Selling Subsidiary Rights : An Insider's Guide

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Find gold in your publishing program.

Selling subsidiary rights can mean the difference between profit and loss to a publisher's bottom line. A publisher of any size, publishing almost any kind of book, can take advantage of this revenue source, as long as he or she understands what sub rights is; how it functions; the parameters under which the publisher must operate; and its implications for one's publishing program. This book provides that information, often with helpful tips and hints from industry insiders. This is the only book of its kind.

Tom Woll teaches readers how to:
-View their publishing program in relation to sub rights
-Find sub rights opportunities
-Successfully pursue and close those opportunities
-Negotiate to one's advantage
-Expand one's sub-rights options and income

Also included are 26 tables, forms and lists, including title profit-and-loss statement, tracking form, list of major mass-market publishers, book-club pricing template, list of major book clubs, sample letters, contact information for foreign book fairs, list of audiobook publishers, and sample agreements.

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Outdated nook and overpriced.......2005-04-02

I purchased this book thinking it had a wealth of information in it -- The book refers to old litho prinitng techniques, film and such...The general content is 10 years or more out of date..It is not worth more than $9.95 at the best. I paid best part of $50 for it....So much of the information is far to liberal and generalised.

I would not recommend this book to ANYONE unless the price was under $10. It is certainly not worth $50 or more.

A very, very overpriced and overrated book.

On the back of the book I recieved it had a reduced sale tag at $8.95

This book needs to be entirely updated with modern technologies and information.

I have purchased and hired books with so much more modern information than this has.

It needs to be completely re-written. Not a good buy AT ALL !! !

A Very Important Book.......2000-03-22

Many of the books published by the large publishers lose money on regular trade sales and are saved by the subsidiary rights sales. Many small publishers do not try to sell subsidiary rights because they do not know how. Tom Woll shares his years of experience. He describes the various kinds of sub-rights, such as book club, translation, paperback, audio, movie/TV, condensation and electronic rights. He tells you how to find sub-rights opportunities and shows you how to negotiate the best deals. Both large and small publishers will profit from this valuable reference. It is a goldmine waiting to be discovered-by you. DanPoynter@ParaPublishing.com

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Designed to function both as a textbook and a career reference for those who want to learn about alternatives to the traditional law firm world, this book covers non-traditional paralegal career opportunities in areas such as corporate, government and non-profit organizations. An unique text in an interview format to help readers get a glimpse of the life of a paralegal working outside of law firms. Each interview includes a chart with job title, salary, range, benefits and job description.

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This book discusses the personal and professional challenges of conducting fieldwork in the difficult, sometimes threatening contexts of the transforming societies of post-socialist Europe and China. Field research is a distinctly human effort and the social relationships between researchers, third parties and respondents directly affect the quality of research findings. With unusual frankness, the authors share their personal field experiences and discuss both the imaginative strategies they have devised to cope with problems and the methodological lessons they have learned.

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Don't Overlook This Book!!!

Misleading title - these recipes are far from low-fat

Volume 2 of my Healthy Cooking Bibles

366 Low-Fat Brand-Name Recipes in Minutes

Great everyday recipe ideas

366 Low-Fat, Brand-Name Recipes in Minutes!: More Than One Year of Healthy Cooking Using Your Family's Favorite Brand-Name Foods
M. J. Smith
Manufacturer: Chronimed Publishing
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Here's a year's worth of the healthiest and fastest family favorites using the country's most popular brand-name foods.

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Don't Overlook This Book!!!.......2001-04-19

This is by far the best book of low fat recipes I have ever used (and I have used many!!!) I have made at least 90 recipes and they were very quick and easy. Nutritional information makes it easy to fit into any eating routine, so you always know where you stand. I have even tried some of these out on family and friends without telling them they were eating low fat and they still don't know- they loved it. Try this book - you will not be sorry.!!

Misleading title - these recipes are far from low-fat.......2001-03-31

Although the recipes in this book look like they are tasty, if you analize each recipe you'll see that they are far from low-fat. The serving sizes are very often miniscule in size and the fat calories are usually up around 50+ per serving.

