Information Writing is the essential guide for all students wanting to develop their literacy skills and improve their grades in English assignments and...... more

Information Writing is the essential guide for all students wanting to develop their literacy skills and improve their grades in English assignments and examinations. It is the third in the "Teach Your Child to Write Good English' series. Information Writing has been written by an experienced teacher and tutor with the needs of children in mind. This book concentrates specifically on information writing required by the National Curriculum, providing everything needed to stimulate a child to write. It is specifically targeted at Key Stage 2 and 3 (ages 8-14 years). However, it provides a useful aid for students taking GCSE at foundation level. It contains material suitable for SATS examinations, for those taking 11+ entrance examinations and for students learning English as a foreign language. Information Writing teaches the child to recognize the difference between facts and opinions. It concentrates on different aspects of information writing including writing to advise, to inform, to explain and to analyse, review and comment, including examples. It teaches the child how a newspaper article is structured, how to write formal and informal letters, diaries, police reports, e-mails, biographies, autobiographies, interviews, book reviews and many more. This book is designed as a starting point for writing, helping the child to form ideas, enabling him or her to structure their work and organize it into paragraphs. Attention is given to making writing more interesting by varying sentence types, using punctuation and good grammar. Information Writing includes an exciting range of model answers and sample texts written by children and provides practice questions to test them. Common errors made by students are highlighted and corrected. It is packed with vital hints and tips on gaining those top grades. Information Writing is ideal for working through at home or as a resource in the classroom.

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Good Vibrations is a bright, convivial, women-owned, sex-toy store in San Francisco, where customers of both genders and all sexual orientations feel...... more

Good Vibrations is a bright, convivial, women-owned, sex-toy store in San Francisco, where customers of both genders and all sexual orientations feel welcome. Their book is as candid, upbeat and friendly as the store. It is filled with information that customers ask for most frequently, tips for enhancing your sex life, and reviews of a variety of sex toys. Good Vibrations believes that "there's more sexual pleasure available than most people experience" and "achieving this pleasure should not be difficult, dangerous, or expensive".This is a sex manual of a special sort. It starts with the basics ("Sexual Anatomy 101", "Communications", "Masturbation"), aimed at teaching the reader to receive and give pleasure. Other chapters ("Lubrication", "Creative Touching", "Oral Sex", "All About Vibrators", "Fantasies") describe how to enhance the sexual experience. You'll get answers to questions you never knew to ask: how to keep dildos clean, what is "packing", what is the appeal of S/M, for example. A substantial chapter on "Safer Sex" offers techniques both expected (use a condom) and unexpected (put it on him using your mouth). Quotations from real people about their sexual pleasures lend interest and eroticism. Explicit line drawings show sex between male-female, male-male and female-female partners, as well as solitary acts with vibrators. "In our fantasies, we dream of this book with its cracked spine and well-thumbed pages lying on your nightstand next to your vibrator, lube, massage oil and condoms", write the authors. For education and entertainment, this book is a winner. --Joan Price

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Information Writing is the essential guide for all students wanting to develop their literacy skills and improve their grades in English assignments and...... more

Information Writing is the essential guide for all students wanting to develop their literacy skills and improve their grades in English assignments and examinations. It is the third in the "Teach Your Child to Write Good English' series. Information Writing has been written by an experienced teacher and tutor with the needs of children in mind. This book concentrates specifically on information writing required by the National Curriculum, providing everything needed to stimulate a child to write. It is specifically targeted at Key Stage 2 and 3 (ages 8-14 years). However, it provides a useful aid for students taking GCSE at foundation level. It contains material suitable for SATS examinations, for those taking 11+ entrance examinations and for students learning English as a foreign language. Information Writing teaches the child to recognize the difference between facts and opinions. It concentrates on different aspects of information writing including writing to advise, to inform, to explain and to analyse, review and comment, including examples. It teaches the child how a newspaper article is structured, how to write formal and informal letters, diaries, police reports, e-mails, biographies, autobiographies, interviews, book reviews and many more. This book is designed as a starting point for writing, helping the child to form ideas, enabling him or her to structure their work and organize it into paragraphs. Attention is given to making writing more interesting by varying sentence types, using punctuation and good grammar. Information Writing includes an exciting range of model answers and sample texts written by children and provides practice questions to test them. Common errors made by students are highlighted and corrected. It is packed with vital hints and tips on gaining those top grades. Information Writing is ideal for working through at home or as a resource in the classroom.

