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“I feel the weight of the hammer from the dusty workbench in my sweaty palm and hit the padlock. My heart thumps in my bony chest. I listen for the humming sound of my mother’s car backing into the driveway. I hit again. I listen. The lock pops open.”
At twelve years old, everything changed for Sheila with the discovery of her estranged father’s porn collection. Found locked away in a corner of the basement, the glossy images ignite in her an unrelenting desire for attention and adoration. Now, reflections on her past as a stripper permeate her thoughts as she takes on the new roles of mother, caregiver and wife. While helping her baby daughter take her first steps, she nurses her mother through the final stages of breast cancer.
This powerful and beautiful story is a moving meditation on a woman’s life through her body, motherhood and loss. Spiraling through memories and torn between the woman she is becoming and the woman she has been, Sheila Hageman is continually Stripping Down.
Stripping Down: A Memoir Kindle Edition
Beautiful Something Else is a contemporary romance with smarts and humor.
Lizbeth, an outwardly-confident but overly self-conscious thirty-year-old, is spurred on by her New Age friend, Janet, to trust the Universe and ask for what she wants in life—to land a starring role, lose five pounds and find herself naked with a man. The stars seem to be aligning for her, but not exactly in the way she meant.
A chance encounter with a film director at Grand Central Station may be her lucky break, but the New York City actress is blindsided when she is fired from her bill-paying waitress job, and she must decide where her true values lie. Should she take a position as a “pretend secretary” for a handsome, but holier-than-though chiropractor and healer with questionable morals to pay her rent?
While Chip Duncan woos a potential investor for his new healing center, he fights his romantic urges for Lizbeth. She finds herself falling in love with Chip’s caring, healing heart, but she’s equally frustrated by his greed and dishonesty.
Can Lizbeth resolve her body image issues and find a clear path to satisfaction in career and relationship? And will Chip realize in time that Lizbeth is the woman for him before he blows off her love?
Beautiful Something Else Kindle Edition
In these uncertain economic times, one of the job possibilities young women may be curious about is stripping, even though they may never have imagined themselves taking their clothes off for cash before. THE POLE POSITION: Is Stripping for You? (And How to Stay Healthy Doing It) answers all those technical, emotional, financial, and moral questions to reveal the truth behind the fiction.
• Are high-end Gentlemen’s Clubs in the city as glamorous as you’ve heard?
• Will your local dive-club be dangerous and demeaning?
• Will you be expected to perform “extras” for the managers?
• Is leaving the stripping world as difficult as some say?
THE POLE POSITION does not try to convince women not to enter the adult entertainment business—it simply answers the questions most necessary to think about before deciding if stripping will be a healthy lifestyle choice.
• Why do you think you want to become a stripper?
• How do you think being a stripper might affect your future?
• Do you think you possess the right skills for the job?
• Are you prepared for the difficulties involved?
• Have you considered the people in your life?
• How do you really feel about stripping?
• What are your long-term goals in life?
THE POLE POSITION: Is Stripping for You? (And How to Stay Healthy Doing It) is a Decision-Making Guide and Self-Discovery Journal that will help women to further value their own identities through their quest to understand their motivations for stripping. For women interested in developing their own life narratives, they will explore how writing their lives and discovering their selves is all part of an ongoing process. The dots are connected between the bonds of body, beauty, and self with which all modern women struggle, so that readers may be able to look to themselves for answers to questions of identity.
Each of the 9 chapters is followed by ten questions for review with space to journal answers, which will help women explore their motivations, strengths, and possible weaknesses for survival in the business.
The Pole Position: Is Stripping for You? (And How to Stay Healthy Doing It) Kindle Edition
The Pole Position: Is Stripping for You? (And How to Stay Healthy Doing It) Paperback
A sensual "quickie" about rekindling love - Designed to get you in the mood. (Approx. 6500 words.) Perfect for mobile eReaders - have access to a quickie whenever you need a fix.
Marcy is a mommy who has been having a hard time finding her libido. Her life is filled with diapers and lunchboxes. Her husband Steve feels unloved and undesired as Marcy struggles to get her body and her bawdy back.
Through reconnecting to her yoga practice and allowing herself time and space to start writing again—will Marcy be able to rekindle her flame before her marriage falls apart?
How Mommy Got Her Bawdy Back is the first short in the Bawdy Mommy Series.
Adult Reading Material (18+) This book is for mature audiences only and contains sexually explicit content.
* If you enjoy this contemporary romantic story check out the series, Bawdy Mommy. The short stories are stand-alone scenarios made to excite and titillate, but all are interconnected.
How Mommy Got Her Bawdy Back (Bawdy Mommy Book 1) Kindle Edition
A heroine that moms can relate to—an erotic romance set in reality.
A sensual "quickie" about rekindling love and lust - Designed to get you in the mood. (Approx. 8,000 words) Have access to a quickie whenever you need a fix.
Marcy is a mommy who has been having a hard time finding her libido. Her life is filled with diapers and lunchboxes. Her husband Steve feels unloved and undesired as Marcy struggles to get her body and her bawdy back.
Join Marcy as she searches to rekindle her sexual feelings through self-exploration, pole dancing and talking bawdy. What Marcy discovers about herself and her sexuality will be revealed…
Bawdy Language is the second short in the Bawdy Mommy Series.
Adult Reading Material (18+) This book is for mature audiences only and contains sexually explicit content.
* If you enjoy this contemporary romantic story check out the series, Bawdy Mommy. The short stories are stand-alone scenarios made to excite and titillate, but all are interconnected.
Bawdy Language (Bawdy Mommy Book 2) Kindle Edition
A remarkable book that reveals everything you really need to know about parenting.
Dr. Cindy Seltzer reveals the most comprehensive understanding of what it means to be the perfect parent.
Parenting Secrets: Everything You Will Ever Need to Know to Be the Perfect Parent has a one-page introduction that explains the most important, and in the end, the only things one will ever need to be the Perfect Parent is one’s own ideas and thoughts.
The rest of the book is blank inside.
This book encourages readers to fill the book with their own parenting experiences to save their wisdom as testimony to their role as “perfect” parent.
The front and back cover are realistic representations of a self-help pseudo-psychology parenting book.
This book makes the perfect gag gift for a baby shower and can begin conversations about how one can never really be prepared for parenthood, or ever read enough books on parenting…
Parenting Secrets: Everything You Will Ever Need to Know to Be the Perfect Parent Paperback