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November 10, 2018
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Laura Schwalm – Pure Energy Healer – Gears Up for Spring Book Release!

November 10, 2018 Uncategorized Leave a comment

Healing the Effects of Psychic Trauma: A Soul’s Evolution

Laura Schwalm is a spiritualist for modern times. With the release of her new book, Laura plans to set out on a journey of healing for those ready to release the burden of their psychic trauma. This trauma may manifest in many areas like money, relationships, and health. Laura holds answers for many who feel they have no hope.

While her book goes through final production, Laura is out speaking and helping people daily. She offers many services, in person as well as through technology. Check out her website: Pure Energy Healer. “A Soul’s Evolution: Healing the Effects of Psychic Trauma” is live!!!

This book will help heal individuals who suffer from psychic trauma on a physical, mental, emotional, & spiritual level

Get her book here! Pure Energy Healer

Healing Psychic Trauma allows you to:
nurture healthy relationships
avoid codependence and toxic relationships
improve Immune system functions
heal adrenal fatigue and candida
enhance emotional intelligence
find your bliss
heal money issues
live your authentic self

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January 13, 2017
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New Book Pre-Release!

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PRE-SALE!

Mrs & Mrs: A Journey from “Will You” to “I Do” is now available as a Pre-sale book! Authors Ivey and Kyeesha Weaver will autograph the first 20 books ordered! Mrs & Mrs is a touching keepsake scrapbook that gives you a wonderful way to collect the memories of your beginnings as a couple. Designed for the LGBTQ community, Mrs & Mrs lets you personalize your memories the way they should be. Pre-order your copy today!




 

Denise O’Brien Book Pre-sale!

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November 23, 2016
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Book Business

Black Friday Special! Hidden Valley: The Awakening

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hidden-valley-marketing-imageGet Your Copy of Hidden Valley: The Awakening at 25% Off!!!

Order your copy now and receive an autographed paperback copy of the first book of the Hidden Valley Saga. Jon Morgan Woodward will personally autograph your book to whomever you like! For those Horror fans out there, this book makes the perfect Holiday gift! Get your copy BEFORE the movie comes out!

Black Friday Price: $9.75 + $3.99 shipping!




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August 26, 2016
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Golden Rule Leadership by Denise O’Brien

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Front Cover PicGolden Rule Leadership by

Denise O’Brien

 

Author Denise O’Brien is an award-winning humanitarian, social entrepreneur, public relations expert, communications mentor, international keynote speaker and a global leader who leads by example. In her second book, Golden Rule Leadership, she shares life lessons learned from her faith, family, friends, colleagues, and even from her three children. O’Brien details the life philosophy “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you,” with heart-warming wit and humor, expressing her powerful message that the best way to lead is by giving from your heart. Often called the “Queen of Joy” by her friends and followers, O’Brien shares her joy of being a successful leader and calls others to join her in her mission to live life powerfully passionate and inspire others along the journey. Read Golden Rule Leadership and become the masterful leader of your own life!

Pre Order your copy in the Book Gallery! Book release Autumn 2020!

 

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November 11, 2015
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Book Business
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Collecting Money

November 11, 2015 Book Business 2 Comments

roll-of-100-billsIt’s All About Mindset

There are good things we learn in life. Often we do not recognize them when they happen. We may even miss the lesson and allow it to lie fallow in the entrepreneurial fields of our minds. One lesson like this happened to me in my life. There is an article at Entrepreneur.com that brought the lesson to me from my teenage years.

The lesson was to collect money, don’t make money. Granted, the newspaper route I had would not apparently teach me this lesson, but now, 40 years later, I understand the concept of “collecting money” not “making money.”

Time should be irrelevant to your monetary endeavors. Don’t sell your time for dollars, make money buy you time. Conceptually this makes sense, even to those who find it difficult to break out of the indentured servitude of trading time for dollars.

Shifting your mindset away from dollars per hour is something I’ve struggled with for years. I can tell you this, in order to achieve this mindset, you cannot have a strong negative person in your immediate circle. Breaking the bonds of “everyday thinking” calls for positivity and support. It also calls for confidence.

