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Powerful Choices for Mid-Career Women: How to Create Your Personal Pathway to Meaning, Prosperity and Your Next Great Job by Phyllis Horner

Are you an experienced working woman who is beyond ready to go from doing what you “can do” to what you love to do? At mid-career it’s normal and healthy to want to change it up. It’s time to do what works for you, and the talent that got you to this point is plenty to move you forward again. At this time your options are actually greater than earlier in your career.

No matter what your current job offers, figuring out your next career moves NOW— without spending a lot of time, analysis or money, is important and freeing.

In this easy, conversational book you will get a step by step way to plan for meaning, prosperity and growth in all the remaining jobs of your career. You’ll see how to match your personality, natural talents and work preferences to new job options. You’ll learn from your past experience and read about other women who have broadened their options. Whether you like to reflect a little or a lot, you’ll still come out with a clear path to future success.

Be Confident and Set Your Own Path

By using this book, you’ll have the tools to plan the rest of your career. You will:

• Look Back evaluate your past jobs for what matches you and what doesn’t
• Discover new options for healthy work schedules, and energizing work
• Match jobs with who you really are, your talents and what you love to do
• Learn how to communicate with friends and loved ones to reassure them
• Create a worklife plan that matches your life changes

Follow the advice in Powerful Choices for Mid-Career Women and you will feel excited, prepared and connected with what you really want to do next. In a matter of a few hours, you can re-set your career direction.

About the author: Phyllis Horner, PhD

Phyllis Horner, PhD, is an organizational psychologist based in Honolulu, Hawaii. Her specialty is career and executive coaching for productivity and career success. She works with both women and men to achieve their personal career goals.

Growing up in Baltimore, Maryland, she was always fascinated by what people thought about their jobs. She worked her way through college and then moved to Motown where she earned a PhD from Wayne State University, studying the powerful role personal values plays in the satisfaction and intent to remain with an employer. She worked for Ford Motor Company for several years, helping design career, performance, and employee engagement systems.

After 10 icy winters, she moved to Honolulu and declared that she had “won the life lottery”. She’s got natural optimism and, her coaching clients say, a lot of insight and caring, in addition to the right amount of structure to help them keep moving forward.

She’s an expert in optimal work environments that make people and companies prosperous financially and otherwise. Phyllis holds many certifications for psychological assessments and techniques, including the Birkman Assessment, the MBTI, DiSC, Barrett Values Assessment, and others. She is a master trainer for The Change Cycle, has been an adjunct instructor at two universities, and has taught entrepreneurship for the Kaufman Foundation. She works in business settings, and has been both an employee and entrepreneur herself.

About the author of Silent Night: Robyn Grady

Robyn Grady has sold millions of books worldwide, and features regularly on bestsellers lists and at award ceremonies, including The National Readers Choice, The Booksellers Best and Australia’s prestigious Romantic Book of the Year.

When she’s not tapping out her next story, she enjoys the challenge of raising three very different daughters as well as dreaming about shooting the breeze with Stephen King during a month-long Mediterranean cruise.

Robyn received a book from her big sister and immediately fell in love with Cinderella. Sprinklings of magic, deepest wishes come true – she was hooked! Picture books with glass slippers later gave way to romance novels. When she was older, she wanted to write one.

However, in junior high, Robyn hit a stumbling block – a disheartening grade of one out of ten for a book review. Confused and hurt, she asked her hundred-and-thirty-year-old English teacher why the low mark? The wizened schoolmarm sniffed, “You obviously had a senior do it for you.” Thankfully Robyn’s business teacher was a honey.

Following a fifteen-year career behind the scenes in television, Robyn knew the time was right to pursue her dream of becoming a published author. Late in 2004, she received a phone call from a London editor. She’d submitted a manuscript to the Sweet line, which were featuring lighter, sexier stories to be released under the Tango banner. The editor was very interested in her story, but for a brand new line.

