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Everville: The First Pillar

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Roy Huff is the author of the upcoming epic fantasy novel Everville: The First Pillar . He holds five degrees in four separate fields including liberal arts, history,secondary science education, and geoscience.We have conducted a short interview with him about his new coming book: How does your education and background help you in crafting the characters of the new book "Everville: The First Pillar"? It helps me draw from a lot of different areas to help develop varied aspects of the story. Understanding the basic concepts in many different fields allows me to put realistic elements in the story and introduce concepts that I might not consider without my existing educational background. What is the most challenging part about being a writer of the Fantasy genre? Being compared to other books or authors is probably the most challenging aspect. While this is not limited to the fantasy genre, it certainly does make one consider how unique the concept and ...

GONZO Marketing

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Frederic Gonzalo lives in the beautiful Quebec City, in Canada. He has worked in the travel industry for 18 years. Early 2012, he started his own business, GONZO Marketing . We have conducted a short interview with him. Why did you name your business 'Gonzo' and not 'gonzalo'? Is there a story behind the name? With my family name being "Gonzalo", I received many nicknames through the years. But back in high school, there was a McDonald's promotion linked to the Muppet Show Movie, featuring baby Miss Piggy, baby Fuzzy Bear and, you guessed it: baby Gonzo. After doing something I shouldn't have in class, a teacher screamed at me saying "Baby Gonzo, time to shut up!". Needless to say, it stuck with me and I kinda like it, too! When I started my business a little over a year ago, I did not want to go with a generic term and wanted to have a personal twist. Gonzo Marketing, it became! How did you gather your knowledge in t...

Daddy's Little Girl

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Revenge films are extremely popular, no doubt due to the catharsis they offer the viewer. It’s classic tension and release of ire by proxy. When presented one-dimensionally they are cartoonish and flat but when they contain the complex range of emotions that exist in real life, tales of this genre are compelling and human. They also become extremely popular, as in the case of Australian film Daddy’s Little Girl . Director Chris Sun’s depiction of a father’s investigation and pursuit of retribution for his child’s murder garnered massive praise from groups like the ASIN (Australian Screen Industry Network Awards) and PollyGrind Underground Film Festival of Las Vegas, as well as others. Recognized for Best Feature Film, Best Director, Best Cinematographer, Best Producer, and receiving the Grand Jury Prize, nearly every aspect of this film was noted for excellence. In terms of story, the bridge between the vengeful patriarch of this family and the murderer is the distraught/angry teen po...

Interview with Celeste Thorson

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Celeste Thorson is a professional actress and writer living on Los Angeles, California. We had the opportunity to conduct an interview with her: While you have been working with a lot of photographers, which kind of photographers do you like to work with the most? I love working with creative conceptual photographers that enjoy collaborating on out of the box ideas. I also have a great time shooting fashion, because the wardrobe is so fun. Sometimes, when I want a change of pace I shoot with alternative photographers for a walk on the wild side. What is your most memorable childhood memories? I used to love hiking through the wilderness as a child, collecting crystals, rocks and exploring old copper mines. I would always get so excited when I found agates or crystals during my hikes, it was like stumbling on buried treasure. Given if there is a time-machine, which period of your life would you want to return to and why? It would be priceless to ret...

Raising and Managing Capital - Interview with Daniel K. Desta

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Daniel Desta (Los Angeles, US) assists small business owners with raising capital. We have conducted a short interview with him: How and when did you know that being an Entrepreneur would become your calling in life? I think it all started when I was working a traditional 9-5 job and knew that God did not create me to just be ordinary. It was then that I started researching what an Entrepreneur was, and at the top of the list was Bill Gates at that time. His story of dropping out of school and working out of his garage to turn Microsoft into what it is today helped make the decision of me venturing into starting my own business. In today's society, how does it feel to be an Entrepreneur? It feels amazing. I believe that Entrepreneurship is thriving more then ever in our current economical climate.You can clearly see that people who have a tremendous amount of experience are unable to find any stable and secure jobs, which in turn forces them to create the j...

Social Work Helper

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Deona Hooper, MSW is Social Worker in the US. She has created an online magazine and professional network at www.socialworkhelper.com helping professionals and students. We have conducted an interview with her: Your website is very impressive and professional. Can you explain how a social worker came to the idea to start such an IT based project? I consider myself to be a geek with social skills. Life experiences stirred me towards social work. Otherwise, I would have been an engineer or systems designer. Social work is how I choose to exercise my civic duty to advocate for the less fortunate. How would you describe the current situation of social workers in the US? What were the biggest challenges that made you to open an online forum for them? I think social workers in the US are facing many of the same issues social workers around the world are facing. Currently, austerity measures threaten the existence of human services in the majority of our most developed...

Interview with Gwendolyn Taunton

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Gwendolyn Taunton/ Gwendolyn Toynton - is a writer and have written on a variety of topics, prose, horror fiction, Hinduism, Buddhism, Mythology, paganism and philosophy. She has been awarded for literary excellence in 2009 in New Zealand. We have conducted an interview with her What were your achievements in the writing field? How did you feel upon receiving the literary award? I have an extensive history in regards to writing. The first item I had published was my poem ‘Love Under Will’ in the ‘New Zealand Collection of Poetry and Prose 2002’. Following this I abandoned poetry and fiction for a long time, concentrating instead on topics such as Hinduism, Buddhism, Paganism, Shamanism, Mythology and Philosophy. In 2005 I decided to collate my works into a periodical which was titled ‘Primordial Traditions’ – named after a term in Perennial Philosophy. Most of the content was initially written by me and the best articles were later assembled into a book entitled ‘The...

NEW YEAR SUCCESS

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MIKE RICH is promoting a VERY timely program series online titled NEW YEAR SUCCESS designed to motivate people, get them excited and focused on their goals for 2013~ and beyond. We have conducted an interview with him: What is your aim with this project? The www.NewYearSuccess.com program interviews some the finest minds we have about motivation, the top experts who can give real world advice about achieving success in 2013. I enjoyed talking recently with both Les Brown and Brian Tracy who are best selling authors about goal setting. In fact, I recommend to everyone serious about their success in 2013 to sign-up for the www.GoalsMastery.com course One of my goals is to become the new modern day Dick Clark/Guy Lombardo of New Year motivation and life success. I want to ask everyone to consider where they would like to be in their life a few years from now. Imagine it in all its detail and picture what your life could be like one year from now. How did you arri...