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An Interview with Vercie Lark: Author of Make it Rain

Vercie Lark, author of Make It Rain is a recently retired executive vice president and head of DST Systems Financial Services business with revenues of approximately $1 billion, was accountable for providing industry leading products and services to asset management, brokerage, retirement, banking and insurance investment firms throughout the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom.

While working for several Fortune 500 firms over the past 35 years Lark also owned or invested in various small businesses including an online clothing business, investing in an early stage technology company, a restaurant, multifamily real estate, and a well-known gasoline and convenience […]

SPR2019-04-18T11:28:41+02:00April 18th, 2019|Categories: Interviews|

An Interview with Jimmie Martinez: Author of Cajun Chameleon

Jimmie Martinez is the author of a total of four books. He has a BA degree from Louisiana State University in New Orleans, now the University of New Orleans. His interests include traveling, reading and watching classic film noir movies. He is also a passionate Saints and LSU football fan.

The former New Orleans Policeman and Chief Administrative Officer of the City of Kenner, Louisiana and co-founder and CEO of a civil engineering firm is now retired. Born and raised in New Orleans, he resides in Kenner and his beach condo in Orange Beach, Alabama with his wife Gale.

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SPR2019-04-18T10:03:09+02:00April 18th, 2019|Categories: Interviews|

Review: Effective Leaders and Leadership by Mildred Stallworth

In this straightforward and surefooted guide to becoming an effective leader, author Mildred Stallworth offers a compendium of ideas that can prove helpful to people in all aspects of professional and personal life in Effective Leaders and Leadership.

Leaders, Stallworth says, create a vision that others can then follow. Comparing the leader of an organization to the head of the human body, she suggests that the “head” of a group has the responsibility to think and make decisions to control the actions and directions of the group as a whole. The head literally oversees the body; if the head […]

SPR2019-05-28T11:56:23+02:00April 17th, 2019|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: Business Book Reviews, Leadership Book Reviews, Religion Book Reviews|

An Interview with Cara Cilento: Author of Snapshots: Say Cheese! The World Is Watching

Cara Cilento grew up in a small suburban North Jersey town. Her family of origin did not. Her parents came from urban North Jersey. Cara’s grandparents were immigrants from Italy and first generation transplants from Newark, NJ. They were a close knit family which pushed success: academic and personal. Most of all, they pushed assimilation.

Cara Cilento is a divorced mother of two boys. She has been a speech therapist for twenty-two years in the public schools. She lives in suburban North Jersey on her terms. She defines her own personal success as living her truth and not what is […]

SPR2019-04-30T09:43:32+02:00April 12th, 2019|Categories: Interviews|

Selling for Non-Selling Professionals by Oreste J. D’Aversa

An experienced marketing professional offers friendly, focused advice for those new to the complexities of the sales business in Selling for Non-Selling Professionals©: Learn Basic, Proven and Results Oriented Sales Skills, Methods and Techniques to Get Clients Consistently with No Prior Sales Background and Increase Revenue.

Throughout the book, author Oreste J. D’Aversa repeats his “ABC”: Always Be Closing. Closing a sale requires empathy – the customer must feel that you care about his/her requirements, must always be “the star of your show,” since people “buy emotionally and justify intellectually.” His book covers such significant requisites as having a […]

SPR2019-04-05T08:15:14+02:00April 5th, 2019|Categories: New Releases|Tags: Business Book Reviews|

Jeff Bezos to Study Kindle Ebooks to Learn the Secrets of the Universe

Seattle, Washington, April 1st, 2019 – Today Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos revealed that he is going to study all Kindle ebooks to finally answer life’s enduring mysteries. The idea came to him when watching the second season of the Netflix series, “The OA.” In the series, a tech billionaire creates a game to lure in gamers in order to study their dreams, which seem to have repeated patterns that reveal mystical secrets, so he can then…not sure, it’s entertaining, but kind of confusing.

“First off,” Bezos said from his home in Medina, WA, “You should only have an Amazon Prime […]

SPR2019-04-02T04:45:07+02:00April 1st, 2019|Categories: News|Tags: Amazon News and Tips|

Review: Kaleidoscope of Colors by Robert A. Cozzi

In Kaleidoscope of Colors, poet Robert A Cozzi has created a new collection of his verse using the motif of the kaleidoscope, a device that fractures and re-orders reality in microcosm, just as poems reduce and revive the color and a shape of life’s situations to give them new meaning.

In the opening Author’s Note, Cozzi questions why we always seem to “explain emotions,” calling our feelings “tricky devils.” But he likes them, even when they are painful and cloud his mind. Despite this rather dark segue, his first poem, “Jumping Off the Shelf” is hopeful, using images of […]

SPR2019-05-16T10:43:05+02:00March 28th, 2019|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: Poetry Book Reviews|

High on God by Matt Spinks

Written by a dedicated Christian, High on God: There’s No High Like the Most High explores a marvelous mystery: what if God simply wants us to be happy?

As a boy, Spinks was drawn to God, and despite the confusions of adolescence, including using drugs, he turned his life to mission work. With his wife and like-minded friends he founded a charitable ministry. But he was still in a controlling, almost depressive state. Then he had a true revelation – that God means us to enjoy his love right now and all the time: “Jesus came to announce that heaven […]

SPR2019-03-27T11:17:29+02:00March 27th, 2019|Categories: New Releases|Tags: Religion Book Reviews|