Lorii Myers's Blog, page 6

Put some action on your good intentions.

Put some action on your good intentions.

3 Off the Tee:  No Excuses

The Fit Mind - Fit Body

Strategy Book by Lorii Myers

Copyright 2013

Beverly Hills Book Awards - Finalist in Two Categories

2013 Beverly Hills Book Awards Winners & Finalists

2013 BHBA-Winners-and-Finalists









3 Off the Tee:  Make it Happen, A Healthy, Competitive Approach to Achieving Personal Success by Lorii Myers, Finalist in the Business Motivational and Self-Help Motivational Categories.







FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact: Lorii Myers, Lorii@3-Off-the-Tee.com

Local Author receives national recognition through the 1st Annual National Beverly Hills Book Awards!

Canada -- The First Annual Beverly Hills Book Awards recognized 3 Off the Tee:  Make it Happen by Lorii Myers in the category of Categories Business Motivational and Self-Help Motivational as a finalist.

This national award, based in Los Angeles, CA is open to all English language books in print.

The competition is judged by experts from all aspects of the book industry, including publishers, writers, editors, book cover designers and professional copywriters. They select award winners and finalists based on overall excellence.

3 Off the Tee:  Make it Happen is a business/self-help non-fiction book.




 Synopsis:






Make it Happen by Lorii Myers follows her first book, Targeting Success, in her3 Off the Tee series.  Being a golf fanatic, the analogies she uses make her books fun and sports-oriented, and in her latest guide, which promotes a healthy, competitive approach to achieving personal success, she tells you to visualize every shot and how you will play to win.




What does success in life mean to you?




How will you ultimately reach your goals?




Is fear, procrastination, or negativity in self-talk

and thought processes holding you back?




Then Myers will take you to the driving range to encourage you to practice and work hard to develop your skills while making sure you are aligned correctly to hit your target. Teaching you how to cultivate a well-honed and resilient mindset, she will then show you how to devise a flexible, measurable, well-thought-out action plan that uses solid, action-oriented strategies to track your improvements.









“We are so proud to announce the winners from our inaugural year,” said awards sponsor Ellen Reid. “These books will be a favorite on bookshelves for years and years to come.”



For more information please visit:bhbookawards.com

###

If you are going to become limitless, you must summon the explorer within you.

If you are going to become limitless, you must
summon the explorer within you.





 

3 Off the Tee:  NO EXCUSES




THE FIT
MIND – FIT BODY
STRATEGY BOOK




by
Lorii Myers

The human mind and body are truly extraordinary...

The human mind and body are truly extraordinary.



            They
are the quintessence of excellence in motion.



            We
talk, touch, see, hear, taste, smell, and feel.



            We
dream, aspire, and become.



            All
that we are is mind and body and spirit—that is our universe.



 







3 Off the Tee:  NO EXCUSES





THE FIT
MIND – FIT BODY
STRATEGY BOOK





by
Lorii Myers

Reader Views Literary Awards 2012

3 Off the Tee:  Make it Happen wins second place in the Body/Mind/Spirit category.


Reader Views Literary Awards Winners - 2012

(Each category has a First, Second and Honorable Mention placement. More than one mention in the category means there is a tie. If there are less than three in a category it means the remaining entries' scores were below the cut-off point. Our judges are strict!)


 
Book, PublisherAuthor

Children – Toddler to 5 and Early Reader


First

A Moment in Time, The Perfect Moment

Jennifer Butenos


Second

Santa’s Sugar, Inkwell Productions

Jane Gerencher


Honorable Mention

Gimme-Jimmy, Strategic Book Group

Sherrill S. Cannon


Children – Young Reader (8 to 12)


First

Return to Finkleton, CreateSpace

KC Hilton


Second

Wild Beau and Her Kittens #3, CreateSpace

Peggy Krause


Honorable Mention

Tales of Deserts and Demons, Faiz Kermani/Lulu

Faiz Kermani


Teen (12-16) and Young Adult (15 to 18)


First

Girl Unmoored, Fiction Std

Jennifer Gooch Hummer


Second

Fangs and Stilettos, inGroup Press

Anthony DiFiore


Honorable Mention

Sound of Silence: A Choice that Matters, Outskirts Press

Chris Williams


Body/Mind/Spirit


First

Sacred Transitions, Outskirts Press

Julie M. Milne, PhD


Second

3 Off the Tee: Make It Happen, Leda Publishing Corporation

Lorii Myers


Honorable Mention

Never Change What Is Natural, Xlibris

Prague Raja


Business/Sales/Economics


First

Getting Hired, iUniverse

Frances R. Schmidt


Second

Do Not Invent Buggy Whips, Digital Systems Press

Kenneth J. Thurber, Ph.D.