Examples: Pecan and Red Onion Bread (page 70) serving size 1/2 slice, calories 130, calories from fat 45

Almond Fish Fillets (page 221) Serving size 4 oz. (equal to a deck of playing cards), calories 185, calories from fat 81

Grilled Italian Pork Chops (page 231) Serving size 1 chop, calories 166, calories from fat 90!

One-Dish Oriental Chicken and Rice (page 239), Serving size 4 oz meat + 1 cup rice and vegetables, Calories 339, calories from fat 63

Picadillo Rolls (page 242) serving size ONE ROLL, Calories 299, calories from fat 117!

Salmon Florentine (page 245) serving size 8 oz, calories 301, calories from fat 117

Hidden Valley (R) Club Salad (page 137) Serving size 2 cups, Calories 267, calories from fat 126

Remember that a 4 oz. piece of meat is the size of a deck of playing cards. Yes, there are a few recipes in the book that I would consider low-fat, but the majority are not. As any calorie counter, like myself, knows, the amount of fat per serving on the above examples are often a whole days allowance!

I highly recommend you not purchase this book, but search for a truly low-fat cookbook. This one is great for an everyday meal, but certainly not for those who wish to lose weight.

Volume 2 of my Healthy Cooking Bibles.......2000-10-24

I bought this book after buying All-American Low-Fat and No-Fat Recipes by the same author. I am happy to say the results are just as delicious!!There are so many great recipes in this book. Some of my favoirtes are Chicken Breasts Stuffed with Veggies and Cheese, Pizza Cups, Cheeseburger Pie, and the Veg-All Seven Vegetable Mushroom Rice. The book is light on desserts, but on the up side there is an extensive salad and bread section. This book is invaluable to anyone with a busy lifestyle where a quck meal is essential and a healthy meal is desired. Well worth the cost!

366 Low-Fat Brand-Name Recipes in Minutes.......2000-06-10

I have accumulated several low fat, "healthy" cookbooks over the years, probably like half the rest of the world. Having owned this one for over five years, it's showing its wear, because it is my favorite! My 14 year old picky eater son begged me to fix the "Shrimp and Rice Salad with Soy Sauce Dressing" tonight--and I obliged! My family of four will fight over the leftovers tomorrow! Don't worry about the use of "Brand Names"--often you can easily substitute other brands with equally good results. The recipes are easy, fast, healthy, and definitely taste good. I highly recommend this cookbook.

Great everyday recipe ideas.......1999-03-05

I took this book out of the library just days after joining Weight Watchers, while feeling as if I would never be able to cook anything but broiled chicken and vegetables ever again! This book has a lot of great ideas for lowfat cooking, including chapters on appetizers, salads, casseroles, vegetarian entrees, bread machine recipes, side dishes, and desserts. Best of all, the recipes are for basic, everyday family food that is easy and quick to prepare and lowfat. All of the ingredients are things you probably have at home--nothing too unusual or complicated. Complete nutritional information is provided, so I've been able to use the Weight Watchers Points Finder to figure out how each meal fits into my daily points allowance. I liked the book so much that I bought a copy for myself. My family really liked the Seafood Enchiladas in the Microwave. Enjoy!

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366 Low-Fat Brand-Name Recipes in Minutes: More Than One Year of Healthy Cooking Using Your Family's Favorite Brand-Name Foods
M. J. Smith
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366 Low-Fat Brand-Name Recipes in Minutes: More Than One Year of Healthy Cooking Using Your Family's Favorite Brand-Name Foods
M. J. Smith
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Based on the events surrounding the rapid growth of bond markets in East Asia, this provides useful and practical information on eight bond markets.

