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Published: Mon, 08/04/14
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- Project Management – Write a Winning Business Case: How To Identify The Hottest Options & Secure The Best Investment
About Project Management – Write a Winning Business Case: How To Identify The Hottest Options & Secure The Best Investment:How to writing a business case, comprising five component cases: Strategic, Commercial, Economic, Financial and Project Management.
• Obtain commitment and approval from Corporate Governance to invest in business change
• Provide a framework for scrutiny of businesses Decision Points.
• Provide a justification to proceed with planning, delivery, business change management and benefits realisation.
• Undertake a project based on the estimated cost of development.
• Assess whether the benefits gained and time & effort expended are worth the expenditure
• Present justification for proceeding with the project.
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James Leal, is continual student of Project Management being a real veteran at using project methods like Prince 2, Agile and Six Sigma.Throughout his career he has joyed phenomenal success in delivering some of the largest projects in Europe.
This is simple because the tools he uses gives him the advantage, not only to create massively effective project products, but gives him the ability to focus his team and stakeholders into doing what is most important… Delivery the Project!
These books bring together his passion for delivering projects, combined with teachings from leading experts in project management.
Carefully structured to reveal the very best advice on how to deliver your projects in a straightforward way that is easy to understand.
Helping you learn how to ensure consistent and predictable delivery, with processes, strategies and plans.
These books have been a real joy to write, with many hours spent discovering secret gems of information and selecting the most essential methods.
I hope that you enjoy these books as much as we have bringing them to you.
Enjoy the experience and pleasure that delivery your projects with confidence will bring…
Project Management – Write a Winning Business Case: How To Identify The Hottest Options & Secure The Best Investment is a post from Awesome Gang
- You’re the One
About You’re the One:
Can a Paris bistro heal a broken heart?
This delightful story will make you sigh and giggle in equal measure.
Nursery school teacher Natalie adores children and aches for a child of her own. But her longtime boyfriend puts his career first. Natalie respects his ambition… until the day she finds out the truth.
Adrien is a professional chess player who divides his time between competing in international tournaments and analyzing games in his favorite café. Chess is his great passion… only it isn’t enough to make him happy.
When Natalie meets Adrien at La Bohème, the connection is immediate and real. Romance is in the air — before life makes a move to test how well she knows her heart.
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I am an avid reader of chick lit, romance and fantasy, caffeine addict and a badge-wearing Mr. Darcy/Colin Firth fan.I released my first book at the age of six. It had six postcard-size pages stitched together and bound in velvet paper. The book was titled “Eliza and Robert” and had atrocious mistakes in every single word. Some words were written in mirror image. Unintentionally. I remember being immensely proud of my creation.
Turns out there’s a remarkable constancy to my life: decades later, I still love the name Robert and the genre romance. As for my spelling and grammar, they are only marginally better than at age six (thank God for editors!).
I live and work in Paris, France. When not writing, I read romance (what else?) and spend time with my family.
You can find me on my website (www.alixnichols.com), Facebook (www.facebook.com/AuthorAlixNichols) and Pinterest (http://www.pinterest.com/AuthorANichols).
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- Lost No More
About Lost No More:Jim can’t count the times his mother accused him of being just like his father — the last man on Earth he’d want to emulate. He spent his childhood shielding his brothers from his abusive, alcoholic Dad. Now Jim’s met the girl of his dreams, and his life’s turned into a nightmare. He’s discovered to his horror that his will isn’t enough to stop him from following his father’s tortuous path.
He needs to prove his mother is wrong, but how can he change? And can he change in time?
Lost No More is Book 2 of the Ghost No More Series
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Hi There! Just want to send out a big thank you to all of my readers!I love to write, paint with watercolors, and eat chocolate. Not necessarily all at the same time. I love to do pranks too, usually just on my poor husband who luckily puts up with me and lets me think I’m clever. One of my favorite pranks was sewing his work t-shirt neck-hole shut on April Fool’s (I made him lasagna that night to make up for it.)
He does a few on me- his last one was hiding an old helium birthday balloon under the covers at night. I had just finished a spooky story, and as the last one awake, I checked the doors and turned off the lights. As I climbed into bed this apparition rose out of the covers, and I screamed….until I heard him laugh.