Honorable Mention

Corporate Recruiter Tells All, CreateSpace

Ryan Fisher

Fantasy

First

The Keya Quests: The Staff of Dionysia,Outskirts Press

Glenn Skinner


Second

Lilith: Demon of the Night, TJC Press

Theodore Jerome Cohen


Honorable Mention

Firestar: Krisalys Chronicles of Feyree: Scroll 3, Shalako Press

Claudia Newcorn


Gay/Lesbian


First

Promised Valley Conspiracy, Asymmetric Worlds

Ron Fritsch


Second

Creed, Regal Crest Enterprises

Michael Chavez


General Fiction


First

Hattie: A Novel, Small Batch Books

Anna Bozena Bowen


Second

Efraim’s Eye, Strategic Book Publishing

William Peace


Honorable Mention

Unrequited, Lincolnshire Press

Brendan Shannon


Health/Fitness


First

The Take-Charge Patient, Lemon Grove Press

Martine Ehrenclou, M.A.


Second

Prescriptions from Paradise, Healing Spirit Press

Carlos M. Viana, OMD (China), CNN


Historical Fiction 


First

The American War, two peas publishing

Don Meyer



Second

7 Sanctuaries, Novel Voices Press

Ben A. Sharpton


Honorable Mention

The Sharpshooter 1862-1864, All Things That Matter Press

Charles Phillips


History/Science


First

Zero Chance of Passage, Beaver’s Pond Press

Ember Reichgott Junge


Second

Border Crossings: Coming of Age in the Czech Resistance, 1021 Press

Novacek, Charles


Honorable Mention

Jump-Starting Real Job Creation in America, Outskirts Press

Gary R. Patterson


Humor


First

Being Anti-Social, Vivante Publishing

Leigh K. Cunningham


Second

The Bitchographies, Inkwater Press

Vivienne Vuitton


Honorable Mention

Unspent Time, Outskirts Press

Graham Parke


Memoir/Autobiography/Biography


First

Surviving Mental Illness: My Story, Outskirts Press

Linda Naomi Katz


Second

 Sihpromatum: I Grew My Boobs in China,Sihpromatum Publishing House

Savannah Grace


Honorable Mention

The Sighing of Rose-Breasted Cockatoos, Inkwater Press




Robert Ensign


Mystery/Thriller/Suspense/Horror


First

Bone Shadows, Conquill Press

Christopher Valen


Second

The Farm, Outskirts Press

Charles C. Anderson


Honorable Mention

Q: Awakening, Variance Publishing

G.M. Lawrence


Parenting/Family/Relationships


First

Rewire Your Brain for Love, Hay House

Marsha Lucas, PhD


Second

The Approximate Parent, Fine Optics Press

Michael Y. Simon


Poetry


First

Take This Journey With Me, Two Harbors Press

John Turner


Second

Along the Chisholm Trail and Other Poems, Outskirts Press

George Rhoades


Honorable Mention

Death of a Man, Outskirts Press

Marilyn Carr


Religion (Eastern/Western)


First

God Light: Sunlight Sonlight, Infinity Publishing

Robert Lloyd Russell


Second

The Science of the Quran, Lido Horizons Publishing

Ahmad Hassan


Honorable Mention

Family Likeness, Outskirts Press

Wilson Awasu


Romance Novel


First

Horses and Heroin, Westerhall Books

Bev Pettersen


Second

Surfing in Stilettos, FeedARead Publishing

Carol E. Wyer


Honorable Mention

A Forever Man: A Novel, BCH Fulfillment & Distribution

Mary Flinn


Science Fiction


First

Perfection Unleashed, CreateSpace

Jade Kerrion


Second

Redwine Hill, CreateSpace

L.L. Stolmeier


Self-Help


First

Defining Moments, Cove Press

Dorothea S. McArthur, PhD, ABPP


Second

Rewire Your Brain for Love, Hay House

Marsha Lucas, PhD


Honorable Mention

The 5 Feminine Power Virtues, Empowered Life Productions

Vanessa Halloum


Societal Issues (Politics/Society/Etc)