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How to save and invest today for a secure financial tomorrow

A sound financial plan is absolutely essential for reaching your long-term goals, whether you want to purchase a new home, pay for a child's college education, or create a retirement nest egg. In this invaluable new guide, investment advisor W. Patrick Naylor provides a 10-step, easy-to-follow savings and investing program that will help you build a secure financial future. A flexible system that can be tailored to your income and risk tolerance levels, this proven strategy shows how to:

Set short-, intermediate-, and long-term financial goals
Establish a budget based on fixed and variable expenses
Organize your banking for maximum benefit
Create a separate fund for unforeseen emergencies
Develop a 3-tiered investment strategy that includes mutual funds, dividend reinvestment programs (DRIPs), and individual growth stocks
Monitor your investments regularly by determining your net asset value (NAV)

Customer Reviews:

Formula for Financial Indepencence.......2001-10-14

Following Dr. Naylor's step-by-step formula provides a solid foundation and framework for the creation of a sound lifelong financial plan. Written expressly for the uninitiated, this book will expand your personal finance knowledege base in hours! Unincombered with minimal technical jargon, this book cuts to the chase. Recommended without reservation!

Safe financial planning.......2001-04-04

This book delievers a sound financial plan. It's steps are concise and obtainable goals that will help to secure a firm financial base. It also has indexes that include companys with DRIP programs and others that you can buy directly from. It's definetly worth the price.

An excellent first step to financial freedom.......2000-06-17

This book provides the basic groundwork needed in order for almost anyone, regardless of financial circumstances, to begin formulating a serious saving and investment strategy. This book is highly suitable to the absolute beginner, educating readers on some of the best ways to begin participating in the market, such as DRIP programs, mutual funds and "buy and hold" strategies.

This book will help readers quickly accumulate sound investment knowledge and well prepare them for future study.

This book should be required reading for anyone seeking to increase financial security through investing.

Clear, concise financial information and stratagies.......1998-12-06

Mr. Naylor strikes a chord with the financial novice. 10 Steps to Financial Success provides clear, concise explanations of financial investment vehicles available to investors in every income range. In addition to the expected discussion of these investment options, there is also a wealth of common sense stratagies that can be implemented by virtually everyone to organize monthly income and expenses.

When followed faithfully, these techniques can help the reader develop an accurate financial profile. This in turn, supports realistic goal setting and ultimately promotes optimal financial growth.

Inspite of the fairly dry nature of financial topics, Mr. Naylor does an admirable job of presenting the information in a vibrant manner. Complex issues are discussed in 'plain-english' and each chapter includes a review section that summarizes key learning points.

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Taxing the financial sector, direction and indirectly, has long been relatively easy even for governments with limited taxing capacity. But growing awareness of the strategic importance of the financial sector in catalyzing economic growth has led governments to reconsider the financial sector's potential as a budgetary cash-cow. Indeed, the pendulum may have swung to the other extreme, with special interests sometimes arguing for exaggerated fiscal concessions in the name of improved financial sector performance.

This book examines the possibilities and pitfalls of successful financial sector tax reform, whether based on simplifications such as VAT or transactions taxes, or on subtle attempts to use taxes as corrective instruments. Highlighted is the need to make the financial tax system as arbitrage-proof and inflation-proof as possible.

Contributors to this volume--all respected academics or practitioners--address distinct areas of taxation. Theoretical chapters model the impact of taxes on intermediaries, the design of optimal tax schemes, the role of imperfect information, and links between taxation and saving. Current practice in the industrial world and case studies of distorted national systems provide an empirical underpinning. And discussion of practical issues considers inflation, the income tax treatment of intermediary loan-loss reserves, deposit insurance, the VAT, and financial transactions taxes.

This book will prove useful to finance and policy professionals, development specialists, scholars and students of financial sector policy.

Foreword by Nicholas Stern, Senior Vice President and Chief Economist, the World Bank

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A refreshing slap in the face...

Same old news

If you need some motivation...read this book!

A whole book on low carb recovery???

