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How to Set Up Speaking Gigs and Get Paid provides a step-by-step guide to developing, organizing, and promoting your first speaking gigs and getting paid for them. It includes examples from my experiences in setting up a paid gig on writing and publishing books for myself and clients, marketing and promoting the event, and working with a videographer to create a series of videos I could use to promote future gigs.

10 Keys for Creating a Successful Video Campaign describes how you create short videos in minutes on your phone and conduct a low-cost campaign to increase your credibility, better connect with your audience, and build awareness and trust. It includes tips on deciding on your niche and target audience, offering benefits to this audience, creating different types of videos, and more.

10 Ways to Analyze Your Own Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats describes how you can do your own SWOT analysis, a tool used by organizations and corporations to make decisions on improving the organization and its products and services to increase sales and profits. You can also use a SWOT analysis to improve yourself, your performance, and your work. It features 10 tips on how to do this to become a better you. The goal is to build on your strengths, overcome key weaknesses, take advantage of opportunities, and confront or avoid any threats.

10 Ways to Get Inspired When You Are Feeling Stuck describes how people often feel stuck because they feel unmotivated, stressed, or are distracted by other things that are going on. The audiobook offers ways to get your creative juices going and feel motivated again. It suggests using mindfulness, guided meditation, exercise, techniques for overcoming resistance, and other methods to get unstuck.

The 10 Biggest Mistakes Writers Make in Publishing Their First Book describes the major mistakes that writers make when they publish their book resulting in very low sales. The audiobook emphasizes the importance of good writing, having a good cover, actively promoting your book, getting review and testimonials, publishing your book in multiple formats, and more.

The Neanderthals Return combines the beginnings of three separate books in the return of the Neanderthal series - The Neanderthals Are Back, The New World Neanderthals: The Rise of the Force, and The Rise of the Gang. These will ultimately be three separate books with 10 or more additional chapters in each book. Each chapter features a complete episode as in a TV series, featuring a group of Neanderthals, and each book builds on the previous book in the series.

Davy is having a bad day at school and home, when he wishes that things could be the way he wants them. Suddenly, he hears a thumping noise in his closet, and there he meets two tiny characters: Count DeVille, who looks like a frog-man in a cape, and Sir Tolliver, a man with a mustache, red cape, and bloomers. They lead him through a door in the back of the closet to the World of Whatever. There, he experiences a series of adventures, both fun and sometimes scary, as he travels around on a boat or bubble with Sir Tolliver and Count Deville.

The audiobook begins after the leader of a criminal gang learns from the media about the success of a team of Neanderthals who are helping the cops find and capture criminals. He decides to create a criminal gang of six Neanderthals by obtaining Neanderthals who have been raised to be part of a workforce by the same robot company that provided the cops with their team. The gang leader and his associate will then train these new recruits to commit crimes, such as robberies and hits for revenge.

In Garden Grove, everything is very calm and peaceful, and the spirits of the earth: Grunch, Ruff, and Rocky; air: Swifty and Pinwheel, and water: Muff and Wiz are very happy. And sometimes, Archie and Sparky, who live in the flames and embers, visit when someone lights a fire. Then, a logger and an oilman arrive and disrupt the grove when the logger begins sawing to cut down trees and the oilman drills for oil. But the spirits seek to drive them out.

All My Neanderthals: An Introduction to a Series of Neanderthal Books features excerpts from the first two books in a fiction series: The Neanderthals Are Back and The New World Neanderthals. The book also includes a brief introduction to who the Neanderthals are, how and where they lived, and why they suddenly went extinct about 35,000 years ago after living successfully for over 200,000 years.

The book begins when the owner of a company that uses robots for production and shipping learns about the first group of neanderthals. The owner enlists the help of two scientists to bring back more neanderthals through cloning to replace the robots in order to reduce costs. Soon, he has a workforce of neanderthals. Ten years later, after this operation has been running successfully in secret, some detectives find out about the neanderthals and they visit the owner with unique proposal.

The Secret World of the Little Imps is a book about Nick’s discovery of the Little Imps’ secret world when he clicks a link under a video game on his computer. Suddenly, he meets Sir Stephen, who looks like a court jester, and his cat Cindy. Nick’s computer avatar follows them as they lead him to a magical place with all kinds of beings who live beyond a red and a green door, respectively. He also meets some scary challenges and learns about the worlds of "I can" and "I can’t".

Who Are the Neanderthals, Really? consists of a collection of illustrations and commentary about Neanderthals from Paleolithic times to today. After an introduction describing how and where Neanderthals lived, the book features about 100 illustrations divided into five sections. Each section of photos and illustrations is introduced with some commentary. These images present an intriguing picture of the Neanderthals from paleontologists, anthropologists, historians, social commentators, and artists.

The Neanderthals Are Back: The Beginning is the first of a series of stories about the life of Neanderthals growing up in modern society after two scientists bring them back with the help of some surrogate mothers. This audiobook focuses on the story of the first six Neanderthal babies as they grow up. At first, they are raised in the lab in secret and taught by a nursery school teacher. When the children are five and six, the scientists place them with the owners of a group home for children with disabilities.

Sell Your Way to Success on Shopify provides a detailed step-by-step guide on how to get started on Shopify, drawing on the author's experience in setting up a Shopify store for Changemakers Publishing, which features about 200 books by the author. She also helps sellers set up Shopify stores. For a new seller, the audiobook discusses how to decide on brand identity, product line, and store name.

Find True Happiness features a series of ideas and images to discover what makes you happy, based on 60 posts that originally appeared on Instagram. These comments reflect the view that what you think shapes you and your experiences, so if you think about what brings you the most satisfaction and joy, you will better know what to do.

Control Your Thoughts, Control Your Life features a series of ideas and images to guide your life, based on 60 posts that originally appeared on Instagram. These comments reflect the view that what you think shapes you and your experiences, so if you control your thinking, you will improve yourself and your life. These are comments like: “Control your thoughts, control your life,” “Don’t just think about it. Act!”, and “Good thoughts lead the way to wise actions."

Work It Right! features a series of ideas and images to become more successful in your work, based on 60 posts that originally appeared on Instagram. These comments reflect the view that what you think shapes you and your experiences, so if you think about how to work smarter and enjoy your work more, these are comments like: “Work smart not hard. Then spark up your life with something exciting, so you are ready to work smart again”.

Pursue Your Passion features a series of ideas to guide your life, based on 60 posts that originally appeared on Instagram. These comments reflect the view that what you think shapes you and your experiences, so if you think about ways to pursue your passion, you will better find and follow it. These are comments like: “Think of your passion like the rising sun. It radiates out on everything you do, bringing light and clarity to all” or “if you experience some upheaval in your life, that’s a sign it’s time to make a change”.

The Complete Guide to Distributing an Indie Film provides a step-by-step guide for setting up distribution for your film. It is designed primarily for independent filmmakers who are distributing their first few films with budgets ranging from under $200,000 to a few million. The audiobook is drawn from the author’s experiences in distributing and promoting her own feature film, attending festivals and conferences, going to the AFM, helping clients who have set up theatrical screenings, and doing research on recent developments and trends in distribution.