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How can you cheat… at drinking wine? It turns out you can. And when you do, a whole world of power, ego and money will unravel. Corked is the scandalous saga in the glamorous, competitive and mysterious world of fine wines.

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Creating a successful writing career in today’s complex, competitive publishing environment can feel like forging through a jungle built on quicksand with only a fountain pen and a dream. In an ever-changing industry where you’re expected to master both craft and business—juggling your writing with marketing demands, budget constraints, social media, and more—how do you maintain your passion and build a thriving writing career? This is a survival manual for authors.

Kendrick J. Sanders, aka Lyre Luciano, takes listeners into his journal where rain taps against the window, pages flip like beats, and silence speaks as loud as confession. Each chapter is a testimony, each word a piece of his soul. This is literature for the ear, the page, and the heart.

If you step outside your lane and try something new, the kinds of readers most authors court will never buy it. And then there’s the SPEED of it all: The rules of “Rapid Release” say you have to publish a book every month—at least—or you’ll never survive. Forget about taking a vacation. Time off will let the algorithms forget you. In The Artisan Author, industry veteran Johnny B. Truant offers an alternative to Rapid Release: a new way to succeed as an author without sacrificing your freedom, worrying about competition or AI, or fearing you’ll lose everything when the winds inevitably change.

The writing economy is exploding with opportunities that previous generations could never have imagined. Yet, most writers struggle to earn a sustainable income because they focus solely on the craft while ignoring the business aspects that separate successful professionals from those who remain perpetually broke.

The Story Ritual is a fully illustrated, deep-dive handbook for storytellers. Writer and Story Artist Adam Argot connects the ancient patterns of ritual to modern story structure. Drawing on ancient tools of exegesis, combined with anthropology, contemporary theories of mind, and Argot’s experience in story development, this manual clearly presents a full picture of the character engine. Loaded with lush illustrations and diagrams, this vivisection of character unlocks the hidden world of story that brews below the surface.

What does Jane Austen mean when she writes approvingly of a character's 'gentility' and ‘delicacy’, or critically of another's 'indolence' and 'impertinence’? What are her characters doing when they take the measure of a person's 'air' and 'address'? These questions and more are answered in this Janeite treasure trove, which examines the distinctive language woven through Austen’s signature stories. Maria Frawley takes 50 of those words - words that are integral to the fabric of Austen's fiction - and explores them in short, accessible and lively entries.

Your Life Is a Book by memoirist Brenda Peterson and literary agent Sarah Jane Freymann is a practical and inspiring guide. We offer storytelling insights and writing prompts on finding your voice, self-discovery, and the publishing process. Oprah.com chose Your Life Is a Book as “self-help advice that works,” and “the process of writing about your past can lead to a boost in self-acceptance, self-awareness, and fulfillment.” Memoir is like a love story, with all the ecstasies, disappointments, and turning points of any relationship. It is a pilgrimage to come home to your life story.

The complete second collection of the quiz show where a team of three University students take on a team of three of their professors, hosted by Steve Punt (star of BBC Radio 4’s The Now Show and the brains behind Horrible Histories), including the complete final series 15. The show is...

Are you sitting on a brilliant book idea but feel completely paralyzed by the technical side of Amazon KDP? You are not alone. Most aspiring authors never publish because they fear formatting errors, cover design, or simply don't know where to start. This guide breaks down the complex world of self-publishing into a manageable, step-by-step roadmap. You will discover how to validate your book idea to ensure profitability before you even write a word, and how to utilize voice-to-text tools to write your manuscript efficiently.

Ainsi s'égrène avec malice, humour, parfois noir, ironie certaine les aphorismes sortis de l'imagination de Gustave Flaubert qui travailla dès 1850 et jusqu'à la fin de sa vie à son Dictionnaire des idées reçues ou Catalogue des opinions chics. Il comporte environ 1 000 définitions se rapportant à des noms communs ou des noms propres. Y défilent tous les clichés de la société française de son époque, la pudibonderie, les lieux communs, les poncifs esthétiques, ou les sujets d'indignation futiles.

The world may have committed at Paris to hold back dangerous climate change, but Australia's fossil-fuel giant Woodside is doubling down: it has bold new plans to keep producing gas out to 2070. Support from the major parties is locked in, so something has to give. This is a story of power and influence, pollution and protest. How does one company capture a country? How convincing is Woodside's argument that gas is a necessary transition fuel, as the world decarbonises? And what is the new "energy realism" narrative being pushed by Trump's White House?

Just say Nu is a practical guide to using Yiddish words and expressions in day-to-day situations. Along with enough grammar to enable readers to put together a comprehensible sentence and avoid embarrassing mistakes, Wex also explains the five most useful Yiddish words–shoyn, nu, epes, takeh...

Abridged CDs * 2 CDs, 2 hours A wide-ranging, exhortatory look at the pleasures of great conversation, including strategies for how to bring it about, from the witty pen of an Englishwoman wise in its ways...

Analogies are far more complex than their SAT stereotype and lie at the very core of human cognition and creativity. Once we become aware of this, we start seeing them everywhere - in ads, apps, political debates, legal arguments, logos, and euphemisms, to name just a few. At their very best, analogies inspire new ways of thinking, enable invention, and motivate people to action. Unfortunately, not every analogy that rings true is true. That's why, at their worst, analogies can deceive, manipulate, or mislead us into disaster.

The Horologicon (or book of hours) contains the most extraordinary words in the English language, arranged according to what hour of the day you might need them. From Mark Forsyth, the author of the number-one international best seller The Etymologicon comes an audiobook of weird words for familiar situations. From ante-jentacular to snudge by way of quafftide and wamblecropt, at last you can say, with utter accuracy, exactly what you mean.

The acclaimed author of Sins of My Father shares the secrets of writing a new, transformative kind of memoir. Into being is an essential guide to writing radical and empowering memoir. Drawing on her experience as a memoirist and a teacher of creative writing, Lily Dunn presents the ground-breaking idea that the craft of memoir itself can offer a form of transformation.

Writing the Cozy Mystery is a concise writing guide that describes step-by-step how to write a winning whodunit. Do you want to write a cozy mystery but don’t have a clue where to start? Or perhaps you’re already writing a series, and you need tips on how to keep your material fresh.

Whether you have an agent rallying for your rights, you speak for yourself, or you have already entered into a contract, it’s wise to understand how the terms impact your writing path. Conquer Contracts outlines the standard terms. Legal jargon is explained with clear words. Examples of how the language can create unexpected outcomes for both the publisher and the author are included. Conquer Contracts lays out the methods for authors to make money and shares ideas on how to protect rights.