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Good Vibrations is a bright, convivial, women-owned, sex-toy store in San Francisco, where customers of both genders and all sexual orientations feel...... more

Good Vibrations is a bright, convivial, women-owned, sex-toy store in San Francisco, where customers of both genders and all sexual orientations feel welcome. Their book is as candid, upbeat and friendly as the store. It is filled with information that customers ask for most frequently, tips for enhancing your sex life, and reviews of a variety of sex toys. Good Vibrations believes that "there's more sexual pleasure available than most people experience" and "achieving this pleasure should not be difficult, dangerous, or expensive".This is a sex manual of a special sort. It starts with the basics ("Sexual Anatomy 101", "Communications", "Masturbation"), aimed at teaching the reader to receive and give pleasure. Other chapters ("Lubrication", "Creative Touching", "Oral Sex", "All About Vibrators", "Fantasies") describe how to enhance the sexual experience. You'll get answers to questions you never knew to ask: how to keep dildos clean, what is "packing", what is the appeal of S/M, for example. A substantial chapter on "Safer Sex" offers techniques both expected (use a condom) and unexpected (put it on him using your mouth). Quotations from real people about their sexual pleasures lend interest and eroticism. Explicit line drawings show sex between male-female, male-male and female-female partners, as well as solitary acts with vibrators. "In our fantasies, we dream of this book with its cracked spine and well-thumbed pages lying on your nightstand next to your vibrator, lube, massage oil and condoms", write the authors. For education and entertainment, this book is a winner. --Joan Price

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Product Description: Could you be getting in your way of producing great work? Have you started a project but never finished? Would you like to do work...... more

Product Description: Could you be getting in your way of producing great work? Have you started a project but never finished? Would you like to do work that matters, but don't know where to start?The answer is Do the Work, a manifesto by bestselling author Steven Pressfield, that will show you that its not about better ideas, its about actually doing the work.Do the Work is a weapon against Resistance a tool that will help you take action and successfully ship projects out the door.There is an enemy. There is an intelligent, active, malign force working against us. Step one is to recognize this. This recognition alone is enormously powerful. It saved my life, and it will save yours.Do the Work may be just what you need to get out of your own way.For other titles like Do the Work, visit thedominoproject.com for more information.Robert T. Kiyosaki Reviews Do the WorkRobert T. Kiyosaki is an investor, entrepreneur, and educator whose perspectives on money and investing fly in the face of conventional wisdom. His book, Rich Dad Poor Dad, ranks as the longest-running bestseller on all four of the lists that report to Publisher's Weekly--the New York Times, Business Week, the Wall Street Journal and USA Today--and was named "USA Today's #1 Money Book" two years in a row. Read his review of Steven Pressfield's Do the Work:Once again another brilliant book from Steven. Do the Work gives you step-by-step instructions on how to overcome and conquer Resistance--the biggest enemy of them all. The gloves come off! Do the Work explains who and what your allies are and how to embrace and utilize them in your creative life or in your day-to-day situations. The points and steps in this book makes it possible for anyone to go and achieve what they truly are striving for--may it be writing a book, a play, or starting a new business. A must read for anyone who wants to get ahead and out of their own way. Steven has done it again. --Robert T. KiyosakiA Q&A with Steven PressfieldQuestion: What is the distinction between Do the Work and War of Art, the book where you first introduced Resistance? Does Do the Work take it a step further? Steven Pressfield:Do the Work is structured to take the reader from A to Z. If the reader has a project they want to start or complete, such as a new business they want to open or a book they want to write, Do the Work is designed to take them from starting to shipping to hitting all the predictable resistance points along the way. I know youre familiar with these moments; The beginning, the middle, and all the moments in between just before you ship and then just after you ship. Do the Work guides you from the start of the project and takes you all the way through.Its about getting off your behind and starting something. And Seth Godin writes about this, that once you start, you have to finish; you dont get off the hook half way through. I recently got an email from a guy who said, "Help. Im stuck." He was in a class and he had to write a screenplay and he was a quarter of the way through. Normally I would cheer him on, but just for fun, I gave him a little program to do; I put on my instructor voice and said, Do this, do that, do this, do that. It worked because right away he got over a couple speed bumps and took it all the way to the finish line. He loved it! Id always been too shy to do that before, but I tried the assertive tone of voice and it really worked--he responded really well to it. So I thought, let me try that tone of voice in Do the Work.Question: What did you tell him to do?Steven Pressfield: One of the first things I told him to do was to banish the self-censor. I could tell he was frozen, worrying, "Is this going to be good? Is this going to be perfect? So I told him, "Take the next five days and write for two hours everyday. I dont care what else is in your life--banish it. When you write for those two hours, start on minute one and dont think for one second all the way through until minute 120. Just write, dont self censor. Dont do anything." That really seemed to get him moving and gave him permission to not be paralyzed with seeking perfection. Continue reading our interview with Steven Pressfield

