NEW YORK— September 8, 2020— Morgan James’ new release, Blank Check, A Novel: What if You Were Asked to Help Reinvent Public Schools? by Aaron Smith, Ph.D., is a fictional tale grounded in reality. Smith challenges young adults to confront adversity and rise to join a generation that will step-in and re-engineer public education. The story evolves into what could be the reality check that public schools in America need to reshape the educational systems. 

In Blank Check, A Novel, Aaron Smith, Ph.D., encourages proactive thoughts on what graduates should look like after high school and how they should be prepared for a career. Smith discusses why teachers should be given the freedom to teach and why communities should have the power to make schools the center of their communities. He illustrates a fictional storyline that parallels many issues schools face, from a student’s struggle with drugs to an educator’s frustration in the classroom.

This intriguing young adult novel discusses the current state of education and its cultural impact on students. The character Josiah tests his educational theories in a place with low standards and poor student performance, demonstrating how many strategies used in public education do not work for all students. Blank Check, A Novel challenges young adults to think creatively and work to exact change in public education. 

If you would like more information about this topic, or to schedule an interview with Aaron Smith, Ph.D., please call Nickcole Watkins at 516.900.5674.

About the Author: Dr. Aaron L. Smith is an author, an active and leading STEM school director, and a professional speaker with expertise in workplace readiness. Aaron assists schools, corporate supporters, and community leaders to collaborate and sustain a pipeline of competent and job-ready employees through his five STEPS initiative. He graduated from Old Dominion University with a Doctorate in Educational Leadership and since has obtained two decades of experience in the classroom as a mathematics teacher and administrator. Aaron received the Crystal Star Award from the National Dropout Prevention Center and has been frequently referenced in catcat.com and Teachthought.com. He is the author of Awakening Your STEM School, and soon to be released Blank Check, a Young Adult novel designed to inspire a new generation (and the current generation) to become involved with fixing the public-school system in America. Aaron currently resides in Chesapeake, VA.

More About This Title: Blank Check, A Novel: What if You Were Asked to Help Reinvent Public Schools? by Dr. Aaron Smith, will be released by Morgan James Publishing on September 8, 2020. Blank Check, A Novel —ISBN 9781642798852—has 290 pages and is being sold as a trade paperback for $15.95. 

About Morgan James Publishing: Morgan James publishes trade quality titles designed to educate, encourage, inspire, or entertain readers with current, consistent, relevant topics that are available everywhere books are sold. ( www.MorganJamesPublishing.com )

NEW YORK— September 8, 2020— Morgan James’ new release, I Can Sit Again: Non-Surgical Treatment for Tailbone Pain by Dr. Jennifer K. Stebbing, DO, addresses the problem of pain that interrupts everyday life. Dr. Jennifer K. Stebbing DO teaches pain sufferers about medically sound, evidence-based treatment options available for back and tailbone pain within non-operative orthopedic medicine. She encourages anyone in pain to not settle with a life of limited mobility and anguish, but to be proactive about their health. 

Dr. Jennifer K. Stebbing DO understands how debilitating tailbone pain, and other bodily aches, can be. Dr. Stebbing knows how it can affect the way someone sits, works, drives, and/or travels, becoming an everyday menace to rest that can lead to irritability and depression. Thankfully, tailbone pain is treatable. In I Can Sit Again, Dr. Stebbing demonstrates how improving everyday aches and pains can have a profound impact on the body’s future mobility, as well as its ability to heal and prevent injury later.

Being able to understand the concepts behind why a treatment is offered and the expectations during and after the treatment sessions is an important part in the recovery process. I Can Sit Again empowers patients by educating them to navigate through the interventional orthopedic regenerative medicine field, stem cells, and other evolving treatments. Dr. Jennifer K. Stebbing DO is motivated to share these options with patients, hoping to bring them one step closer to healing. 

If you would like more information about this topic, or to schedule an interview with Dr. Jennifer K. Stebbing, DO, please call Nickcole Watkins at 516.900.5674.

About the Author: A physician trained in Regenerative Medicine, Dr Jennifer Stebbing DO wrote “I Can Sit Again” as a guide to help patients who have injured themselves navigate through the complex medical system to find non-surgical solutions to their pain. She is a puzzle master, intuitive listener, and a beacon of hope for those who have done “everything” and still aren’t fully functional. She heralds from Camas in southern WA, where she has a physical practice and telemedicine practice.

More About This Title: I Can Sit Again: Non-Surgical Treatment for Tailbone Pain by Dr. Jennifer K. Stebbing, DO, will be released by Morgan James Publishing on September 8, 2020. I Can Sit Again—ISBN 9781642799101—has 144 pages and is being sold as a trade paperback for $14.95. 