Belongs on every low-carbers book shelf

The 7-Day Low-Carb Rescue and Recovery Plan: For Every Low-Carb Dieter--On Any Program--Who Needs Real Help--Right Now
Rachael F. Heller , and Richard F. Heller
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The 7-Day Low-Carb Rescue and Recovery Plan The word "miracle" isn't in the title, but perhaps it should be. In The 7-Day Low-Carb Rescue and Recovery Plan, The Drs. Heller (The Carbohydrate Addict's Diet) have designed a tremendously simple week-long "jump start" for anyone who wants to give low-carb living a shot--or even a second try. With their emphasis on lean proteins and plenty of fiber, rather than plain "slabs of meat" at every meal, you'll actually be adding food to your daily regimen for the first days of the program. As you continue the week, carb-heavy foods will be moved to the end of meals; partially removed; and removed entirely. A generous handful of recipes are included, all of which include plenty of spices and flavor, from the mushroom garlic dip to the sesame pork with garlic cream sauce. Some, like a flour-free "crepe," can be made ahead in stacks and frozen for later munching. The remainder of the book is helpful even to those who are doing a decent job sticking to your plan during typical days, but have problems when faced with holidays or dinners out with friends. The Hellers detail a few typical experiences we all encounter--waiting for friends at a bar and "rewarding" ourselves with sugar-laden desserts is one--and then demonstrate how to avoid typical pitfalls. Repeated urgings to "take care of yourself first" and deal with emotional issues behind food aim at long-term solutions, while methods of polite refusal will help those who feel they simply can't say "no" to a full bread basket at a restaurant. Whether you're picking up where you left off or just looking for some new techniques for keeping your weight stable, chances are you'll find them in this upbeat, encouraging book. --Jill Lightner

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Drs. Rachel and Richard Heller, authors of the revolutionary New York Times bestselling Carbohydrate Addict's books, are renowned for their ability to motivate readers with their own combined 200-pound weight loss success. Drs. Heller understand the physical and emotional reasons why people struggle to stay on their low-carb diets—or fall off them completely.

Now comes the right help at the right time—a plan to put the low-carb dieter back in control—without deprivation—in only a week or less!

Holidays, vacation, stress, boredom, and daily emotional wear and tear are all factors that can chip away at the most sincere diet commitment. What starts out as a simple "cheat" often leads to bona-fide failure. In the end most low-carb dieters are left to watch helplessly as their eating spirals out of control and the pounds creep (or rush) back on. Drs. Heller know that once someone has fallen off any low-carb diet, they need help to get back on, and stay on.

Now there's a day-by-day, scientifically-based motivating and empowering program that will immediately reduce cravings, satisfy the body's need for carbohydrates, and help low-carb dieters regain control over their eating and their weight.

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Rescue Recipes: When you're facing temptation, legal food that satisfies at your fingertips.

The 7-Day Low-Carb Rescue and Recovery Plan is the essential lifeline of hope for low-carb dieters who have lost their way, or who simply need a helping hand in getting back on track.

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A refreshing slap in the face..........2007-06-20

I just picked up this book from the library and it was a God send to me- I read and followed Dr. Atkin's books and lost an amazing 60 pounds in 4 months before a trip to Mexico. When we returned home, I wanted to just take a break from watching everything I ate, and within 5 months I had gained the weight back. I don't know how it crept up so fast, but I just couldn't get back on track. Going back on induction made me gag- I couldn't stand the thought of eating that way the rest of my life. But after reading the steps in the Heller's book, it makes sense to me now. I don't feel like all carbs are evil, and the reward meals are so great! It makes me feel like a real person again- like I can go out to dinner or lunch with my friends and eat a normal meal! I can even have a little dessert if I play my cards right! I think this is a wonderful, wonderful book and I think it is a realistic look at the low carb lifestyle in full view. With Atkin's, it was not this clear to me. Now I understand how to eat and what order to eat the foods in! If you don't want to spend the money, go to the library and check it out like I did- I finished the entire book in one day- It is an easy read and worth your time! Good luck!

Same old news.......2007-02-07

There was not much original in this book. I was very disappointed in it - maybe everything about low-carb eating has already been said. Save your money.

If you need some motivation...read this book!.......2006-06-11

I picked this book up on a whim and am thankful I did. The quote that grabbed my attention was on the back cover, "If you can't face one more slab of meat or chicken...[This book]can help." This book just may have been written with me in mind! What I like best about this book is that it is informal, light, and is an easy read. I appreciate that people on any low carb diet could benefit from this book. I see how this book would help people who are just beginning to diet, or who have fallen off track, however, this was not my case. I was really just looking for some added motivation. I did read the chapter about just starting or getting back on track but especially loved the later chapters about continuing success and hidden carbs. This book left me feeling more knowledgable and charged to continue on my way to a lighter me!