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About the Author ~ Sadie JonesSadie Jones was born in London. She grew up in a creative environment: her father is the Jamaican poet and screenwriter Evan...... more

About the Author ~ Sadie JonesSadie Jones was born in London. She grew up in a creative environment: her father is the Jamaican poet and screenwriter Evan Jones, and her mother was an actress. As her friends took up their various university places, Sadie worked in a variety of jobs. After travelling, she settled in London and spent several years as a screenwriter, before writing her first novel, The Outcast. Sadie is married and has two children.Exclusive Amazon.co.uk Interview with Sadie JonesWhat is The Outcast about?The Outcast is about a boy called Lewis - his childhood and adolescence as he grows up in the stultifying world of the home counties in the late forties and fifties. It is an everyday tale of drunkenness, violence and a fair amount of sex, set amongst the well-brought-up professional classes. It is also a love story.What inspired you to write it?The idea of a boy coming out of prison and trying to fit into a community that is itself corrupt was the first thing that came to me. I wanted to write an Oedipal story, with iconic characters, about what the nature of what it is to belong, and injustice. I set it in the fifties because I have always been very attracted to the books and films of that time.Who are your literary influences?Its difficult to think in terms of being influenced, because when you write you try to find your own voice and forget those of other writers, but I must in some way be a product of books Ive loved. My favourite writers are Hemingway, Capote, Salinger, McEwan and Dostoyevsky.If you could recommend just one "must-read book" to anyone, what would it be and why?It would be The Brothers Karamazov, by Dostoyevsky, because it is a book that tells a riveting story and is profoundly insightful about human nature. Dostoyevsky has an undeserved reputation of being sort of turgid, but nothing could be further from the truth of this book. He relishes the events he discloses and has no prissiness he gets in the mud with his characters. What top tips do you have for anyone looking to write their first book?Its very hard; I only know what works for me, which is planning, structure and hard work. I have found that whenever I write thinking Ill sort some lingering doubt out later, I generally run into trouble. If you cant answer every single question about your story, then people will be able to tell. Also, try not to get too tied up in whether or not its any good, or what will happen to it when its finished all of that can be paralysing. Reviews for The OutcastAn assured voice, a riveting story, and an odd, wrenchingly sympathetic protagonist. I would never have imagined this was a first novel.Lionel ShriverIn the tradition of ATONEMENT and REMAINS OF THE DAY but in her own singularly arresting voice, Sadie Jones conjures up the straight-laced, church-going, secretly abusive middle class of 1950s England. The Outcast is a passionate and deeply suspenseful novel about what happens to those who break the rules, and what happens to those who keep them. I loved reading this wonderful debut. Margot LiveseyI much admired The Outcast. Sadie Jones tells her story using minute details to convey the apparent ordinariness of her characters' lives. But from the choreography of these walking, smiling, drinking people, from their emotional repression and their children's deprivation, she conjures an atmosphere of menace and suspense that erupts into violence and tragedy. It is an impressive debut for this talented new novelist. Michael HolroydSadie Jones is an important new voice. She writes in beautiful prose of terrible events, demonstrating how love denied brings brutal consequences. She conjures the repressive social climate of the 1950s with awful accuracy, and explores the hearts and minds of young people with forensic skill. A great stylist and fine storyteller.Joan BakewellOne of Radio 4s Book at Bedtime reads for February, Jones story is imbued with brooding atmosphere and drama. Understated and elegantly narrated with attention to period detail, this is a gripping love story with a twist. If you liked Atonement by Ian McEwan, youll love this. Harpers Bazaar (Feb issue)A wonderfully assured first novel. GuardianThe prose is elegant and spare, but the story it reveals is raw and explosive Devastatingly good. Daily MailThe Outcast grips from page one Jones has captured the stultifying morals and mores of Fifties English middle-class life with satisfying accuracy. Publishing NewsSet in post WWII suburban London, this superb debut novel charts the downward spiral and tortured redemption of a young man shattered by loss. The war is over, and Lewis Aldridge is getting used to having his father, Gilbert, back in the house. Things hum along splendidly until Lewiss mother drowns, casting the 10-year-old into deep isolationJoness prose is fluid, and Lewiss suffering comes across as achingly real. Publishers WeeklyA confident, suspenseful and affecting first novel, delivered in cool, precise, distinctive prose. Kirkus