About Morgan James Publishing: Morgan James publishes trade quality titles designed to educate, encourage, inspire, or entertain readers with current, consistent, relevant topics that are available everywhere books are sold. ( www.MorganJamesPublishing.com )

NEW YORK— September 8, 2020—Morgan James’ new release, Character is Destiny by Pehr Gyllenhammar, is an autobiographical look into the life and philosophies of one of Europe’s most renowned industrialists. In Character is Destiny, Gyllenhammar navigates through his professional accomplishments and failures, outlining the valuable lessons about life and leadership he learned along the way.

Pehr Gyllenhammar’s resumé is nothing short of remarkable. As a Track II diplomat, former CEO of Sweden’s Volvo Group, and founder of the European Roundtable of Industrialists, his expertise and wisdom provide Character is Destiny with unique insights and invaluable takeaways for anyone involved in business, politics, leadership, or global affairs.

In Character is Destiny, Pehr tells personal stories of his relationships with such notable names as David Rockefeller, Henry Kissinger, Nelson Mandela, and Katharine Graham. In detailing Gyllenhammar’s vast experiences, Character is Destiny gives readers a detailed look at culture and business climate over the last fifty years, and provides a detailed assessment of the qualities and character traits a leader must possess to succeed in modern business. Having built his life and career on the elements of honesty, integrity, humanism, and hard work, Gyllenhammar inspires readers to embody these qualities with every page of Character is Destiny.

If you would like more information about this topic, or to schedule an interview with Pehr Gyllenhammar, please call Nickcole Watkins at 516.900.5674.

About the Author: Pehr Gyllenhammar is a Swedish industrialist who served as CEO and Chairman of Volvo for 24 years and founded the European Round Table of Industrialists. He has worked with and served on the boards of such institutions as Lazard, Reuters, Rothschild, Chase Manhattan Bank, the Aspen Institute, The Rockefeller University, and the London Philharmonic Orchestra. His awards and decorations include France’s Commander of the National Order of Merit, Commander of the Legion of Honor, and England’s Honorary Master of the Bench of the Inner Temple. Pehr is the author of six previous books. He currently lives in Canada with his wife, Lee Croll, and their daughter.

More About This Title: Character is Destiny by Pehr Gyllenhammar will be released by Morgan James Publishing on September 8, 2020. Character is Destiny—ISBN 9781642799736—has 220 pages and is being sold as a trade hardcover for $26.95.

About Morgan James Publishing: Morgan James publishes trade quality titles designed to educate, encourage, inspire, or entertain readers with current, consistent, relevant topics that are available everywhere books are sold. (www.MorganJamesPublishing.com)

NEW YORK— September 8, 2020—Morgan James’ new release, Help! My Husband is Hardly Home: 8 Steps to Feel Supported While Raising Your Family, by Kelsey Domiana, is geared towards mothers who are often left alone to manage their children and their home’s responsibilities. Kelsey Domiana’s provoking questions confront the real reasons for resentment, self-realization, and ugly truths. Her detailed, eight-step process offers an easy way to improve one’s mood and marriage. 

Kelsey Domiana understands how exhausting it is to raise a family alone while your partner is away from home for long periods of time. She knows how it can weigh heavily on a mother’s psyche, causing them to struggle with their identity and self-assurance if they don’t have the right kind of support system in place. Help! My Husband is Hardly Home shares Domiana’s own truth about feeling the isolation and frustration that comes with having a partner who frequently travels and works away from home. This is how she discovered her eight-step process to reclaiming joy and finding the right kind of support.

Playing the supportive role to a husband and his career while raising a family makes it hard to feel empowered, but it is not impossible. Mothers will learn how to identify the underlying reasons behind their resentment, as well as their family structure and dynamic. Help! My Husband is Hardly Home challenges women to discover if they are ready to find their own identity separate from their roles as wife and mother.

If you would like more information about this topic, or to schedule an interview with Kelsey Domiana, please call Nickcole Watkins at 516.900.5674.

About the Author: Kelsey Domiana is an intuitive lifestyle coach and yoga instructor who helps women struggling to balance raising a family, being a supportive wife, and showing up for themselves. She makes a daily conscious effort to remain grounded and balanced while her husband is always on the go as a professional basketball player. Between living abroad and stateside for his job, Kelsey uses creativity, connection, and communication to make their lifestyle work.