Robyn didn’t stop smiling for a week, but sometime later learned her revised manuscript hadn’t hit the mark. Then she received another call and another request for revisions to a second manuscript! That didn’t sell either. On a third manuscript she received a very long, very detail email, asking for, what would turn out to be, a complete rewrite. Having torn out most of her hair, but with 13 contest finals in 2006 (including winning the Golden Pen and Where the Magic Begins), she finished the rewrite then contacted a New York agent. That wonderful agent took her on, and Robyn sold in a matter of weeks, first to Silhouette Desire, then Modern Heat (Sexy Sensation/Presents) with a two book deal! She is currently writing manuscript number fourteen.

Robyn lives with her own modern-day hero on Australia’s Sunshine Coast with their three little princesses, as well as two poodles and a cat called Tinkie. She has majors in English literature and psychology, and loves new shoes, worn jeans, visits to the theatre and lunches at picturesque Moffat Beach with her writer friends.

Robyn knows that writing romance is the best job on the planet and she loves to hear from her readers!

You can keep up with news on her latest releases at www.robyngrady.com.

Follow her on Twitter: https://twitter.com/robyngrady

Like her on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AuthorRobynGrady

What reviewers are saying about Silent Night:

Silent Night was a very intriguing novella…
A lovely read. Will look for more stories by this author.
It will make you feel in the holiday spirit

Be sure to download Silent Night while it’s free on Amazon and don’t forget to leave a review.

Meet the author of Her Dakota Man: Lisa Mondello

New York Times and USA TODAY Bestselling Author, Lisa Mondello, has held many jobs in her life but being a published author is the last job she’ll ever have. She’s not retiring! She blames the creation of the personal computer for her leap into writing novels. Otherwise, she’d still be penning stories with paper and pen.

Her book The Knight and Maggie’s Baby is a New York Times Bestseller. Her popular series includes TEXAS HEARTS, DAKOTA HEARTS, Fate with a Helping Hand and the new SUMMER HOUSE series. Writing as LA Mondello, her romantic suspense, MATERIAL WITNESS, book 1 of her Heroes of Providence series made the USA TODAY Bestsellers List and was named one of Kirkus Reviews Best Books of 2012.

You can find more information about Lisa Mondello at lisamondello.blogspot.com and sign up for her newsletter to receive new release information at http://eepurl.com/xhxO5

Cleansed by Fire (Father Frank Mysteries Book 1) by James R. Callan

Father Frank is facing a dilemma. He has heard a clue to the church fires, but he heard it in the confessional and church law prevents him from telling anyone, or acting directly on it himself. He knows there will be another fire, but where, when, by whom? But nothing says he can’t look into it, just not using the information he has received. But, as he collects clues, Father Frank becomes a target himself, and his church is threatened.

The crimes have set the town’s residents on edge, fraying the bonds of trust. Is the mysterious newcomer with ties to the drug scene involved? What about the man who says maybe the churches deserved to burn? Or the school drop-out into alcohol and drugs who attacks the priest with a knife?

Can he save his church?

Can he save his own life?

About the author of the Father Frank Mysteries, James R. Callan

James R. Callan took a degree in English, intent on writing. But when writing didn’t support a growing family, he went back to graduate school in mathematics and pursued a career in mathematics and computer science. He has received grants from the National Science Foundation, NASA, and the Data Processing Management Association. He has been listed in Who’s Who in Computer Science and Two Thousand Notable Americans.

But writing was his first love. He has published a number books and picked up some awards along the way. Cleansed by Fire is the first of the Father Frank mysteries. The second in the series, Over My Dead Body, will be published in 2014.

Murder a Cappella, also published in 2012, is a murder mystery which Callan wrote with one of his daughters, Diane Bailey, a multi-published YA writer.

Callan lives with his wife in east Texas and Puerto Vallarta. They have four grown children and six grandchildren.

Visit his blog at jamesrcallan.com/