You're the technical leader everyone calls when projects get messy—when stakeholders are fighting, teams are stuck, and someone needs to translate between engineering brilliance and business reality. You stay late not because the code is broken, but because the team dynamics are broken.

If you're exhausted from carrying emotional labor that should be shared across your team, this book might just save your career.

The Emotional Architect teaches you to design human systems with the same intentionality you bring to technical systems. You'll learn to:

• Read the room like you read technical specifications
• Build psychological safety as deliberately as you build code architecture
• Navigate stakeholder conflicts without losing your technical credibility
• Develop other leaders instead of creating dependencies
• Prevent crises instead of heroically solving them

This isn't about making engineering "softer"—it's about making it more effective.

The future belongs to technical leaders who understand that in our interconnected, high-stakes world, the ultimate technical skill is engineering human systems that enable technical excellence.

Stop hoping good people will magically work well together. Start architecting the conditions where they can.

Dr. Martha Lucas—seasoned practitioner of Chinese medicine and passionate advocate for graceful longevity—redefines the conversation around aging. Instead of chasing the impossible promise of “anti-aging,” she invites you to embrace Victorious Aging: a holistic path to wellness grounded in strength, wisdom, and self-care.

Drawing on decades of expertise in acupuncture, holistic health, and mind-body practices, Dr. Lucas shares:

• Practical tips to support lasting vitality
• Timeless insights for emotional and mental well-being
• Proven strategies to boost energy, resilience, and overall health

Whether you’re in your 30s or your 80s, this empowering guide helps you feel your best—physically, emotionally, and energetically—at any age.

Whether you're submitting to an agent, preparing for self-publishing, or handing off your work to a book formatter, a clean, professional manuscript makes all the difference. Polished Pages walks you through a step-by-step checklist to tidy up your MS Word document—removing hidden formatting, fixing punctuation inconsistencies, standardizing styles, and resolving the quirks that build up over years of writing.

Written with beginners in mind, this guide demystifies the technical side of Microsoft Word with clear instructions, helpful shortcuts, and practical tips. You’ll learn how to navigate formatting marks, apply Word’s built-in styles, use Find and Replace like a pro, and prep your manuscript for smooth conversion to both print and digital formats. No overwhelm. No jargon. Just clean, professional pages ready to impress.

Wendy Spurlin is an editor, author, and writing coach who has spent over 40 years helping writers prepare their work for publication—with a special talent for making complex tech topics easy to understand.

Magical creatures don’t break rules. If they do, their magic drains away like water from a cracked cup. Thalia Gold learned that lesson the hard way. Orphaned at twelve by her own inability to resist temptation, she lost her family, her community, and her budding magical powers.

Five years later, when Great Aunt-Sally offers Thalia a job clerking in her shabby magic shop, Hex-A-Gone, Thalia is determined to turn her life around. Too bad she starts her tenure by impulsively signing a cursed contract, landing Aunt Sally in prison and putting the Charmed Community at risk.

Frantic to set things right, Thalia scrambles to terminate the contract. But someone—or something—cunning, powerful, and unscrupulous is determined to terminate her.

As Thalia races for answers, each new revelation increases her danger. And time is running out.

Hex-A-Gone is the first in this magical series and was a finalist in the RMFW Colorado Gold contest. In addition to fantasy, Michele Emmy writes science fiction and has been published in many magazines and journals.

Martha candidly recounts memories of her Catholic childhood: beginning with her parents choosing which saint to name her after and continuing through her Catholic high school education, taught by nuns. Experience the strict discipline and rules of a system where independent thinking was discouraged. Parents and elders were to be obeyed and respected, while children were expected to accept punishment out of the fear of God. Afterall, obedience was a gift from the Holy Spirit. Everything was forbidden, everyone was a sinner, and every action put students at risk for “going to hell.

The journey continues into adulthood with Dr. Lucas’s willingness to question authority, grapple with her own identity, and slide into becoming what she lovingly calls an “ambiguous” Catholic. She offers a visceral account of Catholic guilt, desire, piety, anger, and the superstitions that shaped the Catholic upbringing.