Read the article above and work on your view of money. When you write a book with the intent to sell it, you’ve entered into entrepreneurship whether you like it or not. Separating yourself from the pack will require you to take on different views of money. Too many writers will go to a book signing and hope to make enough sales to cover the cost of the table they rented.

Their better mindset would be to see how many lives they can touch. How many people can they connect with. How many people can they help with their book or their writing, or their knowledge. Making a positive impression if far more important than a book sale. This is a tough mindset from which to extricate yourself. As you do so, you will see the overwhelming benefit.

Collect money, don’t make money. Don’t go to a book signing with the intent to make a few dollars. Go to a book signing to connect with people who will help you collect money. When you connect with a dozen people at a book signing who then go out as “minions” talking about you and your book, you will then be “collecting money” from their efforts. Simple premise. Too many writers cannot seem to grasp the concept unfortunately.

Go out and collect money by helping people. By connecting with people. By changing your views of money.

Go be successful!

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October 14, 2015
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Book Writing, Creativity
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Live Classes in Flagler Beach!

October 14, 2015 Book Writing, Creativity Leave a comment

GoWrite_logo_green300dpi a little smallerLet’s Get That Book Written!

Getting ready for a new round of workshop classes for “How to Write Your Book in 30 Days!” is not difficult. The real trick for me is not to get too excited. I look forward to helping authors get their manuscripts written in a powerful, timely manner. The excitement level in a room full of ‘creators’ never lessens.

One of the issues I must deal with is getting people into the classes. I know once I get them there, everything will be fine. Convincing people I can truly help them get their books written is the “nub of the gist” as the comedy troupe Monty Python once said. I’ve found that once people take the step of investing in themselves, they more quickly adopt their creative nature.

On that note, I decided early this week to extend the “Early Bird” price of the workshop. I always hate when people do that, yet I understand why. When you’re planning a class, you need to have an idea of how many will be attending. This helps in planning and logistics. The thought occurred to me that I’ve taught this class through the Flagler County School System to as many as 15 folks, and I’ve taught it privately to as few as one. I’ve had class sizes in between those two figures for three years now.

I will be prepared for one person or 20. If you are someone on the cusp of diving into the writing foray, I encourage you to sign up. You will get your book written. And yes, it will feel great!

Here’s the link to the sign-up page: How to Write Your Book in 30 Days! Feel free to share it!

All classes will be held at Change Jar Books in Flager Beach. I have a class on Saturdays beginning October 17th at noon. I also have classes on Thursday evenings beginning October 22nd at 6:30pm.

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September 15, 2015
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Creativity
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Where We’re Headed

September 15, 2015 Creativity Leave a comment
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First posts always feel like an opportunity to create profound statements. Too often, these posts become over-inflated use of valuable space. This site has a three-pronged intention. 1) to call attention to the published works of writers who likely do not receive their fair share of attention 2) to connect two other pieces of the Michael Ray King Platform – The Inspired Mic, and Michael Ray King Author 3) to educate those who are willing to step outside mainstream and dare to be different in their approach to creativity.

For this post, my passion is to address number 3:

For years I have railed against our systematic destruction of creative energy. I point to not only our school systems, but also work, family, friends, and personal choices. I focus on writing because this is what I know. Our schools squelch creativity by beating our young children up with “grammar grades” ignoring personal expressive creativity. If you cannot write a perfect sentence, your work is wrong.

Schools, while easily targeted, do not comprise the bulk of the issue, however. Family does a great job of squelching creativity. I’ve noted countless instances of family discouraging anything outside the “trade your time for dollars” mentality. It’s all about making the dollar, not about creating something others may enjoy or relate to. That’s something to relegate to your spare time, which they will make sure is quite limited.

How about work? Is there anyplace more rigid and rule-ridden? Is there anyplace else that tramples creativity under the heels of “that’s not how we do things here?” My opinion on that statement is that I would no longer “do things there…”

Yes, in fact, there IS another place more rigid and rule-ridden. Religion. Talk about a creativity destroyer. Most religions point to a “creator” entity, yet they discourage creativity. They cannot control the creative person. The creative person steps out of bounds a lot, and Lord knows, we cannot have “free-thinking people.” What they want is obedient, automatons who follow rules and give them money, power and the ability to manipulate texts to their purposes. The shame of all that is that so many people go to these religious kennels for help. What they get is controlled and rolled…

Don’t take that last paragraph as me making an “atheistic” comment. I’m not atheist, although, if I were, that would be none of your business. The statement is directed toward the “organizations” of “religion.”

