SOUL MATES FOR LIFE:

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More Than Just a Greeting Card—

A Gift That Lasts

This little book about relationships is more meaningful than any Valentine’s card, birthday card, or anniversary card you could give your partner. While cards are read once and set aside, this book offers insights, inspiration, and heartfelt connection that will stay with you both long after the occasion has passed. Whether celebrating love, strengthening your bond, or simply expressing your feelings, this book is a lasting reminder of what truly matters—your relationship.

And if you’re tired of love stories that feel more scripted than a Hallmark movie, buckle up for something wilder—Nikoo and Jim McGoldrick, self-proclaimed cosmic stalkers, are here to prove that true love doesn’t just last a lifetime… it survives multiple. (Or at least, that’s their story, and they’re sticking to it.)

What’s their secret? Unwavering commitment, daily communication, and the kind of mutual respect that keeps them from turning minor disagreements into full-blown historical reenactments. From health scares to heated debates over who left the light on, they tackle life’s storms with humor, heart, and an unshakable ‘us against the world’ attitude.

This isn’t just romance—it’s embracing quirks, laughing through the chaos, and knowing that sometimes, the best date night is just surviving the grocery store together. Want to know how they keep the spark alive? Simple: long hugs, short grudges, and the firm belief that everything is better when we do it together.

Ready to unlock the secrets of a love that endures? (And maybe pick up some relationship survival tips along the way?)

Marriage of Minds: Collaborative Writing

“a tremendous amount of information that is useful to any aspiring writer, a sort of quiz of required talents and a realistic, hard look at the difficulties involved in getting published and achieving success.”

Part how-to book, part relationship book, Marriage of Minds offers strategies and techniques for creating successful collaborations and successful fiction. Drawing on their own personal and professional relationship, and on the relationships of other well-known collaborative teams, the McGoldricks walk you through the essentials of successful collaboration:

– finding the “write” partner
– developing skills in communication and the art of compromise
– establishing guidelines
– providing constructive feedback
– working through “for better or worse”

All you and your partner need are the ideas and the talent. Marriage of Minds will supply you with the rest.

Step Write Up provides hands-on exercises for teachers and for any workshop leader endeavoring to bring 21st century collaboration and writing skills into the classroom.

To accomplish this, the authors have assembled lessons that can be modified for your own specific personalities, uses, and grade levels. Some are icebreakers that are aimed at promoting communication and collaborative teamwork. Some are lessons that provide for individual creativity and then lead into opportunities for group sharing and critiquing. And the authors go even further, showing how the products of these creative efforts can even carry us into areas of initiative and entrepreneurialism.

There is a short “lead-in” to many of the lessons. In each of those, they refer to New York State Curriculum Standards that the content of the lesson addresses.