Atlanta, GA – Jackie Carpenter never dreamed she would be an author, let alone have a movie made about anything in her life. She had always thought of herself as a typical wife, mother and businesswoman with a fairly idyllic life. That all changed in 2008 during one of those dreaded ‘middle-of-the-night’ phone calls that came from her daughter-in-law. Jackie had no way of knowing how that phone call would plunge her into the hellish journey ahead and a battle to bring her family through every parent’s worst nightmare.
A Cry for Justice (Triple Horse Studios) is the award-winning movie, based on Jackie’s two books, that tells the true story of what her family endured after her son was arrested for murder.
Jackie’s son had been plagued by copper thefts at his work site and, on the advice of a local policeman, had armed himself and hid on the property to catch the thieves. They showed up that night as they had many other nights and while her son held them at gunpoint, waiting for the police to arrive, the gun accidentally discharged killing one of the thieves. Jackie’s son was arrested and jailed for felony murder.
With a prosecutor who was hell-bent on getting a life sentence for her son, Jackie had never had her strength so challenged or her faith so tested as it would be in the months ahead. All she knew was that her world was spinning out of control and she didn’t know how she was going to get her family through this ordeal.
Inspired by her two books, The Bridge: Between Cell Block A and a Miracle is Psalm 91 and Georgia Justice: A Journey to Faith that tell her passionate story, the movie covers the months leading up to the trial and the white-knuckle suspense as the courtroom drama unfolds, showing how Jackie found the strength and faith needed to hold her family together up to the spine-chilling day the jury reached their verdict!
While Jackie was recently nominated to the category of “People to Watch 2013” at the first-ever Annual Georgia Entertainment Gala, the movie has already won several awards, including one for best screenplay. Filled with suspense, and with great stars playing the key roles, it’s no wonder it has become such an instant hit. Jackie is played by award-winning actress Francine Locke (of True Tale Monsters fame), and Jason is played by Drew Matthews who recently played in Vampire Diaries. Darrel Ervin plays the role of Jackie’s supportive husband.
Please watch the exciting movie trailer of this true story of tragedy, trust and triumph that will touch the hearts of parents everywhere at: acryforjusticemovie.com.
Jackie Carpenter has been a featured guest on television, radio, and in newspaper articles. For more information on this author and her remarkable story of faith, hope and love, visit her website at: www.bridgetoamiracle.com .
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Trish Stevens
Jillian M. Sachtleben Ascot Media Group, Inc. Office: (281) 333-3507 [email protected] www.ascotmediagroup.com
Albany, NY – Dr. Patricia O’Gorman’s latest book, The Resilient Woman: Mastering the 7 Steps to Personal Power (HCI Books), is a vital guidebook for today’s women. Women seem wired to have to make others happy and if they don’t live up to these self-imposed expectations, they blame themselves for the hardships that befall them.
Competing voices vie for women’s attention: societal messages that tell them they aren’t smart enough, pretty enough, good enough—self-sabotaging girly thoughts that tell them who they are and how they should act—and the voice of their inner strength, which helps them forge their own best solutions for their best courses of action.
In The Resilient Woman: Mastering the 7 Steps to Personal Power, Dr. O’Gorman offers a thoughtful analysis of the causes of girly thoughts as well as in-depth self-evaluation assessments any woman can use to identify her personal strengths, weaknesses, and resilience style. She created seven daily steps that offer concrete strategies for women to create and strengthen their own resilience. The book is a ‘must-read’ tool for self-growth for women of any age.
In The Resilient Woman, readers discover:
• resilience patterns established in childhood • how girly thoughts become so powerful and how to neutralize them • relationship issues that are specific to women • how to overcome physical/ psychological/emotional trauma • how to self-motivate by losing the victim mentality • methods for tuning in to the inner self and consciously align with personal strengths to expand their personal power • what resiliency is and is not and how to achieve it • personal resilience patterns
“Women often miss the path toward achieving their true potential because they have been conditioned to blame themselves for something someone else has done to them,” says Dr. O’Gorman. “But with the right tools to break the cycle, they will learn to consciously harness and nurture their strengths and find the personal assets we often take for granted, realizing that a resilient life is generated not from the things that happened to us, but from our reaction to them.”
Patricia O’Gorman, PhD is an internationally recognized psychologist, coach, and public speaker for her work on women, trauma, and substance abuse. She was one of the first researchers in children of alcoholics in the early 1970s, documenting the impact of alcoholism and sobriety on adolescent development, and went on to create the Department of Prevention and Education for the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence (NCADD). She is also a cofounder of the National Association for Children of Alcoholics and has run a rape-crisis center.