First

Lies Told Under Oath, iUniverse

Beth Lane


Second

Chessman and His Nine Lives on Death Row, Outskirts Press

Terrence W. Cooney




Honorable Mention

Forever Exposed: The Nikki Catsouras Story, Dog Ear Publishing



Lesli Catsouras


Spirituality/Inspiration


First

The Butterfly Ball: A Metamorphic Story, shortsleeves

H. T. Manogue


Second

Life Chapters, Dream Treader Press

Galen Stoller


Honorable Mention

The Dawn of Awakening, G&H Press

Gio & Heather 


E-Book


First

Lilith: Demon of the Night, TJC Press

Theodore Jerome Cohen






Regional
Book, PublisherAuthor

Canada-East


Winner

Thoroughbreds and Trailer Trash, Westerhall

Bev Pettersen


Great Lakes


Winner

Side-Yard Superhero, Five Star Publications

Rick D. Niece, Ph.D.


Mid-Atlantic


Winner

It Takes Two to Strangle, Cozy Cat Press

Stephen Kaminski


North-East


Winner

Hattie: A Novel, Small Batch Books

Anna Bozena Bowen


South-East


Winner

Perfection Unleashed, CreateSpace

Jade Kerrion


West -Pacific


Winner

Black Crow White Lie, Casperian Books

Candi Sary


Mid-West


Winner

Zero Chance of Passage, Beaver’s Pond Press

Ember Reichgott Junge


West-Mountain


Winner

Promise of Departure, L.W. Montgomery

L. W. Montgomery


Global
Book, PublisherAuthor

Europe


Winner

The Modern Voice of an Irish Immigrant, Strategic Book Publishing

Imelda Cummins-DeMelkon


Specialized Awards

Book, PublisherAuthor

Kick Start Guy Book of the Year Award





Defining Moments, Cove Press

Dorothea S. McArthur, PhD, ABPP


Garcia Award for the Best Fiction Book of the Year





Bone Shadows, Conquill Press

Christopher Valen


Reviewers Choice Best Nonfiction Book of the Year





The Take-Charge Patient, Lemon Grove Press

Martine Ehrenclou, M.A.


Reviewers Choice Award for Best Book Written by An Author Age 18 and Under





A Giant Pencil, Magic Dreams Publishing

Connor Wilson


Reader Views Kids Award for Best Children’s Book of the Year





Return to Finkleton, CreateSpace

KC Hilton 


Reader Views Kids Award for Best Teen/YA Book of the Year





Girl Unmoored, Fiction Std

Jennifer Gooch Hummer


Feathered Quill Be Kind to Animals Award





Santa’s Sugar, Inkwell Productions

Jane Gerencher


Blazing Trailers Award for Best Children’s Picture Book





A Moment in Time, The Perfect Moment

Jennifer Butenos


Black Belt Mindset Self Improvement Award





 3 Off the Tee: Make It Happen, Leda Publishing Corporation

Lorii Myers


Blazing Award for the Best Fantasy Book





The Keya Quests: The Staff of Dionysia, Outskirts Press

Glenn Skinner


The Green and Profitable/Green and Practical Award for Best Nonfiction on an Environmental Issue





Over My Head, iUniverse

Margaret Winslow


Shortcut Blogging Award for the Best Business Book of the Year





Getting Hired, iUniverse

Frances R. Schmidt


Life Journeys Award for the Best Memoir or Biography:





Surviving Mental Illness: My Story, Outskirts Press

Linda Naomi Katz


Tyler R. Tichelaar Award for Best Historical Fiction





The American War, two peas publishing

Don Meyer


Polka Dot Banner Award for the Best Health Book





The Take-Charge Patient, Lemon Grove Press

Martine Ehrenclou, M.A.


