Local Authors Book Signing

14 East Patrick Street,Frederick MD 21701

01 December, 2022

Description

You’re invited to Frederick's Downtown Book Event! Meet the 6 local authors who are featured in Frederick Lifestyle Magazine’s December issue. This is your chance to get autographed books for the readers on your holiday list…or for yourself! The first 50 people will enjoy delicious hors d’oeuvres provided by Delizia Cafe. Additional food choices will be available for those who arrive later and a cash bar will be available to all! Stop by to say hello, grab a bite, a great book or two, and talk with these amazing, local authors! _____________________________________________________ At Work As In Heaven by Scott Ryser - shares the author's decades-long adventure to make Sunday matter on Tuesday. Practical, story-driven business wisdom guiding those seeking to authentically live out their faith at work. Scott Ryser is the Founder & CEO of Yakabod, a secure case management software company headquartered in beautiful, historic downtown Frederick, Maryland. Scott also serves on a number of regional non-profit and for-profit boards. In his younger days, Scott was the producer and lead singer for the modern Christian rock bands Cry of Mercy and Milenine. These days he finds respite in active adventure sports and traveling with his family. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Coach Approach by Mark Stephens - provides leaders, managers, coaches and parents with the powerful themes of possibilities, head and heart posture, the process of coaching and pivoting to coaching in order to enable others to self-discover what they need to do next. Mark loves to develop leaders through coaching, training, and speaking. He became a best selling author with his book "The Coach Approach: A better way to lead in business and beyond." He has spoken to and trained leaders in over 20 countries. After coaching sports for 35 years, he became a leadership coach. He is an International Coaching Federation (ICF) certified ACC Coach and working towards his PCC level of Coaching. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- In Lessons From the Edge of Business Disaster, author and CEO Vaughn Thurman - transparently walks you through his entrepreneurial crisis of a crumbling business showing you how he survived and executed a turnaround—professionally, personally and financially. CEO Vaughn Thurman has been there. His fast-growing technology company was crumbling before his eyes. It took standing on the cliff for him to admit how his own mistakes led to this disaster. In a transparent and inimitable style, he walks you through his business crisis and shows how he survived and executed a turnaround- professionally, personally, and financially. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Lost and Found: Discovering Strength in Love and Faith by Carol deLaski - a firsthand and engaging story of getting off-track and adrift as a result of life’s problems, Carol shares the sources of inner strength and hope that she discovered to overcome adversities. Entertaining, and even romantic at times, each chapter closes with reflective coaching questions to inspire the reader’s insights about their own resilience. Carol deLaski (PCC) is an executive coach, author, and speaker who works in the public and private sectors. She is a gifted facilitator experienced in delivering interactive team building programs. As a certified Gallup Strengths Coach, Carol has significant expertise in strengths development of individuals and teams. She has provided her strengths-based leadership development programs to businesses in the health and financial fields, non-profits, churches, and government agencies for over 14 years. She leads workshops, retreats, and programs based on Lost and Found. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- In Now What Do I Do & Here We Go Again, author Karen Justice - takes both an instructional and a biographical approach to managing and surviving change. They include decision making tools, thought-provoking questions and including her copyrighted process, “SWOT Analysis for Change”. Karen Colburn Justice is a writer, change master, rambling thinker, innovative observer, traveler, and chocolate lover. Throughout her life, Justice has been described as energetic and enthusiastic. She has a zest for life, even though it has its tough moments. She’s learned to flow with change and find a way to thrive on the other side. A lover of diversity from restaurant menus to people, she’s an explorer of the world and ideas. She loves watching people doing something they love. Whether her subject is a blacksmith, weaver, musician, boxer, or teacher, she enjoys photographing their hands at work. She has two other strange collections of photographs: the cups of hot chocolate she’s had in different places of the world and the doors of Funchal. Justice loves exploring and enabling discovery. Her life has not been all fun and exploration, however. Justice learned early that things change. Her father’s career created frequent transfers in her childhood, then she became an Army wife. Twenty-nine relocations and twenty different occupations created lots of changes. She learned to adapt and absorb the culture of the different regional and international places she lived and worked. Many of her jobs included teaching, facilitating and mentoring which inspired her to share her lessons through her writing. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Selling Your Confidence: Forging a Successful Sales Career from Mint Cookies to Martinis by Jean Wright - chronicles her selling success beginning with Girl Scout cookies. A journey filled with stories showing confidence while overcoming obstacles and challenges including juggling family demands, a health crisis and achieving sales quotas which build authentic skills for success. (Book release in early 2023.)