About Featured Book: Portraits as Childfree Wealth: 26 stories about how being Childfree impacts your life, wealth, and finances. by Jay Zigmont, PhD, CFP®

Have you ever wondered what people without children do with all their free time and money? Do you assume that they must have a lot of both? The truth is more complex than that! Childfree people come from as many different backgrounds and life circumstances as people with children do. Some are partnered, and some are not. Some are well-educated, some aren’t. Some are independently wealthy, and some are just scraping by. Dr. Zigmont’s “Portraits of Childfree Wealth” is a collection of 26 vignettes based on interviews with Childfree people. He adds his own significant insights, as both a fellow Childfree professional and a CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER . This book is an eye-opening look at the lives of people in the United States who deliberately chose not to become parents, and if you’re in the same boat, you’ll find a lot to relate to here. If you have children, you’ll learn how the other half lives. And if you’re a finance professional, you’ll see how money still plays a role for people who don’t have to worry about leaving assets to their children.

In Portraits of Childfree Wealth, Dr. Jay Zigmont, CFP®, interviews 26 individuals and couples to understand their lives. Each portrait provides a different perspective on Childfree Wealth from a diverse population across the US. There are stories from people who are barely making ends meet and others who have achieved FIRE (Financial Independence, Retire Early) or FILE (Financial Independence, Live Early). Being Childfree does not automatically make people rich, as we still suffer from income disparities. The difference is that if a Childfree person is barely making ends meet now, they would have drowned if they had a child.

Some key findings:

• The reasons for being Childfree are as varied as the people themselves.
• There are very few or no regrets from people being Childfree.

• Being Childfree does not automatically make you rich.

• There is a relationship between growing up in poverty and poor and being Childfree.
• Childfree Financial Independence is simple: 1. Get out of debt 2. Max out retirement plans.

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About Passage on a Bridge

It is 1935. Jim Hoffman, 19 years old with no future, leaves his hometown to ride the rails into the heart of hard times. Jim’s journey with a prep school dropout and a Texas panhandle Irishman sets in motion an odyssey of self-discovery and enduring friendship.

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William Cheevers writes historical fiction with themes of contemporary interest and mysteries featuring Chicago private investigator Frank Lydecker in the transitional world of the 1950s. He is the author of two historical novels (“The Able Seaman’s Mate” and “In Every Way That Matters”), two volumes of Lydecker short stories and four Lydecker mystery novels (Labyrinth, In The Matter of Megan Pfeiffer, Girl on a Bicycle and The Compton File). William’s favorite writers are Mark Twain, Joseph Conrad, Eugene O’Neill, Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller, Hemingway, Faulkner, Hammett and Chandler, Doris Kearns Goodwin, David McCullough, Jean Edward Smith and Cormac McCarthy and two of the people from history he most admires are Mark Twain and Albert Einstein.

About Featured Book: Blown by Nolon King

She can pay with her life … or she can pay with her crimes.

Alison Tanner thought she was living her best life. Her husband’s seven-figure consulting business earned them entry into the country club crowd and paid for her gifted daughter’s tuition at the best private school in the area. She lives in a gorgeous house, drives an expensive car, and she could afford designer clothes, if she cared about fashion at all.

But when her husband, Tom, is killed in a gang-related shooting, it all comes crashing down. Tom’s consulting agency was just a front for his real business: keeping their wealthy neighbors supplied with cocaine, oxycontin, and every other illegal drug money can buy. Tom died owing the local drug lord a lot of money — and now Alison’s on the hook.

Worse, unscrupulous DEA Agent Banks wants her to be his informant in a sting operation and doesn’t care if she survives, as long as he gets his man.

Desperate to protect her daughter from both a vengeful mother-in-law who wants custody and a drug lord who wants her daughter to work off Tom’s debts in the streets, Alison agrees to go undercover, wearing a wire as she sells drugs to her snobby neighbors and learns more about the drug lord’s operation.

If she ever gets out of this, she vows she’ll take her daughter and disappear forever — but her chances of surviving are getting worse by the minute. Does she have a shot at ever living a normal life again, or is everything blown?

Blown is an intense new stand-alone crime thriller from Nolon King, author of Pretty Killer, 12, and the No Justice series. Fans of Ozark and Weeds will love Blown. Get your copy today.

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Poltergeist the Pale Horse by William Joel

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Poltergeist returns at the request of the angelic agency, Sentinel, to investigate a possible attempt to destabilize the United States government. Caleb, the angelic being from the Sentinel, tells Poltergeist that something horrendous will happen that will catapult new highly restrictive gun laws into law in the United States. This is a prelude to removing every person’s right to bear arms.