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Our new ACT 2011 Expert Training CD will walk you through the product providing you with plenty of short cuts and giving you advice on best practice. This ACT!...... more

Our new ACT 2011 Expert Training CD will walk you through the product providing you with plenty of short cuts and giving you advice on best practice. This ACT! training CD contains over 3 hours of quality video tutorials developed exclusively for ACT! users and presented by top ACT! by Sage trainer, Elene Marsden.This training CD is perfect for busy people who cant find time for classroom training. We show you how to master your ACT! software at your own pace wherever and whenever needed.The TrainerElene Marsden is an ACT! Business Partner with over 20 years experience in training. She has enabled many individuals and companies get more from ACT! With her experience, she knows what works and the pitfalls to avoid. She is passionate about helping people to get the best from their software.8 Expert lessons covering over 100 topics including: Segment your databases with Lookups, Design letter, email and label templates, Customise fields & layouts, Opportunities, Pipelines & Results, Write Reports, Ways to ACT! faster ACT! smarter, Importing contacts, Drip Marketing Campaigns, Web Surveys & Forms.Customer Reviews"The CD is a terrific tool. You will save yourself an enormous amount of time and it is so much better to get it right from the beginning." John Passmore Utilities Warehouse"I would recommend this product for any users of ACT." M. Lane"It is a very good product. I am used to using ACT and I found things even I did not know. It is absolutely fantastic - a smashing product!"

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Our new ACT 2013 Expert Training CD will provide you with plenty of short cuts and give you advice on best practice. This ACT training CD contains over 3 hours...... more

Our new ACT 2013 Expert Training CD will provide you with plenty of short cuts and give you advice on best practice. This ACT training CD contains over 3 hours of quality video tutorials developed exclusively for ACT users and presented by top ACT trainer, Elene Marsden.This training CD is perfect for busy people who cant find time for classroom training. We show you how to master your ACT! software at your own pace.The TrainerElene Marsden is an ACT Business Partner with over 20 years experience in training. She has enabled many individuals and companies get more from ACT She is passionate about helping people to get the best from their software.8 Expert lessons covering over 100 topics: New ACT Scratchpad and Smart Task improvements, Integration with Google and Universal Search using wildcards, Segment your databases with Lookups, Design letter, email and label templates, Customise fields & layouts, Opportunities, Pipelines & Results, Write Reports, Ways to ACT faster ACT smarter, Importing contacts, Drip Marketing, Web Surveys & Forms.Customer Reviews"The CD is a terrific tool. You will save yourself an enormous amount of time and it is so much better to get it right from the beginning." Utilities Warehouse"I would recommend this product for any users of ACT." M.Lane"It is a very good product. I am used to using ACT and I found things even I did not know. It is absolutely fantastic - a smashing product!" C Stewart Envisage.I am very happy with the CD. What is helpful is that you can actually stop it and "re-wind" to review and refresh your learning.

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Our new ACT 2012 Expert Training CD will provide you with plenty of short cuts and give you advice on best practice. This ACT training CD contains over 3 hours...... more

Our new ACT 2012 Expert Training CD will provide you with plenty of short cuts and give you advice on best practice. This ACT training CD contains over 3 hours of quality video tutorials developed exclusively for ACT users and presented by top ACT trainer, Elene Marsden.This training CD is perfect for busy people who cant find time for classroom training. We show you how to master your ACT! software at your own pace.The TrainerElene Marsden is an ACT Business Partner with over 20 years experience in training. She has enabled many individuals and companies get more from ACT She is passionate about helping people to get the best from their software.8 Expert lessons covering over 100 topics: New ACT Scratchpad, Integration with Google and Universal Search using wildcards, Segment your databases with Lookups, Design letter, email and label templates, Customise fields & layouts, Opportunities, Pipelines & Results, Write Reports, Ways to ACT faster ACT smarter, Importing contacts, Drip Marketing, Web Surveys & Forms.Customer Reviews"The CD is a terrific tool. You will save yourself an enormous amount of time and it is so much better to get it right from the beginning." Utilities Warehouse"I would recommend this product for any users of ACT." M.Lane"It is a very good product. I am used to using ACT and I found things even I did not know. It is absolutely fantastic - a smashing product!" C Stewart Envisage.I am very happy with the CD. What is helpful is that you can actually stop it and "re-wind" to review and refresh your learning.

