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Paranormal Romance The Bookkeeper?s Curse Blends Mystery, Magic, and Emotional Healing

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Today marks the release of The Bookkeeper's Curse , a heartfelt paranormal romantic novella written for women who crave character-driven stories where love and personal transformation intertwine. Warm, atmospheric, and deeply human, this new release invites readers into a small town where time refuses to move—and two strangers must discover why. The story follows Susan Mitchell, a devoted librarian whose life begins looping through the same Monday over and over. When Derek Stone arrives—haunted by a family history steeped in old magic—the two realize they are bound by a generations-old curse. Together, they dig into spellwork, long-buried journals, and painful family truths to uncover what real, non-possessive love truly requires. Far from a typical paranormal tale, The Bookkeeper's Curse focuses on emotional honesty, healthy connection, and the courage it takes to rewrite the patterns that hold us back. Readers who enjoy genre-blended fiction—combining romance, mystery, wi...

WOWS From Barbara Morris - Pharmacist - Writer - Aging Issues

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For Immediate Release: Dateline: Surprise , AZ Friday, November 21, 2025   About the editor and staff of the Put Old on Hold Journal ©Copyright 2025 Barbara Morris is editor and publisher of The Put Old on Hold Journal.. Contributors: include Pat Garner, Joyce Shafer and Zenobia Silas-Carson. Writers wishing to contribute please ask for submission guidelines at Author.office@gmail.com. Technical support provided by Randy Talbot Barbara Morris, R.Ph. P.O. Box 8345 Surprise, AZ 85388 contactnewsdesk@gmail.com 760-520-5202 Adblock test (Why?) source http://www.expertclick.com/NewsRelease/WOWS-From-Barbara-Morris-Pharmacist-Writer-Aging-Issues,2025313521.aspx

Wedding Venue Marketing Tips

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by Brian Lawrence TL;DR: Consistent marketing keeps your wedding venue visible and booked year-round, not just during engagement season. From local SEO and vendor partnerships to creative content, social media, and a well-optimized website, these wedding venue marketing tips will help you attract more couples, build trust, and turn online interest into booked tours and confirmed dates. Why Venues Need an Ongoing Marketing Strategy Imagine your wedding venue as a beautiful garden. It blooms during spring and summer, but even in the off months, it needs tending: watering, weeding, care. In the same way, your marketing can’t be a frantic sprint during engagement season and then go dark the rest of the year. Couples are planning weddings all year long, doing research, dreaming, and saving up, so your venue needs a steady presence. Relying on word of mouth and a few summer open houses is risky. What if your ideal couples never hear about you or can’t find you when they search online...

The Heartspace? Love Mastery Trilogy:

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Every woman deserves a relationship that feels kind, nourishing, intimate, and spiritually aligned. Yet so many women struggle because no one taught us the skills to make love work. That’s why I created The Heartspace® Love Mastery Trilogy — three complete guides that empower you to attract, grow, and sustain a lifetime of healthy, soul-connected love: • Heartspace® Dating & Relationship Secrets • Heartspace® The Magnificent Marriage • Heartspace® Sacred Intimacy I’ve only included the proven skills I’ve offered clients for 25 years, and I continue to create/test/prove new skills every month! Together, these books teach the emotional intelligence, communication strategies, intimacy skills, and relationship practices that create love that lasts — not by accident, but by mastery. Whether you are dating, committed, or rebuilding, this trilogy is your complete roadmap to partnership, passion, and peace. The Trilogy launches soon — and I cannot wait for you to experience the...

KMOX. St. Louis Celebrates Centennial Anniversary

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Audacy’s news/talk KMOX, St Louis is celebrating 100 years of service to its listeners. Today (11/20), KMOX celebrating its centennial anniversary with over 10 hours of exclusive programming featuring current and former KMOX talent, as well as recognizing 12 station pioneers. Audacy St. Louis SVP and market manager Becky Domyan states, “For 100 years, KMOX has kept St. Louis informed and connected, a legacy we are incredibly proud of. We now honor the pioneers who helped build this station. They are the definitive voices and leaders who became synonymous with KMOX and defined a century of service. We look forward to building on their foundation and continuing to serve as the home for news St. Louisans rely on for the next hundred years.” Pioneers include former KMOX general manager Robert Hyland , sports broadcaster Bob Costas , former station hosts Jack Carney , Rex Davis , Bob Hardy , Anne Keefe , John McCormick and Jim White , former St. Louis Cardinals play-by-play announcers Ja...