How about friends? Surely they don’t rain on your creative parade! Too often the answer to this timid question is, “Yes, friends do.” Many times friends see only their lives and their situations, much like everyone else. When they see you going off into an industry where making money is difficult, and success is elusive, they try to “steer you to a better place.” Even in the throes of good intention, friends often dampen your creative spirit. Some, unfortunately, openly laugh at your statement that you desire to write. Such a shame.

Where have I found solace? Where have I found creativity to blossom? When I’m supported and involved with people honestly striving to create. Not the ones who are playing at it, but the ones who lay their money and time down to learn. The ones who strive for the elusive muse. The ones who understand the “Queen’s English” has its place – post first draft, not during. Creativity needs chaos. Creativity needs freedom. Creativity needs confidence. Creativity thrives on fear when trust in manuscript completion and the value of re-write and edit are embedded deep within your psyche.

Writing is such a solitary endeavor that a positive support group becomes vital. Critical. Necessary. Desired. Critique groups? Great things -POST FIRST DRAFT – not during the manuscript creation. Critiquing during the writing of a first draft is the way of the stifling taskmasters of school, family, work, religion, and yes, even friends. The crap phrase that is bandied about with such intellectual snobbery it makes me gag each time I hear it, “Know the rules so you can break them” precludes and cuts creativity off at the neck.

Editors know the rules. You know your story. You know your book. Editors parlay your words into a tidy income, one you may never match. I’m not saying craft of writing is a bad thing, nor am I suggesting “knowing the rules of writing” is useless or pointless. What I am definitively saying is that lack of knowledge of the “Queen’s English” has no relationship whatsoever with the ability to tell a story. Or write a book. Or pen a short story. Or a poem.

Once a first draft is achieved, hopefully in the fullness of unfettered creative license, THEN and only then, should the analytical side step in. Even when that left brain does come into play, the process should be a companionship mixture of right brain creativity with left brain recognition of how to craft a raw material product into something palatable to an external reader.

We’ve lost our creative souls to rules and pundits on stages preaching there is only the rigid rules of writing to guide the novelist or the non-fiction writer. I rage against this machine of mediocrity that only copies past “greats” which dilutes our creative outputs to little more than rehashes of things already done.

This site is ambitious. This site is not for everyone. Many will take offense. Many will possibly rail against it. As that happens, I for one, will smile in the knowledge that I am doing something right. Creativity is ingrained in us all. This is one of my beliefs. For those who’ve not given up on their interior creative abilities, I hope this site delivers something of benefit to you.

For those whose life-apathy rules their days, I hope this site can nudge you out of the closed, systematic destruction of your dreams, and open back up the world of wonder. The final frontier will never be “space” as Captain Kirk once proclaimed through the voice of William Shatner. The final frontier will forever be our minds, our ability to access the vast creativity that lies far too dormant in each of us, and the wonders of what we could do if only our world would allow it.

Since the world is currently stacked against us, I say we rebel. We write our truths, unabashed. We write our passions without the fear of repercussion squashing us. We forge through these and many other obstacles, and reach our highest selves. Our creative selves.

Lastly, I’ve noted over the course of writing these past thirty-five years, that who I was when I wrote “Rivers of the Soul” in 1983 is not who I am now, unfortunately. Sometimes this disconnect from past “selves” is a “fortunate” thing as well. People who have all the answers truly have none. We explore life when we dare to create. We explore who we are. We find answers that create more questions.

We grow.

When we abandon our creative selves to apathy, we stagnate. To access your creativity you need one initial, vital step. You need one major weapon. You need one indispensable tool. You need permission from yourself to move forward. After that, I suggest an alignment with people, who too, are out there giving themselves permission to create.

Your life will thank you…

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