Have you ever had the feeling your creative life just isn't working? That no matter how much you try to finish a project or feel confident about the work you're doing, that you're wasting your time or that you're just not good enough?What if your self-doubt, fear, and anxiety could actually be transformed to motivation, courage, faith, and joy? Can you imagine what your creative life might look like then?Mindset coach and author Kate Johnston wants to help you release the n...

In You and Your Muse, author and writing coach Kate Johnston shows you how to cultivate a strong and dependable relationship with your Muse so that you can develop a story and forge a sustainable writing journey. You'll learn the fundamentals of fiction writing including how to transform a story from idea to concept, create dynamic characters that drive the plot, and write scenes that pulse with action and emotion.In addition to teaching you the mechanics of pulling a stor...

What happens to all the fighter pilots after the Galactic War ends? What happens to all the Super Soldiers after World Peace is declared? What do they do with all the leftover Admirals when everyone just wants to move on? How do the soldiers react? Or don’t react?Boundary Shock Quarterly, Issue 018: Veterans. A science fiction look at the day after the war.Be sure to pick up all the issues of Boundary Shock Quarterly magazine - now in its fifth year!

This interdisciplinary book explores the affective dimensions of becoming a parent, traversing the life-cycle journey of pregnancy, childbirth, and early parenting. Bringing together researchers from sociology, history, feminist studies, cultural studies, general medicine, and psychiatry, Paths to Parenthood analyses rich narratives that represent a diverse cross-section of parents, including migrants, same-sex couples, and single parents.

This comprehensive and much-needed guide addresses the issues faced by clinicians in assessing and treating the range of mental health conditions, which can affect adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Its particular focus on adults fills a notable gap in the ASD professional literature, with an extensive array of contributors from across the psychology and healthcare professions.Covering a wide variety of common co-occurring mental health conditions including mood disorders,...

This step-by-step manual explains how to adapt CBT (Cognitive Behaviour Therapy) approaches to OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder) for autistic children and adults. It outlines why there is the need to adapt treatment for the autistic population, and includes detailed guidance on each phase of the approach.It explains assessment of OCD in autism, the links between the two conditions and difficulties in identifying aspects of OCD in autistic people. The book offers advice on dealing...

Why read Sustaining Seas? It is as simple as this: the seas sustain all life.This edited book emerges from conversations across several disciplines, and including practitioners of different specialities (artists, writers, planners, policy makers) about how to sustain the seas, as they sustain us. Sustaining Seas: Oceanic space and the politics of care aims to build a better understanding of what it means to care for aquatic places and their biocultural communities. The book is trul...

This informative book is a comprehensive, research-based text on for educators, trainers and policy makers. It provides an insightful analysis into the range of issues facing female entrepreneurs around the world, along with recommendations as to how support agencies, educators and trainers can best respond to the challenge of encouraging more women to get involved in the new business creation.Based on a collection of research papers from international scholars based in the UK, mai...

Your Write Spark: a start-up guide for budding fiction writers that covers the fundamentals of igniting a story idea into a rough draft.So you want to write a story?Then you've come to the right place.Your Write Spark covers all the fundamentals a writer needs to consider as they ignite their story idea into a draft that leaves them excited and hopeful and eager to learn more. Set your story in motion while you learn the basics of story structure, ...

Navigate common pitfalls on your writing journey with provocative strategies such as natural writing forces, making (not finding) time to write, and nurturing your writer self.Learn the importance of owning your writer identity, and why embracing your identity can make all the difference in the journey, whatever the ultimate destination.Crafting Story is a series of guides by writing coach and author Kate Johnston for those who want to make writing a successful part of thei...

In today's colleges and universities whether students succeed depends in large part on access to effective services that can support and guide them in pursuit of their educational goals. Policy and practice in the field of student services has been largely based on professional literature from US sources. Donna Hardy Cox and Carney Strange offer the first comprehensive description of professional student services in Canadian colleges and universities from the perspective of the practitio...

Here is a practical guide to the essentials of business. This book provides everything you need to know about the key concepts and terms, from accountability to zero-sum game. Everything from management, economics and finance to marketing, organizational behaviour and operations is covered in just the right amount of detail to make things clear and intelligible.Business: The Key Concepts:* is detailed yet approachable* considers new developments in business,...