Jack Eadon Award for the Best Book in Contemporary Drama





Unrequited, Lincolnshire Press

Brendan Shannon


Conversations Award for the Best Regional Book of the Year





Zero Chance of Passage, Beaver’s Pond Press

Ember Reichgott Junge


Paul Boomer Award for the Best Debut Business Book


Idea-Links: The New Creativity, Beavers Pond Press

Jim Link


We Are One Spirit Book Award


The Butterfly Ball: A Metamorphic Story, shortsleeves

H. T. Manogue


Inside Scoop Live Award for the Most Innovative Book of Poetry


Take This Journey With Me, Two Harbors Press

John Turner


I Have Something To Say Award for the Best Book Sharing Life Lessons Through Story Telling


Border Crossings: Coming of Age in the Czech Resistance,1021 Press

Novacek, Charles


Richard Boes Award


Deadly Lode, CreateSpace

Randall Reneau


Pacific Book Review Award for Best Romance Novel 



Horses and Heroin, Westerhall Books

Bev Pettersen

Reader Views 2012 Literary Awards

Finalists announced March 18th, 2013

3 Off the Tee:  Make it Happen, finalist in Body/Mind/Spirit




2012 Literary Awards Finalists and Regional/Global Winners

This is the list of finalists from which the winners will be chosen. In most cases there are three finalists. If less than three, it's because all other entries were under the score cut-off range. If there are more than three it means there were ties in the category. We are going to let the final judges decided how to award them.

The winner/placement list will be available March 25th or sooner. We will announce the winners as soon as the final judging is completed.

Finalists

Children/Teen/YA

Toddler to 5 - Early Reader (6-8):

Santa’s Sugar, Jane Gerencher

Gimme-Jimmy, Sherrill S. Cannon

A Moment in Time, Jennifer Butenos

Young Reader (8 to 12) 

Tales of Deserts and Demons, Faiz Kermani 
Wild Beau and Her Kittens #3, Peggy Krause

Return to Finkleton, KC Hilton

Teen (12 to 16)  -  Young Adult (16 to 18)

Fangs and Stilettos, Anthony DiFiore 
Sound of Silence: A Choice that Matters, Chris Williams

Redwine Hill (Volume 1), L. L. Stolmeier

Adult

Body/Mind/Spirit

3 Off the Tee: Make It Happen, Lorii Myers

Sacred Transitions, Julie M. Milne, PhD

Never Change What Is Natural, Prague Raja

Business/Sales/Economics

Do Not Invent Buggy Whips, Kenneth J. Thurber, Ph.D.

Corporate Recruiter Tells All, Ryan Fisher

Getting Hired, Frances R. Schmidt

Fantasy

The Keya Quests: The Staff of Dionysia, Glenn Skinner

Firestar: Krisalys Chronicles of Feyree: Scroll 3, Claudia Newcorn

Lilith: Demon of the Night, Theodore Jerome Cohen (E-Book)

Gay/Lesbian

Promised Valley Conspiracy, Ron Fritsch

Creed, Michael Chavez

General Fiction/Novel

Unrequited, Brendan Shannon

Efraim’s Eye, William Peace

Hattie: A Novel, Anna Bozena Bowen

Health/Fitness

Prescriptions from Paradise, Carlos M. Viana, OMD (China), CNN

The Take-Charge Patient, Martine Ehrenclou, M.A.

Historical Fiction

7 Sanctuaries, Ben A. Sharpton

The American War, Don Meyer

The Sharpshooter 1862-1864, Charles Phillips

History/Science/Politics

Jump-Starting Real Job Creation in America, Gary R. Patterson

Border Crossings: Coming of Age in the Czech Resistance, Novacek, Charles

Zero Chance of Passage, Ember Reichgott Junge

Humor

Being Anti-Social, Leigh K. Cunningham

The Bitchographies, Vivienne Vuitton

Unspent Time, Graham Parke

Memoir/Autobiography/Biography

Sihpromatum: I Grew My Boobs in China, Savannah Grace

The Sighing of Rose-Breasted Cockatoos, Robert Ensign

Surviving Mental Illness: My Story, Linda Naomi Katz

Mystery/Thriller/Suspense/Horror

Bone Shadows, Christopher Valen

The Farm, Charles C. Anderson

Q: Awakening, G.M. Lawrence

Parenting/Family/Relationships

Rewire Your Brain for Love, Marsha Lucas, PhD

The Approximate Parent, Michael Y. Simon

Poetry Along the Chisholm Trail and Other Poems, George Rhoades

Take This Journey With Me, John Turner

Death of a Man, Marilyn Carr

Religion (Eastern/Western)