Dr. O’Gorman is a veteran of numerous television appearances, including Good Morning America, Today, and AM Sunday, and is the author of numerous articles in magazines including Addiction Today, Teen Vogue, Counselor, and Recovery. Dr. O’Gorman maintains private practice offices in Saranac Lake and Albany, New York. For information, please visit: www.patriciaogorman.com .
Available at fine bookstores, online outlets and author’s website The Resilient Woman: Mastering the 7 Steps to Personal Power by Patricia O’Gorman, PhD. Publisher: HCI Books ISBN-10: 075731709X ISBN-13: 978-0757317095
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Trish Stevens
Jillian M. Sachtleben Ascot Media Group, Inc. Office: (281) 333-3507 [email protected] www.ascotmediagroup.com
2013 To Be Even Bigger With The Release Of The Most Anticipated Novel Of The Year, Entwined With You
New York, NY – #1 New York Times bestselling author Sylvia Day’s Crossfire series, which includes number one international bestsellers Bared to You and Reflected in You, has sold over six million books in its first eight months of publication. After the overnight success of Bared to You, the Crossfire series firmly established itself as one of the most popular series in the nation when its second book, Reflected in You, easily took the #1 spot on The New York Times bestseller list with 389,000 trade paperbacks and ebooks sold in its first week of sales. The overwhelming success of both Bared to You and Reflected in You sets the table for Sylvia Day’s Crossfire series to explode in 2013 with the next installment in the series, Entwined with You (June 4, 2013).
The first book in the Crossfire series, Bared to You, helped bring acceptance that some fiction can’t be pigeonholed. Reflected in You sealed the deal. The Crossfire series has defied genre and become a massive commercial success almost overnight. “I hear from readers of all ages and walks of life… I am beyond thrilled that the Crossfire series has touched so many,” said Day. Now at the forefront of public interest following ten years as a full-time, bestselling writer, Sylvia Day is one of the most high-profile names in commercial fiction. Since Bared to You’s explosive start last summer, followed by Reflected in You’s even bigger splash, the Crossfire series has been featured in USA Today, People, The Evening Standard, Time, Variety and more recently, Entertainment Weekly, Associated Press, and The Wall Street Journal.
Bared to You, Day’s sixteenth novel, was an immediate hit as her first self-published, single title release, selling 100,000 eBooks before being quickly acquired by Berkley Books. Bared to You debuted at #4 on the New York Times trade paperback fiction bestseller list and is a Top 5 Bestseller in 18 countries, including the US, UK, Germany, Canada, Australia, Ireland, and Brazil. Most recently, Bared to You was named one of Amazon’s Top 10 Romances of 2012 and was Amazon’s #7 bestselling book of 2012. Furthermore, Bared to You was the #5 bestselling book of 2012 on iTunes and appeared in the Top 10 list of Print Book Sales of 2012 in Adult Fiction in the Nielsen Tops of 2012, ending the year on the same note of success that has followed the Crossfire series since its inception.
The second novel in the Crossfire series, Reflected in You, debuted as the #1 bestselling book on The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Publishers Weekly, and Canadian Booksellers Association lists. Across the Atlantic, Day’s newest stormed to #1 with over 80,000 copies sold in week one in the UK— Penguin UK’s fastest selling paperback ever. Reflected in You has sold over 1.5 million copies alone in the US and is a #1 bestseller in 3 countries—the UK, Ireland, and the US. Reflected in You was Amazon’s #8 bestselling book of 2012 and was the #8 bestselling book of 2012 on iTunes. As the first book ever to knock Fifty Shades of Grey out of the top slot on the New York Times bestseller list, Reflected in You continues to gain attention and recognition.
As insatiable fans eagerly await Entwined with You this June 4th, the staunch sales of Bared to You and Reflected in You continue to demonstrate that new readers are getting caught in the Crossfire series each week, setting the table for Entwined with You to be Day’s biggest to date. “As a young couple navigating the first serious love affair either of them has ever had, Gideon and Eva are learning from their mistakes and making new ones, while being tested by challenges both external and internal. These two passionate and tempestuous lovers have dark pasts to overcome, but their all-consuming and deeply physical love for each other is worth fighting for and they know it,” said Day about what fans can expect with Entwined with You. After selling in a record-breaking 39 countries and counting, the Crossfire series remains one of the biggest commercial fiction series in the world, and promises only bigger things to come.
Sylvia Day is the #1 New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of over a dozen novels. She is a #1 bestselling author in six different countries. A wife and mother of two, she is a former Russian linguist for the U.S. Army Military Intelligence. Visit her website at: www.sylviaday.com .
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Trish Stevens
Jillian M. Sachtleben Ascot Media Group, Inc. Office: (281) 333-3507 [email protected] www.ascotmediagroup.com
Lake Lure, NC – Sales training and coaching strategies that focus primarily on behaviors aren’t adequately preparing sales professionals to connect, persuade and win in today’s tough environment. The reason, according to Herrmann International research, is that selling approaches and buying decisions are rooted in thinking, not behaviors. By embedding thinking into development strategies, companies will be able to improve sales training results and generate higher revenue, account penetration and client loyalty levels.