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I am a U.S. Air Force veteran who served at the end of the Vietnam war. The Air Force found that I had a talent for languages, so they sent me to language school. I served as a linguist for a section of military intelligence and spent several years at the National Security Agency (NSA) with a top-secret clearance. I was very interested in police work and later joined the state police. After some time in uniform, I was recruited to be a hostage/crisis negotiator and trained by FBI hostage negotiators in criminal and abnormal psychology, criminal profiling, and in the techniques used to “talk down” a hostage taker or someone barricaded with the intent to commit suicide. It turned out that I had a natural talent for it and never lost anyone. I retired after getting an advanced degree in psychology. I wrote my first novel in the mid-nineties but found I needed to learn more of how to express my creative imagination eloquently with descriptive and believable character depiction, dialogue, story line, and background. I love the idea of providing readers with entertainment and an escape into a different realm of their imagination with my writing. I continue to enjoy reading immensely and my favorites are mystery, science fiction, and fantasy. Originally from the East Coast, I transplanted West. Maybe someday I’ll return to the East Coast area. I enjoy a close and loving family relationship my wife, my children, grandchildren and my siblings.

Cold Case No. 99-5219 by Betta Ferrendelli

A baby is murdered on New Year’s Eve 1999, her tiny body abandoned in a Dumpster.
Twelve years later, while locked in a vicious legal battle to regain custody of her own daughter, reporter Samantha Church stumbles across the infant girl’s headstone at Golden Cemetery.
Sam is immediately intrigued by the plea for help from the Grandview Police Department on the child’s gravestone. Sam approaches Grandview police detective James Page, the original officer in charge of the case, but without new evidence, there is nothing Page can do to reopen the cold case and bring the killer to justice.
Or is there?
As Sam digs deeper into the baby’s murder, powerful businessmen, a former Merchant Marine and even a strange and mysterious psychic illuminate her path. Though the further she goes and the more dangerous and deceiving her journey becomes, she refuses to give up and let this infant girl’s murder go unsolved.

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Betta Ferrendelli is an award-winning, Amazon best selling author

About Dragon Stones by Carolyn Watson Dubisch

A dull visit to their Aunt’s house turns into a magical and thrilling adventure when Lizzy and her brother Ron venture into the nearby forest. An inviting path leads to a shrouded lake in the woods… Perfect for skipping stones, but who or what keeps throwing them back?

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Carolyn Watson Dubisch is the author/illustrator of many children’s books and also writes and illustrates comics for kids. Some of her comic book series include “The Horribles” and “The Dragon in The Closet”.
She currently lives in a house by the beach in Mazatlán, Mexico with her husband, her daughter, a very old dog and four Mexican street cats.

About Cease Fire: A Space Adventure Book 2

Stranded in uncharted space, Karma is finding it harder to keep information from the crew.

But what she knows will affect their chances of survival.

At least with the crew knowing about the device it means that she can work with them to get it back online and find a way home.

That would be the plan, but for a pesky distress call.

A distress call they have to answer.

The problem with responding to distress signals in unknown space, with untold threats all around, is that you also run the risk of needing to send out your own distress call.

Which presupposes that there are friendly folks somewhere around. And that you’re not going to attract the attention of any lurking hostiles.

Not only that, but their side quest could very well result in losing crew members.

And we’re not just talking about red shirts.

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Recovering theoretical physicist, professional geek, newbie sci fi novelist, USA Today Best-Seller, and die hard Doctor Who fan.

Though she is originally from England, she is mostly what her friends call a “digital nomad”, hanging in whichever country calls to her… as long as it has good wifi, and coffee.

About Where Are We Tomorrow?

Four women working backstage on a rock tour each come to terms with being a woman in a male-dominated industry. When Alex Evans, a thirty-six-year-old touring electrician, is implicated in an accident involving the female pop star she works for, she and three other women on tour rent a house together in Tuscany. While the tour regroups, confessions are made, secrets are spilled: the guitar tech conceals a forbidden love, the production assistant’s ambition knows no limits, and the personal assistant battles mental issues.
Through arguments and accidents, combating drug use and religion, the women help each other look back on the choices they’ve made, eventually buoying each other, offering up strength to face tough decisions ahead.