A whole book on low carb recovery???.......2006-03-13

This book shows you how to get back on the low carb bandwagon. But they have spent and entire book on something that could've been a magazine article. Basically over 7 days just adding back in more protein, then salads and low carb veggies, and weeding out the bad carbs that you have let creep back in. It is not rocket science but for people that need a boost back on the wagon it may be helpful. Actually it could help someone get on low carb eating for the first time easier than doing it cold turkey.

Belongs on every low-carbers book shelf.......2005-04-23

Once you've fallen off the low carb wagon, getting back on track can seem a daunting task. This book offers a sensible, gradual plan for easing back into the low carb life. It worked to get me successfully into a struggle-free induction when induction was always a major challenge before. The information about hidden carbs, artifical sweeteners, and other challenges low carbers face regularly is also a great asset. I've only tried a few of the included recipes so far, but they've all been very good.

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An interview with Denise Roig

Any Day Now
Denise Roig
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An interview with Denise Roig.......2005-11-04

By Claire Holden Rothman
Montreal Review of Books

"I hope I die before I get old," sang The Who's Roger Daltrey before he got old. Aging may not be a picnic, but it's better than you might think.

This is what Montreal writer Denise Roig is getting at in her new short story collection. Any Day Now puts a fresh spin on the time-worn coming-of-age genre. Forget the passage from childhood into adulthood, Roig suggests: "I'm more interested in what comes when we begin to age," she confesses at a west end coffee bar. "When we've already made choices in life, we've married and had children and gotten divorced, We've traveled and had our love affairs or whatever it is that we've done. And now what? What is left?"

The question is complex, and so are Roig's answers, providing her with ample material to fill the eighteen beautifully crafted, bittersweet stories of Any Day Now.

"Windows Like Doors Everywhere You Look," one of the strongest pieces, features a youthful journalism student named Foster lecturing his middle-aged female professor in a role-reversing meeting after class. "You're a basically good person in a basically nasty world and an even nastier institution," Foster says. "At some point you had big ideas, grand ideas, even revolutionary ideas, but then the world got hold of you. It shook you and broke you and punished you for those ideas ..."

"Foster," the teacher answers, "you could be talking about anyone I know over the age of forty-five. It's called adulthood."

In story after story, Roig probes what it means to be an adult. At first glance, it doesn't seem to be much fun. Roig's characters have been stripped of most of their youthful certainties. Things that once consoled them - travel, sex, religion, art - now help pass the time, but provide little real solace.

In "Bridge of Sighs," a man dying of AIDS says to a former lover, "How long am I going to have to explain this to you, dear heart? Life is mess and complication. Nothing but. There's only little spaces for happy-go-lucky, for grace."

"I've been accused," Roig admits, "of writing depressing stories, but I don't see it that way. I don't think I'm saying here that life's a bitch and then you die. I don't think I'm saying that at all. It seems to me, as someone pushing 60, that what's left at the end of life is a whole lot. There's a certain strength from having done the early years. Some strength and clarity and a freedom from the limiting notions of who we are and who we feel we have to be. Eventually, hopefully, we learn we can survive without the approval of others."

So what are these little spaces for grace evoked by Roig's dying character?

According to Roig, they're found in "the love and devotion of a couple of people, and some quiet place inside each of us that has nothing to do with anyone else."

Love. Inward peace. These are the blessings that provide meaning in Roig's fiction and also, one senses, in her life. "They are the big things," she says, nodding emphatically. "They're really the only things that can do, in the end, for any of us."

Even as she wrestles with big life themes, Roig has packaged her latest stories in an intriguing and ambitious structure inspired by modern dance and the sonata form on which modern-dance choreography is based. "I studied modern dance and the (Martha) Graham technique at the Julliard School in New York years ago," Roig explains. "It struck me that the sonata, with its exposition, development and recapitulation, is a lot like the short story with its beginning, middle, and end."

