Delray Beach, FL – Frank McKinney is a rare find in a businessman. Not to say there aren’t a number of generous philanthropists out there – but just not in the style of a “McKinney.” His behavior draws an instant parallel with the tales of Robin Hood but with one huge difference – he doesn’t steal from the rich to give to the poor, he earns his wealth by creating then selling sui generis mansions to the ultra-wealthy and then generously donates significant sums to the non-profit Caring House Project Foundation (CHPF) – an organization that provides a self-sustaining existence for desperately poor and homeless families around the world.
McKinney credits his astronomical success to his deep faith and accompanying spiritual principles. He believes that God ‘taps’ each and every one of us many times in life, answering prayers and presenting life-changing opportunities. McKinney teaches how to sensitize ourselves to life’s great ‘tap moments’ and how to appropriately handle accomplishment. When applied responsibly, sustained success in life is then revealed.
Inspired by the biblical passage, ‘from those to whom much is entrusted, much will be expected,’ McKinney applied his own philosophy of entrusted fame and fortune into his life-changing book The Tap (Health Communications, Inc.). He is not a preacher – he is a businessman who believes heart and soul that we are judged not on what we accumulate or achieve through life but more on our spirit of generosity towards others.
His book promises readers that if they attune themselves to this enduring truth, they will be open to God’s ‘tap moments’ and receive enrichment beyond belief.
Referencing scripture and using examples from daily living, The Tap is an inspiring yet practical guide for all who wish to succeed at the most important business of all – the business of life! McKinney knows and understands that there is something far greater than wealth and success – it is the sense of pure goodness that comes from the happiness and fulfillment of sharing one’s blessings with those in need.
Already a NY Times best-selling author, what better mentor to guide us through life’s ‘tap opportunities’ than a man who has successfully walked the talk for over twenty-five years. Visit this charismatic author’s interactive website at www.the-tap.com where readers are encouraged to post their own ‘tap moments’ on a special blog, and read the rave reviews on www.amazon.com.
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Anthony Robbins, best-selling author of Awaken the Giant Within and Unlimited Power: “Powerfully proves that true fulfillment lies not through accumulating wealth, but through contribution.”
Richard DeVos: “I believe a good portion of Frank’s success can be attributed to what he does for the poor around the world. The gaining of material wealth means little without responsible stewardship for those blessings. ‘The Tap’ shows you how to increase your wealth, both in terms of riches and, more important, enrichment. McKinney reveals how responsible stewardship guarantees success in the business of life.”
Eric D. Miller, Founder, Rush-Miller Foundation: “ I Read ‘The Tap’ while sitting on a roof in Gonaives, Haiti, overlooking the village Frank’s Caring House Project Foundation built using the funds from the book I was reading. McKinney is one whose success would allow him to travel the world in luxury, but he has chosen another route…gives the reader a unique look behind the magical curtain McKinney has built around his life creating the world’s most opulent real estate masterpieces. The Tap reminds us to pay closer attention to the subtle quiet nudges of our souls. After completing this book I reflected on the many times I had been tapped and missed opportunities and rejoiced in the times I have acted…my problems seem to disappear when I follow a ‘tap’ and look for opportunities to intervene in other people’s lives.”
Palm Beach, FL, July 1, 2009 – Where is the risk in listening to a man whose success is proven time and time again? There is none. Instead of listening to the so-called ‘experts’ who have a negative effect on real estate markets with their ‘bubble-bursting’ predictions, listen to a man who goes against all the rules, does things his way despite the odds, and comes out on top each and every time! After all, isn’t this the kind of success we all dream about?
This man is Frank McKinney, NY Times best-selling author, with a proven twenty-five year history of success – never content with just surviving all economic conditions but actually making millions by doing things his way – and obviously his way works! He has been dubbed ‘real estate rock czar’ by the Wall Street Journal, and has appeared on 20/20, CBS Evening News, USA Today and Oprah.
The media keep trying but they cannot quite figure him out because what he does (in their experience) should not work – and yet Frank just keeps proving them wrong each and every time. He has all the answers to what he does (differently) versus what everyone else does (the same) in his latest book, Burst This! Frank McKinney’s Bubble-Proof Real Estate Strategies (Health Communications, Inc.).
“The book cover shows me holding a sphere, not a bubble,” explains McKinney. “In Burst This! I show how to shake that impulse to run for the exits when the market dips. By recognizing cycles, you replace the fear and greed-driven bubble mentality with a crystal ball to predict coming market trends, and you turn that bubble mentality inside out to create a force field that surrounds and protects your investments.”
