Write Your Long and Short Bios:
A How-To Guide
This book tells you how to put into words the story of your personal and professional life—known as a bio.
Some bios are lengthy, such as memoirs or autobiographies. Other bios are brief, such as the ones you read on a company website. Some bios are private, told only within a journal or diary. And some are public, revealed a bit at a time in blogs or vlogs.
But all bios tell a story.
What exactly is a story? It’s a way to structure information so that the listener feels an impact. A story tells us something significant about someone’s life journey. It conveys emotion and values. It has meaning and purpose.
“Write Your Long and Short Bios” shows you how to tell your story.
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“This intense plot pulls the reader into the action… and thrill of the hunt (and the haunt)… interesting characters and strong bonds of friendship… This story will have you laughing, crying, and perhaps even a little frightened at times, but you won’t want to miss a minute of the adventure.”
—Readers’ Favorite
The Skinny on the Jinni : A Paranormal Cozy Mystery
Hang out in a lamp? Not this jinni.
Retired professor Blythe Golightly likes to investigate all things spooky. People come to her for help ridding themselves of ghosts, demons, and poltergeists—what Blythe’s long-gone, moonshiner granddaddy, back home in North Carolina, called “haints.”
When Blythe’s friend Poppy says her teenage granddaughter, Najia, is haunted by a jinni, Blythe jumps at the chance to help. The jinni is controlled by the girl’s Saudi father—a billionaire sheikh who kidnapped Najia to Saudi Arabia after his divorce from Poppy’s daughter, Dakota, a Vail Ski Resort heiress.
The sheikh has cut teenage Najia off from any contact with her American family. In a sting operation, Blythe helps Judd, a child recovery contractor, bring Najia home to Colorado.
Then the sheikh is murdered in Dakota’s Vail mansion—while Judd is there. The police suspect Dakota and Judd of conspiring to kill the sheikh for $11.5 million dollars’ worth of life insurance. When Najia begs Blythe to help prove her mother innocent and banish the jinni, Blythe finds herself in over her head!
It’s MURDER, SHE WROTE meets THE X-FILES in this cozy mystery, which may make you smile, shed a tear, and ponder the unexplainable. The novel pays tribute to Nathaniel Hawthorne’s classic tale, “Rappaccini’s Daughter.”
“The blend of paranormal and folklore gives a spark of originality to liven up the cozy mystery elements and shake up the genre… Lesher has created a breath of fresh air different from your standard cozy… A highly recommended read with a clever protagonist. In a Black Monk Funk has a supernatural core that delves into lore from Christian and Jewish traditions, a charming tone, humorous dialogue, dangerous situations, and a ranch setting.”
– Readers’ Favorite
In a Black Monk Funk: A Paranormal Cozy Mystery
Spooks can’t murder you. Only people can do that.
On her way to recover a stolen scroll with occult power, retired professor Blythe Golightly glimpses the supernatural Black Monk. Just like her, he’s after the scroll. He’s the same Black Monk that Chekhov wrote about—a monk in a black robe whose image was captured in a mirage and has been reflected in duplicate mirages ever since.
Unnerved, Blythe goes on to her planned meeting with a U.S. Customs agent at the thief’s refuge—a castle nestled like a medieval vision on his Colorado ranch. The agent confiscates the scroll, but later is found murdered in a Vail hotel room. What’s more, the scroll is missing.
Who killed the agent? The thief, who is an Enochian magician? His apprentice? One of his ranch guests? Or the inhuman Black Monk? One of them is a murderer.
In her zeal to recover the occult scroll, Blythe becomes the killer’s next target. She must rely on ranch foreman “Cognac Kody” for protection… if she can trust him. Blythe soon discovers one too many secrets—and unearths a conspiracy beyond her worst nightmares.
Based on Anton Chekhov’s classic tale, “The Black Monk,” this Gothic-flavored cozy mystery explores Jewish and Christian lore from the Book of the Watchers, ancient apocrypha written in the third century BCE.