What if the best advice for improving your child's chances of getting into a great preschool and improving an adult's chances of getting into a great graduate school were the same? “From Preschool to Grad School” will show you–unequivocally–that it is. Together, the elements of the admissions process aim to predict whether the candidate will be capable and happy as a student, engaged as an alumnus, and become somebody whose actions after graduation improve the school’s image. Schools need successful alumni in order to attract the best talent, charge sustainable tuition, and show a return on investment. This book exposes patterns found across application processes and deconstructs the vital role they play in candidate success. In doing so, it answers that critical and elusive question: what are the best schools really looking for? “From Preschool to Grad School” will help you master admissions fundamentals that will never change, such as: 
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<li>The three things all schools want</li> <li>The two questions you must be able to answer</li> <li>Finding the bar (and knowing how you stack up)</li> <li>Crafting your story</li> <li>Deciphering unhelpful admissions committee jargon</li> <li>Avoiding common mistakes</li> </ul>
 It will also address emerging issues, including: <ul>
<li>Admissions consultants</li> <li>Helicopter parents</li> <li>The role of social and emerging media</li> <li>Application fraud and cheating in the digital age</li> <li>Application inflation and yield games</li> <li>International enrollments</li> <li>In-state vs. out-of-state applicants to state colleges</li> <li>The impact of declining public schools on private school admissions</li> <li>Current competitive dynamics (e.g, application and enrollment volume, acceptance rates, testing trends, transfer rates, etc.)</li> </ul>

From Preschool to Grad School: Strategies for Success at Any Level of Competitive Admissions

Education & Teaching

Palacios, Kim

Higher & Continuing Education

Luxe Publishing

The rules are simple: unattached companionship, toe-curling sex and a clean break whenever it ends. Darby’s groundbreaking medical research will launch her into career stardom. Michael’s status as an architectural wunderkind will send him to a far-flung locale. Either one can say the single word that will break it off: Snapdragon. But soul-deep sex is just the beginning. Michael becomes a fierce ally against her misogynist boss, a light to chase away the shadow of her notorious father, and the antidote to her crushing loneliness. And Darby must fight hard not to fall in love. After all, choosing love over ambition is the one thing she said she’d never do. And their wayward feelings may not change Michael's endgame. So she’ll walk the tightrope of their relationship, even though she fears the fall may kill her. For people like them, love doesn’t always conquer all. GET READY TO FALL IN LOVE WITH SNAPDRAGON Deeply meaningful, desperately sexual, and inevitably bittersweet, Snapdragon deals with the quandary of choosing love over career, the weight of adulthood and the complexity of modern work-life. It rewrites the book on what a 21st century relationship should look like and keeps the reader wondering how it will end.

Snapdragon (Love Conquers None1)

Literature & Fiction

Blades, Kilby

Erotica

SNAPDRAGON: LOVE CONQUERS NONE BOOK #1 The rules are simple: unattached companionship, toe-curling sex and a clean break whenever it ends. Darby's groundbreaking medical research will launch her into career stardom. Michael's status as an architectural wunderkind will send him to a far-flung locale. Either one can say the single word that will break it off: Snapdragon. But soul-deep sex is just the beginning. Michael becomes a fierce ally against her misogynist boss, a light to chase away the shadow of her notorious father, and the antidote to her crushing loneliness. Choosing love over ambition is the one thing she said she'd never do. And Darby must fight hard not to fall in love. GET READY TO FALL IN LOVE WITH SNAPDRAGON Deeply meaningful, desperately sexual, and inevitably bittersweet, Snapdragon deals with the quandary of choosing love over career, the weight of adulthood and the complexity of modern work-life. It rewrites the book on what a 21st century relationship should look like and keeps the reader wondering how it will end.