More About This Title: Help! My Husband is Hardly Home: 8 Steps to Feel Supported While Raising Your Family by Kelsey Domiana, will be released by Morgan James Publishing on September 8, 2020. Help! My Husband is Hardly Home—ISBN 9781642799019—has 166 pages and is being sold as a trade paperback for $14.95. 

About Morgan James Publishing: Morgan James publishes trade quality titles designed to educate, encourage, inspire, or entertain readers with current, consistent, relevant topics that are available everywhere books are sold. ( www.MorganJamesPublishing.com )

NEW YORK— September 8, 2020—Morgan James’ new release, Massage Therapist Success Mindset: Success Principles for the Massage Therapist Entrepreneur by Richard J. Platt, is a must-read for any bodywork professional who is frustrated with the lack of growth and direction in their career and wants to create much more than what they’re currently doing right now. 

Richard J. Platt uses his extensive experience with entrepreneurship and massage therapy to help other industry professionals find business success. Massage Therapist Success Mindset helps evaluate the limiting beliefs that hold bodywork professionals back from achieving greatness. Success in business is difficult, but the advice from Massage Therapist Success Mindset helps entrepreneurs find their niche within a busy competitive market, and thrive. 

Platt knows first-hand how vital business skills, like specializing within a niche, are in today’s highly competitive business scene, and that it is something which is not taught in massage school. Success is more than just a secret someone can find out. It is a system that, when followed correctly, brings BIG results. 

The advice given in Massage Therapist Success Mindset gives bodywork professionals an advantage in a highly competitive industry and helps overcome the limitations keeping them from success. With Platt’s guidance, massage therapists can accomplish more than they have ever done before within their careers and begin attracting quality repeat clients who are happy to pay higher prices for their services. 

If you would like more information about this topic, or to schedule an interview with Richard J. Platt, please call Nickcole Watkins at 516.900.5674.

About the Author: Richard J. Platt is a former Massage Therapist and Clinical Hypnotherapist who studied in Canada and Germany, and now dedicates his time as a Professional Growth & Development Coach and is the creator of the popular online continuing education programs, Massage Therapist Success Fundamentals and Niche Discovery Bootcamp. 

Through his studies of the human mind and working both physically and mentally with clients for over 18 years, Richard utilizes his depth of knowledge to help his students consciously remove the mental roadblocks that are preventing them from living the life they want to live. 

Richard has had the honor of being trained and mentored by one of the world’s leaders in human growth and potential, Bob Proctor, who also starred in the hit movie documentaries The Secret (2006) & Think and Grow Rich – The Legacy (2017). 

Richard now specializes in the coaching of bodywork industry professionals to bridging the gap between what they want in their careers and achieving it. He does this through progressively moving them toward goals that are exciting and energizing. Richard helps his students realize and create the lives they truly want to live, through showing them how to finally get out of their own way.

Richard’s days are dedicated to the ongoing study of professional growth & development and resides on the west coast of North America in beautiful Vancouver, British Columbia. 

More About This Title: Massage Therapist Success Mindset: Success Principles for the Massage Therapist Entrepreneur by Richard J. Platt, will be released by Morgan James Publishing on September 8, 2020. Massage Therapist Success Mindset —ISBN 9781642798715—has 144 pages and is being sold as a trade paperback for $14.95. 

About Morgan James Publishing: Morgan James publishes trade quality titles designed to educate, encourage, inspire, or entertain readers with current, consistent, relevant topics that are available everywhere books are sold. ( www.MorganJamesPublishing.com )

NEW YORK— September 1, 2020—Morgan James’ new release, The Right Franchise for You: Escape the 9 to 5, Generate Wealth, & Live Life on Your Terms by Faizun Kamal, offers a proven process for finding the best franchise opportunity. The Right Franchise for You helps burgeoning entrepreneurs by answering commonly asked questions, showing common pitfalls to avoid, and depicting the path to success.

Franchising can offer a more flexible option to business ownership for those with busy, demanding schedules that aren’t conducive to the 9 to 5 demands of the corporate world, such as working mothers. However, the world of franchising is vast, and knowing where to start can be intimidating for a new franchisee. Renowned franchise coach Faizun Kamal shares her expertise with women embarking on the road to franchise ownership in The Right Franchise for You: Escape the 9 to 5, Generate Wealth, & Live Life on Your Terms.

Faizun Kamal outlines her successful franchise process in The Right Franchise for You, taking entrepreneurs through the beginning steps of researching and exploring different franchise opportunities, to conducting a personal finance analysis, finding funding, and avoiding costly mistakes through the process. Comprehensive and practical, The Right Franchise for You: Escape the 9 to 5, Generate Wealth, & Live Life on Your Terms is a step by step guide to finding success in the world of franchising and living the life of your dreams.

