Bøger af Michael Bailey

"Fitness Feast: Nutrient-dense Recipes for Active Lifestyles" is your passport to a transformative culinary journey that doesn't compromise your fitness goals. Renowned fitness cuisine influencer Michael Bailey breaks down the art of creating sumptuous, wholesome meals that cater to your fitness needs without sacrificing flavor. Busting the myth that healthy eating has to be boring, Michael delivers a guide that will surely instill vibrancy into your diet and tickle your palate with a plethora of delicious feasts.Embark on this nutritious adventure that encompasses: Insights into nutrient-dense foods and how they power your body A guided tour of essential macros and micros that constitute your diet Tried and tested pre and post-workout meals for optimum performance and recovery Protein-rich dishes to meet your daily requirements and support muscle growth Easy-to-make, healthful snacks for people with dynamic lifestyles Exciting recipe adaptations to accommodate changing fitness goalsWhether you're a fitness enthusiast ready to up your game with smart meal hacks or a beginner hungry for accessible and appealing health-inspired recipes, this Special Report will be your anchor in the kitchen. Embrace the incredible fusion of health and taste with Michael Bailey and start your fitness feast today!

Known as the 'Queen of the Danube, ' Budapest is the vibrant and stunning capital of Hungary. This city not only blends the mystique of the East with the style of the West, but also combines the modern with the exotic. Ultimately, this destination offers something for everyone. As the most largely populated city in the country, and possibly one of the most densely populated cities in Europe, it is filled with an energy that is unmatched by other European capitals. Divided by the River Danube, the spectacular Chain Bridge adjoins the colorful but sedate hilly Buda to the west of the river, with the lively but flat plains of Pest in the east. Óbuda, or Old Buda, is also on the west side of the Danube and is an extension of the Buda to the north. Though originally a Roman outpost during the 1st century, the city of Budapest was not created until 1873, when the areas Buda, Pest, and Old Buda (Óbuda) were unified. These areas are now aligned by nine bridges, and include six islands within the city limits. What results is a world-class classical music city, that comes alive with a youthful energy. It is no wonder that Budapest has often been described as the Paris of the East. Not only is the beauty of the city's epic, faded grandeur a draw for visitors, but so are the ornate traditional baths, elegant boulevards and classic cafés. However, not every aspect of Budapest is stuck in the past. In recent years, the city underwent a significant remodeling in preparation to bid for the summer Olympics. Though it eventually withdrew its bid, the city has still benefitted from rebuilt sections on both sides of the Danube.

Bram Stoker Award© / Benjamin Franklin Award winning writer and editor Michael Bailey [a Shirley Jackson Award nominee and founder of Written Backwards] offers an exploration into the madness of writing, editing, and publishing. Writing is a disease without a cure. Once infected, the virus is in the host for good, until death. Something first sparked a need to create, so what was it? What does it take to survive publishing and continuously improve one's craft?THE BEGINNING: A straight-to-the-point narrative pushes past impostor syndrome, examining the writer life in detail while defining / dissecting fundamentals required to finish a first draft manuscript: character, dialogue, voice, plot, conflict, theme, and setting. THE MIDDLE: The journey continues with a look into manuscript revisions, with advice on breaking bad habits and developing healthy skills to improving intrigue, prose, pace, tense, point of view, show vs. tell, imagery, framework, and structure. THE END: After mastering the art of self-editing, writers will be ready for manuscript presentation, with an understanding of book layout, as well as knowledge of the publishing industry in general, such as with solicitation, rejection, acceptance, promotion, and performance as a professional writer.A book for those who need to write.

Written Backwards' Allevon series of illustrated trade paperbacks continues with ARTIFACTS, a short novel by Darren Speegle, featuring the artwork of L.A. Spooner, and an introduction by Gene O'Neill. In a far future Europe, following a four-thousand-year Dark Age, of which man retains little record or memory, a scroll is found in a train car deep within the snow and ice of Scandinavia, buried since the cataclysmic end of the First Age. The document, which contains a cryptic message meant for the world before it died, finds its way into the hands of Rein, an outpost bar hand who journeys across the continent seeking the relic's translation.

Written Backwards' Allevon series of illustrated trade paperback originals continues with Scott Edelman's Liars, Fakers, and the Dead Who Eat Them, a collection of two zombie novelettes, illustrated by Daniele Serra. A Vegan chef believes meat is murder. A determined waitress longs for stardom. He hopes to convince the world to abandon killing animals. She hopes to convince a director to make her a star. Both of those hopes are challenged when a zombie apocalypse traps them in small towns where their dreams might come true-or else be crushed under the weight of an invading undead horde. Join Tim and Shelley as they struggle to survive-and retain their sanity-in a world where death suddenly holds no dominion.

A post-apocalyptic vision of California comes to life in the first book of The Cal Wild Chronicles, a series of novels by Gene O'Neill that span horror, science fiction, and fantasy. Over the last 30 years, Gene has explored this colorful world called Cal Wild through award-winning short fiction, long fiction, and novels, and now his magnum opus is collected within four volumes, and illustrated throughout by Orion Zangara. It all starts with this recently expanded version of the Bram Stoker Award nominated novella, THE CONFESSIONS OF ST. ZACH, where the accused are judged and permanently dyed for their crimes. DP's, or Dyed People, roam Cal Wild, and every day they are faced with prejudice and brutality while they try to survive a new non-colored world. A crimson man, a lime green woman, the rightfully and wrongfully accused, some dyed amber, some dyed indigo... ST. ZACH will take you from the begging of the end, and lead you to THE BURDEN OF INDIGO, the story that started it all.

