The effective manager in the 21st century will partner with executives and other managers to create an environment where the positive dynamics within their organization equals, or surpasses, the dynamics without.

Learn how four unique people can help you turn your workgroups into centers of fascination.

Find out answers to the following:

1. Do I have what it takes to be an expert People-Picker?
2. Are there Possibility-Vendors in my organization?
3. How can I be an effective partner to the Dream-Maker manager?
4. How can I identify and develop the Leader-Leader?

Judy Joy Jones Show Interview

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There wasn’t anything else to do but stop the damn bomb. A cashiered Russian general, a veteran of countless covert missions abroad, nurses a bitter hatred for the United States. After being forced into retirement, he recruits a team of battle-hardened ex Soviet commandos and concocts a bold scheme to uncover nuclear suitcase bombs, hidden in the West during the Cold War. He threatens to explode them in American cities unless paid a huge ransom. The identity of the plotter is accidentally uncovered with the help of a beautiful wife of a deep cover Russian sleeper agent who is coerced into abetting the scheme. Two hunter-killer teams—one led by the FBI, the other dispatched from Moscow—race to try to locate and thwart the plot before it inflames relations between the two countries, potentially triggering a nuclear missile exchange..

Judy Joy Jones Show Interview

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“Autumn Turley’s poet surges with energy and passion and anger. The relentless imagery keeps the passion from being polemical, and her unflinching self-examination keeps the anger from being preachy. The poem’s energy will tempt you to race non-stop to their conclusion, but resist the temptation: if you can’t read them slowly, read them again … and again.”

Michael Frisbie
English Professor
San Francisco State University

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Beyond the Fears of Tomorrow is the story of a man, unable to cope with the insecurities of the real world.

He withdraws into his mind. There he creates his own universe and plays God. Sometimes with reluctance.

He tries to create the perfect order of good. However at the crowning point of his universe, it is destroyed. Partly out of what he created from his repressed fears.

Unable to effect change, he is forced to watch his universe destroyed, forcing his back to the reality he had fled from.

Judy Joy Jones Show Interview

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When Mary Machen and her young son receive a strange invitation from her dead husband’s family to visit them in the backwoods of Georgia, she arrives to find a moss riddled swamp and a decaying mansion full of phantom shadows and old family tensions.

But this new family of Southern Gothic oddities is the least of her worries… because something evil lives in the darkness of Algernon Wood, and it wants blood and flesh.

Now she must battle this Black Beast to save her son before he becomes the next victim.

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"Her poems speak directly to the souls of the readers and appeal to our hearts for a rebirth of compassion, justice, and love towards the poorest of our brothers and sisters."

Terry Messman - Editor, Street Spirit

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Release in September 2009

How mavericks, misfits, and dreamers faced huge odds and sometimes each other to build the world's first all news network. This is not a chronological history of how CNN changed the world's news viewing habits. I'll leave that to Ted Turner and other visionaries. My story is about the misfits. Despite incompetence and inexperience, the only thing that held this unlikely crew together was fear. There were no life boats at the Chicken Noodle Network.

Before sign-on, CNN hired lots of people who knew precious little about producing a single hour of TV news. We're talking about producing news 24 hours a day, for God's sake. It had never been done before.

A handful of producers and directors, at various levels of competency and experience, rose above the flotsam of negativism that threatened to sink us all.

This book is about the little network that could, and I was there.

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PS Garrett, Detroits top crime reporter, shows up at the scene of a double murder. Two kids are shot and killed senselessly...it's a crime of opportunity...but what PS doesn't know is the triggerman still lurks of the scene. While soaking up the aftermath of his handy work, he catches a glimpse of his favorite TV reporter, and realizes that if he keeps killing, she'll keep showing up...and perhaps...just perhaps...one of those times she shows up to cover his crimes, he'll get a chance to meet her..and make her his.

Judy Joy Jones Show Interview

Paula WON the 2009 Hollywood Book Festival!
A well deserved award.

