Pennyworth Books

Three weeks isn’t a long time to prepare for success. I started reading and thought I needed six weeks to be totally prepared. Yes I found lots of details in Skip’s book. I tried to memorize the main things I have to do to be a good seller on eBay. There was enough to take – totally – more time than I thought.

When I read how to use eBay for the first time and then try to be a power seller it sounded exciting. I memorized all the steps Skip writes about.

Then when I signed up to be a seller – eBay was different than what was described. Maybe I can use the power moves I found. But for right now I have to join eBay and learn a different process for listing items. The way it works is changed I guess.

All the information in the book was different. It’s…

How to Find Your Niche as a Travel Writer

Jack Adler, professional travel writer and columnist has now published key secrets as a travel writer in the book “Make Steady Money as a Travel Writer.” The book is packed with suggestion for articles, marketing tips, and key steps on improving your writing skills or putting a new edge of excitement in your articles.

Adler talks about the changing world of travel writing. He shows the reader how to discover marketable topics, with suggestion for hundreds of themes. He discusses marketing, the value of entering contests, as well as how to organize travel writing as a business and important IRS issues.

There are dozens of sample articles included from the Los Angeles Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Chicago Sun Times, and several popular magazines. These samples demonstrate how to organize an article and how to develop your own personal writing style.

I personally found…

A Political Thriller with a Christian Message

Retired Millionaire Silas Jackson and several of his associates are deeply disturbed about the lack of moral leadership in a politically corrupt world. They perceive our nation as divided with a congress deadlocked in the midst of ethical chaos headed for major spiritual warfare. Silas and his colleagues have made a pact to begin a faith journey that will provide a positive impact on the country and will influence the world morally.

Silas is certain that his son in law, Tony Campbell, is the man to successfully carry out a platform that will return the spirit of the nation to a focus on the Word of God as the guide for political, upright, and fiscal, and economic leadership as the president of the United States.

Michael Carver brings together Biblically sound doctrine as the foundation for a fictional account of spiritual warfare with an ingenious imagination.…

Perhaps you, like many others, have tried working out in the gym to build your muscles and found that you really enjoyed it but are not getting the results you want. A lot of people really enjoy taking a trip to the gym, doing their thing, and then calming down in the sauna or the steam room.

The unfortunate thing is that these days, it is really hard to find the time to work out on even a semi regular basis, especially at the gym. The good news is that you don’t have to fall into that trap. In fact I have stumbled across a great new plan called No Nonsense Muscle Building. Actually, it is really an online book; Vince Delmonte is the author.

By all accounts, Delmonte was one of those skinny weaklings who decided to turn everything around. He eventually became a 190 pound athletic paragon who won awards…

I love to read, and I love to write as well. I would also like to share my two cents on a book that I am presently reading. I would like to share with you my feelings if you will this week as I explore the book “Your First Year in Network Marketing” by Mark Yarnell and his wife Rene Yarnell.

Now I just started to read this book, but from the start of it, this book is right on time and I would recommend EVERY network marketer go out and check this book out and suggest the same for your downline. The book gives tons of situations and examples that will give a new network marketer insight on how to handle situations. They even have a summary at the close of each chapter just to let the reader know what you should have learned, and if you didn’t, read this…

“If love is only a will to possess, it is not love”. America in the 1920′s was a country where moral values were decaying. Every American had one objective to achieve: success.

Francis Scott Fitzgerald, the author of The Great Gatsby, presents realistic image of American life in the 1920′s. His characters, like many people of that period, only care for money; becoming rich is their main objective. As a result, their relationships, no longer based on love, fail.

All of the relationships in the novel are failures because they are not based on love, but on materialism.

One example of a failed relationship in The Great Gatsby is the adulterous affair between Tom Buchanan and Myrtle Wilson. This affair is based on mutual exploitation. Tom uses Myrtle for sex; Myrtle receives gifts and money in return. Tom Buchanan, a resident of East Egg, is “old money”, so he looks down on everyone…

In a recent series of focus groups conducted for the The Designer Jean Company, women were asked one very specific question, How important are your designer jeans to you? Answers were a rating on a scale of 1 to 10. 1 being the least important, I could care less. A 10 rating meant that is was of the utmost importance. The average rating was an 8.4.

Some might feel this level of significance might be more applicable when referring to a house, job, or even our kids, for example. But for those of us who have experienced authentic designer jeans, this makes perfect sense. We NEED them. They are a must-have staple in a wardrobe that can take us from a lunch date, to a soccer-mom outing, to a hot evening out on the town. Our designer jeans can carry us anywhere, with the exception of perhaps weddings and funerals “two…