I still owe him for that one…..
Again, thank you, and have a great day!
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- They Who Fell
About They Who Fell:
They say that long ago, there was a rebellion in Heaven. That an army of angels sought to seize the throne, and were cast down into the pits of Hell in punishment. Those are the affairs of angels, and everything would have been fine if they’d kept them to themselves. But there’s been another uprising, and another Fall. Cast down to Earth, the rebel angels ravaged the globe in an orgy of sin and violence as they indulged in their newfound freedoms. Their new home is the Perch, a black, towering monstrosity that blights what’s left of the New York City skyline.
Life inside the Perch means you watch your tongue, if you’re a servant. Jana has lived there since she was a child, and now she’s found herself thrust into the middle of angelic politics. Some of them want to torture her, just for the fun of it. Others say they want to protect her. And Rhamiel, a charismatic and powerful angel with one of the few faces that wasn’t burnt and scarred by the Fall, is relentlessly pursuing her affections.
Life outside can be just as dangerous. Strange things fell with the angels and wander the countrysides. The roads are filled with Vichies, cringing humans who’ve thrown their lot in with their oppressors and won’t hesitate to take advantage of the weak. But some are still fighting, including William Holt. He leads a small cell of fighters, searching for a way to strike back against the angels without getting themselves killed in the process. And all around, the fallen angels inflict their savageries on the dwindling remains of humanity, enjoying every vice they’d been forbidden during their long centuries of service.
They Who Fell is the first book in a trilogy.
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Kevin Kneupper is a patent litigation attorney living in Austin, Texas.They Who Fell is a post from Awesome Gang
- The Friday Edition
About The Friday Edition:A beautiful, young district attorney tumbles to her death on Christmas Eve.
Police suspect suicide, but the DA’s sister, newspaper reporter Samantha Church, isn’t buying it.
Samantha discovers evidence linking her sister to a drug smuggling case and quickly learns she has stumbled onto a major news story. She must summon the courage to not only face a cartel of criminals, but her own fears and shortcomings when she is confronted by the inescapable specter of a far greater enemy—her addiction to alcohol. Samantha’s dependency has not only cost her job at a major metropolitan daily, but, worse, custody of her daughter, April.
Samantha pursues her sister’s killers, maneuvering through a minefield of intrigue deliberately set out to divert her from the truth. Despite being betrayed, physically beaten and facing the possibility of sharing her sister’s fate, Samantha refuses to stop her investigation. However, when the killers threaten to harm April, Samantha realizes that, for her daughter’s sake, she can no longer continue the investigation on her own. She knows she must swallow her pride and turn to her ex-husband and police detective, Jonathan Church, for help.
Can Samantha ultimately prevail—find her sister’s killer, write the story of her career, confront her drinking problem, and finally begin to change her life, or will she and April become the killer’s next victims?
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Betta Ferrendelli is an award-winning journalist having worked at newspapers in Denver, Seattle and Albuquerque, New Mexico. She currently writes for a health-care magazine. She is the author of the Samantha Church Mystery Series, The Friday Edition, Revenge is Sweet and Dead Wrong, which is set to publish in the fall of 2014.The Friday Edition is a post from Awesome Gang
- There’s A Turtle on the Runway & Other Flying Stories
About There’s A Turtle on the Runway & Other Flying Stories:This series of short stories describes the many things from serious to sublime that can happen all in a day’s work of flying as a regional pilot.
Feel the emotion involved in a flight emergency when there is unexpected engine trouble or equipment fails to work properly.
And relive events involving pilots, passengers, airlines and others that are strange and odd, just a little bit funny or just “plane’ crazy – like what to do with a turtle on the runway!
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Thomas (Tom) Lee currently flies for Express Jet Airlines as a line captain. His professional resume includes a career in the United States Marine Corps, general and commercial aviation professional pilot, and now, his third vocation, published author.Tom resides in Louisville, KY and has been married for twenty years to Karen, also a pilot. They have two adult children, Jordan and Walker, several dogs, horses and a small farm that keeps them quite busy when they are not flying or traveling.
There’s A Turtle on the Runway & Other Flying Stories is a post from Awesome Gang
- #hashtagged by Kimberly Hix Trant
About #hashtagged by Kimberly Hix Trant:This is how the future started.