Gene O'Neill's magnum opus of speculative fiction, The Cal Wild Chronicles, comes to a close with THE FAR FUTURE, a meta-novel with interconnecting tales that takes place shortly after-and also intertwine with-those in THE NEAR FUTURE and the rest of this colorful series.Collecting some of Gene's more recent works, such as memorable short stories like "Down on the 01 Level," where for a price one can transform into skins of past celebrities, "Nostalgia," in which full-body art is commonplace and sometimes useful when hiding from the law, and even "The Hungry Skull" (a love story), which takes place around an illegal histro-bistro where historical events are reenacted in 'deathplays' by actors and commonfolk alike, this final book in the series perhaps offers us warning glimpses into possible futures of our own, wherein prejudices and stereotyping might one day take us if we allow them into our lives.Also included are connected novellas such as The Great Northern Sweet Water Raid, and Jade, and two new futuristic novelettes, "On the North Slope of Little Agony" and "The Dark Green Woman," which further explore post-apocalyptic Cal Wild and its colorful tales of Dyed People, mutants, and other wonderful creatures. With this final piece of the Cal Wild puzzle placed, we can finally understand the metamorphosis and importance of a not-so-unrealistic future.

In THE NEAR FUTURE, Gene O'Neill covers an immense spectrum of color in a post-apocalyptic vision of California. A meta-novel of sorts, part three of The Cal Wild Chronicles collects some of Gene's most memorable fiction, cohesively connecting stories such as "The Armless Conductor," which was published over thirty years ago in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, to Doc Good's Travelling Show, a Bram Stoker Award nominated novella, and "Coyote Gambit." Tying these stories together are completely new chapters of Cal Wild, such as a new short story, "Return of the Ice Man," as well as a new novelette, Mohave Transfer, and a new novella, The Scarlet Man, in which the lives of colorful DP's, or Dyed People, cross paths as they try to survive a world left in ruin. Gene O'Neill masterfully blends decades of literary creation in this penultimate book of a genre-building series that may one day be called his magnum opus of his speculative work. Horror, fantasy, and science fiction collide with unforgiving, unflinching abandon as THE NEAR FUTURE of Cal Wild draws closer to THE FAR FUTURE.

The Cal Wild Chronicles continues with THE BURDEN OF INDIGO, the story that started it all. In 1981 Gene O'Neill published a five thousand word short story in The Twilight Zone Magazine called "The Burden of Indigo," which launched his award-winning career of writing horror, science fiction, and fantasy. This novel-sized expansion of Gene's original well-loved story is the second of the four volumes, illustrated throughout by Orion Zangara. THE BURDEN OF INDIGO begins where THE CONFESSIONS OF ST. ZACH left off, and follows the story of an indigo man. Dyed long ago for perhaps the ultimate crime, he believes his color is starting to fade, and with visions of a Rainbow Man on his mind, he wants to know why. Is he beginning to heal? Also included in this volume is a short history and background by Gene, as well as the original short story version of "The Burden of Indigo" as it originally appeared in The Twilight Zone Magazine.

Bones Are Made to Be Broken presents fourteen stories from the intersection of pain and anxiety, rage and fear. On a Nevada highway, a vampire familiar loses faith. At the edge of known space, a man drives himself insane. A would-be mother hears the sounds of a child from another dimension. A piece of stained glass might be all that stands between us and the end of the world. Triumph and tragedy, terror and transformation, are realized in the stories of Bones Are Made to Be Broken. With an introduction by Damien Angelica Walters and an afterword by Bracken MacLeod.

A collaborative poetry collection by Bram Stoker Award-winning writers Michael Bailey and Marge Simon-dissecting a fiery world's relentless destruction. In Sifting the Ashes, over a hundred individual and collaborative poems explore what it takes to survive after all is suddenly taken. Combined life experiences of love, loss, and personal tragedy sift what's salvageable from the aftermath of fire, searching through the layers of ash for lessons about death, cremation, and the various stages of grief. What might be found in the remains after all is lost?

In an economy that's more unpredictable than ever-the proven method for avoiding emotional mistakes that can wreak havoc on your portfolio returns Applying powerful behavioral finance concepts, Stop. Think. Invest. provides a framework for identifying personal biases and avoiding mistakes that can cost them big profits.Based on the author's extensive research and 100 key behavioral finance concepts, this guide provides a winning 12-step process you can use to successfully manage your trading and investing for long-term success, including:Begin the Initial Research into a New StockCreate an Investment Thesis: Why Are You Buying the Stock?Trade Timing and Size: When Are You Buying and How Much?Make the Initial PurchaseReview of Trade: Round Up or Round DownTest Your Original Investment ThesisStop. Think. Invest. reveals important information about behavioral finance flaws, such as anchoring, confirmation bias, recency bias, and loss aversion.Unlike other such investing guides, Stop. Think. Invest. offers a fully organized and practical approach to applying behavioral finance to everyday investing.