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Even if you haven’t read Book One, you’ll get caught up in the realistic drama that unfolds when the serial killer of two Detroit teenagers is caught. His shocking motive for murder: getting the attention of his favorite TV journalist, PS Garrett, a sensitive and competitive, but emotionally damaged police reporter who’s trying to heal her own wounds from a sting of personal tragedies.

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Was the End of Days prophesy of the Mayan Callender true?

As radio astronomer, Dr. Galley Pruitt, monitors the starry skies through the giant VLA radio telescope he notices an anomaly in the heavens.

An ominous cloud drifting through space that spells complete disaster for all life on Earth.

A billionaires rash plan and a scientist quick thinking are the only hope for human survival.

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It’s a hard life when you’re a super genius capable of many things, including using your mind in ways that others only dream of. Freddy Anderson used that ability working to save the world from a world ending disaster. However, the human race is now at war. Aliens have attacked and captured many of our top people, including Freddy Anderson, and are headed back to their home world. They are trying to extract from his mind information that will help them understand how the insignificant humans destroyed their greatest ship and how to annihilate the entire human race.

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Neil Gates becomes ‘the fan plucked from the stands’ as Dr. Henry Welles attempts to protect Project Sundial, a study into time travel, from a CIA seizure in this sci-fi/historical fiction adventure. To prove the achievability of a time transgression, Neil volunteers to travel back to the battle of Gettysburg in hopes of clearing his great-great grandfather’s name in the friendly fire death of his brigadier general.

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Brought up with unyielding ideas of good and bad, sinful and honorable, moral and immoral, two strong-willed sisters of post-slavery will unite or be torn apart. An unquenchable thirst develops that threatens to suffocate their once timid minds. A trial of fear, terror, suspense, and unfathomable evil; it consumes all who threaten their heroic and power driven stances.

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What do Michelle Obama, Hillary Clinton and The Real Housewives have in common? Dr. Cecile Forte suggests all are man-made women. In her book, My Husband Made a Man Outta Me and I resent it! Dr. Cecile Forte constructs the anatomy of the man-made woman. Whether she’s married, single, divorced or widowed, a woman’s development is greatly influenced by the men in and out of her life. Forte’s provocative new book pushes passed the boundaries of gender and goes beyond Adam’s rib to examine today’s relationships and discover love, mutual sacrifice, and respect.

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Shunned by his people and tormented by nightmare visions, Bugbear, the mad goblin scholar, ventures into the wilderness, seeking an ancient ruin and the lost wisdom it holds.

But soon the hapless goblin stumbles into a terrifying truth with roots tangled into the distant past... an ancient and evil time, remembered only in faded parchments, fractured whispers, and a children's rhyme.

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Since 1975, after the brutal murder of his wife and his subsequent separation from the FBI, former agent Larry Dahl has been the Chief of Police of the small, quiet town of Duper's fork, Virginia. A job he took only as a last resort to stay in law enforcement. And, for the last three years, Larry Dahl has been sleepwalking through his new job and his solitary life.

When army intelligence comes to Duper's Fork on a routine investigation into World War II German Prisoner of War camps, Dahl in compelled to get back to work. No longer allowed to run from himself, Dahl discovers that the POW camp may hold the key to a German conspiracy that may reach the highest levels of the federal government.

But there are certain individuals who would just as soon Dahl leave the case alone. And as he digs further, Larry learns that even the smallest and quietest of towns have their secrets.

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Prisoners of Greed is the second installment of the Duper's Fork Trilogy. The first book, Prisoners of War, was the debut novel of Andrew Winter (pen name) and was published in May, 2008. The third installment is planned for release in May, 2010.

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If Kirk Deighton, perhaps the worst store security guard in history, is to survive and save the universe, he'd better learn a few basic rules.

• Rule 1; Never, ever, switch off your forced reality bubble.
• Rule 2; The most prevalent species in the universe are bugs.
• Rule 3; There are 5 known dimensions in the universe.
• Rule 4: Never ask why there are so many wings and legs in a party bucket.

For Kirk failure will mean more than the end of things as he knows them. It will mean the end of everything-Period.

A gigantic do-over.

But hey...No Pressure.

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