 How to Write & Sell
Simple Information for Fun and Profit
Your Guide to Writing and Publishing
Books, E-Books, Articles, Special Reports, Audio Programs, DVDs and Other How-To Content
Writing
informational, how-to nonfiction is the ideal career for career
changers, consultants and entrepreneurs of all kinds. Writing builds
your brand, establishes your expertise, extends your influence—not to
mention that writing can be a highly profitable career.
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 California Snatch Racket Kidnappings During the Prohibition and Depression Eras
In California in the 1920s and
1930s, kidnapping—nicknamed the snatch racket by a cynical newspaperman—was
the most booming criminal
enterprise around. Driven by greed, desperation
and sometimes plain stupidity, ransom artists preyed indiscriminately on
Hollywood socialites, wealthy heiresses, and even poor people who couldn’t
pay a dime. Every new disappearance sold more newspapers, but for both the
kidnappers and their unfortunate victims, even the simplest caper often went
tragically wrong. Read
More
 Death for Beginners
Your No-Nonsense, Money-Saving Guide to
Planning for the Inevitable
Inspired to write after watching
a close friend deal with an unexpected death, author Karen Jones put her 15
years of television journalism experience to work and began learning about
the death business from the ground up … or rather the ground down.
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 Navigating the Rough Waters of Today's Publishing World
Navigating the Rough Waters of
Today’s Publishing World tells both new and experienced writers what’s
happening now in fiction and nonfiction book publishing, including the new
rules on packaging your book, working with agents, getting published in
magazines and newspapers, online and ebook publication, and marketing and
promotion. Read
More
 Teen
2.0
Saving Our Children and
Families from the Torment of Adolescence
Praised as “a must-read” (Newt Gingrich), “rigorous and persuasive” (Deepak Chopra), “a landmark book” (Dr. Drew Pinsky), “profoundly important” (Dr. Joyce Brothers) and “one of the most revolutionary books I have ever read” (Dr. Albert Ellis),
Teen 2.0 challenges all conventional wisdom about teenagers from top to bottom.
Read
More
 The
Joy of Geocaching
How to Find Health, Happiness and Creative
Energy Through a Worldwide Treasure Hunt
The Joy of Geocaching is the first comprehensive guide to this exciting new game, offering plain-English
instructions to help anyone get started with geocaching, exclusive profiles of some of the world’s most
experienced geocachers and secrets of advanced geocaching.
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 Next
Steps
A Practical Guide to Planning for the Best Half of Your Life
There are more than 36 million
Americans age 65 or over, and 22 million family-member caregivers, all
grappling with the major decisions that accompany the latter stages of
life. This book is for them.
Next Steps thoroughly
covers topic such as cohabitation, divorce, remarriage, incapacity, medical
directives, and long-term care. Also discussed are sensitive issues such
as how to avoid family power struggles over an incapacitated parent's
health-care wishes or estate, and how to protect your rights in a nursing
home environment. Read
More
 The Complete
Geezer GuidebookEverything
You Need to Know About Being Old and Grumpy!
Lavishly illustrated—including over 50
classic tart cartoons from The New
Yorker—The Complete Geezer Guidebook is a hilarious celebration of the
joys of living long enough to be irritating to everyone around you. Avowed
geezer Chuck Adams affectionately but unerringly zings the eccentricity,
inconsiderateness, stubbornness, obstinacy, stinginess and general
grumpiness that transforms a regular, harmless old person into that awesome
work of nature, the authentic geezer. The Complete Geezer Guidebook is the
perfect gift for geezers or anyone who has to put up with them.
PR
Therapy
This tell-it-like-it-is book is filled with field-tested entrepreneurial know-how
from Robin Blakely, the ‘idea girl’ who worked with individuals, nonprofit
leaders, small business owners, and talented upstarts for more than a dozen
years. Now, it’s your turn.
With PR
THERAPY, you’ll learn how to visualize and build your promotional platform.
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Death in California
The Bizarre, Freakish, and Just Curious Ways People Die in the State of California
Ah, carefree California—the land of beaches, sunshine, celebrities … and so
many shocking and gruesome ways to die. David Kulczyk, the dean of offbeat
California history, chronicles 31 bizarre and grisly true stories in this
new book. Kulczyk turns a sardonic, but
always humane, eye to strange and gruesome events from the earliest
California pioneers to the present day.
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Recent
Releases
  
 Could
It Be B12?
An Epidemic of Misdiagnoses
Vitamin B12 deficiency plays a defining
role in many seemingly hopeless problems. But, even in the face of these studies,
this disorder has somehow been overlooked by the general medical field and
is often misdiagnosed—with disastrous consequences. The authors include
numerous case histories and offer their readers strategies on how to learn
if they or a loved one may be suffering from a B12 deficiency. The
first book to explore this deadly problem! Read More
New in the
Series
 Unleashing
Your Creativity After 50!
John Lennon once said “Life is what happens to you
while you’re busy making other plans.”
All of us had dreams of being creative when we
were young. Many of us wanted to be great artists, actors, or writers.
Others…rock ’n’ roll idols.
Then “life happened.”
So many of our dreams evaporated, disappeared, dissolved, or were shunted
aside for more traditional and practical pursuits. Now, with families
raised, roots set, and careers under control, it’s time to address your
creative self.
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