“Our more than 30 years of research on the brain and business performance has shown that thinking styles impact how we process information, how we buy and sell, what we pay most attention to, and how we make decisions,” says Ann Herrmann-Nehdi, CEO of Herrmann International. “Behavioral approaches can help the salesperson manage a sales conversation in an efficient way, but they don’t reflect the mental processes that actually drive sales activities or purchasing decisions, so they don’t provide the complete set of tools to be persuasive, effective and responsive. Particularly in today’s demanding world, many external factors are impacting behavior; thinking is what’s constant.”
Herrmann-Nehdi says the company advises clients to look at the entire sales process for opportunities to maximize efforts through a framework of thinking, including:
• Mapping the mental demands of the sales job to find alignment and uncover gaps • Using thinking preference data to maximize time spent in training • Optimizing coaching strategies by taking into account the thinking styles of the manager/coach and the salesperson • Providing training and tools to uncover customer thinking preferences and communicate, present and sell with the customer in mind
“The best part is this doesn’t require throwing out everything you’re already doing or slowing down the process,” Orin Salas, VP of Sales at Herrmann International, adds. “It actually helps salespeople get prepared, proficient and closing larger, more profitable deals on a faster pace. In fact, one client reduced training time from 24 months to 7 using this approach. It also allows the salesperson to focus their attention in the most high-value way, which is especially important in today’s noisy, pressure-filled environment.”
Herrmann International has compiled best practices, research and tips for using a thinking-based framework to improve sales performance in the free white paper, Wired for Sales: Supercharge Sales Professionals’ Performance in a Demanding World. The paper explores the reasons traditional behavior-based sales training comes up short, the role thinking preferences play in buying decisions and selling approaches, tips for assessing and applying thinking to sales development strategies, and techniques to quickly build the proficiency and performance sales professionals. Additional tools will be available at the Herrmann International booth at the Sales 2.0 Conference, April 9-10 in San Francisco.
The originator of the Whole Brain® system and the Herrmann Brain Dominance Instrument® (HBDI®) thinking styles assessment, Herrmann International works with organizations around the world to help them put their full brainpower to work to outthink, outpace and outperform the competition. The company’s Whole Brain® Thinking framework, which includes a variety of learning solutions, facilitation resources, job aids and business tools, has helped nine out of 10 of the Fortune 100 harness their collective intelligence to sell more, spend less, innovate faster, and develop and retain the best talent.
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Trish Stevens
Jillian M. Sachtleben Ascot Media Group, Inc. Office: (281) 333-3507 [email protected] www.ascotmediagroup.com
Houston, TX –
Peter Sacco, noted psychologist and author, has spent most of his adult
life delving into what makes people tick, trying to find out why it’s so
difficult to kick bad habits. Whether it’s addictions, anger, or
constantly choosing the wrong partners – we need to know why before we
can learn how to change the outcome. Proving a tremendous success in
this area is his latest book Right Now Enough Is Enough! – Overcoming
Addictions And Bad Habits For Good (Book Locker Publishing) that takes a
practical approach to mental health and is a simple, personal,
self-help manual to making the right decisions for a different outcome.
By
digging deep into the addictive mind, Peter was able to come up with
answers that enabled him to provide life-changing tools for breaking bad
habits or addictions that can be used alone or as a supplement to
proven support groups such as AA and NA. Sacco’s powerful book
encourages readers to look within to get to the root of their problems
and gain a clearer understanding of changes they need to make for the
best end result in every area of life.
“I have been compiling
information, insights and ideas from recovering alcoholics, substance
abusers, addicts, mental health sufferers and world-leading
practitioners in addictions and mental health,” Sacco says. “Only then
did I develop the principles of Right Now Enough Is Enough. When
applied, they have an overwhelming success rate!”
Sacco also
released What’s Your Anger Type? − a book that explores the twelve
different types of anger and provides answers to why so many people are
addicted to anger. It is an interactive, informative book that deals
with anger management problems in a whole new light. Readers will be
able to identify their anger types, their triggers, and the best way to
handle all situations.
On the heels of these successes, Touched
by Grace is a novel by Sacco that is rapidly being embraced by readers.
Being in love is tough enough, but falling in love with someone battling
an addiction adds a dimension that brings a whole different set of
problems to a relationship. Sacco’s new love story, being compared to
Fifty Shades of Grey, appeals to everyone but especially those who have
experienced similar relationships, with a storyline that really hits the
mark in this compelling novel.
