If you’ve ever wanted to earn money by selling arts and crafts online, check out today’s top pick, Finding Your Inner Etsy-preneur. It’s a guide to selling your wares on Etsy.com, the online crafts marketplace. Author Jason Malinak is a Certified Public Accountant who advises Etsy artists on the financial side of their businesses — bookkeeping, taxes, and legal matters.
Jason built an Etsy bookkeeping system in 2007 for his wife Katie, who sells handmade baby clothes on the site. Jason decided that other crafters could benefit from his expertise, so he opened his own Etsy shop, JJMFinance, to sell bookkeeping, tax, legal, and financial tools, tips, and advice. He also provides answers to Etsy sellers’ business-related questions through the Etsy forums, e-mails, conversations (convos), and blog articles. Jason believes that every Etsy seller can run a successful business on Etsy — if they have the required knowledge, tools, and perseverance.
Jason has a Master of Accountancy degree from Baylor University. When he’s not on Etsy, he has performed the activities of international accounting and financial reporting for a publically traded company and the treasury function at a nonprofit organization. He loves spreadsheets, good analytics, and entrepreneurship. He lives in Colorado Springs with his wife, son, and daughter.
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Finding Your Inner Etsy-preneur
Crafts, Hobbies & Home > Small Business & Entrepreneurship
Author: Jason Malinak
Unleash your personality, dreams, skills, strengths, creativity and encouragement styles for a flourishing business.
Do you have what it takes to be a successful Etsy-preneur?
Every Etsy seller has a secret weapon to create a flourishing business –- you are the secret weapon! Your unique personality, dreams, skills, strengths, creativity, and encouragement styles need to be discovered and unleashed.
Finding Your Inner Etsy-preneur guides you through a journey of self-awareness with personality tests, quizzes, self-reflection, assessments, exercises, checkups, and more (downloads included with the purchase of the book).
Foundational business topics like marketing, bookkeeping, and operations are only half the picture. Finding Your Inner Etsy-preneur helps Etsy sellers discover how they need to multiply themselves within their business. Becoming a self-aware Etsy-preneur is simple with these fun and engaging tests and quizzes. It’s all about you . . . Etsy newbie, experienced Etsy sellers, and those on the Etsy fence will all benefit from the journey of finding their inner Etsy-preneur.
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The Advocate
Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
Author: Teresa Burrell
For Sabre Orin Brown, life is good. She has it all … or would have, if only she could solve the mysterious disappearance of her brother. The search for her brother and her career as a juvenile court attorney collide when she defends a nine-year-old whose father will go to any length to obtain custody.
As Sabre’s passion to find the answers intensifies, she discovers a twisted history of desperation, deceit, and revenge.
Paradise Falls
Historical Romance
Author: Ruth Ryan Langan
In 1890 Massachusetts, Fiona Downey accepts a teaching position in rural Michigan, populated by few farms and even fewer people. Living with the Hayden family in Paradise Falls, she is drawn into their complex relationships, especially the uneasy dynamic that seems to pit brother against brother: the older, taciturn Grayson, and Fleming, a handsome charmer. Attracted to Grayson — but pursued by Fleming — Fiona must decide where her true love lies — and whether that love is worth sacrificing her dearest dreams.
Love Gone Mad
Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
Author: Mark Rubinstein
When heart surgeon Adrian Douglas and Megan Haggarty, RN, meet at the hospital where they work, neither has any idea of the scorpion’s nest into which they’ve stumbled. Strange and frightening events begin happening to each of them; someone is after them both—and the stalker not only is brilliant and crafty but vows to exact revenge for the ultimate betrayal. As things spin out of control, Megan and Adrian fight for their lives.
When a spine-tingling trial for attempted murder is resolved, things return to normal—or so it seems. But more chilling surprises await the couple as Love Gone Mad rockets to a conclusion that brings the legal, medical, and psychiatric communities to their knees.
101 Puzzle Quizzes
Puzzles & Games
Author: The Grabarchuk Family
Discover the 2nd volume of the Top Rated Puzzlebook: Puzzle Quizzes series, version for e-readers. In this brand-new puzzle collection you will find 101 pictorial, hand-crafted puzzle quizzes in different themes: logic, visual, spatial, counting, geometry, matchstick, coins, searching, and much more.
Fish & Game Cookbook
Cookbooks, Food & Wine > Hunting & Fishing
Author: Bonnie Scott
A huge collection of over 150 delicious fish & game recipes.
Whether you’re fishing or hunting deer, elk, rabbit, duck, pheasant or dove, you’ll find recipes and helpful tips in this book to make your game or fish the centerpiece of a memorable meal. These recipes are easy to prepare and use ingredients you can find right on your pantry shelves or at a nearby store.
Each recipe includes nutritional information so you can make an informed decision about the food you are serving.