Process vs. Content

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For Immediate Release: Dateline: East Greenwich , RI Thursday, November 20, 2025   Episode 423 | November 20, 2025 Process vs. Content Subscribe on: Meet Your Host, Alan Weiss Alan Weiss is one of those rare people who can say he is a consultant, speaker, and author and mean it. His consulting firm, Summit Consulting Group, Inc., has attracted clients such as Merck, Hewlett-Packard, GE, Mercedes-Benz, State Street Corporation, Times Mirror Group, The Federal Reserve, The New York Times Corporation, Toyota, and over 500 other leading organizations. He has served on several boards of directors in various capacities. His prolific publishing includes over 500 articles and 60 books, including his best-seller, Million Dollar Consulting (from McGraw-Hill) now in its 30th year and sixth edition. His newest is Your Legacy is Now: Life is not about a search for meaning but the creation of meaning (Routledge, 2021). His books have been on the cur...

A Minute with Alan? ? Because I Can

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Name: Crysta Ames Title: Office Manager Group: Summit Consulting Group, Inc. Dateline: East Greenwich, RI United States Direct Phone: 401-884-2778 Jump To Summit Consulting Group, Inc. -- Alan Weiss, Ph.D. Adblock test (Why?) source http://www.expertclick.com/NewsRelease/A-Minute-with-Alan-Because-I-Can,2025313494.aspx

Meet a Descendant of the Mayflower

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As The Professional Summarizer I add a new dimension to your next meeting - especially the virtual ones we all have now. I listen to the entire meeting and pay attention to every detail. Then I report back to the audience on what they should have learned in the form of a comedy monologue. What I did with this week's news I can do for your meeting. Adblock test (Why?) source http://www.expertclick.com/NewsRelease/Meet-a-Descendant-of-the-Mayflower,2025313482.aspx

Mortgage Debt For Seniors is Increasing

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For many older adults, the dream of entering retirement mortgage-free is fading. According to Marketplace , mortgage debt for seniors is steadily increasing — a trend that signals deeper financial stress in later life. Instead of focusing only on paying down debt, we should ask a bigger question: How do we plan brilliantly so debt doesn’t stop us from living fully? The Alarming Rise in Senior Debt Economics contributor Chris Farrell highlights a troubling reality: nearly half of private-sector workers — and two-thirds of lower-wage workers — have no access to a workplace retirement plan. Combine that with slow wage growth, rising living costs, and decades of structural inequities, and many people reach retirement with significant mortgage balances. AARP surveys reveal that almost half of older adults rely on credit cards for basic expenses, layering mortgage payments on top of home-equity loans, medical bills, and even lingering student debt. This accumulation leaves many older Ame...

Holiday Mortality Movies: Festive Films that Stare Down the Reaper

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Yes, there are Christmas Mortality Movies. The holidays come loaded with tinsel, tradition, and, if we’re honest, a surprising amount of existential angst. Year’s end nudges us into inventory mode: Who am I? What have I done? Did I really send that reply-all? Enter the Mortality Movie, a holiday staple that uses ghosts, near-death detours, and cosmic do-overs to help us take stock, then sit back down with the people we love while the cocoa steams. Two canon titles sit at the top of this snowy hill: It’s a Wonderful Life and A Christmas Carol . They aren’t just sentimental favorites; they’re structured meditations on death, regret, and the radical possibility of change. Let’s unwrap them (multiple versions included), then peek at a few bonus films that pair nicely with cookies and contemplation. Why the Holidays Breed Mortality Stories Year’s end compresses time. We feel the weight of what was and what wasn’t. The season’s rituals, lighting candles, setting extra places, telling the...

Alan Weiss?s Monday Morning Memo? ? 11/17/25

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The toughest aspect of entrepreneurialism is marketing, which means creating need and attracting buyers to your ability to fill that need. (In organizational jobs, it’s about getting promoted, recommendations accepted, attractive job assignments, and so forth.) In my global coaching practice, one of the most common refrains about not being able to close business is that the buyer “has the attention span of a gnat.” In fact, people generally talk about society today, or generations, or readers, or attendees, or members, or subscribers, as “not having the attentions span of a gnat.” In the first place, there is no such thing as a “gnat.”  The term is used generically for the order Diptera which includes a variety of families of small flies, both biting and non-biting. Some fly, some can’t. Most walk or jump. But most importantly, the Diptera order has an average attention span of four seconds.  The average adult today has an attention span of eight seconds.  “Focused a...

