Today's Featured Books
New release (incl. audio!): A Letter to the Shooting Stars Among Us by Dylan Thomas Doyle
Congratulations to Dylan Thomas Doyle and Vine Leaves Press on the release of A Letter to the Shooting Stars Among Us—including a spoken word audiobook version with an original soundtrack!
★★★★★ "Beautifully tender and self-assured." ~Erica Berry, author of Wolfish
Important note from the publisher: "We would highly recommend purchasing the audio version of this book as it was intended as spoken word poetry and includes an original score."
A Letter to the Shooting Stars Among Us
NEW RELEASE: January 9, 2024Genre: Memoir/Poetry
Audiobook: From $7.99
Ebook: $4.99
Dear You,
Welcome to your love letter. A letter signed to the secrets and celebrations that brought you here. The found family, and the lost innocence, and the wanderlust, and the returning home again in ways you never thought possible. Not to mention the whiskey and the sobriety and the streetlights and the sweet sleepless nights you danced through on your way to this moment. Welcome to the love letter to your leaving and arriving again. Here.
A Letter to the Shooting Stars Among Us is a concoction of music and poetry that pushes the boundaries of genre and expectation. Flowing from spoken word poetry and hip-hop roots, it’s a personal and powerful testament to the beauty and heartbreak of wising up and self-discovery. Examining everything from breakups, illness, crustaceans, immigration, supernovas, God, tomatoes, seedy motels, and all those other memories you locked up somewhere safe, this book is a reminder to love deeply, live boldly, and seek beauty in unconventional spaces.
Praise for The Shape of Normal
★★★★★ "The body crackles with life in Dylan Doyle’s collection, which maps currents of yearning and youth against the sediment of personal history. These poems are both beautifully tender and self-assured—they sing." ~Erica Berry, author of Wolfish: Wolf, Self, and the Stories We Tell About Fear
★★★★★ "Internal and external landscapes collide, and, instead of bursting, kaleidoscopically combine. Letter to the Shooting Stars Among Us is a scintillating, multi-sensory, deeply emotional journey through this third space." ~Ian Bonaparte, author of The Fool and other works
About the Author
Dylan Thomas Doyle is a spoken word poet writing out of Boulder, Colorado. A former Unitarian Universalist minister, Dylan is now an information science researcher at the University of Colorado Boulder. The heart of Dylan’s poetry was forged in the glory days of the early 2000s New York City slam scene. Before moving to Boulder, Dylan was a regular touring performer at the Nuyorican Poetry Cafe, Bowery Poetry Club, and other spoken word poetry venues throughout New York City and the Northeast. Previous full-length poetry books include The Garage? Just Torch It (Vine Leaves Press) and Our Graveyard Shift (Spring Otter Press). More work by Dylan can be found at Dylanthomasdoyle.com and on all social media platforms @dylantdoyle.
About the Publisher
Vine Leaves Press likes to blur the line between commercial and experimental works. They publish book-length vignette collections, writing reference books, short story collections, memoir/autobiography, and character-driven novels with a literary bent. Subscribe to the Vine Leaves Press newsletter to receive FREE advanced review copies of upcoming new releases, news about their authors and subscribers, and/or to read the monthly opinion column, SPILL IT! or a daily dose of 50-word stories. Learn more at VineLeavesPress.com.
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"Events are as much the parents of the future as they were the children of the past." ~John Galsworthy, Saint’s Progress
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Spotlight on Your Daily Guide to Shine by Kevin Alan Lamb
"A touchstone for personal growth and empowerment." ~Matt Rudnitsky, You Are an Author
Your Daily Guide to Shine
Genres: Happiness Self-Help, Poetry5 stars, 59 ratings on Amazon
Paperback: $14.99
E-book: $4.99 (Free via Kindle Unlimited)
Your Daily Guide to Shine: Embrace Your Calling through Music, Poetry, and Prose offers a hopeful glimpse into the soul of humanity through its relationship with music, dreams, and home. This collection of lyrical poetry, prose, and musician interviews will help tune your inner voice, and guide you in the direction of your joy. Your joy is your light; walk in its direction to discover your true calling and help others to do the same.
For nearly a decade, Kevin Alan Lamb has worked in live music—building community, interviewing bands, writing, photographing, managing artists, booking, and promoting shows. Music is the vehicle that built his love into his life. What is your guiding light? Which direction is it calling you in? Are you listening? Isn’t it time?
"A touchstone for personal growth and empowerment, Kevin Alan Lamb's Your Daily Guide to Shine is the beacon of hope you didn't know you needed. More than a book, it's a vibrant, introspective journey pulsating with profound wisdom and dynamic resonance." ~Bestselling Author Matt Rudnitsky
About the Author
Kevin Alan Lamb is an author, poet, and journalist based in Oxford, Michigan. Kevin spent the first 18 years of his life believing that he would pitch a baseball for a living, but a torn rotator cuff shattered that dream.
Once you go all in on a dream only to witness it crumble, there’s no telling how or where to begin again.
