The author, an award-winning speaker, trainer, and consultant, presents a robust, step-by-step guide for exhibitors to showcase their products at trade shows. In addition to setting goals, Davis presents five steps of an expert framework for achieving a successful trade show: Event Selection, Initial Planning, General Preparations, On-Site Efforts, Follow-Up, and Evaluation. The author explains …
Barrett, the president of the leadership-development company Success-Minded Leader, draws on decades of experience as a coach across multiple industries for this work. The author addresses leaders at all levels, arguing that modern organizations can no longer afford to ignore the financial and productivity costs of ineffective leadership. Poor leaders also can’t cultivate the skills …
Elver, guardian of the Jih Forest, continues to journey alongside the monk Artair, who, when he’s sleeping, shares his body with the soul of Lucian, previously a mage of the god the Bloody Claw. They’re accompanied by Sunay, a mage of the god of lies, Tisk, and Fleet, the keltraxia cub Elver rescued. The group …
The CIA sends Artemis Aphrodite Procter to become their chief of station in London and help “rebalance things with the Brits.” She accepts the assignment reluctantly, as she’s dismissive of the British in general and London in particular. Told that the city is lovely, she replies that’s the problem. The Brits are pickpockets, she claims, …
The author sets the stage immediately: “I am Joseph Senu, an African immigrant living in Redondo Beach, California, United States of America….I am telling my grandson, Caleb, my life story so that he may learn lessons from it to lead his own life.” Joseph, feeling that he’s in the “departure lounge” of his own existence, …
Bentley explores the difficult reality of being a doctor during the Covid pandemic: “The health care system, the people in it providing the care, were stretched beyond capacity.” While the story follows Bentley’s treatment of an array of patients, the larger tale is the author’s excessive self-criticism. Working herself to the bone, Bentley relied on …
The author explains in his introduction that he wanted to create pieces that “hung there in midair, suspended” without categorizing them as prose poetry, flash fiction, or micro-fiction. The very short entries presented here, sometimes only spanning a few pages, generally introduce a single character, capture one consequential moment, and culminate with an ironic reversal. …
On the eve of his Full Horn Ceremony, young faun Panmiel is playing in the forest when he meets Hobkin, a satyr. They spend the day together, learning about their differences, but also their similarities. Despite being told all his life that satyrs are evil, Pan can’t help but see Hobkin as a friend who …
“Hank takes this stuff seriously,” hunter Randy Newberg stresses in Buck, Buck, Moose’s 10th anniversary foreword. Over nearly 300 pages of hunting stories, butchery guides, and recipes, readers will surely come to agree—Hank does take this stuff seriously. Shaw, a former restaurant cook, has made a career out of welcoming curious readers to the “wild food …
It’s August 2005 in Hartless, a small, dusty town in the Texas Panhandle. Kindergarten teacher Helen McCabe, in her mid-50s, has just finished the first week of school, hoping that her class will help her find her mooring again. Her husband, Hal, recently died in a car crash; he drove into an intersection, just as …