If you would like more information about this topic, or to schedule an interview with Faizun Kamal, please call Nickcole Watkins at 516.900.5674. 

About the Author: Faizun Kamal is the CEO of the franchise consulting firm, The Franchise Pros, and the author of The Right Franchise for You: Escape the 9 to 5, Generate Wealth, & Live Life on Your Terms. Working with clients locally, nationally, and abroad, her professional practice is focused on helping people find the right franchise that fits who they are and meets their goals. She lives with her family in Alexandria, Virginia.

More About This Title: The Right Franchise for You: Escape the 9 to 5, Generate Wealth, & Live Life on Your Terms by Faizun Kamal will be released by Morgan James Publishing on September 1, 2020.  The Right Franchise for You—ISBN 9781642798685—has 176 pages and is being sold as a trade paperback for $16.95.

About Morgan James Publishing: Morgan James publishes trade quality titles designed to educate, encourage, inspire, or entertain readers with current, consistent, relevant topics that are available everywhere books are sold. (www.MorganJamesPublishing.com)

NEW YORK— September 1, 2020—Morgan James’ new release, Trauma and Abuse Healing: The Guide to Using Ritual and Ceremony to Delight in Life by Heidi Thompson-Henyon, teaches healing practices that counselors and therapists can utilize to help their clients. Trauma and Abuse Healing provides a unique, non-traditional route to trauma recovery.

Heidi Thompson-Henyon is a licensed massage therapist, certified applied kinesiologist, movement teacher and health coach with decades of experience and wisdom of many different rituals and ceremonies. In Trauma and Abuse Healing: The Guide to Using Ritual and Ceremony to Delight in Life, she offers her insights and methods as tools for therapists to utilize in addition to traditional trauma therapy. 

Thompson-Henyon’s practices teach those recovering from trauma and abuse how to reconnect with nature and their inner selves. Through sharing her personal experience and experiences with her clients, she outlines how ritual and ceremony can help people to move forward quicker and heal at deeper levels than traditional therapy alone. In Trauma and Abuse Healing, Thompson-Henyon explains how counsellors can customize rituals to their clients’ individual needs, how to leverage community and group therapy to facilitate faster growth, and how to introduce new tools to improve healing. Trauma and Abuse Healing: The Guide to Using Ritual and Ceremony to Delight in Life is a valuable tool for health care professionals to help their clients move from pain to joy.

If you would like more information about this topic, or to schedule an interview with Heidi Thompson-Henyon, please call Nickcole Watkins at 516.900.5674. 

About the Author: Heidi first discovered her natural curiosity about the body and mind at age 17 when she met across her first yoga master from India.  She received her first certifications in applied kinesiology when she was 21 and has continued to study healing and the art of ritual and ceremony.  Even while working in the computer industry she continued to study internationally and work with clients privately. In 2001, she left her lucrative corporate position of 25 years to focus on helping people heal. Today, Heidi is a certified and licensed massage therapist, movement teacher and health coach. She currently resides bi-coastally in Laguna Beach, CA and Charlottesville, VA.

More About This Title: Trauma and Abuse Healing: The Guide to Using Ritual and Ceremony to Delight in Life by Heidi Thompson-Henyon will be released by Morgan James Publishing on September 1, 2020. Trauma and Abuse Healing—ISBN 9781642798753—has 140 pages and is being sold as a trade paperback for $14.95.

About Morgan James Publishing: Morgan James publishes trade quality titles designed to educate, encourage, inspire, or entertain readers with current, consistent, relevant topics that are available everywhere books are sold. (www.MorganJamesPublishing.com)

NEW YORK—September 1, 2020— Morgan James’ new release, Safest Place in Iraq: Experiencing God During War by Colonel Paul Linzey US Army Chaplain (Ret.), tells the stories of men and women who experienced God during the war in Iraq. As a retired US Army Chaplain, Colonel Paul Linzey depicts how Christian military chaplains can still provide Christian pastoral support, if they do it right. Linzey tells a story that moves from death and destruction to friendship and faith, from temptation and torment to redemption and revival.

Colonel Paul Linzey knows that many will seek the Lord in times of crisis, but he also knows that living for Christ is a challenging, risk-laden endeavor. Safest Place in Iraq gives a glimpse of how other Christians have successfully navigated temptations, personal struggles, and doubt during traumatic, horrific occurrences. Linzey’s personal experiences show how he overcame the various dangers and circumstances he encountered during his war-time deployment in South Central Iraq while maintaining his faith. 

