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REALIZE YOUR CREATIVE DREAMS — STARTING TODAY Are you good at dreaming about what you’re going to accomplish “someday” but not good at finding the time and getting started? How will you actually make that decision and do it? The answer is this book, which offers proven, practical, and simple ways to turn random minutes throughout your days into pockets of productivity, and dreams into accomplishments. In addition to presenting his own winning strategies for getting from dreaming to doing, Matthew Dicks offers insights from a wide range of creative people — writers, editors, performers, artists, and even magicians — on how to augment inspiration with motivation. His actionable steps will help you: • silence negative messages from family, friends, and teachers • eliminate time-sucking activities (and people) • be willing to make terrible things • find supporters here, there, and everywhere • cultivate optimism in the face of negativity and obstacles Each strategy is accompanied by amusing and inspiring personal and professional anecdotes and a clear plan of action. Someday Is Today will give you every tool to get started and finish that _________ [fill in the blank].

From Matthew Dicks, the beloved author of Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend, comes The Other Mother, a novel about a teenage boy coping with the rupture of his family by viewing his mother in an unusual light. The one he loves most, is the one he knows least. Thirteen-year-old Michael Parsons is dealing with a lot. His father's sudden death; his mother's new husband, Glen, who he loathes; his two younger siblings, who he looks after more and more now that his mother works extra shifts. And then one day, Michael wakes up and his mother is gone. In her place is an exact, duplicate mother. The 'other mother'. No one else seems to notice the real version is missing. His brother, his sister, and even Glen act as if everything's normal. But Michael knows in his heart that this mother is not his. And he begins to panic. What follows is a big-hearted coming-of-age story of a boy struggling with an unusual disorder that poses unparalleled challenges--but also, as he discovers, offers him unique opportunities.

Knihkupec Dan Mayrock je sympatický neurotik, jehož život je poznamenán vnitřními nejistotami. Na radu psychologa si začal organizovat svět do seznamů, což mu pomáhá čelit obavám, jako je strach, že ho jeho žena Jill přestane mít ráda, klesající rodinné úspory a selhání jako živitel rodiny. Seznamy zahrnují i paniku z bigotní zaměstnankyně a absurdní dotazy zákazníků. Autor ukazuje, že seznam jako románová forma může být překvapivě účinná. Po pár stránkách se z organizovaných sloupečků formuje vtipný a dojemný příběh o knihkupci, který miluje svou ženu, čelí bankrotu a snaží se zachránit rostoucí rodinu, přičemž se objevují jeho sebedestruktivní sklony. Kniha osloví fanoušky hrdinů jako Adrian Mole a Bridget Jones. Matthew Dicks, americký spisovatel a učitel, žije v Newingtonu se svou rodinou a jeho dětské knihy byly přeloženy do více než 25 jazyků. Jeho román Paměti imaginárního kamaráda vyšel v češtině v roce 2014. Příběh je upřímný, křehký a komický, ukazující široké možnosti románové tvorby.

A five-time Moth GrandSLAM winner and bestselling novelist shows how to tell a great story — and why doing so matters. Whether we realize it or not, we are always telling stories. On a first date or job interview, at a sales presentation or therapy appointment, with family or friends, we are constantly narrating events and interpreting emotions and actions. In this compelling book, storyteller extraordinaire Matthew Dicks presents wonderfully straightforward and engaging tips and techniques for constructing, telling, and polishing stories that will hold the attention of your audience (no matter how big or small). He shows that anyone can learn to be an appealing storyteller, that everyone has something "story worthy" to express, and, perhaps most important, that the act of creating and telling a tale is a powerful way of understanding and enhancing your own life.

Budo is Max's imaginary friend. But though only Max can see him, he is real. Budo and the other imaginary friends watch over their children until the day comes that the child stops imagining them. And then they're gone. Budo has lasted a lot longer than most imaginary friends - four years - because Max needs him more. His parents argue about sending him to a special school. Then Max mysteriously disappears from the school. Budo knows he must find him and rescue him.

Der 33-jährige Milo kann seinen regelmässigen Ticks seit der Trennung von seiner Frau ungeniert nachgehen. Als er in einem Park Videokassetten findet, muss er sich natürlich die Filme ansehen und lernt so über ein Videotagebuch eine sommersprossige, verzweifelte Frau kennen - eine Seelenverwandte ...

Wenn eine segelnde Zahnbürste das Ende einer beispiellosen Karriere einläutet . Martin hat den Dreh raus: Seit Jahren schon geht er erfolgreich auf Diebestour. Allerdings lässt er immer nur Dinge mitgehen, die seine „Kundschaft“ nicht allzu bald vermissen wird: eine von zig Vorratsflaschen Salatdressing, ein Handtuch, einen lange nicht getragenen Ohrring – und irgendwann, nach vielen Monaten, den zweiten. Niemand schöpft je Verdacht – doch eines Tages manövriert Martin sich selbst ins Abseits, weil er sich nicht an seinen ausgeklügelten Zeitplan hält. Das Organisationswunder droht im Chaos zu versinken, und noch während er versucht, sich selbst aus der heiklen Lage zu befreien, wird er zum Schutzengel einer seiner „Kundinnen“ … Ein Krimi der etwas anderen Art – turbulent, dramatisch und hinreißend komisch!