Prison Nation
Science Fiction & Fantasy
Author: Jenni Merritt
In the Nation, no one is innocent – not even the children born behind bars. Millie 942B has spent her entire life locked away with her criminal parents and countless other inmates. She believes in the Nation, in its strict laws and harsh punishments.
But when Millie is released on her eighteenth birthday, she finds things are nothing as she was taught. People vanish, never to be seen again. Lies cover every word. Trust is as fragile as ice.
And then there is Reed. Born and raised outside the Prison walls, his dreams and thoughts cause Millie to doubt everything she has ever believed.
What is truly worth fighting for? If she pushes too hard, she could lose her freedom. If she stays silent, she could lose herself. The clock is ticking, and Millie must find the truth before it is too late.
TODAY’S BARGAINS……………What’s this?
Big Maria
Mystery > Humor
Author: Johnny Shaw
Regular Price $9.99, Today $1.99
There’s gold in them thar hills—or more precisely, in Arizona’s Chocolate Mountains, where one hundred years ago a miner stashed a king’s ransom of the stuff. But times have changed. The world has changed. And now the Chocolate Mountains are the home of the largest military artillery range in the world.
Harry’s living on disability and getting liquored up and beaten down. Frank’s a feisty old-timer battling cancer and a domineering daughter. And Ricky’s a good kid in a bad spot, doing everything for family. Together they’re staking what little they have left on a dangerous quest to the Big Maria Mine—and the gold that can offer them a new beginning.
Unfortunately a meth-dealing biker wants a piece, a trigger-happy AWOL soldier wants to play chicken in a live minefield, two stubborn burros want to go home, a starving mountain lion wants his dinner, and the US Army wants to rain on our heroes’ parade with real bombs.
Tales of the Forgotten
Science Fiction > Post-Apocalyptic
Author: W. J. Lundy
Regular Price $2.99, Today $0.99
Tales of the Forgotten (Volume II in the Whiskey Tango Foxtrot Series)
The world is at war with the Primal Virus. Military forces across the globe have been recalled to defend the homelands as the virus spreads and decimates populations.
Out on patrol and assigned to a remote base in Afghanistan, Staff Sergeant Brad Thompson’s unit was abandoned and left behind, alone and without contact.
They survived and have built a refuge, but now they are forgotten. No contact with their families or commands.
Brad makes a tough decision to leave the safety of his compound to try and make contact with the States, desperate to find rescue for his men.
What he finds is worse than he could have ever predicted.
God Save the Queen (The Immortal Empire)
Science Fiction > Steampunk
Author: Kate Locke
Regular Price $9.99, Today $2.99
Queen Victoria rules with an immortal fist.
The undead matriarch of a Britain where the Aristocracy is made up of werewolves and vampires, where goblins live underground and mothers know better than to let their children out after dark. A world where being nobility means being infected with the Plague (side-effects include undeath), Hysteria is the popular affliction of the day, and leeches are considered a delicacy. And a world where technology lives side by side with magic. The year is 2012.
Xandra Vardan is a member of the elite Royal Guard, and it is her duty to protect the Aristocracy. But when her sister goes missing, Xandra will set out on a path that undermines everything she believed in and uncover a conspiracy that threatens to topple the empire. And she is the key-the prize in a very dangerous struggle.
Small as an Elephant
Children’s Books > Growing Up & Facts of Life
Author: Jennifer Richard Jacobson
Regular Price $6.99, Today $1.99
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Ever since Jack can remember, his mom has been unpredictable, sometimes loving and fun, other times caught in a whirlwind of energy and “spinning” wildly until it’s over. But Jack never thought his mom would take off during the night and leave him at a campground in Acadia National Park, with no way to reach her and barely enough money for food. Any other kid would report his mom gone, but Jack knows by now that he needs to figure things out for himself – starting with how to get from the backwoods of Maine to his home in Boston before DSS catches on.
With nothing but a small toy elephant to keep him company, Jack begins the long journey south, a journey that will test his wits and his loyalties – and his trust that he may be part of a larger herd after all.
The Sinai Secret (Lang Reilly Thrillers)
Suspense > Horror
Author: Gregg Loomis
Regular Price $6.99, Today $1.99
A scientist in Amsterdam—murdered. Another scientist in Atlanta—murdered, and his journal stolen. At first Lang Reilly seemed to be the only connection. After all, both scientists worked for his foundation. But when someone took a shot at Lang to scare him away, it only made him more determined to find the truth.Lang’s search will lead him along a twisted trail to Brussels, Cairo, Vienna, Tel Aviv…and deep into the secrets of the past.
What’s the connection between the murdered scientists and an ancient parchment, recently unearthed? What revelations does it contain, and what powerful group is willing to kill to make sure its secrets remain hidden? With the balance of power in the Middle East at risk, Lang has to stay alive long enough to find the answer to a mystery that has puzzled historians for centuries.
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