This famous entrepreneur knows no fear when it comes to following his own financial strategies because he has proven himself time and time again by doing what everyone thinks is impossible – creating multimillion-dollar oceanfront estate homes on speculation and shattering price records with every sale! His latest venture is no exception – a stunning $29 million, 15,000 square-foot mansion called Acqua Liana (water flower) in Manalapan Beach, Florida (http://www.frank-mckinney.com/acqua_liana.aspx). It is the largest and most luxurious certified “green” home in the world, meeting the rigorous standards set by the U.S. Green Building Council, the Florida Green Building Coalition, and the EPA’S Energy Star for Homes.
This market is not just about pricing, it is about understanding the ‘cycles’ of real estate and Frank McKinney has done this with precision. He has identified six distinct cycles over the last thirty-five years, sifting out recurring trends that highlight huge opportunities while signaling where history might repeat itself. In Burst This!, Frank shares with readers how he has successfully ridden the ups and downs of this volatile market using his own financial and investment strategies, and explains how to avoid being caught up in the positive and negative excitement associated with boom and bust times that are nothing more than recurring market cycles.
Rich DeVos, co-Founder of Amway and owner of the Orlando Magic: “A true real estate artist, McKinney continues to make markets where others don’t dare to tread. Now this visionary contrarian shows you how to prosper in any real estate market.”
Thomas A. Griffith: “Classic Frank McKinney. Frank tells it like it is. Real estate runs in cycles, booms and busts…relevant information for the real estate investor or anybody interested in becoming a real estate investor, or just thinking about purchasing property. Frank uses real-life experiences in real estate strategies not Ivory Tower or Television B.S. Frank is definitely a maverick but a contrarian? How about a realist with an ability to see the future by studying the past. Great book!”
John Assaraf, bestselling author of The Answer and former RE/MAX of Indiana CEO: “Dismiss what the so-called experts tell you to do and listen to Frank McKinney, who has taken more risk and has made it big regardless of market conditions for nearly 25 years. McKinney has the goods to help any real estate investor thrive anytime, anywhere. Read Burst This! Now and stop the naysayers cold in their tracks.”
Miami Beach, FL – In this modern, scientific world we live in we deal with facts and theories that are often in conflict with spiritual and religious notions. That was before Jennifer Valoppi wrote Certain Cure (Murray Hill Press) – an outstanding medical/religious thriller that combines science and ancient prophecies, and was voted the #1 best-selling Techno-thriller on Amazon and the National Best Books 2008 Award-Winning Finalist in New Age Fiction. This debut novel from the prolific imagination of this multi-talented journalist and award-winning author leaves the reader begging for a sequel.
Certain Cure bridges the gap between modern physics and ancient prophecies in a strong, character-driven story of a woman dying of cancer who allows a mysterious Chinese doctor to inject a nanochip into her spinal fluid that will direct her body to destroy the cancer. This is done against the wishes of her daughter, a struggling TV talk show host, who later recants when she selfishly realizes this cure might possibly save her ailing career. The woman’s doting grandson is concerned when a strange mark forms on her hand that he believes to be the ‘mark of the beast,’ at the same time as he experiences troubling visions – clues that involve a medical necklace, the only thing found at the brutal murder of a Park Avenue physician. It becomes evident that the mysterious Chinese doctor may have discovered immortality – the eternal fountain of youth. Will the search for God now become irrelevant? Visit the author’s intriguing website at www.certaincure.com.
Adding another level of excitement and authenticity to the non-stop action in this novel is that scientists at Weizmann Institute have recently developed nano-technology for detecting cancer, and earlier this year the Financial Times ran an article about futurist Ray Kurzwell’s prediction that technology could enable this generation to live forever!
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Gotham Magazine: “Valoppi tackles the conflict between science and religion in a riveting read that recalls The Da Vinci Code. Merging nanotechnology with ancient Judeo-Christian prophesies, Valoppi sends readers on a fictional chase through our beloved-and ever mysterious-Manhattan.”
Comments from Amazon readers include:
“Loved this book… such a great read and fast, a real page turner. If you like Harlan Coben, Michael Connelly, Patricia Cornwell, John Grisham – jump on the band wagon. Let’s get Ms. Valoppi to write another book ASAP….can’t wait for the movie!!”
“Ordered, opened and finished, from the first page to the end could not find a place to take a break. I strongly recommend this book to all. Hopefully, Ms. Valoppi has another book in the works.”