The three-part form occurs naturally in traditional short stories, but in Any Day Now Roig pushes it a step further, dividing the stories into six cycles of three. These trios are also linked, providing an approximate echo of the sonata form. Characters introduced in the first story of a trio reappear in the second or third; setting often carries over, as do image and theme.

In certain trios - like the first, appropriately titled "Troika" - the links are obvious. The theme in "Troika" is storytelling. The narrator is a middle-aged Montreal woman who dreams of adopting a Russian child. In the opening story, the narrator's Russian friend Luba recounts a surreal attempt to fix her broken-down Lada during a millennial celebration in Moscow. In the trio's last installment the narrator repays Luba with a story of a coat she borrowed in Moscow (a sly reference to Gogol's "The Overcoat"?) during a failed adoption attempt that Luba apparently brokered. The stories seem to have little to do with each other until the very end, when the narrator visits Russia and the complex nature of her desire for a child, and of her friendship with Luba, is poignantly revealed.

In linking these stories is Roig moving towards the novel form? Emphatically not. "I get insulted when people suggest a short story writer has to graduate, at some point, to the novel. Think of Alice Munro and all these wonderful women writers who stick by the form." For Roig, writing stories is "like serial monogamy." She loves immersing herself with characters she's just met, but soon feels the pull to move on.

Despite this artistic restlessness, Roig has been a committed fiction writer since 1989, when she moved here from Los Angeles with Ariel, her then 12-year-old daughter. They had just seen a performance of Cirque du Soleil and were so impressed that Ariel convinced her mother to move to Montreal so she could study with the organization.

While her daughter was going to circus school, Roig signed up for a fiction workshop at Concordia University led by Audrey Thomas. The rest, as she says, is history. In 1995 her debut collection, A Quiet Night and a Perfect End received accolades from Grace Paley, among others, and has enjoyed a long and healthy shelf life. In 2000 it was published in French as Le vrai secret du bonheur; in 2003 CBC Radio's Between the Covers broadcast selections to listeners across the country. In addition to writing fiction, Roig is a journalist and has taught in Concordia's journalism department.

What comes next? Unexpectedly, the answer is non-fiction. While editing Any Day Now, Roig noticed a pastry school a few blocks from her Montreal West home. She had always secretly wanted to go to cooking school, so she signed up on a whim. The intensive course was "a wonderful and terrible experience ... the hardest thing I've ever done." The result is Butter Cream: A Year in a Montreal Pastry School, for which Roig hopes to find a publisher soon. Given her passion for telling stories, I'd bet some fiction from the kitchen will also soon be underway.

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Any Day Now

Manufacturer: Normandie House
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Binding: Hardcover
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Any Day Now
Tom Galt
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Any Day Now

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Printed by Louis Graf at the Black Cat Press. Design and typography by Norman W. Forge. An early volume in the Sac Prairie Saga.

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Any Day Now
Geoffrey J. Fox
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Emotions swim through our blood like fish through the sea. Some big, some small, some well defined, some without names at all. It's not every day you find out everything you knew to be truth no longer is. That was the reality for Geoffrey J Fox the day he was diagnosed with a rare form of Muscular Dystrophy. At the age of 18 his young life would change forever and his sea of emotions was restocked with fish foreign to him. Instead of curling up in a ball, he decided to use his pen for a rod, paper for bait and go fishing. Join him as he goes on a poetic journey through his sea of emotions and enjoy the inspiring catch!

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Any Day Now
S. Slaughter
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Any Day Now is a collection of poems about the toils and tributes of every day life. In the first section of the book titled Spirit, Allison E. Slaughter takes you down a road of intense inner thought and worldly reflection. In Love she reveals the unyielding power of love, lust, pain, and devotion leaving you searching for answers to the questions that are skillfully woven throughout each poem.

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Any Day Now
Elizabeth Quinn
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Any day now
August Derleth Mathias Noheimer
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Any Day Now: Poems
Diana Der-Hovanessian , and Diana Der-Hovanessian
Manufacturer: Sheep Meadow
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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