“How I wish someone had told me these things before I started a Yahoo store,” writes Cari Haus, entrepreneur and author of this timely, strategy-packed book.With massive layoffs continuing around the country, many are considering how to start a business of their own. With more than 35,000 stores usings its interface, Yahoo is the most popular e-commerce platform today. Author Cari Haus, while making a compelling case for why to choose the Yahoo platform, also details many mistakes that could only be learned in the “School of Hard Knocks.” Cari’s successful online log furniture store, Log Cabin Rustics, with its impressive sales growth, should be an inspiration to all netpreneurs. While weaving in stories of her own Yahoo store journey, Cari gives a no-holds-bar account of the things she has learned with regard to Yahoo store set-up, search engine marketing (SEO), tips, and things to watch out for.While not a complete step-by-step guide, this book is a good read that an (more…)

From Publishers Weekly

Drawing on elements from the paranormal world that bestseller Moning (Spell of the Highlander) created in her earlier romances, this suspense novel takes readers on a darker journey, one dominated by the search for a powerful Faery magic and bereft of the romantic magic Moning’s fans have come to expect. When MacKayla Lane, an ordinary young woman, travels to Ireland to track down her sister’s murderer, she is sucked into an extraordinary world filled with ancient secrets, vampires, assorted Fae nasties and other tough-to-kill beings. In the process, Mac learns of her own unusual talents and finds an unlikely mentor in the wealthy and mysterious Jericho Barrons. Moning’s newest foray contains suspense and plenty of setup. Indeed, this reads like a fragment of a larger story, an introduction to character and place that, while entertaining, skims the surface. But it’s a compelling world filled with mystery and vivid characters, and this, combined wi (more…)

Review

**** (out of 5) E. E. Sheldon, CA Watch out Stephen King and Dean Koontz! Your replacement has arrived. Keith Knapp’s first novel shows that sci-fi thrillers will continue to excel way past the days of King and Koontz. Knapp is the future of the genre and Moonlight is just the beginning. He is doing to books what M. Night Shaymalan did for scary movies. Moonlight keeps you hanging on, wondering what’s going to happen next with shock and suspense at every corner. Anyone who enjoys a thrilling roller coaster of a journey in his or her reading will enjoy this book. The character development is extremely well done and you find yourself really knowing and understanding exactly who each person is. Combine this with the way the story is written makes you really feel the different types of fear each individual character feels. Your feelings and fears change as the story moves from one person to the next. However it’s not just a good scare but a good, original (more…)

CODE Magazine – the Leading Independent Magazine for .NET Developers. This issue features articles on programming Web 2.0 in addition to general .NET articles.Table of Contents:*) Yes, We Can! 2009 Will Be Great!*) Successful Software Development*) SharePoint Applied: SharePoint 2007 with WCF and Silverlight*) Dances with Workflows (One Newbie’s Journey)*) Silverlight Enabled Live Search*) Building Domain Specific Languages in C#, Part 2*) Programming Twittering with Visual Basic*) Building Polished UIs with Expression Blend – Part 1*) Develop Provider-based Features for Your Applications*) The Zen of Inversion of Control*) Heard on .NET Rocks! Oslo Is Love with Chris Sells*) Ask the Doc Detective*) ThoughtWorking: Why The Next Five Years Will Be About LanguagesFor more information, visit www.codemag.com

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CODE Magazine – the Leading Independent Magazine for .NET Developers. This issue features various articles around Web 2.0 development, as well as other .NET articles.Table of Contents:*) Yes, We Can! 2009 Will Be Great!*) Successful Software Development*) SharePoint Applied: SharePoint 2007 with WCF and Silverlight*) Dances with Workflows (One Newbie’s Journey)*) Silverlight Enabled Live Search*) Building Domain Specific Languages in C#, Part 2*) Programming Twittering with Visual Basic*) Building Polished UIs with Expression Blend – Part 1*) Develop Provider-based Features for Your Applications*) The Zen of Inversion of Control*) Heard on .NET Rocks! Oslo Is Love with Chris Sells*) Ask the Doc Detective*) ThoughtWorking: Why The Next Five Years Will Be About LanguagesFor more information, visit www.codemag.com

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