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About the Author ~ Sadie JonesSadie Jones was born in London. She grew up in a creative environment: her father is the Jamaican poet and screenwriter Evan...... more

About the Author ~ Sadie JonesSadie Jones was born in London. She grew up in a creative environment: her father is the Jamaican poet and screenwriter Evan Jones, and her mother was an actress. As her friends took up their various university places, Sadie worked in a variety of jobs. After travelling, she settled in London and spent several years as a screenwriter, before writing her first novel, The Outcast. Sadie is married and has two children.Exclusive Amazon.co.uk Interview with Sadie JonesWhat is The Outcast about?The Outcast is about a boy called Lewis - his childhood and adolescence as he grows up in the stultifying world of the home counties in the late forties and fifties. It is an everyday tale of drunkenness, violence and a fair amount of sex, set amongst the well-brought-up professional classes. It is also a love story.What inspired you to write it?The idea of a boy coming out of prison and trying to fit into a community that is itself corrupt was the first thing that came to me. I wanted to write an Oedipal story, with iconic characters, about what the nature of what it is to belong, and injustice. I set it in the fifties because I have always been very attracted to the books and films of that time.Who are your literary influences?Its difficult to think in terms of being influenced, because when you write you try to find your own voice and forget those of other writers, but I must in some way be a product of books Ive loved. My favourite writers are Hemingway, Capote, Salinger, McEwan and Dostoyevsky.If you could recommend just one "must-read book" to anyone, what would it be and why?It would be The Brothers Karamazov, by Dostoyevsky, because it is a book that tells a riveting story and is profoundly insightful about human nature. Dostoyevsky has an undeserved reputation of being sort of turgid, but nothing could be further from the truth of this book. He relishes the events he discloses and has no prissiness he gets in the mud with his characters. What top tips do you have for anyone looking to write their first book?Its very hard; I only know what works for me, which is planning, structure and hard work. I have found that whenever I write thinking Ill sort some lingering doubt out later, I generally run into trouble. If you cant answer every single question about your story, then people will be able to tell. Also, try not to get too tied up in whether or not its any good, or what will happen to it when its finished all of that can be paralysing. Reviews for The OutcastAn assured voice, a riveting story, and an odd, wrenchingly sympathetic protagonist. I would never have imagined this was a first novel.Lionel ShriverIn the tradition of ATONEMENT and REMAINS OF THE DAY but in her own singularly arresting voice, Sadie Jones conjures up the straight-laced, church-going, secretly abusive middle class of 1950s England. The Outcast is a passionate and deeply suspenseful novel about what happens to those who break the rules, and what happens to those who keep them. I loved reading this wonderful debut. Margot LiveseyI much admired The Outcast. Sadie Jones tells her story using minute details to convey the apparent ordinariness of her characters' lives. But from the choreography of these walking, smiling, drinking people, from their emotional repression and their children's deprivation, she conjures an atmosphere of menace and suspense that erupts into violence and tragedy. It is an impressive debut for this talented new novelist. Michael HolroydSadie Jones is an important new voice. She writes in beautiful prose of terrible events, demonstrating how love denied brings brutal consequences. She conjures the repressive social climate of the 1950s with awful accuracy, and explores the hearts and minds of young people with forensic skill. A great stylist and fine storyteller.Joan BakewellOne of Radio 4s Book at Bedtime reads for February, Jones story is imbued with brooding atmosphere and drama. Understated and elegantly narrated with attention to period detail, this is a gripping love story with a twist. If you liked Atonement by Ian McEwan, youll love this. Harpers Bazaar (Feb issue)A wonderfully assured first novel. GuardianThe prose is elegant and spare, but the story it reveals is raw and explosive Devastatingly good. Daily MailThe Outcast grips from page one Jones has captured the stultifying morals and mores of Fifties English middle-class life with satisfying accuracy. Publishing NewsSet in post WWII suburban London, this superb debut novel charts the downward spiral and tortured redemption of a young man shattered by loss. The war is over, and Lewis Aldridge is getting used to having his father, Gilbert, back in the house. Things hum along splendidly until Lewiss mother drowns, casting the 10-year-old into deep isolationJoness prose is fluid, and Lewiss suffering comes across as achingly real. Publishers WeeklyA confident, suspenseful and affecting first novel, delivered in cool, precise, distinctive prose. Kirkus

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About the Author ~ Sharon BoltonBorn in Lancashire, Sharon Bolton trained as an actress and a dancer, has performed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and has a...... more