It started with a hashtag, a tweet, an Instagram, a Facebook post. We—you and I—uploaded all of this data and labeled it with hashtags. We posted our kids, our travels, our pets, our hopes and dreams, our epic failures, and are darkest secrets. Our basic human emotions are now out there for slicing, dicing, analyzing. Our core is out there. and “IT” knows the entire spectrum of human emotions. Slap on a little predictive analytics and presto-chango you have a future that is driven by artificial intelligence that can control us, imitate us, own us. After all, IT truly knows us.
Madeline Smith’s father uniquely prepared her for this future. It’s up to her to follow the trail of secrets her father left behind. These secrets lead her to a lot of things—like her first love, Jagger, her father’s band of brothers, and a future that is not-so-desirable. This is #hashtagged, the novel. It’s a tale of science and technology, family and love. At its core, it’s about the desire within us all to move beyond technology to preserve all that we hold dear.
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Let me introduce myself. I am Kimberly Hix Trant. I’m a technology consultant living in North Texas. Like you, I’ve been a life-long, can’t-get-enough, crazy-all-night-reader. I’ve always wanted to write a novel, but somehow, life seems to get in the way of these kind of dreams, doesn’t it? However, I see now that I had to do some living in order to come up with something worth saying.I’ve traveled a bit and would gladly do that nonstop for the rest of my days. Some of that shows in #hashtagged, but there’s definitely more to come.
I have a wonderfully supportive family. This whole publishing process has shown them to me in a new light–not just my husband and children, but parents, brothers, cousins, my husbands cousins, etc. have all jumped in and helped publicize. This has been so humbling. I will be forever grateful for this.
#hashtagged by Kimberly Hix Trant is a post from Awesome Gang
- Within Time by Paul Keene
About Within Time by Paul Keene:Coming of age in the 50s Connor Kelman leaves high school determined to see his name in lights. Donny and the Hot Rods find a label for “Running Nowhere,” and go on tour. The ghost of Red Nolan, Gabbie the guitar, and high school girlfriend Eleanor go with him. Conor’s fan base builds, and so do stress and tension. One fan leaves a mark that makes him tremble with fear. The band’s driver shows Conor how to survive tight schedules, late nights and life on the road. Soon, Conor depends on the driver as much as the addictive drugs; he turns to him for protection from the crazed fan that follows him. Conor swears that he sees the driver with the fan, but is convinced that it’s imagination.
Or is it?
He learns more about the driver than he wants to know, but can he get by without him? Too late, he discovers the deadly scheme behind the driver’s friendship, and his life turns upside down.
Conor returns to Idaho at both his mother’s request to visit his ill father, and his producer’s advice to take a break from Nashville. He finds comfort in familiar surroundings and old friends. He wanted something to call his own since a child. Had he left the very place that held what he searched?
In the end, he must choose between music and a girl that loves him—or the little white house in the orchard and a girl that brings pleasant memories.
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Paul Keene writes character driven fiction that offers hope, humor and a touch of the supernatural. The American writer was influenced by the satirical humor of authors Herman Wouk and Max Shulman.Paul spent his younger years near the banks of the Snake River bordering Idaho and Oregon. Here he learned to appreciate wildlife, and the freedom of roaming the outdoors. He also learned at a young age the survival of the fittest, and the meaning of hardship.
He lives in Idaho with his wife, daughter, three pugs and Labradoodle. Swan Falls, Boise National Forest, recreational and camping sites, and the homes he grew up in are nearby.
Within Time by Paul Keene is a post from Awesome Gang
- Ignite (Midnight Fire #1)
About Ignite (Midnight Fire #1):Kira Dawson has the power to burn vampires to a crisp. The problem is, she doesn’t know it yet. The even bigger problem is, she’s dating one.
When Kira Dawson moves to South Carolina, she meets Luke, a blond goofball who quickly becomes her best friend, and Tristan, a mysterious bad boy who sends shivers down her spine. Kira knows they’re keeping secrets, but when she discovers Tristan’s lust for blood and her own dormant mystical powers, Kira is forced to fight for her life and make the heartbreaking decision between the familiar comfort of friendship and the fiery passion of love.