A Powerful New Flash-Fiction Novella Explores the Quiet Truths We Carry

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November 17 marks the release of The Things We Never Say, a moving flash-fiction novella arriving on Amazon (EPUB), Draft2Digital library distribution, and audiobook. This collection invites readers into ten deeply felt stories about the moments that shape us—grief, memory, second chances, family secrets, and the quiet promises that bind people together even when life pulls them apart. This book speaks to the emotional corners of everyday life with a tenderness that meets readers where they are. Each story is brief enough for today's busy reader yet rich enough to linger long after the final page. From the heartbreak of lost love tucked away in a forgotten suitcase to childhood promises rediscovered in adulthood, the novella reminds us how often life is held together by the things we meant to say but never did. At its heart, The Things We Never Say is a testament to how ordinary people navigate loss, resilience, and connection. These stories illuminate what happens in kitchens l...

Want To Save Yourself and Your Mental Health? Here?s a New Solution: The Analog Bag

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It’s often a simple solution that can work wonders for us, and freeing ourselves from “always-on” may be the key. Getty Images for unsplash.com Young adults and wellness enthusiasts have started adopting t he “analog bag” as their new accessory trend. An Axios article describes a tote or backpack filled with physical things rather than digital devices and applications. Items include everything from reading material to knitting or art supplies — whatever the person enjoys doing in their free time. Why items other than our trusted digital gadgets? Simple. It’s to free ourselves from what we have failed to see as an invisible “prison” of sorts , as we doom scroll or experience FOMO. Are you a “prisoner?” Few of us realize how much of our time is taken up with these things and how much we may have lost in terms of just being able to relax and not always be looking for information or a call from someone or whatever. What’s wrong with just sitting and musing? Nothing. As a matter...

NALC statement on Fiscal Year 2025 USPS financial results

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November 14, 2025 NALC statement on Fiscal Year 2025 USPS financial results NALC President Brian L. Renfroe released the following statement: Today, the Postal Service announced its Fiscal Year 2025 financial results, reporting a net loss of $9 billion, a $542 million decrease from last year. These results reinforce the need for continued policy changes and network modernization to achieve long-term financial sustainability. For years, NALC led the fight to repeal the retiree health care pre-funding mandate. This was achieved in the Postal Service Reform Act. Today, we continue to say what we said then – more must be done. First, rather than being a creditor to the taxpayer-funded government, the Postal Service must be allowed to diversify the investments of the hundreds of billions of dollars it is currently required to invest in U.S. Treasury bonds. In addition, the Office of Personnel Management must rectify the decades-long overallocation of Civil Service Retirement System l...

Deal with This From Summit Consulting Group, Inc. -- Alan Weiss, Ph.D.

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Name: Crysta Ames Title: Office Manager Group: Summit Consulting Group, Inc. Dateline: East Greenwich, RI United States Direct Phone: 401-884-2778 Jump To Summit Consulting Group, Inc. -- Alan Weiss, Ph.D. Adblock test (Why?) source http://www.expertclick.com/NewsRelease/Deal-with-This-From-Summit-Consulting-Group-Inc-Alan-Weiss-PhD,2025313413.aspx
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Fog of War Interpretation

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Awarding the Nobel Peace Prize             This is an arduous process that is kept secret for 50 years by the Norwegian Nobel Committee.  Why they focus on my main press releases coming out of ExpertClick.com and only rarely use my academia.edu and wordpress.com websites, is the first big mystery.  But all three sites and the nobelprize.org site gives me lots of clues to reverse engineer their investigation of my ten years of being nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.  Since they check on me every day from Europe and Australia and (maybe) America I observe lunch breaks and dinner breaks and 7pm evening meetings.  Once 38 people (the whole staff?) looked at my ten most recent releases, often a dozen look at my releases, presumably the principals and their secretaries, and this happens many times each year.  Guesswork Interpretation             This re...