About the Author ~ Sharon BoltonBorn in Lancashire, Sharon Bolton trained as an actress and a dancer, has performed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and has a degree in drama and an MBA. She pursued a successful career in PR and marketing, but her career break to start a family enabled her to write her first novel, Sacrifice, which has been inspired by her fascination with British traditional folklore.Sharon lives near Oxford with her husband and young son.Exclusive Amazon.co.uk Interview with Sharon BoltonWhat is Sacrifice about?Set on the remote Shetland Islands, Sacrifice begins with the discovery of a womans mutilated body. A gaping hole appears where her heart has been cut out; runic symbols have been carved into her flesh and her uterus has barely recovered from childbirth.Tora Hamilton, consultant obstetrician on Shetland, uses her position at the local hospital to access information denied to the police and, in doing so, uncovers a terrifying pattern of missing women and disturbing links to ancient legends. There are dark secrets being guarded on Shetland but, one by one, Tora sees those she loves and trusts turn away from her, until she is entirely alone.What inspired you to write it?I had an idea for a story based on a woman, who desperately wanted to be pregnant, conceiving a child that would bring about her death. In my local library I came across the Shetland legend of the Kunal Trows: a race of supernatural males who prey upon their human neighbours. It had enough similarity to my own idea to catch my attention and I started to think how it might work as a modern-day thriller.Who are your literary influences?If I ever write my masterpiece, it will have an opening line like those of Dick Francis and a first chapter on a par with John Grishams. The prose will be so perfect readers might suspect it has been written by Thomas Harris and the twists and turns of the plot will make Dan Brown weep. The characters will as finely drawn as Jane Austens and it will be more atmospheric than a work by Dickens in his darkest mood. Oh, and when he gets to th! e end, Stephen King will say to himself, "How on earth did she think of that?" If you could recommend just one "must-read book" to anyone, what would it be and why?This is a close-to-impossible one, so no apologies for choosing the obvious. JRR Tolkeins Lord of the Rings thriller, adventure story, romance, fantasy, epic has pace, suspense, excitement, characters you can love, the age-old battle of good v evil and an earthy love of food, beer and all things humble. Peter Jacksons wonderful films brought the story to millions but, as is always the case, theres so much more to be found in the books. What top tips do you have for anyone looking to write their first book?Trust your instincts when choosing your story; and then polish that text until it gleams. There really is no substitute for hard work. Reviews for Sacrifice'S. J. Bolton will not have endeared herself to the natives with this splendidly crafted, deeply disturbing first novel, unless it is by doing wonders for the tourist industry. Sacrifice is almost a 21st-century Stepford Wives having Rosemarys Baby for The Wicker Man . . . This debut novel will deservedly be a bestseller . . . just a whiff of testosterone short of a masterpiece'.The TimesA really creepy plot based on one of the Shetland Islands nastier legends . . . The combination of folklore and forensics works well, and the story grabs from the very beginning and holds on tight. Literary ReviewMasterly gripping. Literary Review 'A dazzling debut in thriller-writing: fast paced, gripping and full of atmosphere.Classic Fm This eerie tale had me so hooked I was reading it through the night . . . brilliantly written and carefully crafted. Peterborough Evening Telegraph Sacrifice belongs firmly in that specialist category "spooky crime" and could best be described as CSI-meets-The Wicker Man. The setting is the wild and lonely Shetland Islands, an ancient Norse legend is involved and there is enough forensic pathology, both animal and human, to keep fans of Patricia Cornwell happy . . . Sharon Bolton grabs the reigns and steers it home by cranking up the suspense with a skill which is remarkable for a first novel. Birmingham Post Sacrifice is a real find. The Shetland setting is beautifully evoked, the complex plot is adroitly handled, and - best of all - S.J. Bolton has created an entirely believable and different heroine. At the heart of the book is Tora Hamilton, a contemporary woman absorbing the pressures of career and relationships, strong-minded - indeed bloody-minded a lot of the time. Her honesty and awareness of her own failings make her a mesmerising character to follow through the dark corridors of the sometimes gruesome story. I very much look forward to S.J. Bolton's next book. Simon Brett, crime writer Fairy legends associated with island races are fascinating and none more so than the Kunal Trows of the Shetlands . . . Sharon Bolton has hit the ground running in this debut novel. Nottingham Evening Post 'Sacrifice is an intense, fast paced thriller with numerous wonderful twists and turns that confound the reader throughout. Crimesquad.comSome authors start their careers on a slow note: Sharon Bolton hits the ground running. How long does it take to realise this is one of the good ones? On page two, I had an idea that S. J. Bolton could plot. And she can, like the best . . . Sacrifice makes a great start to 2008.Shotsmag...scary late night reading and riveting stuff. The plot twists and turns like a snake trying to wriggle free, only at the very end does the author enlighten us as to the exact details of the gruesome truth . . . This is an unmissable, un-put-downable debut novel from S J Bolton . . . I havent seen this level of talent in a new writer for some years its bloody brilliant. The Truth About Books

