully-inspired-blog EMAIL: chelleramseywrites@gmail.com FACEBOOK: ChelleWrites TWITTER: @UndeniablyChell PINTEREST: ChellesBooks INSTAGRAM: UndeniablyChelle Thanks for joining me for another Writer Wednesday! Please be so gracious as to leave a comment below, I would love to hear from you!
To join this blog simply click "Follow This Blog," "Subscribe," or "Email" links in the upper right corner. "Many are the plans in the mind of a man, but it is the purpose of the LORD that will stand." Proverbs 19:21 ESV Hey, y'all. I know it's been a while and for the last several months I seem to be in and out of social media space and blogging. I haven't given up on any of this and I hope you haven't given up on me. I have been busily plugging away at learning a new job that has consumed so much of my time. So, if you follow me on social media I announced on Friday that it was the last day of being a contractor for the Coca-Cola company. At the beginning of October 2017 I was laid off from my HR job at a local company. There were a total of 176 of us that were part of a RIF (reduction in force). For the first time ever, I signed up with a temp agency (last resort) after applying for a job with them that I didn't realize was through a temp agency. Long story short...in December of last year they placed me in the payroll department with Coca-Cola here in Atlanta, which has led to a full-time position. Praise Almighty God! Now, I've had payroll experience, but nothing like I've gained in the last 8 1/2 months. So, I'm back in business and focused. But my true purpose here today is to share with you a pain point in life for me, and I hope you will find motivation or inspiration in it for your journey ahead. Read on... ******************************************************************* I am often conflicted. I know what I want to do, yet, it seems no matter how hard I may push in a specific direction I find myself somewhere entirely different. Almost like fighting against the wind. I have found this truth evident in may areas of my life, but especially in my career. When I slow up long enough to consider it, I know exactly why that is. My plans that I make for myself are often dictated by my wants, my emotions, and my desires. They are not in alignment with Almighty God's will for my life, and I have not given them to Him in prayer, trusting Him with every facet of my life. I have not trusted Him to guide me and understanding that He knows what He has purposed for me. In those rare events that I do sit back and wait on Him, ALL IS WELL. I pursued my degree in Human Resources Management and received my MBA. I have worked in plenty of HR roles and gained expansive experience and knowledge, yet, I somehow always come back to roles dealing with NUMBERS. I HATE NUMBERS! Or that was the lie I always used to tell myself. As a child, I struggled in math and my father, who was excellent at it, was an impatient and lackluster teacher at best. If I struggled with a particular concept, rather than encouraging me and exhibiting patience, or trying to find a better way to ingrain the theory in my head, he would belittle me. Therefore, math became synonymous with fear, inadequacy, failure, and just being plain dumb. It wasn't until years later that my husband would teach me various concepts of breaking math down in its simplest components that I realized it wasn't as difficult as I feared. But I still didn't like it. The next thing I know, I'm working at a bank, then in an accounting department, and so on and so forth. So, maybe I don't hate math. I just dislike it, right? Still, years later after my husband taught me how to tackle and face my issues dealing with math, I came to realize that I'm not afraid of it. When I finally tied my loathing for math back to my childhood experiences, I understood that I had this thing on lock. Writing and reading are still my core and favorite subjects and areas that I know I'm gifted in, but math no longer seems daunting and I embrace challenges to resolve problems and work my way through critical thinking skills. This is an essential skill in payroll, which is where my career has landed me. Throughout the years, no matter how hard I tried to avoid jobs with high Math functions, the Lord always led me right back there. Why? Well, I believe there were some crucial lessons He wanted me to learn, some important issues He needed me to face, and some healing that He had in store for me. All in lessons of Math. Even more important, I came to learn that facing my fears wasn't as scary as I believed. And you know what? I think there's so much more He has in store for me in that area, but I will no longer fight it. I'll sit back and allow Him to guide my thoughts, my directions, and the plans for my life. Because only then can I know true peace and success. About Chelle Ramsey... Women's fiction author and blogger, Chelle Ramsey brings a refreshing perspective into the lives of her readers and wants them to find entertainment, healing and inspiration in each novel. Using real problems and challenges faced by ordinary people, Chelle wants readers to become empowered to rise above life's adversities, with faith in God, and belief in themselves. Her stories are relatable to individuals of diverse demographics, who have suffered a loss, been hurt, have low self-esteem, have lost hope, or need a word of encouragement. She strives to take your emotions on a roller coaster ride, one page at a time. Chelle holds an MBA in Human Resource Management, which she puts to use in her Human Resources role by day, while she writes her fiction novels at night. And in her spare time, she’s a blogger, freelance writer, and ghostwriter. Her most important roles are those of a wife and mother of three. During her “me time,” she becomes enraptured with the enthralling stories of Terry McMillan, Nora Roberts, James Patterson and Stuart Woods. Chelle Ramsey resides in a rural community in Atlanta, Georgia and enjoys writing, family time, and watching NBA games. She hosts the annual 20 Days of Love authors’ blogging campaign, March Madness authors’ giveaways campaign, and showcases other authors on her blog at www.chelleramsey.com/beautifully-inspired-blog. Her novels can be found online at Chelle Ramsey Amazon. LINKS: WEB: www.chelleramsey.com BLOG: http://www.chelleramsey.com/beautifully-inspired-blog EMAIL: chelleramseywrites@gmail.com FACEBOOK: ChelleWrites TWITTER: @UndeniablyChell PINTEREST: ChellesBooks INSTAGRAM: UndeniablyChelle Thanks for joining me for another Motivational Monday Moment! Please be so gracious as to leave a comment below, I would love to hear from you!
