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Well, I’ll admit that maybe that’s a misleading title for this blog post. The last time that ‘Twelve Easy Emotional Fitness Exercises to Tame Mad, Bad, and Sad Feelings’ was offered for free on Amazon Kindle it was downloaded over 800 times. Whether or not those people actually read the eBook or still have it [...]

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“If your kid has run away, even for an hour or two, you need to read this eBook carefully. Chronic, long-term running away – the kind that ends in prostitution or other dangerous ventures – usually begins with short-term sprints. Learn how to deal with this behavior so that you can help your child break [...]

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It’s an uncomfortable topic for many, especially because any sentence with the words “child” and “sex” just screams out alarm bells for a lot of people – those two words shouldn’t be together! The reality is though that children become young adults and young adults (including teenagers) often become sexually active. Whilst a parent cannot [...]

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From one advocate on caring for people with dementia to another … Sandy Spencer, who runs free-alzheimers-support.com with the motto “Learning and Sharing information to support loved ones with Alzheimer’s and Dementia” has read and reviewed Dorothy Web’s inspirational memoir, ‘When Goodbye Begins – Sharing Life With Dementia‘.  More than anything, Sandy can relate to [...]

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Peter Rake has a unique and yet distinctly Australian voice. His writing is sometimes poignant, often witty and always engaging. What makes his stories so memorable are the details built into the plot, of life in outback Queensland in the 1950s and 1960s. The details come from genuine personal experience and Peter Rake has taken [...]

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It is with a warm thank you that I point your direction to an author spotlight by the great supporter or writers, Morgen Bailey, on the newly published poet, Janet Tan. Janet’s debut collection, ‘On The Edge of Consciousness‘, was published earlier in the month by MetaPlume and it has already received two 5-star reviews [...]

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For most people, poetry is either a love it or hate it deal. For young adults, it can be a swoon – an escape and an expression of feelings that are inexpressible. One young reader of Janet Tan’s collection of poetry for young adults had this to say: “I am not usually much of a [...]

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‘When Good Kids Do Bad Things – A Survival Guide for Parents of Teenagers’ is a generous read of almost 250 pages, covering over a dozen topics. In late 2012, eight of those key topics, based on chapters from the book, were presented as $0.99 eBooks, giving parents the option to do a quick but [...]

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