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Has Your Novel Fallen Into The “Biblio Black Hole”?

This very morning I received an email from my publisher, who kindly sends me quarterly updates regarding sales of my novels as well as a detailed report of the royalties associated with those sales. To say it made depressing reading is rather an understatement, as now I seriously ...

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Hive🐝Talk - Featuring Joyce Bowen - Ambassador @ beBee - December 16, 2019

Joyce 🐝 Bowen Brand Ambassador @ beBee · RAINN · Public Speaker · Salem, Massachusetts, United States · 📚 I am finishing a work I have been researching for years on child abuse, involving parental and professional abuse. I am a dedicated and avid investigative researcher. ...

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Hive🐝Talk - Featuring Joyce Bowen - Ambassador @ beBee - December 16, 2019

Joyce 🐝 Bowen Brand Ambassador @ beBee · RAINN · Public Speaker · Salem, Massachusetts, United States · 📚 I am finishing a work I have been researching for years on child abuse, involving parental and professional abuse. I am a dedicated and avid investigative researcher. ...

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A Birthday Celebration - June 17, 2018

Since my birthday and Father’s Day were on the same weekend, my husband and I took a road trip to Helen, Ga. The city is about an hour and a half from where we live and a pleasant drive through the lovely countryside and small mountain towns. · The State of Georgia’s third most v ...

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Has Your Novel Fallen Into The “Biblio Black Hole”?

This very morning I received an email from my publisher, who kindly sends me quarterly updates regarding sales of my novels as well as a detailed report of the royalties associated with those sales. To say it made depressing reading is rather an understatement, as now I seriously ...

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PR Secrets That Will Boost Your Career

Now that more companies are hiring remote workers, the job market you are competing in is much larger. Looking good publicly and building credibility within your industry is more important than ever. If you want to have a competitive advantage in the job market, you should really ...

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Where's your coffee been?

Here in Australia, we tend to take our 'over the counter' coffee as a given, and most of our coffee aficionados (i.e. almost all of us) expect to be able to buy, in almost any coffee shop, a good (no, excellent) cup of espresso coffee, served up by a well-trained barista, using a ...

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Give without expecting anything in return

I have read this great article from Preston 🐝 Vander Ven. I think it is simply brilliant ! · Top Ways to Market Yourself on beBee · Give · This is important to do on any social networking site, not just beBee, but it’s particularly important to do on here. It is human nature for ...

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Hive🐝Talk-August 13, 2018 Featuring Liesbeth Leysen, MSc, beBee Brand Ambassador, VIP

Liesbeth Leysen, MSc. beBee Brand Ambassador VIP · Wholesale Industry · Product Content Management (International Ecommerce I Wholesale) · Flanders, Belgium · Communication and JournalismPublished Author on beBee · Purpose: making a difference with truthful and emotional cinemati ...

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My Friend Jimmy

  · A Short Story By: Ash Wellesley · I think the worst kind of father any kid could have is a macho father. That, or no father at all. My best friend, Jimmy had a toxic male for a dad. I had none. · My father died when I was two. At the time, my mother was pregnant with my siste ...

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So whadya want me to do about it, smarty pants?

Occasionally my blogs turn to Mother Earth and the plight we've put her in. What with all our take, take, take over the millennia, and our exploitation (without time for renewal) of her natural assets, our modern day existence on this planet has now become a tearfully tragic tech ...

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Coffee Beans Experience

I adore coffee. It tastes good and smells fine. It warms me up and gives me a wonderful feeling. One cup in the morning and the day can start. Slowly but surely. But there are multiple ways to get to drink this dark delight. I recently decided to blend the coffee beans myself. In ...

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The Hilarious Lines of Tommy Cooper and other Dad jokes

Thanks to my friend George for passing these on to me. Enjoy · When I was a kid, I went to a psychiatrist for one of those aptitude tests. On the desk, he put a pitchfork, a wrench, and a hammer and he said to the nurse: ‘If he grabs the pitchfork, he’ll become a farmer. If he gr ...

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The Craft of Writing

I write regularly and will always continue to do so. The immersive experience of formulating ideas and putting thoughts to paper is a natural high to me. From outlining a theme, choosing an apt title, scribbling down thoughts, writing up a draft, revising paragraphs, and changing ...

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Full Moon Blessings

The dark house was shivering. A normal case of full moon impact. The old witch was getting ready to fly out. Her enchanted broom smiled. He knew her so well. Well, well, well. The children of the world were sleeping. At least pretending to. A bit naughty und ready for the unusual ...

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Bottom line read the story not just the headline

The headline is what most of us read and it looks bad, “Teacher’s pension fund reports gain, but misses benchmark.” If you only read the headlines you might be worried about the long-term stability of the pension plan. · The story is not that bad, but you have to look for the goo ...

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Hive🐝Talk - Featuring Pascal Derrien, VIP - Jan. 25, 2019

Pascal Derrien VIP · Talent Cloud Media · Chief Executive Officer · Dublin, Leinster, Ireland · "About me, originally from France I have been living in Ireland for more than two decades. I am fascinated by people and their stories." - Pascal Derrien Links · https://www.linke ...

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Magnificent Hyperbolic Paraboloid

Those who met me on beBee know that I am always "pushing" the contents about interesting engineering stuff. I even created the Interesting Engineering, Technology and Discoveries hive, besides the already existing hives, to activate the beBee construction community to be more eng ...

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65 is still young

I posted about this a few months ago, asking the question how do you define old? My answer was/is “Anyone who is 10 years older than me is old.” · The World Health Organization before it declared 2020-2030 the decade of Healthy Ageing looked at the ageing and asked How old is old ...

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