Book Blitz - Bullets And Bosses Don't Have Friends by Toni Crowe

          

How to Navigate Tough Challenges in the Workplace

The $7 Series, Book 3

Memoir

Published: December 2018

Publisher: Boker

 

Are you worried that you're too nice to get ahead? Discover how to play smart in your work place and take your life to the next level in Toni Crowe's continuation of her memoir.

Does your office feel more like a minefield than a place to get things done? Are you confronted by tenacious colleagues and even more challenging situations every workday? With over 30 years of experience, award-winning executive Toni Crowe has climbed the ladder across multiple sectors, from high tech to aerospace. After ascending from the very bottom to the top, she's here to share her experience, strategies, and wisdom for you to realize your own career triumph.

Bullets and Bosses Don't Have Friends teaches you how to assume the serious edge you need to succeed in the corporate world. With the book's honest, compelling look at relationships with peers and bosses alike, you'll discover a pragmatic approach to mastering your trek through management. By reading Crowe's down-to-earth stories, you'll learn how to navigate common challenges in the workplace and conquer them with your own personal style.

 

In Bullets and Bosses Don’t Have Friends, you’ll discover:

 

- A behind-the-scenes peek at corporate America that shows you what it’s really like at the top

- Which skills and attitudes you need to scale to the top of the business world

- How to cultivate a relationship with your boss that benefits both of you

- What you can do when confronted with difficult peers so you maintain control

- How you can and should deal with workplace treachery, and much, much more!

 

Bullets and Bosses Don’t Have Friends is a series of true stories from Toni Crowe’s life in the corporate world, each with a practical lesson and a set of exercises you can apply to your own career. If you like the personal approach of a mentor, tales of hard-won success, and real-world advice from a CEO with an amazing record of achievement, then you’ll love Toni Crowe’s second installment in the four-part My Journey from a Lady of the Night to the Lady of the Boardroom memoir!

 

About the Author

Toni Crowe is an award-winning and accomplished executive with 30 years of experience as a CEO/President, Vice-President, Director, Engineer, and Manager across multiple sectors including high tech, consumer and nuclear sensors, Aerospace, film production, and glass. She has extensive experience in P&L, Manufacturing, Operations Management, and Lean.  She has participated in several mergers and acquisitions.  Toni is currently the President and CEO of Just One: her company which is dedicated to changing lives, one life at a time.

 

 

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Blog Tour: The House on Sunset by Lindsay Fischer

 

The House on Sunset

By- Lindsay Fischer

Genre- Memoir/Women’s Fiction

 

Lindsay Fischer was once a high school English teacher with dreams stretching far outside the classroom. When her boyfriend of a year-and-a-half cheated on her, Lindsay found herself alone, looking online for a replacement. His name was Mike.

 

That’s where the nightmare started.

 

The House on Sunset is a memoir, a collection of reminiscences, scattering the ashes of two broken homes and putting them to rest. Each chapter offers a different glimpse inside the cycle of intimate partner violence, where honeymoon phases and traumas coexist.

 

Everyone could fall victim to abusers. This book bravely displays the reasons a quirky, twenty-something teacher would, and did.

 

 

 

About  the Author

 

Lindsay Fischer graduated from Missouri State University with a Bachelor of Science in secondary education, English. An avid reader and learner, Lindsay took her passion for words into a classroom before starting a writing career. Life pulled her from the classroom, providing an opportunity to use her voice against domestic violence, blogging under the pseudonym, Sarafina Bianco, since 2009. You can find her words at survivorswillbeheard.com and speak directly to her when she hosts #domesticviolencechat on Twitter. Lindsay hopes to be an advocate for women, men and children who still live inside the nightmare of their abuse. She currently lives with her husband and three dogs, including Watson, in St. Louis, Missouri.

 

Please tell us about yourself using 3 adjectives, 1 quirk and a pop culture addiction

 

I’m a “retired” teacher, a bourbon drinking sassy-ass storyteller and fiercely loyal friend who loves Netflix binges more with my husband by my side.

 

Top 3 Pet Peeves

 

Having to repeat myself (a hazard of my former life in the classroom)

 

People who cut down societal movements by pointing out something unrelated to the importance of the movement (i.e. “Black Lives Matter” vs. “All Lives Matter” and sexual inequality vs. people who argue “some women do xyz.”

 

Strappy sandals (rule: only one strap between my toes)

 

Who do you consider the most swoon-worthy man/woman in the literary world? How about on tv/in the movies?

Erik Fiskare in The Man I Love by Suanne Laqueur is an absolute dream. Handsome, intelligent, generous and passionate (like, whoa). If you haven’t read this book, you’ll fall for him. Everyone does.

 

Sawyer in LOST was crush-worthy, though he had some unhealthy defense mechanisms. I did adore him by the end of the series, how dedicated he was to the woman he loved (and, hi, he’s pretty in a rugged way).

 

Top 5 Favorite Things

 

5. So You Think You Can Dance

 

4. Travel

 

3. Writing

 

2. My pooches (including Huckleberry, who is in my memoir)

 

1. The man who stood beside me through my abuse/trauma recovery (my husband)

 

What are your thoughts on book covers- in your opinion do they make or break a book?

Book covers don’t make or break the book, but they do appeal to a certain demographic of the audience who values the visual elements of artistry. I worked very hard on my cover for that reason. It’s smart to think about the gut and impulse buyers who see something and say, “Hell, I’ll give it a shot.” Of course, I also worked hard to make sure my cover hinted at the content. A confusing cover could be the dementor’s kiss in terms of those buyers (if the cover doesn’t match the tone/voice people can be turned off). Are covers important? Heck yes.

 

What’s the last song you listened to?

“Smells like Teen Spirit” by Nirvana. I have an eclectic taste in music (thanks, mom and dad). From Carly Simon to REM and Lana Del Rey. Shout out to Hozier. I usually let my iPhone shuffle through without making any decisions. Car rides are more fun that way.

 

How do you come up with character names?  How do you come up with novel titles?

I had to be very, very careful to make sure I was protecting the people (and places) in my memoir, so I think my experience might be different than someone developing fictitious characters. Having said that, I picked names I loved (or disliked, depending on the character).

 

Do you have any advice for anyone that would like to be an author?

Yes. Keep writing. Face your fear and continue anyway. You can polish a turd, but if you don’t produce one (sorry, I had to) you have nothing to improve on.

 

Every writer fears that their writing is going to suck, no matter how many books they’ve written. It’s part of the process, but it shouldn’t stop you. Once you get over the fact that it’s inevitable for someone to hate what you produce, you’ll realize that means there’s room for someone to love it too. Apathy, friends, is what we should fear. Because if nobody cares, nobody is buying.

 

Keep. Writing. Every. Damn. Day.

 

This or That-

 

*Morning or Night? Night

 

*Vanilla or Chocolate?  Chocolate (unless we’re talking frozen yogurt or custard)

 

*Summer or Winter? Summer, please!

 

*Ebook or Paperback? I love the smell of new books. #teampaperback

 

*Fantasy or Paranormal? Paranormal, no doubt about it.

 

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