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Tavi Taylor Black earned an MFA in creative writing from Lesley University in Cambridge where she worked with such skilled writers as A.J. Verdelle and Tony Eprile. In the years following her graduation, Tavi created a collection of short stories, Crazy Happy. Several stories from the collection were shortlisted for prizes, including the Fish One Page Prize, Aesthetica Magazine’s Creative Works Competition and the Donald Barthelme Prize for Short Prose. Other stories have appeared in Alligator Juniper and Opium Magazine online. Current stories are listed on her website at www.taviblack.com

Tavi’s debut novel Where Are We Tomorrow? was a finalist in the 2021 Next Generation Indie Book Awards, the 2021 American Fiction Awards, the 1st place winner of the 2016 PNWA Mainstream Fiction Contest and a finalist in the Nicholas Schaffner Award for Music in Literature. She has an upcoming historical novel scheduled for publication in 2022. Tavi currently lives on Vashon Island where she is finishing up a middle-grade fantasy novel.

About And Trouble Followed

In this work of historical fiction, set in 1868, four Union soldiers, two white men and two black men who are former slaves, are finally discharged from the army. There is an undeniable bond that has developed between the men having faced the adversity of combat together. They struggle with saying goodbye but then leave for different parts of the country to start their lives anew. Dalton heads to Missouri. Shadrach back to Alabama. Harrison to Boston and Emmet to Ohio. But in a country still shattered by disunion, trouble followed

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I am a retired lawyer living outside of New Orleans who has several books out of different genres. I also have a radio show on WRBH–88.3 FM in New Orleans called Writers’ Forum wherein I interview authors about their works.

About Looking for God

IF YOU ENJOYED “THE LITTLE PRINCE” OR “THE PILGRIM’S PROGRESS” YOU WILL LOVE THIS STORY!

Jacob’s idyllic life is shattered when his young daughter Jessica is killed in a dreadful accident. Locked in a crisis of faith, he sets out to find God to ask why he allowed her death to occur.

He wonders if God even exists, or which religion is the one path to reach him. To find answers, Jacob passes through the Ancient Gates of Abraham and wanders down the conflicting roads in the Kingdom of Religious Confusion.

He is confronted with the challenge of keeping an open mind as he meets the righteous, the devout, and the unbelievers. Jacob comes away from each meeting with a deeper understanding of individual choice. Despite this, he grows more confused with every encounter.

Is God real? Or is God just a figment of imagination? Will he ever be reunited with Jessica?

Jacob learns to find the truth is difficult. What he discovers, however, is beyond what he ever imagined.

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A Marine, Vietnam Veteran, former Bank Manager, and over 30 successful years as a corporate executive in marketing, finance, business development & sales. Married and father of three young men, Schade graduated from Syracuse University with a degree in Business Management. He has also authored the well-distributed short stories; “The Demons of War are Persistent” and “Not Alone” (Both for personal therapy and to help break the stigma of PTSD); “If I fail; what doom awaits the children,” (short-story; Suspense) and a satire “The greatest father.”

About Social Media Marketing Guide: The Ultimate Guide to Building and Running Social Media and Paid Campaigns Successfully by Jasper McNadine

Are you a paid campaign specialist or want to become one? Run your own business and you lack scale? Want to quit your job and start making money online? Have an idea for a product but don’t know how to sell it? – If so, this book is for you

Social Media Marketing Guide ~ book is always updated & relevant

Learn how to think and act across social media channels and master them to perfection. In this book, we give you the tools and practical knowledge to use it.

Facebook is the world’s leading marketing platform, and in this book we show you how to leverage and build your social media following and how to manage paid to advertise so that you don’t burn through your budget and achieve your goals, whether it’s generating leads, increasing brand awareness or developing e-commerce.

What you will gain:

1) You will learn step-by-step how to build a Social Media communication strategy.

2) You will stop creating random posts that don’t generate the desired reactions. You will begin to establish relationships with future customers and feel the satisfaction of a job well done.

3) You’ll learn how to successfully execute a campaign, from purpose to text selection – you’ll develop habits worth thousands.

4) You’ll begin to see the impact of Facebook on business – learn the tools to understand your target audience and turn those insights into effective communication.

5) Look deeper into reports and start drawing the right conclusions. You’ll learn tools and ways to optimize your ads.

6) You’ll discover methods of targeting any industry, learn budget optimization tactics, and understand the mechanism of the testing and auction system on Facebook.

See for yourself – we’ll see you at the TOP!

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I'm Jasper and I've been doing social media for 7 years. I am a specialist in a marketing agency and I also run my own business providing advertising services & also a writer. My book describes how to operate Facebook and Instagram channels, how to build awareness, drive traffic, generate sales, and build community. All this is described technically and practically in simple language.