From bestselling author Kaitlyn Davis comes a paranormal romance perfect for fans of Twilight, The Vampire Diaries, and Buffy The Vampire Slayer. Ignite is the first book in the Midnight Fire Series and it is approximately 65,000 words.
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Kaitlyn Davis is the bestselling author of the Midnight Fire series, a young adult paranormal romance, and the A Dance of Dragons series, a young adult epic fantasy.Kaitlyn graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Johns Hopkins University with a B.A. in Writing Seminars. She’s been writing ever since she picked up her first crayon and is overjoyed to finally share her work with the world. She currently lives in New York City and dreams of having a puppy of her own.
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- Irradiated
About Irradiated:A baby is thrust into Jade’s arms with one instruction: escape from the tunnels and never return. The world outside is sun-scorched wasteland. Jade has a sister; she is irradiated.
Thirteen years later, her sister, Pearl, is coming of age. Rows of sucker-caps line her arms and hands, and her skin is coral pink. Each night, her dreams fill with visions of violence, depression, and fear.
On the surface, people have grown wild and dangerous. They scavenge, fight, and steal. Below, in the tunnels, they’re controlled by a ruthless leader and an army of beings known only as Shadows. When both groups come searching for Pearl, sensing the power her dreams may hold, only Jade can stand in the way.
IRRADIATED is the first novel in a post-apocalyptic trilogy.
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S. Elliot Brandis is a Speculative Fiction writer from Brisbane, Australia. He writes about societies on the brink of collapse, and civilizations that have long since crumbled. His debut novel, Irradiated, is a dark tale about survival, love, and moral ambiguity.When he’s not putting his characters through the wringer, he’s actually kind of a nice guy. He keeps literature on the same shelf as comic books, and mixes his beer with tobasco. He invites you to visit him at selliotbrandis.com.
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- Netherworld
About Netherworld:1197 A.D. – Smarting from the loss of his betrothed, Sir Keller de Poyer has learned not to trust women. A bear of a man with a brilliant mind, Keller is socially awkward but an accomplished knight. He is so accomplished in fact that his liege, William Marshal, gifts the man with lands in Wales for his meritorious service. But there is a catch – in order to secure the lands and titles, he must marry the Welsh heiress.
And so begins the journey into the Netherworld – a castle with a dark reputation and an heiress who hides her own terrible secrets. Death lives at Nether and Keller is caught in the maelstrom. Can he save his new wife from danger and betrayal before it’s too late?
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Welcome to Medieval England – hard-core, battle-scarred, power-driven knights of the highest Norman order and the women who love them. Like High Middle Ages action and romance? Welcome to the Le Veque Medieval Machine – Medieval just got real!Kathryn Le Veque is an award-winning, nationally best selling Historical Romance author consistently ranked in the top 100 authors of the genre. Kathryn has taken the Medieval Romance world by storm and is a dominant presence in the category with several novels always in Amazon’s Top 100 rankings. If there’s a Medieval Romance list, chances are that Kathryn is on it.
Kathryn’s Medieval Historicals have been called ‘detailed’, ‘highly romantic’, and ‘character-rich’. She believes that total immersion in a time period is essential to creating the perfect story. More than that, she writes for both women AND men – an unusual crossover for a romance author – and Kathryn has many male readers who enjoy her stories because of the male perspective, the action, and the adventure.
Although Kathryn’s passion is her Medievals, she is very proficient at writing Contemporary Adventure Romances, two of which that are currently being adapted into screenplays.
Netherworld is a post from Awesome Gang
- Summer Escape
About Summer Escape:Uncap the sun screen, spread out the beach towel and pour a glass of your favorite icy beverage as summer starts sizzling with 12 new “Fun in the Sun” reads from some of Tule’s most loved and talented authors. There is romantic escape for everyone whether you are curled up in a chair on your deck or lounging pool or beach side. Embrace the promise of summer with a combination of sweet, sexy or steamy summer themed romances and let Tule authors’ heroes sweep you away on your own romantic summer getaway.
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Jane Porter, Sarah Mayberry, Megan Crane, Katherine Garbera, Joanne Walsh, Anne McAllister, Nancy Robards Thompson, Debra Salonen, Kim Boykin, Kaira Rouda, Carol Marinelli, and Ally BlakeSummer Escape is a post from Awesome Gang