“About fifty pages into this book, I thought, this is going to make a great movie…fast moving thriller that is tough to put down….read the whole thing in a weekend. Characters are likeable and well-developed…plot was Da Vinci Code like but little more fun…had me thinking how much we rely on various technological and medical breakthroughs to make our lives better, but what happens if they go too far? Where does the line between progress and ethics begin to blur? An impressive book…would recommend it to anyone!”
“Adventurous, engaging and enjoyable – didn’t want to put it down!”
“It is an exciting, edge of seat, page turner. Amount of background work done on this topic must have been immense. Jennifer’s experience in the world of investigative reporting and her news media suave comes through in the book…found it similar to Angels and Demons and The Da Vinci Code – primarily for the style, not necessarily the topic…comes together like a Guy Richie movie. The underlying plot draws you in and the short chapters make it a fun and easy read. Look forward to her next book.”
Imagine you’re out in a fishing boat a few miles off shore, when a seven-foot dorsal fin cuts the surface of the ocean like a sail! The creature, a 70-foot, 50-ton Great White Shark, is so big its current actually drags your boat as it passes by. And God help you if it’s hungry.
Meet Carcharodon megalodon, or MEG for short, the most fearsome creature ever to live. The shark dominated our oceans over the last 35 million years, and only disappeared recently…or maybe it’s still out there!
Best-selling author Steve Alten has written four books about these real-life monstrous sharks and he believes the creatures may still exist in the deepest, most unexplored realms of the ocean. “Over 70% of the planet is covered by water,” says Alten, who earned his doctorate degree from Temple University. “Man has only explored 3% of our oceans and less than 1% of the abyss, so we have no idea what is really out there, waiting to be discovered. Megalodon was the apex predator of all time. It hunted whales. It could live in tropical seas or cold water. To assume it simply died off because we haven’t documented a sighting is simply not good science.
Alten’s new release, MEG: Hell’s Aquarium, introduces man to the most nightmarish prehistoric sea monsters ever to have existed, but Megalodon remains the ultimate alpha monster. “We’re talking about a massive shark with senses that could detect the vibrations of a beating heart a mile away, smell a drop of blood or urine in the water, or track the electrical impulses generated by a swimmer’s moving muscles. Meg could easily swallow six people whole, and it may still be out there.”
Cue the JAWS music: Summer 2009 is here – just stay out of the water!
Fox Island, WA, 06-01-09 — The idea of Heaven on Earth may seem farfetched, but it isn’t. It is a vision shared by every religion and era, from famous saints to everyday mystics, and it is one that anyone can learn to see.
In Finding Heaven Here, John C. Robinson reviews the extensive mystical testimony for the existence of Heaven on Earth and shows us how we can reclaim this experience here and now. Like a treasure map leading to a forgotten world untouched by time and human corruption — an actual Shangri-La — John invites the reader on an experiential journey through the lands of the religious psyche to a secret garden of Earthly paradise. Promised since the dawn of time and religion, envisioned in mythology and literature, the experience of Heaven on Earth is the crowning achievement of consciousness and the fulfillment of the spiritual life. It is why we are here. And it’s right before our eyes.
How do you experience Heaven on Earth? How does the experience change your life? How will you feel and act if you begin to experience Heaven here and now? These questions and more are explored in this book as the reader learns to transform everyday problems into experiences of Heaven.
An integration of modern psychology and universal spiritual wisdom, the insights and practices in Finding Heaven Here have been extensively tested in workshops, classes and spiritual counseling sessions. Filled with user-friendly explanations and experiential exercises, its teachings are easily accessible to the average reader and readily applicable to everyday psychological and spiritual problems. No other book presents the idea (and reality) of Heaven on Earth with such clarity, documentation, and potential for personal transformation.
Author Information: Dr. Robinson holds doctorates in clinical psychology and ministry and is an ordained interfaith minister. Along with three decades of clinical practice, he has taught extensively at men’s gatherings, professional conferences, retreat centers, hospitals, and churches and is the author of three previous books on the interface of psychology and spirituality: Death of a Hero, Birth of the Soul; Ordinary Enlightenment, and But Where is God? Psychotherapy and the Religious Search.
NY Times best-selling author knows all about scary monsters, and this summer he treats readers to two of the nastiest creatures ever to have existed.