To join this blog simply click "Follow This Blog," "Subscribe," or "Email" links in the upper right corner. About Burning Desire...Deborah Ann Spence listed over 60 homes during her first year in Real Estate by cold calling expired listings and 'for sale' by owners (FSBOs). In 2016, Deborah won Rookie of the Year, Top Units Listed, Top Units Sold, Top Combined Units Sold in her sales region in the suburbs of Philadelphia, PA. This type of success from a rookie agent (without any formal sales training) is unheard of in the industry. Deborah shares her story of what motivated her to stay the course, survive her first year in real estate sales, and to ultimately, come out on top. This is a true story of how one woman turned tragedy into triumph and hardship into success. In Burning Desire, Deborah will share with you the tools needed for success and the activities that, as a new agent or newer agent, should be your primary focus. After reading this book, you too, will be inspired and motivated to reach the top level of your field in real estate, mortgages, finance, investments, or whatever you choose to do. This is an opportunity for you to change your life. It was for Deborah, and it will be for you, as well. Purchase your copy today. Do not wait. As they say in real estate: time is of the essence. "Once you dig down deep and find your burning desire, you will be able to use that as a motivating force." --Deborah Spence, top-ranking realtor and author of Burning Desire www.tinyurl.com/BurningDesireMotivational As tough as it was living in the South Bronx, living on the streets was an eye-opening and motivating experience for me. I read a lot of motivational books, most of which I will share in the appendix at the end of the book. I also read articles and blogs about my condition to learn different techniques to help minimize my symptoms. I became super-charged with changing my life and maintaining my health. I realized that I wanted a break from relationships and instead I wanted to create a uniform routine to help me with the chaos in my mind. At one point I tried selling insurance in hopes of finding a career path. It didn’t work out, but I knew something else was out there; it was just a matter of finding it. One of the most important things when it comes to changing your life is having a strong desire to make such a change – you must be totally open to doing it. I was open to finding something new and since I always wanted to go into business, the question was now; how would I get there? Meanwhile, as I continued to improve my life, I learned my way around Philadelphia in a beaten-up old car, driving my son to all sorts of baseball and football games. He was always a good athlete, so when he wasn’t in school, he was playing for some traveling team. It was good for me, since the more I drove him to games, the more I got to know the city. I liked Philadelphia more than New York because it was smaller, less complicated and had a lot of neighborhoods side by side, rather than the four very busy boroughs, and Staten Island, which I had rarely ever visited. At some point, while driving around my new founded home city I had some car troubles and took my car to an auto repair shop to have a mechanic check it out. Never could I have guessed that a trip to the auto repair would change my life. While the Mechanic fixed my car, he talked about a vacant lot adjacent to the repair shop. He pointed out how one person might see the vacant lot as an eyesore, but how he saw millions of dollars in investment funds and a lucrative opportunity to develop an underdeveloped area. I didn’t understand, so I kept asking questions. He explained that there was so much room for a developer to come and build, not just one house on this vacant lot, but someone could possibly build three houses and triple their investment. My mechanic explained that real estate was a great way for ordinary people to become financially independent and even wealthy, he wasn’t wrong. When I researched real estate, I found many very successful real estate owners who knew how to buy and sell properties. Despite my medical condition, I always had a burning desire to succeed and to take care of my family. I started pursuing real estate after having that conversation with my Mechanic. At the time, I was selling pre-paid cell phones for a pre-paid carrier. It was another in the long line of jobs I had after relocating to Philadelphia. I remember coming across an opportunity on Craigslist to become a manager of a popular pre-paid cell phone store. I went on an interview and was hired. After a few months, I had successfully turned around the sales of this small failing store and was then given an opportunity to move up to managing several stores in the area. I worked as a second level retailer under a master dealer, but sadly by the end of the month, after paying my expenses, I was not making any money. In fact, at the end of the month, I had to pay the master dealer to cover expenses that were not met by sales alone. This was very frustrating for me. It also didn’t help that most of the people working for me did not want to work very hard. These were people with less ambition than the drug-dealers or con artists I saw in the South Bronx. In fact, they hated me because I was trying to work hard and make a living. They threatened to rob me, kidnap my family and other horrible things. They felt that I pushed them too hard because I expected them to show up each day on time and do some work. Many of them were annoyed that they were no longer eligible for public assistance. They blamed me, the manager, for all their problems. Meanwhile, I was getting more frustrated each month when I’d look at my bank account. Finally, I recognized that this was a dead-end job. No money, no future, and people who wanted me dead. So, I thought about the conversation I’d had with my mechanic, with whom I’d developed a friendship, and it inspired me to go on the Internet to research real estate as a career. Burning Desire by Deborah Spence is available on Amazon.com LINK: tinyurl.com/DeborahAnnSpenceBook https://www.amazon.com/Burning-Desire-motivational-successful-business/dp/197706440X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1527668185&sr=8-1&keywords=burning+desire+deborah+spence Thanks for joining us for another Fab Friday! Please be so gracious as to leave a comment below, I'm sure Deborah would love to hear from you!
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