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Only one week left to register and join America’s premiere celebration of small-caps at the ValueRich Small-cap Financial Expo, March 27-28, 2007, at the InterContinental Miami Hotel, located in the heart of Miami’s exploding Brickell Avenue financial district.

ValueRich, Inc., the financial and corporate media specialists who “Think Small-Cap!,” announce the official launch of iValueRich.com, their new online financial community where public and private companies can raise capital, go public and increase market exposure, and investment professionals can increase deal flow and go global with their placement power.

The final countdown is beginning for the ValueRich Small-cap Financial Expo, March 27-28, 2007 — showcasing 50 small-cap public companies, financial services and securities institutions to an audience of 1,000 investment bankers, fund managers, institutional investors, brokers, research analysts, and high net worth investors.

The Ocean Cooperative Literary Agency, one of the online world’s oldest editorial services, has announced that Dan Whipple of Colorado is the winner of the agency’s Novel of Promise award for February. The winning submission was a chapter from Whipple’s novel, My Greatest Hits. The Novel of Promise literary awards program, established to encourage new novelists, awards the prize monthly on the basis of a single submitted chapter of an unpublished novel.

Children's Hospital of Seattle will benifit from one of the Seattle area's newest authors.

Author and publicity expert Francine Silverman in a recent interview for PowerHomeBiz.com shares tips on how small and home-based businesses use talk radio to market their small or home-based businesses.

Empower yourself and increase your knowledge of the Christian community by turning to Milwaukee’s #1 source…Anointed Pages! Anointed Pages is a national publication that profiles religious leadership, Christian business owners, and influential men and women and the lives that they are changing in their ministry and community. Our prayer is that every page will be Anointed by God to heal, strengthen, inform and equip a life changing experience to our readers from all walks of life. Editorial segments will focus on Business, Marriage, Families, Fashion, Today’s Youth, and much more. Anointed Pages also brings you up close and personal with some of the biggest names in Christian music such as Kirk Franklin, Martha Munizzi, Mary Mary and more. The magazine will be released on a bi-monthly basis with an inclusion of two additional issues; Summer and Year In Review.

Playdate Kids Publishing announced today that their first title, “The I Like Me Dance," set to release in May 2007 for their upcoming new music series, was chosen for the front cover of the February 26, 2007 issue of Publishers Weekly.

Relationship expert Maria Veloso is offering tips on how to keep love alive in a relationship after the infatuation has cooled in her new book, MIDWINTER TURNS TO SPRING (Think Outside The Book Publishing, ISBN 0-9770751-0-9). Veloso adopts a storytelling technique when offering relationship advice in her novel, which has been compared to THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY. The book comes with an accompanying music soundtrack CD of songs written by the author and performed by the artist, Zendrik. This is unique in that it is currently the only book available that offers a music soundtrack that coincides with the story.

OVER YOUR DEAD BODY (Total Package Publishing, 2007, ISBN 978-0-9789276-0-8) by David L is a psychological thriller that keeps the reader in suspense to the last page. Written with character specific realism, OVER YOUR DEAD BODY captures the essence of people living in today’s urban America. The plot could apply to any apparently happily married couple as a happy family man decides he wants to murder his wife and turn into a fugitive with his two children. Adding to the plot is the best friend who has witnessed the husband’s change from family man to murderer and must decide whether to turn him in or not.

Business opportunities are everywhere today. You can work at home doing anything from selling the latest and greatest kitchen tools to being the personal assistant virtually to authors, businesses, and anyone who needs more assistance in running their business. Most entrepreneurs look for a business that offers them not only financial security and independence, but also pride in the work they will be doing. That’s one of the reasons that the Virtual Assistant Industry is growing in leads and bounds. Today, former secretaries, administrative assistants, word processors, and legal or medical transcriptionsists, are turning in the 9 to 5 to work at home. There’s never been a better time to succeed.

What businesses have the best customer service? The founders of the laugh-friendly companyTM, ee publishing and productions, have created the Laugh-Friendly Awards (LFAs) to find out.