Steve Alten’s first offering is MEG: Hell’s Aquarium (Variance Publishing), the fourth book in the best-selling MEG series. Meg is short for Carcharodon Megalodon, the 70-foot, 70,000 pound prehistoric cousin of the Great White shark. These monsters, which were bigger than a tractor trailer, ruled the seven seas for the last 35 million years and their disappearance remained a mystery…until Alten revealed their deep water habitat in the Mariana Trench. In MEG: Hell’s Aquarium, a Dubai Prince is building the world’s most unique aquarium-based park, and he means to stock it with the scariest sea monsters that ever evolved, recently discovered seven miles down, in an ancient sea located beneath the Philippine Sea Plate.
If you prefer more myth with your monster mayhem, you’ll love The LOCH (Tor Books), a page-turner about one man’s hunt for the “real” Loch Ness monster. Be forewarned, this is not the smiling plesiosaur of Disney’s lore, but a very real sea creature that has been trapped since the 1930s. And yes, she’s a bit agitated.
If you have a reluctant teen reader at home, you should know that both books are being used by thousands of high schools to encourage teens to read. MEG and The LOCH are also poised to be major summer blockbusters…just don’t think about getting near the ocean or lake anytime soon.
Alexandria, VA. – As most Americans are aware, our government has been asked many times about ending the federal prosecution of adults who smoke marijuana and the answer is always a resounding “no!” In the current state of our economy, it would seem prudent to at least consider, given the exorbitant savings and tax revenue that would be generated from regulating the sale and production of cannabis – somewhere around $14 billion.
DC political columnist John McCaslin’s timing was perfect for his latest book, Weed Man: The Remarkable Journey of Jimmy Divine (Thomas Nelson Publishing), to be released in May, that tells the colorful tale of a modern-day, swashbuckling, Caribbean Robin Hood. McCaslin divulges the extraordinary, almost unbelievable, exploits of Jimmy Divine – a law-abiding citizen who became one of the biggest drug traffickers to infiltrate this country; one who risked life and limb to make – and give away – a fortune!
What started out to be an ordinary day for Jimmy Moree as he goes on his usual jog – ends up changing his life forever. After Jimmy stumbles upon several million dollars, his life keeps taking twists and turns that seem more and more incredible as millions more appear to fall into his lap! With every million he makes, Jimmy’s stories become more bizarre than the last; everything from trying to poison a mean neighbor with a deadly barracuda to stealing the holy garments and identity of his Catholic school priest and storing his “booty” in the crawl space of the church during Easter services. The various sides of Jimmy’s personality wears many different hats: shown in his dealings with crooked cops and politicians; directing the neighborhood crime watch at the same time he is trafficking drugs; the extreme generosity showered on poor farmers and fisherman who helped his ailing mother – up to his unlikely inclusion on the guest list to witness the royal wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana!
With an estimated annual retail value of $113 billion, it would behoove our government to consider legalizing marijuana for many reasons, but two in particular – first, the enormous amount of tax revenue that would be pumped into our faltering economy and, secondly, to cripple the warring drug cartels and gangs who cross our borders daily. For additional information visit: www.johnmccaslin.com.
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Katie Couric, anchor and managing editor of CBS Evening News, says: “I’m delighted John McCaslin has climbed out of his political trench in Washington long enough to set sail on this astonishing journey ….. in typical McCaslin fashion, he manages to bring his readers back to the nation’s capital in a chapter that will certainly have official tongues wagging in Washington.”
Wolf Blitzer, anchor and host on CNN’s The Situation Room, says “This story is so compelling …McCaslin has put it all together in a way that simply made me want to just keep on reading. Wow!”
G. Gordon Liddy, Watergate figure and nationally-syndicated radio host: “For years everybody in Washington has turned to John McCaslin’s Inside the Beltway column for the inside skinny on what is going on in our nation’s capital. Now, in Weed Man…he brings his exceptional reportorial talent to bear in a fascinating expose of the drug trade.”
Michael Reagan, presidential son and nationally syndicated radio host: “McCaslin was a twenty something White House correspondent covering my dad, Ronald Reagan, when I first read his unique musings. Maybe I’m not surprised…..that he’s now somehow made his way to a distant tropical island and uncovered the colorful if not hilarious escapades of drug trafficker Jimmy Divine.”
Mark Bowden, author of Black Hawk Down, Guests of the Ayatollah, and Killing Pablo: “Proof positive that the extras in James Bond movies are far more interesting than the films, the story ….is so colorful it is hard to believe…or put down. Told in a breezy, witty style, McCaslin’s book captures moments in relatively recent Caribbean history when it was again possible to make a fortune by the ability to steer a boat stealthily through dangerous seas.”