Peter is the author of many
popular international books, more than 700 magazine articles, and is the
former Editor-in-Chief of Vices: The Magazine for Addictions, Habits
and Well-Being. He has received the Award of Excellence in Teaching and
lectures at universities in both the USA and Canada. He currently hosts a
weekly radio show, “Mental Health Matters” which discusses mental
health, relationship and addiction issues and features celebrities. To
learn more on Peter Sacco or his work, please visit: www.petersacco.com .
Available online at Barnes & Noble, Amazon and Book Locker:
Right Now Enough Is Enough Book Locker Publishing ISBN-10: 162141891X ISBN-13: 978-1621418917
What’s Your Anger Type? ISBN-10: 1591139082 ISBN-13: 978-1591139089
Touched by Grace Amazon Digital Services, Inc. ASIN: B008OWLV86
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Trish Stevens
Jillian M. Sachtleben Ascot Media Group, Inc. Office: (281) 333-3507 [email protected] www.ascotmediagroup.com
Atlanta,
Georgia – Wry, poignant, witty and right on target, Southern Vapors by
Lynn Garson (CreateSpace) pulls no punches when it comes to growing up
in the privileged South. There are glimpses of her early life as an
heiress-in-waiting, the big white house like Tara, travels on a grand
scale and glamour at home. But an essential familial warmth was
missing. So we get an insider’s view of the price tag of privilege: the
constant requirement to maintain the right image at all costs and the
misery that came with it.
After a lifetime of struggle, Lynn
found her lowest points as a patient in not one but three different
mental hospitals. Her reflections on that time make it clear that in the
face of it all, Lynn maintained her dry sense of humor: “I used to
think I was unbearably unique,” she says. “Later I came to understand
that I was the quintessential Baby Boomer….by the time I thought it,
felt it, ate it, smoked it, drank it or wrote about it, most of my
generation had either already done the same or were right there with
me.” In Southern Vapors, you’ll enjoy the journey, whether you’re
laughing out loud or reduced to tears. “For my part, knowing I’m not
alone is very cheering,” she concludes. “So I have gladly traded in my
perceived uniqueness for a seat in the row next to the rest of you.”
Lynn
Garson graduated from Tulane University and has lived around the world.
She has three children and currently lives in Atlanta. A popular
motivational speaker, she has something memorable to contribute on
topics including depression, eating disorders and/or addiction, family
issues, and more. Southern Vapors is her first book and is currently
being adapted for the stage. For more information on this remarkable new
talent, please visit: www.southernvapors.com.
Sold at bookstores and online outlets Southern Vapors by Lynn Garson Publisher: CreateSpace ISBN-10: 1475008481 ISBN-13: 978-1475008487
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Trish Stevens
Jillian M. Sachtleben Ascot Media Group, Inc. Office: (281) 333-3507 [email protected] www.ascotmediagroup.com
Ellaville, GA –
Jackie Carpenter always considered herself an ordinary person – a mom,
wife, businessperson. She never dreamed her life would become an
award-winning feature film, A Cry for Justice (Triple Horse Studios).
But when her life took a dramatic turn, she began to discover just how
much adversity she could withstand. It all began with the insistent
shrilling tone of a late-night phone call. Her son had been arrested and
faced charges of murder. A capital crime in Georgia, it can carry the
ultimate penalty: death by lethal injection.
He had been plagued by thefts on a home construction
site. The security service he hired could not start immediately; on
the advice of a police officer, her son set out with a gun to watch for
the culprits one night. The would-be thieves showed up, and the gun
fired unexpectedly. One of the thieves was fatally shot, and Jackie
Carpenter’s son was arrested and jailed.
It seemed such an
obvious miscarriage of justice: her son was only protecting his
property, the gun discharged by accident. The defense relied on a
now-controversial law, often known as the ‘stand your ground law.’ They
maintained that their client had every right to defend his property. The
prosecutor argued with equal passion that he was a cold-blooded
murderer.
The movie and the books it is based on are a
white-knuckled, fast-paced chronicle of a woman’s struggle to keep her
family whole. A Cry for Justice is based on Jackie Carpenter’s two
books: The Bridge: Between Cell Block A and a Miracle is Psalm 91 and
Georgia Justice: A Journey to Faith. Watch the movie trailer at: acryforjusticemovie.com.
The
movie has won several awards, including one for best screenplay. Just
last month, Jackie Carpenter was nominated to the category of “People to
Watch 2013” at the first-ever Annual Georgia Entertainment Gala.
Jackie
Carpenter has been a featured guest on television, radio, and in
newspaper articles. For more information on this author and her
remarkable story of faith, hope and love, visit her website at: www.bridgetoamiracle.com .
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Jillian M. Sachtleben Ascot Media Group, Inc. Office: (281) 333-3507 [email protected] www.ascotmediagroup.com