Snapdragon

Kilby Blades

Michael ends his fling with Darby when a promotion transfers him from Chicago to Sydney. But the 10,000 miles that separate them is proving to be too far. The sweetness of his advances are soured by her unexplained withdrawal; and the sudden emergence of their estranged fathers invites ghosts and secrets that threaten to tear them apart. With more now at stake, Michael must wage all-out war on Frank and decide how much of his future with Darby he’s willing to sacrifice to win back his beloved South Side. Destroying Frank could mean endangering Darby, and Michael must choose between two things he loves, all while deciding how much justice to serve. After all, Frank is still Darby’s father.

Chrysalis (Gilded Love)

Romance

Contemporary

Is your book dripping with deliciousness? Seething with steam? Boiling with sultry heat? Congratulations! You just wrote yourself into an advertising problem. Mainstream authors can earn new readers through mass market advertising networks. But not you, my naughty friend. Your racy blurbs and steamy covers flout the rules set forth by important ad platforms like Facebook, Google, and Amazon.Marketing Steamy Romance distills what I've learned as a 15-year digital marketing veteran and writer of erotic romance into actionable advice for authors. The first half of the book presents strategies for creating book covers, blurbs, video trailers, ads and other assets that are less likely to be rejected by major ad networks. The second half presents a litany of marketing alternatives-from smart modifications of standard approaches to guerilla tactics-in case you can't, or just plain don't want to, tone down your creatives. A section on practical matters like dealing with reviews from offended readers, bans and blocks on social profiles, and thinking through disclosures and disclaimers, is included as a bonus.This is a book about anticipating challenges, navigating around problems, and helping authors of steamy content understand their place in the marketing ecosystem. Its wisdom comes not only from romance novel marketing, but also from my experience advertising other restricted products for non-literary clients. Marketing Steamy Romance is crafted to transcend the advice of well-meaning marketing manuals-advice that simply doesn't fit for purveyors of racy content-and to divert authors from mistakes that cost time, frustration and money.

Marketing Steamy Romance

Business & Money

Marketing & Sales

It's the most wonderful time of the year! OK--scratch that. It's time for another obligatory family gathering. And nothing spices up the egg nog like bringing your partner home. Surely your belligerent brother-in law, your gimlet-eyed granny and your drunken uncle will keep it classy. With forced proximity and alcoholic beverages, what could possibly go wrong?The Worst Holiday Ever series shares stories of love and holiday survival among couples from varied backgrounds. Straight couples, gay couples, inter-racial and inter-species couples...this collection has it all. Bringing your black girlfriend to your WASPy family's Thanksgiving dinner? Having your wife find out you're an angel when your super-natural nemesis crashes Christmas? Ex-con cousins breaking bread with the cop in the family? It's hard to beat that kind of drama. Worst Holiday Ever delivers hilarious, heartwarming and sometimes sexy stories from nine award-winning authors. So, go ahead--take a break from your own crazy and cozy up to the fire. You're gonna need a drink for this...

Worst Holiday Ever: A Family Drama Romance Anthology

Moore, Eva

Merrill, R.L.

Dramas & Plays

1st Place Winner - 2019 NERCA Awards WISRWA - 2019 Write Touch Awards FinalistNERCA Award - 2019 FinalistStiletto Award - 2019 FinalistBook Buyer's Best Contest - 2019 Finalist Compared to life on tour with her wannabe rock star mother, finishing high school in the dull town of Rye is a snooze. At least Roxy has her best friend, Zoë, her doting dad, and her music. When her standoffish Civics class partner, Jagger, breaks rank and randomly friends her on Instagram, Roxy's sure that it must be a joke. Jag Monroe is Roxy's total opposite: stinking rich, conceited, and hot in that obvious kind of way. Resolved to avoid trouble, Roxy declines his request. But when Jag ignores Roxy as usual in civics class that week, then friends her again on Friday, Zoë does the unthinkable: snatches Roxy's phone, accepts his request, and follows him back. As the posts (and sparks) fly, Roxy begins to suspect that Jag may not be as shallow as everyone thinks, and that he may be into more than just her music.

Friended: A Nostalgia Songfic

Teen & Young Adult

Ended?

Genre Fiction

Chrysalis

Romantic Suspense

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