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About the Author ~ Sharon BoltonBorn in Lancashire, Sharon Bolton trained as an actress and a dancer, has performed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and has a...... more

About the Author ~ Sharon BoltonBorn in Lancashire, Sharon Bolton trained as an actress and a dancer, has performed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and has a degree in drama and an MBA. She pursued a successful career in PR and marketing, but her career break to start a family enabled her to write her first novel, Sacrifice, which has been inspired by her fascination with British traditional folklore.Sharon lives near Oxford with her husband and young son.Exclusive Amazon.co.uk Interview with Sharon BoltonWhat is Sacrifice about?Set on the remote Shetland Islands, Sacrifice begins with the discovery of a womans mutilated body. A gaping hole appears where her heart has been cut out; runic symbols have been carved into her flesh and her uterus has barely recovered from childbirth.Tora Hamilton, consultant obstetrician on Shetland, uses her position at the local hospital to access information denied to the police and, in doing so, uncovers a terrifying pattern of missing women and disturbing links to ancient legends. There are dark secrets being guarded on Shetland but, one by one, Tora sees those she loves and trusts turn away from her, until she is entirely alone.What inspired you to write it?I had an idea for a story based on a woman, who desperately wanted to be pregnant, conceiving a child that would bring about her death. In my local library I came across the Shetland legend of the Kunal Trows: a race of supernatural males who prey upon their human neighbours. It had enough similarity to my own idea to catch my attention and I started to think how it might work as a modern-day thriller.Who are your literary influences?If I ever write my masterpiece, it will have an opening line like those of Dick Francis and a first chapter on a par with John Grishams. The prose will be so perfect readers might suspect it has been written by Thomas Harris and the twists and turns of the plot will make Dan Brown weep. The characters will as finely drawn as Jane Austens and it will be more atmospheric than a work by Dickens in his darkest mood. Oh, and when he gets to th! e end, Stephen King will say to himself, "How on earth did she think of that?" If you could recommend just one "must-read book" to anyone, what would it be and why?This is a close-to-impossible one, so no apologies for choosing the obvious. JRR Tolkeins Lord of the Rings thriller, adventure story, romance, fantasy, epic has pace, suspense, excitement, characters you can love, the age-old battle of good v evil and an earthy love of food, beer and all things humble. Peter Jacksons wonderful films brought the story to millions but, as is always the case, theres so much more to be found in the books. What top tips do you have for anyone looking to write their first book?Trust your instincts when choosing your story; and then polish that text until it gleams. There really is no substitute for hard work. Reviews for Sacrifice'S. J. Bolton will not have endeared herself to the natives with this splendidly crafted, deeply disturbing first novel, unless it is by doing wonders for the tourist industry. Sacrifice is almost a 21st-century Stepford Wives having Rosemarys Baby for The Wicker Man . . . This debut novel will deservedly be a bestseller . . . just a whiff of testosterone short of a masterpiece'.The TimesA really creepy plot based on one of the Shetland Islands nastier legends . . . The combination of folklore and forensics works well, and the story grabs from the very beginning and holds on tight. Literary ReviewMasterly gripping. Literary Review 'A dazzling debut in thriller-writing: fast paced, gripping and full of atmosphere.Classic Fm This eerie tale had me so hooked I was reading it through the night . . . brilliantly written and carefully crafted. Peterborough Evening Telegraph Sacrifice belongs firmly in that specialist category "spooky crime" and could best be described as CSI-meets-The Wicker Man. The setting is the wild and lonely Shetland Islands, an ancient Norse legend is involved and there is enough forensic pathology, both animal and human, to keep fans of Patricia Cornwell happy . . . Sharon Bolton grabs the reigns and steers it home by cranking up the suspense with a skill which is remarkable for a first novel. Birmingham Post Sacrifice is a real find. The Shetland setting is beautifully evoked, the complex plot is adroitly handled, and - best of all - S.J. Bolton has created an entirely believable and different heroine. At the heart of the book is Tora Hamilton, a contemporary woman absorbing the pressures of career and relationships, strong-minded - indeed bloody-minded a lot of the time. Her honesty and awareness of her own failings make her a mesmerising character to follow through the dark corridors of the sometimes gruesome story. I very much look forward to S.J. Bolton's next book. Simon Brett, crime writer Fairy legends associated with island races are fascinating and none more so than the Kunal Trows of the Shetlands . . . Sharon Bolton has hit the ground running in this debut novel. Nottingham Evening Post 'Sacrifice is an intense, fast paced thriller with numerous wonderful twists and turns that confound the reader throughout. Crimesquad.comSome authors start their careers on a slow note: Sharon Bolton hits the ground running. How long does it take to realise this is one of the good ones? On page two, I had an idea that S. J. Bolton could plot. And she can, like the best . . . Sacrifice makes a great start to 2008.Shotsmag...scary late night reading and riveting stuff. The plot twists and turns like a snake trying to wriggle free, only at the very end does the author enlighten us as to the exact details of the gruesome truth . . . This is an unmissable, un-put-downable debut novel from S J Bolton . . . I havent seen this level of talent in a new writer for some years its bloody brilliant. The Truth About Books