Family Likeness, Wilson Awasu

God Light: Sunlight Sonlight, Robert Lloyd Russell

The Science of the Quran, Ahmad Hassan

  Romance Novel

A Forever Man: A Novel, Mary Flinn

Horses and Heroin, Bev Pettersen

Surfing in Stilettos, Carol E. Wyer

Science Fiction

Perfection Unleashed, Jade Kerrion

Redwine Hill, L.L. Stolmeier

Self-help

Rewire Your Brain for Love, Marsha Lucas, PhD

The 5 Feminine Power Virtues, Vanessa Halloum

Defining Moments, Dorothea S. McArthur, PhD, ABPP

Societal Issues (Politics/Society/Etc.)
Chessman and His Nine Lives on Death Row, Terrence W. Cooney

Forever Exposed: The Nikki Catsouras Story, Lesli Catsouras

Lies Told Under Oath, Beth Lane

Spirituality/Inspiration

Life Chapters, Galen Stoller

The Dawn of Awakening, Ligresti, Gio & Heather

The Butterfly Ball: A Metamorphic Story, H. T. Manogue

E-Book:

Lilith: Demon of the Night, Theodore Jerome Cohen




Winners - Global/Regional Categories

GLOBAL:

EU: Europe -The Modern Voice of an Irish Immigrant, Imelda Cummins-DeMelkon

REGIONAL:

NE:      North-East – ME, VT, NH, MA, RI, CT, NY-  Hattie: A Novel, Anna Bozena Bowen

MA:     Mid-Atlantic – PA, WV, VA, DE, MD, DC, NJ -It Takes Two to Strangle, Stephen Kaminski

SE:       South-East -- KY, NC, SC, GA, FL, AL - Perfection Unleashed, Jade Kerrion

GL:      Great Lakes -- OH, MI, IN, IL, WI - Side-Yard Superhero, Rick D. Niece, Ph.D.

MW:    Mid-West – MN, IA, MO, OK, KS, NE, SD, ND -Zero Chance of Passage, Ember Reichgott Junge

WM:    West-Mountain – MT, WY, ID, UT, CO, NM, AZ, NV -Promise of Departure, L. W. Montgomery

WP:     West-Pacific – CA, OR, WA, HI, AK - Black Crow White Lie, Candi Sary

CE:      Canada-East – ON, QB, NF, NB, NS, PE, NT -Thoroughbreds and Trailer Trash, Bev Pettersen






















 

Eric Hoffer Awards, da Vinci Eye Finalists

As part of the Eric Hoffer Award, 3 Off the Tee:  Make it Happen by Lorii Myers  was
nominated for the da Vinci Eye distinction awarded to books with outstanding cover art.



Approximately six books receive this award each year. The list of "da Vinci Eye Finalist" entrants are listed below.  Congratulations to all!




List of da Vinci Eye Finalists (in alphabetical order):

3 Off the Tee:  Make it Happen
A Palette of Leaves
A Slither of Air
A Spirituality of Service
Answering the Call
Border Crossings
But By Chance War
Code of the Forest
Congress of Strange People
Do You See Him Now?
Equity of Evil
Essentially Yours
Greening Vermont

Greetings from Below
Internal Conflicts
Kidnapping, Murder, and Management
Lily A Gray Whale's Odyssey
Long Division
Love Letter to the Milky Way
Mail-Order Kid
Marginalia on Casanova
Mary Chestnut's Illustrated Diary
Matt Monroe and The Secret Society
Measuring the Distance
Murder on Everest
No One Else to Kill
One Last Dance
Raggedy Man
Robinson Alone
Same Same
Severed Threads
The Burlesque of Graceless Acting
The Girl Who Gave Her Wish Away
The Humanist Approach to Happiness
The Lhasa Trilogy
The Light Behind Blue Circles
The Middle of Nowhere
The Turning Point
The World Eve Left Us
Through Stained Glass
To Inhabit the Felt World
Tucumcari
Unbroken Horses


The Eric Hoffer Award for Books and Prose
www.HofferAward.com

If you need a full corporate makeover - do it. Moderation is just not going to cut it.

No one can take the shot for you.

Awareness makes us emotionally brilliant.

[image error]