J. S. Collyer is Science Fiction writer from Lancaster, UK. Her first novel, Book 1 in the Orbit Series, Zero, an action-packed, character-driven SciFi novel described as ‘Firefly meets James Bond’ was released by Dagda Publishing in 2014 and made it into Northern Soul Magazine’s Best Reads of 2014. The sequel, Haven, was released October 2015 and the third and final instalment, Silence, was…

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“Your need for acceptance can make you invisible to the world.” Welcome back for another dose of Monday Motivation! We’re gonna kick-start the week with some words from a man known more for being funny than poignant, but there are a couple nuggets in here I think we could all use a reminder on occasion.…

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Fascination I have a degree in Psychology, and tend to look at the personality tests floating around the internet as nothing more than a scummy film of rancid entertainment. We’ve all seen them trickling down our Facebook news-feed: Which Game of Thrones character are you? Take the personality quiz to find out! Are you an…

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Michael Patrick Hicks is the author of a number of speculative fiction titles. His debut novel, Convergence, was an Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award 2013 Quarter-Finalist.   His most recent work is the horror novel, Mass Hysteria.He has written for the Audiobook Reviewer and Graphic Novel Reporter, in addition to working as a freelance journalist and news photographer.…

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The Emperor’s Blades Brian Staveley splashed down into the cold, dark sea of epic fantasy back in 2014 with his debut novel, The Emporer’s Blades. My girlfriend at the time consumed it in about 13 microseconds and then proceeded to tell me, for roughly the next year and a half how I should most definitely…

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I’ve lived a life defined by fleeting passions. Or phases as one of my best friends recently put it. There was the chess, and martial arts, and long distance running, and snowboarding, and writing, and Starcraft, and poker, and rock climbing, and writing, and… Activities that I became absolutely obsessed with, pouring immense quantities of…

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[button link=”https://medium.com/@OneLazyRobot/the-six-weapons-of-influence-ff93c6522d6″ type=”big”] Click HERE to read the full article![/button] We all want to be more influential. Whether it’s in personal relationships, workplace meetings, or just in casual encounters we all want our ideas to be regarded and accepted (sometimes even implemented) by others. The difficulty is that everybody else wants the same exact thing.…

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