How to Create

A SUCCESSFUL WEB SITE

for Your Small Business 

2005, 1st ed.

Create, maintain, and promote your own Web site or take an active part in its creation by the Web designer you hire. Have a Web site that is not performing up to par? Learn what's wrong and how to fix it.

Easy to understand and written in a step-by-step format -- everything you need for successful Web site development and promotion. Walks you through all the basics of Web site development on through Web site promotion to ensure that your Web site will be a successful venture. It includes many insider tips that even some Webmasters don't know that can significantly impact on the effectiveness of your Web site.

Here's what you'll find inside: an introduction to the Internet and the World Wide Web, Web marketing, POP E-mail, Internet access options, domain names, aliasing, use of auto responders, browsers, Web software, HTML language and coding, shopping carts, photo editing, Web site planning, navigational structure, writing and editing, primary navigation pages, page design elements, linking, using images, publishing/launching, promoting, monitoring, and maintaining your Web site. There's also a glossary of terms to help you understand some of that techno-speak.

SBS-003, 56 pages, 5.5 x 8.5,

softcover, saddle-stitched, $15.95

Grandma Helny's

Old-Fashioned

Swede-Finn Recipes

2004, 1st ed.

Helny came to America in 1906, bringing with her many of the 48 recipes in this collection. Her many descendants enjoy Grandma's cooking to this day, and now you can enjoy them as well! You'll find recipes for the following: almond cookies, biscuits, cabbage rolls ("kåldolmar"), cardamom coffee rolls/bread ("cardamom kaffebröd"), cauliflower casserole, Christmas rye bread ("julbröd"-"joululimppa"), cinnamon coffee cake, cold fruit soup ("fruktsoppa"), cracker bread ("knäckebröd"), creamy potato soup, curd cake ("kvarkkaka"), cured salmon "gravlax"-"gravad lax"), fish soup ("fisksoppa"-"kalakeitto), fish stock, fish and pork pie ("kalakukko"), frestelse, ginger cookies ("pepparkakor"), ham and onion pie, limpa bread, lutfisk, May Day cookies, May Day mead ("sima"), meat casserole, meat pie ("lihapiirakka"), meat soup ("köttsoppa"), meat stew, meatballs ("köttbullar"-"lihapullat"), mixed berry compote, mulled wine ("glögg"), oatmeal bread, pea soup ("hernesoppa"-"hernekeitto"), pecan butterballs ("sandbakelser"-"spritzar"), potato pancakes ("raggmunk"), potato omelet, potato bread, rice pudding ("gröt"), rieska ("liten limpa"-"surbröd"), Runeberg cakes, salmon soup ("laxsoppa"), St. Lucia buns, Swedish pancakes ("pannkakor"-"pannukakku"), sweet bread, turnip casserole (kålrotbox"-"lanttulaatikko"), vegetable soup, white fish casserole, white stock, and white fish soup.

SLS-002, 52 pgs, 5.5 x 8.5, saddle-stitched, $15.95

Unblocked

How to Expand Your Creativity

by Overcoming & Preventing

Creative Blocks

2004, 1st ed.

Not just another book on cognitive blocks! There are many different kinds of creative blocks that can not only prevent you from creating but can also inhibit your progress as a human being. In fact, you might be blocked or partially blocked without even knowing it.

If you can't get your creative projects off the ground, you're blocked. Now it's time to get unblocked by overcoming and preventing creative blocks. This will allow you to unleash and expand your creativity.

This book identifies the six main categories of blocks and describes how to manage them:

Environmental-Structural Blocks
Intellectual-Educational Blocks
Perceptual-Cognitive Blocks
Emotional-Psychological-Spiritual Blocks
Culture-Family-Friends Blocks
Career-Field-Position Blocks

Whether you are a writer, an artist, or in any kind of creative profession, you can easily learn how to overcome and prevent blocks by identifying their causes and then applying the appropriate solutions.

CRE-003, 54 pgs, 5.5 x 8.5, saddle-stitched, $15.95

Researching and Writing

Your Family History 

2003, 2nd ed.

This book was created to help you, as a family genealogist, when you are researching and writing your family history. It will teach you how to research your ancestry and write your family history. You'll learn how to start your research by using tips for doing online searching and then maintaining your family records. A detailed questionnaire will help guide you and your family members through the process of remembering the past and then compiling your life stories and memoirs, and those of your ancestors. Also included is some information on determining kinship and a genealogical resource guide.

CRE-001, 40 pgs, 5.5 x 8.5, saddle-stitched, $15.95

Living and Breathing

How to Make Your Characters Come Alive

2004, 1st ed.

Learn to create and develop fictional characters who are living and breathing people, multi-dimensional and believable, whether based on real people or larger-than-life creations from your very own vivid imagination! Publishers want characters that are like real people, and this book will teach you how to make your characters come alive.

Included are tips for creating family backgrounds and family histories for a character, examples of many character traits, use of dialect and dialogue, sample character sketches, and some Q&A material taken from the author's classes and workshops.

Make your character a hero or a villain. Give your characters motivation; a career or job; family, friends, co-workers, rivals, enemies; hobbies and interests; educational background; habits and behaviors; ethnicity, color, and overall appearance; a home; transportation; goals, aims, aspirations, dreams, and fantasies; psychological demons and fears; and more.

CRE-002, 46 pgs, B&W illus., 5.5 x 8.5, saddle-stitched, $15.95

A Tapestry of Eden

2003, 1st ed.

Who says people don't read poetry anymore? This book contains 85 free verse poems written between 1974 and 2001. Many were previously published in magazines and literary journals, as well as in other books and collections. The work is illustrated with pen and ink drawings by the author. The following are a two excerpts from the collection.

from "Confession"

"... The faint smell of stale incense
and my head begins to spin,
remembering, remembering.
Will confessing make me forget?
Tick, tick, tick ...
Bless me father for I have sinned ...
Tick, tick, tick ...
Oh my God I am heartily sorry ...
Tick, tick, tick ...
Hail Mary, full of grace
stands illuminated by the smoky candles
as I bend on penitent knees
caressing the pearly beads.
Saved from damnation in hell,
only to suffer in purgatory? ..."

from "Crocodile"

"... I seek a drop of water
to ease my cottony mouth.
Sebek rules the sandy bank,
peaking out of dozing eyes
through motionless reeds and grasses.
A low snort bares his toothy snout,
and claws angry and ready wriggle,
embedded in the burning silt.
He stirs and I freeze ..."

LIT-001, 108 pgs, 5.5 x 8.5, B&W illus., spiral bound, $15.95