The Novel of Promise Award is established as a monthly prize awarded on the basis of a single submitted chapter of a novel in progress. Robert Buckland, editor-in-chief at the Ocean Cooperative Literary Agency (www.oceancooperative.com), explained that the program recognizes some simple truths of the writing process.

In Scalpel, a novel by Dr. Joel Berman, you get a dead medical malpractice attorney – in fact, several of them. Berman’s main character – who, Berman insists, is not his alter ego -- is a mysterious surgeon who is tired of attorneys who relentlessly pursue medical malpractice lawsuits against doctors who have done nothing wrong. The attorneys stop at nothing to ruin the careers and lives of their victims.

The Ocean Cooperative literary consultancy (www.oceancooperative.com) and The Business of Words academic editing service (www.businessofwords.com ), helmed by McGill-educated writer Robert Buckland, have initiated a program designed to help writers anywhere in search of legitimate English-language editing. Buckland, who includes Cornell University and Random House among his recent clients, describes how the swarm of unqualified and inept “editors” offering to improve theses, dissertations, novels and non-fiction manuscripts has made it nearly impossible for authors to identify the real thing. It’s widely known that writers in search of online help are often unable to contact the person doing the actual work and frequently proceed on no other basis than a promise.

Port Town Publishing, Superior, WI, is pleased to announce the December 1 release of “Standing Damaged,” ( EAN: 978-1-59466-097-9) a non-fiction account of Melissa Ellefson Huray’s fifteen-year struggle with alcoholism.

Webbyshop launches on November 24, 2006 its online magazine store in grand fashion at http://www.magazinesubscriptions.ws/. Publishers and editors of popular magazines celebrated with the popular online shop’s owners and editors as distribution of their publications have been made easier and more accessible. The people from all over the world can just click and subscribe to their favorite magazines like FHM, Newsweek, Vanity Fair, Sports Illustrated, Wired Magazine, and more. WebbyShop offers cover titles ranging from A to Z.

Whether you’re a corporate manager, college student, entrepreneur, or salesperson, it takes a combination of skills to create success. Your ability to influence others, communicate and negotiate is as important as your job literacy, knowledge and education. Rarely do people get ahead and achieve greatness on job skills alone, it takes more.

Ten of thousands of families lost homes, personal property and much more during hurrican Katrina. Homes are being re-built and lives are being put back together again along the Gulf Coast. But homes aren't the only thing needing replaced for these families who have lost so much says Bruce Goldwell, author and success coach. Children need to have a way to escape the trials that they are surrounded with on a daily basis and a way to insure that their futures will be bright. Goldwell believes that one of the ways to do this is through the gift of books.

Dr. Annie Thiel, author of The Playdate Kids book series will be kicking off Children’s Book Week by attending a special story time event at the Malibu Library. She will read her book to the children in attendance and offer a fun, optimistic and helpful discussion afterwards. The event’s topic will center on how a young child can cope with the end of a mother’s pregnancy and the arrival of a new baby. Parents and children of all ages are all welcome to attend.

Long before Senator John Kerry’s gaffe become the #1 Most Viewed item on YouTube many were already calling this “the YouTube election.” While nobody can predict YouTube’s eventual impact on vote counts, “There’s no doubt that online video is now a permanent feature of political campaigns,” says Bill Dyszel, author of YouTube Moviemaking.

This Christmas, Nana Star will spread her magic to 8,500 underprivileged children across the country.

For years businesses have complained of needing more help around the office to meet the ever-increasing demands of running a successful business. The answer finally arrived when highly skilled Virtual Assistants came on scene offering a global solution to the daily challenges of doing business. As the demand increased for qualified virtual assistants, so did the need for information on how to become a Virtual Assistant (VA). Corel® has stepped up to the plate to meet the demand with the release of their latest, WordPerfect® OfficeReady® Virtual Assistant Solution Pack, available at http://www.corel.com.

Just days before Google’s landmark purchase of YouTube, the so-called “smart money” was saying that YouTube would never make any money for anybody. When an eleven-figure number was revealed as the purchase price, many wondered how Google would ever recover that investment, particularly given the enormous costs of running a bandwidth-intensive video service.

Moving can be one of the most traumatic experiences in a child’s life. It is important for parents to communicate and support their children throughout the entire process.