The lyrics of a song by The Avett Brothers inspired Kevin to change his life: "Decide what to be and go be it." When Marcus Mumford (of Mumford & Sons) later gave him a shoutout in front of 30,000 people, Kevin realized it was time to stop covering professional sports and become a music journalist. Today, Kevin writes song lyrics, poignant poems, stirring affirmations, personal anecdotes, and fascinating musician interviews.
Learn more by following Kevin on Instagram and on Amazon, and be sure to also visit ThisIsAGoodSound.com.
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Free online: Virtual tour of the Edgar Allan Poe Museum. Come along on a virtual road trip to the Edgar Allan Poe Museum in Richmond, Virginia. Monday, January 8, 9-10 a.m. CST.
"All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." ~Edgar Allan Poe
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Spotlight on the Law of Attraction Series
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Focused Manifesting: 11 Laws of Manifestation to Master Your Mind and Attention
New Release: December 2023Book 7 of 7 in the Law of Attraction Series
Genres: Journaling (#1 on Amazon), Spiritual Self-Help, Personal Transformation
Paperback: $9.99
E-book: $0.99 (Free via Kindle Unlimited)
Do you struggle with consistency in your manifestation practices? Are you lacking clarity around what to focus on? Do you feel overwhelmed and all over the place?
If you’ve read any personal development book, you’re probably familiar with this one principle: Where attention goes, energy flows.
It’s a principle that’s been endorsed by the likes of Steve Jobs, Warren Buffet, and Tony Robbins. Few master this principle, but those who do achieve success beyond their wildest expectations. They build businesses, complete projects, publish books, and are always receptive to new and life-changing opportunities.
If you cannot manage your attention, you cannot manage your reality. So the secret to manifesting consistently and predictably is knowing how to focus—making this book the most important one in the entire series.
Inside Focused Manifesting, you’ll discover:
- The biggest distraction in the Universe.
- A simple exercise for choosing goals that create heart-mind alignment.
- How to turn manifestation into a daily habit vs. a random event.
- Feng shui secrets.
- Mindfulness exercises.
- A counter-intuitive way of using technology.
- A little tweak for 10x-ing the effects of gratitude.
- 7 FREE BONUSES + exercises at the end of each chapter.
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The Magic of Manifesting: 15 Advanced Techniques To Attract Your Best Life, Even If You Think It's Impossible Now
Book 1 of 7 in the Law of Attraction SeriesGenres: Teen & Young Adult Philosophy (#1 on Amazon), New Age New Thought, Spiritual Self-Help
4.7 stars, 3450+ ratings
Paperback: $15.11
E-book: $4.99 (Free via Kindle Unlimited)
Do you complain or start nagging when something isn’t going your way? Do you give fault and make others responsible for your misery? Are you annoyed seeing others who have exactly what you want in life?
Believe it or not, you are the driver of your own life and no one else can steal your seat...if you don’t let them. There are straight-forward, easy principles to get everything you want in life.
Manifestation involves using the power of your thoughts, feelings, or beliefs to bring something into your physical reality. There are laws that control how energy flows and where it goes. The more you know about these laws the easier it is to navigate the energy you need in the right direction.
In The Magic of Manifesting, you'll learn:
- Why you should care about manifestation more than you think.
- The scientific secret behind changing your reality.
- The smartest and most powerful way to attract anything you want in life.
- Essentials about energy, flow, and connection.
- Why your ego is the enemy and what you can do about it.
- The #1 mental exercise Olympians and star athletes practice daily to increase their performance.
- And much more.
The Magic of Manifesting Money: 15 Advanced Manifestation Techniques to Attract Wealth, Success, and Abundance Without Hard Work
Book 2 of 7 in the Law of Attraction SeriesGenres: Personal Success & Spirituality, Philosophy & Spiritual Growth, New Age New Thought
4.7 stars, 1500+ ratings
Paperback: $17.99
E-book: $4.99 (Free via Kindle Unlimited)
Are you always stressed or worried about how and when money will come? Have you read a ton of “how to manifest money” books without getting results?
A specific set of laws make up the entire universe. Mastering these laws is the missing key to getting rid of your struggles around money. This means more time with your loved ones, getting promoted at work, growing your business, and even buying your dream house. More importantly, it means having freedom in all areas of life.
In The Magic of Manifesting Money, you will discover:
- The #1 key to accelerating your money manifestation.
- The path of least resistance where money miracles and opportunities flow.
- How to generate revolutionary ideas out of the blue.
- Where to place your focus and energy to manifest wealth.
- How to be receptive to the infinite opportunities around.
- And much more.
About the Author
Ryuu Shinohara is a metaphysics philosopher and researcher. He is drawn toward unpacking and understanding the hidden laws of life and has a passion for teaching others about the proven and timeless principles of reality (both mystical and scientific) that he has come to adopt and get results with throughout his life. With this experience, he finds the inspiration to write these books. They are clear, relatable, and practical for anyone at any level of understanding (even non-believers)...turning theory into practice and practice into results.
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Free online: Publishing Scandals of 2023. This past year was an eventful one in the publishing world, including lots of literary scandals. Join the hosts of Writers Lunch for a discussion of some jaw-dropping and bonkers literary misdeeds from 2023. Thursday, January 4, 1-2 PM CST.
"Good writers borrow, great writers steal." ~T.S. Eliot
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