marti mcginnis

Summary Book Club Scam Red Flag Checklist If you got an email that has any of these, slow down: A "book club" or "reading community" praises your book in specific, flattering detail and offers a free author Q&A - with zero ask in the first email. A second or third email introduces a vaguely-named paid tier ("Spotlight Package," "Feature Package," "Promotional Tier") described only in abstract nouns - depth, care, professionalism, visibility, integrity - with no concrete deliverables and no...

Does Your System Register the World Deeply? A brief self-reflection on sensory processing sensitivity (SPS) Before you begin: This is not a diagnosis. It draws on research into SPS (Aron & Aron, 1997; Pluess et al., 2018) - a heritable trait found in ~20–35% (this amound varies from study to study) of people. Scale (0–3) 0 = Rarely true 1 = Occasionally true 2 = Often true 3 = Very true On a note list numbers 1 - 20. Read the following questions and write your answer next to each number. Add...

Let's get one thing straight: I never set out to be a buckaroo. In fact, I'm pretty sure Goldie - my ever-suspicious, stripe-pole-hating...