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Product Description: Could you be getting in your way of producing great work? Have you started a project but never finished? Would you like to do work that matters, but don't know where to start?The answer is Do the Work, a manifesto by bestselling author Steven Pressfield, that will show you that its not about better ideas, its about actually doing the work.Do the Work is a weapon against Resistance a tool that will help you take action and successfully ship projects out the door.There is an enemy. There is an intelligent, active, malign force working against us. Step one is to recognize this. This recognition alone is enormously powerful. It saved my life, and it will save yours.Do the Work may be just what you need to get out of your own way.For other titles like Do the Work, visit thedominoproject.com for more information.Robert T. Kiyosaki Reviews Do the WorkRobert T. Kiyosaki is an investor, entrepreneur, and educator whose perspectives on money and investing fly in the face of conventional wisdom. His book, Rich Dad Poor Dad, ranks as the longest-running bestseller on all four of the lists that report to Publisher's Weekly--the New York Times, Business Week, the Wall Street Journal and USA Today--and was named "USA Today's #1 Money Book" two years in a row. Read his review of Steven Pressfield's Do the Work:Once again another brilliant book from Steven. Do the Work gives you step-by-step instructions on how to overcome and conquer Resistance--the biggest enemy of them all. The gloves come off! Do the Work explains who and what your allies are and how to embrace and utilize them in your creative life or in your day-to-day situations. The points and steps in this book makes it possible for anyone to go and achieve what they truly are striving for--may it be writing a book, a play, or starting a new business. A must read for anyone who wants to get ahead and out of their own way. Steven has done it again. --Robert T. KiyosakiA Q&A with Steven PressfieldQuestion: What is the distinction between Do the Work and War of Art, the book where you first introduced Resistance? Does Do the Work take it a step further? Steven Pressfield:Do the Work is structured to take the reader from A to Z. If the reader has a project they want to start or complete, such as a new business they want to open or a book they want to write, Do the Work is designed to take them from starting to shipping to hitting all the predictable resistance points along the way. I know youre familiar with these moments; The beginning, the middle, and all the moments in between just before you ship and then just after you ship. Do the Work guides you from the start of the project and takes you all the way through.Its about getting off your behind and starting something. And Seth Godin writes about this, that once you start, you have to finish; you dont get off the hook half way through. I recently got an email from a guy who said, "Help. Im stuck." He was in a class and he had to write a screenplay and he was a quarter of the way through. Normally I would cheer him on, but just for fun, I gave him a little program to do; I put on my instructor voice and said, Do this, do that, do this, do that. It worked because right away he got over a couple speed bumps and took it all the way to the finish line. He loved it! Id always been too shy to do that before, but I tried the assertive tone of voice and it really worked--he responded really well to it. So I thought, let me try that tone of voice in Do the Work.Question: What did you tell him to do?Steven Pressfield: One of the first things I told him to do was to banish the self-censor. I could tell he was frozen, worrying, "Is this going to be good? Is this going to be perfect? So I told him, "Take the next five days and write for two hours everyday. I dont care what else is in your life--banish it. When you write for those two hours, start on minute one and dont think for one second all the way through until minute 120. Just write, dont self censor. Dont do anything." That really seemed to get him moving and gave him permission to not be paralyzed with seeking perfection. Continue reading our interview with Steven Pressfield

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