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The Resurrection by Jodi Ellen Malpas PDF DownloadThe Resurrection by Jodi Ellen Malpas KINDLEThe Resurrection by Jodi Ellen Malpas EBOOKThe Resurrection by Jodi Ellen Malpas EPUBThe Resurrection by Jodi Ellen Malpas Read onlineThe Resurrection by Jodi Ellen Malpas Full PDFBook Description: From the moment Danny Black met Rose Cassidy, he knew she'd be thedeath of him. But their electric connection and twisted love gave him a purpose beyond ruling Miamiwith his iron fist. Faking his own death and disappearing to St. Lucia was the only way he couldescape the deadly underworld that brought them together. But his seclusion was sabotaged when anotorious assassin lured him out and made him an offer he couldn't ignore.So Danny was forced to decide whether to remain concealed and pray his enemies didn't find him,or re-emerge and take back control of his town. His future.James Kelly's sole purpose was to find and kill the man who ordered the death of his family. Peacewould never be his until then. Beau Hayley, a scarred former cop, was the key to his mission. Hewas supposed to kill her. Instead, he fell in love with her. Forced to accept that he could no longerfight his war and keep Beau safe from their enemies, he sought out the only man who could helphim.But by resurrecting the infamous Brit, James unwittingly started an even bigger war.Two lethal men. One shared goal.Keep their women safe.And survive.But only one of them can come out the other side alive.=====================================================================As a young writer, my naiveté about the publishing process nearly led me to financial ruin.Here’s how to avoid my mistakes.The first thing I tell debut authors is this: Assume nothing.If just one person had sat me down when I signed my first book contract and explained howpublishing works, how nothing is guaranteed, and how it often feels like playing RussianRoulette with words, I would have made much sounder financial and creative decisions. Iwould have set a foundation for a healthy life as an artist, laying the groundwork to thrive in
uncertainty, to avoid desperation, panic, and bad decisions that would affect me for years tocome.How would my life be different if a fellow writer or someone in the industry had told me thatthe money I’d be receiving for my advances was absolutely no indication of what I couldmake on future book deals? What pain could I have avoided if they had advised me not tospend that money as though there would be more where that came from? I suspect I mayhave avoided a near nervous breakdown and not come so perilously close to financial ruinand creative burnout. But no one came forward.Let me back up. One of the most respected publishing houses in the world gave me$100,000 to write two books, one of which was already finished, and I was feeling… well,fancy.As a kid who’d once stood in line with her mother to get food stamps, I could not believe thefigures in my bank account.Now, I want to acknowledge the inherent privilege that I hold as a white, educated, middleclassAmerican. The problems I write about here are “struggles” many people would love tohave. They are good problems. Lucky, even. Growing up with a lack of financial literacydidn’t mean there weren’t opportunities for me out there because of my positioning in theworld. I had a leg up, even when it felt like I was in the trenches. Access equals privilege,and I understand that. I try hard to acknowledge my privilege and not be part of theproblem, but didn’t do so explicitly in the original version of this article. Revising is myfavorite part of the writing process, and clearly a big part of my personal life. In fact I wish Icould go back and revise the past six years.I did play it smart, though: I didn’t quit my day job, and wrote a larger-than-usual check tomy student loan company when the advance came through. I didn’t know if this was aonetime thing or not.Each new book is like a weekend in Vegas: Maybe I’ll get lucky, maybe I won’t.But when I sold a trilogy to another publisher the following year for over $250,000 dollars(even now I cannot believe I wrote that sentence and, furthermore, that it’s true), I reallythought I had made it — forever, not just for a moment. Not for this one book deal. Forever.Otherwise, I reasoned, they would never have paid me such enormous sums. Thesepublishers must be investing in me for the long run. I was one of their own.It had happened twice in a row, these six-figures: Surely I had somehow become one of thechosen few. After years of research and struggle to break out in such a ferociouslycompetitive industry, I’d somehow come out ahead.But in that process, I’d somehow missed several critical aspects of the business, and thatwas on me (to some extent). Surely there were writers who had gotten the memo abouthow advances worked, and the ins and outs of publishing. But so much of an aspiringwriter’s life — and so many of the resources available to them — is focused on getting thatfirst book deal. What came after was beside the point.It would also be fair to say that the same energy and drive that had landed me a book dealin the first place guided much of my decision-making process in ways that weren’t alwayshelpful. I reasoned that if I’d achieved the impossible once, why not again? Someone has tobe on the bestseller list, win the National Book Award, have the big movie deal.
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