Who were Catholic Daughters? Why did these young women work so hard to fit into the Catholic mold, even to the extent of making up sins? And what kinds of sins did you make up when you were a kid just so you’d have something to say to the priest in the confessional? This provocative question at the end of the “Confession” chapter is just one that is at the core of Catholic Daughters of Catholic Mothers.

Buy this book now and begin an exploration of yourself and your inner beliefs. The story and its guided journal emerged from Dr. Lucas’s experiences and desire to help others discover their truth and speak it out loud. By completing the journal exercises, you will discover your own truth and live more authentically, even if you aren’t a Catholic Daughter of a Catholic Mother.

When the people of the town returned home after a chemical spill, they're greeted by mutated monsters eager to share their newly authentic selves. But the humans force them to relocate to a small hidden mountain town. There, these spunky creatures build a thriving community where they celebrate their differences. The mutant monsters learn valuable life lessons too: acceptance, fellowship, kindness & more.

This quirky & poetic series is for all kinds of kids...big & small. Watch as the monsters' friendships blossom & creativity sprouts. What will happen as they learn about life & embrace adventure? Read The Mutant Monsters of Marsden Mountain: Genesis and you'll find out!

All this pumpkin wants is to escape his patch, but when a mischievous mouse jinn offers him three magical wishes, he learns the hard way that the grass isn't always greener on the other side! From a bumpy truck ride to a spooky Halloween porch, the pumpkin's wishes take him on an unexpected, and often hilarious, journey. Will he ever find happiness, or is he too bitter for even a Thanksgiving pie?

A whimsical tale about learning to appreciate what you have, The Pumpkin and the Jinn is a charming story with a twist, reminding readers young and old that true happiness comes from within.

Soaring ocean temperatures are destroying the oceans, the scorching heat and putrid waste slaughtering its denizens. A desperate Wetworld sends one of its own to Dryworld to assess and mitigate the threat. But as their emissary struggles to understand and confront their foe, she realizes that if Wetworld wins its battle for survival, something more vital will vanish forever.

Pieces of Eight is a perfect story for our times! It focuses on the natural connections, dependencies, and conflicts between humans and sea creatures as our underwater world is threatened by climate change. Michele Emmy is a RMFW Colorado Gold award winner for fantasy, and she writes science fiction as well. Her works have been published in many magazines and journals.

Dr. Martha provides 52 health and happiness actions that you can realistically incorporate into your life. Each tip is designed to create a healthier you as you advance in years. No one is too young to start. And you only have to accomplish one tip a week.

Here's what one reader says:
“I have this book on my Kindle so that I can read a weekly tip and strive to reach that mindset or goal. And I often refer to the tip throughout the week. It’s a great little bible of useful information for me.”

You Can Start This on Any Day or Week in the Year. There are no dates in this book. Most of us don’t need another complicated thing to do each day, let alone try to remember to read every day. Once a week is perfect! You choose. Set an alarm or reminder to start the week, read a tip midweek, or end your week on a high note with a weekly tip.

Dr. Martha Lucas loves working with patients in her office, online, and through her books. Buy Dr. Martha's 52 Weeks of Victorious Aging: Tips to Ensure a Happy and Healthy Year at Any Age and she'll help you start improving your quality of life NOW!

Tina’s life was already chaotic, but adding a colicky new baby to the mix kicked postpartum blues into high gear. When her best friend introduced her to a new kind of parenting class--Family Magic--desperation drove Tina to check it out. The kind and practical teacher offering simple spells for stressed out moms seemed legit. But something is luring students to the squat, scary building across the alley…and Tina is determined to find out why.

Michele Emmy won the RMFW Colorado Gold contest for fantasy, and she writes science fiction as well. Her other books include a chilling shape-shifter novella, Pieces of Eight, and her YA urban fantasy series, Hex-A-Gone! Before her foray into fiction, she wrote scores of articles and essays on parenting and education. Her works have been published in many magazines and newspapers.