In Safest Place in Iraq, Colonel Paul Linzey exemplifies what it takes to overcome life’s obstacles, whether that requires dodging mortars in the desert or fighting fear, loneliness, and temptation at home or at work. He demonstrates that it is possible to remain true to one’s values and calling as a person of faith in a hostile world, posing the question, “what is God asking you to risk?”

If you would like more information about this topic, or to schedule an interview with Colonel Paul Linzey, US Army Chaplain (Ret.), please call Nickcole Watkins at 516.900.5674.

About the Author: A native of Southern California, Colonel Paul Linzey was a pastor before going into the Army as a chaplain. Retiring at the rank of Colonel, he now devotes his time to writing, mentoring, and teaching, when he’s not traveling with his wife. Colonel Linzey graduated from Vanguard University in Costa Mesa, CA, with a major in biblical studies. He completed the Master of Divinity at Fuller Theological Seminary, the Doctor of Ministry in Pastoral Skills at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, and an MFA in Creative Writing at the University of Tampa. He is an adjunct professor and mentor in the Doctor of Ministry program at Southeastern University and guest speaker for conferences, churches, and military organizations. Colonel Linzey served as an editor and writer for The Warriors Bible, which was published in 2014. He has written multiple books which have been featured in competitions, including Wisdom Built Biblical Principles of Marriage, a finalist in the Florida Writers Association’s Royal Palms Literary Award Competition; and Safest Place in Iraq won first place in the Bible Studies & Nonfiction category at the 2019 North Georgia Christian Writers Conference Competition and is a finalist in two categories in the Florida Writers Association’s Royal Palms Literary Award Competition for 2019. Colonel Linzey is from Southern California, but as an Army chaplain, has lived in Salt Lake City, Atlanta, Puerto Rico, Tampa, and Radcliff, KY. He currently resides in Lakeland, FL. 

More About This Title: Safest Place in Iraq: Experiencing God During War by Colonel Paul Linzey, US Army Chaplain (Ret.), will be released by Morgan James Publishing on September 1, 2020. Safest Place in Iraq —ISBN 9781642799170—has 202 pages and is being sold as a trade paperback for $16.99. 

About Morgan James Publishing: Morgan James publishes trade quality titles designed to educate, encourage, inspire, or entertain readers with current, consistent, relevant topics that are available everywhere books are sold. ( www.MorganJamesPublishing.com )

New York— September 1, 2020—Morgan James’ new release Career Clarity for Nurses: Navigating Nursing Through Challenging Times by Karen Beck Wade, PhD, RN-BC, prompts nurses to assess what exactly they want from their jobs and their future career paths. Career Clarity for Nurses was primarily written for nurses seeking a career path of passion and fulfillment. 

In a 2019 survey performed by AMN Healthcare, 66% of the nurses surveyed reported that they worried their job was affecting their health. This percentage has risen from previously collected data; the same survey was conducted in 2017, with only 55% of nurses showing concern about their job’s impact on their health. Through Career Clarity for Nurses, Wade shares her own struggles with how being a nurse has impacted her health. She explains how nurses can build a new framework to positively flourish in life and work, lessening the amount that their job is influencing their well-being. 

Karen Wade, PhD, RN-BC, developed seven steps designed for nurses to help guide them towards making the decision to stay at their current job, find another nursing job, or leave nursing altogether. Career Clarity for Nurses dives into Wade’s personal journey of finding assurance within her career and how other nurses can find that same certainty. Wade shares resources for nurses searching for clarity in their job such as using the Positivity Ratio, gratitude journaling, meditation, and ultimately creating a career vision and mission statement. In Career Clarity for Nurses Wade is able to positively aid other nurses to determine what their future career path should look like to give them the most passion and fulfillment.  

If you would like more information about this topic, or to schedule an interview with Karen Wade, PhD, RN-BC, please call Nickcole Watkins at 516.900.5674.

About the Author: Karen Wade is an organizational psychologist and a registered nurse, certified in psychiatric mental health nursing. She speaks and consults in the areas of leadership development, positive organizational culture, and coaches’ nurses deciding if nursing is still the career for them. Karen currently resides in Ventura, CA.

More About This Title: Career Clarity for Nurses: Navigating Nursing Through Challenging Times by Karen Beck Wade, PhD, RN-BC, will be released by Morgan James Publishing on September 1, 2020. Career Clarity for Nurses—ISBN 9781631951817 —has 158 pages and is being sold as trade paperback for $14.95.

About Morgan James Publishing: Morgan James publishes trade quality titles designed to educate, encourage, inspire, or entertain readers with current, consistent, relevant topics that are available everywhere books are sold. ( www.MorganJamesPublishing.com )