Books with author Scott Allan

Is the fear of rejection holding you back from taking massive action? Do you refrain from asking for what you want because of getting a NO? Do you depend on the opinions of others to define your self-worth? I know rejection hurts. We take it personally when people fail to give us what we desire the most. But getting rejected is a state of mind. It has power over you if you let it in by believing the worst. You can learn to free yourself from the feeling of shame and the fear of loss. By taking action in the face of fear, you release yourself from an emotional rollercoaster and learn to live your life with confidence. In Rejection Free, you will learn how to … choose yourself first no matter what people think of you. ask for what you want without the fear of hearing NO. break free of rejection in any situation that calls for you to be brave and confront your fears. stop trying to please the wrong people and pay attention to the right ones. realize that rejection isn’t all about you (and how inspiring this is!). put an end to the trap of predictability and the ways it hurts your chances for success. overcome your self-doubt and become great at asking for what you want the most. supercharge your confidence and take charge of your life. desensitize yourself to rejection so you can handle anything that comes your way! Debunking the Lies Rejection is full of lies we believe about ourselves. One of the first steps to recovery and creating a rejection-free lifestyle is breaking away from these lies by becoming totally honest with ourselves. Aligning our thoughts and ideals with the reality of the situation makes less resistance for ourselves. The lies are what keep you trapped and continue the pattern of living in rejection hell. A Roadmap to Freedom When you avoid being rejected, you eliminate all possibilities of losing, looking bad, or failing completely. You play it safe. You look for the non-fail, safe methods that are guaranteed to reduce your failure rate. By not risking, you risk more. By hiding, you stay afraid. This book offers a way out of your pain by working through the stages of rejection. Learn to Ask For Anything There is a price to pay for not asking. By trading in your pride and fear of embarrassment, you could be giving up large sums of money (asking for a raise), your freedom (asking for time off), and the opportunity to thrive instead of survive. if you don’t ask that person out on a date, someone else will; if you don’t ask for more money in your work, you’ll have less money; if you don’t ask for support, you end up doing it alone; if you don’t ask how it’s done, you’ll end up doing it the wrong way Desensitize Your Fear Doing the things that scares you numbs your fear of rejection. By taking action and breaking out of your fearful comfort zone, you condition your mind and senses to move forward and break all mental obstacles holding you back. What could you do with your life if nothing was in your way? The answer: You could do anything and everything! Choose your life and live to the max, ask for everything you want and overcome your greatest fears holding you back!

Visions of murders before they happen, it’s a curse. Lance Underphal was devastated by his wife’s death. And now, the down-and-out freelance photographer can’t let her go. He wakes up plagued by premonitions. The double shooting of an Arizona real estate developer and his mistress/bookkeeper immerse Underphal in a world of psychic phenomena. Dark, different, featuring a damaged paranormal psychic and based on real-life events, this genre-bending supernatural murder mystery will keep you guessing. Looking for a new breed of supernatural thrillers? Psychic mysteries of murder and suspense? Perhaps a psychic detective series which can be read and enjoyed in any order? Or maybe those scary books for adults that you can’t put down? Regardless, the dark, disturbing novels by Indie Author, Michael Allan Scott, won’t disappoint.

If hard-boiled characters like Harry Bosch, Lee Marvin, and Dave Robicheaux get you going, wait until you meet Lance Underphal and crew.Hard to read. Harder to put down. This one is a handful. A damaged police consultant, Lance sees murders before they happen. It's a curse and only his dead wife can save him.Featured on NBC's Daytime Show, this Lance Underphal Mystery is the first in a new breed of mysteries and thrillers. Dark, different, and based on real-life events, this genre-bending murder mystery will keep you up nights guessing.Looking for a new spin on a venerable old story? This gritty novel will grab you by the eyeballs and won't let go. Give yourself a thrill. Take a walk on the Dark Side, tonight.

Stretching from Ancient Rome to the World Wide Web and from the Danelaw to the Cold War, 366 Days is an engaging and entertaining chronicle of the highs and lows of world history. Whether it heralded a world-changing new discovery, the assassination of a leading politician, or a cow flying in a plane, this collection of true stories and trivia from world history proves that there is always something to be remembered 'on this day'. Each historical account has been painstakingly researched to clearly explain its causes, course and consequences.Scott Allsop is an award-winning history teacher and host of an iTunes Top-100 history podcast. He has drawn on over a decade’s worth of teaching experience in the UK, Egypt and Romania to compile this fascinating and accessible daily guide to some of the most compelling historical events that have shaped today’s world.

Stretching from Ancient Rome to the World Wide Web and from the Danelaw to the Cold War, 366 Days is an engaging and entertaining chronicle of the highs and lows of world history. Whether it heralded a world-changing new discovery, the assassination of a leading politician, or a cow flying in a plane, this collection of true stories and trivia from world history proves that there is always something to be remembered 'on this day'. Each historical account has been painstakingly researched to clearly explain its causes, course and consequences. Scott Allsop is an award-winning history teacher and host of an iTunes Top-100 history podcast. He has drawn on over a decade’s worth of teaching experience in the UK, Egypt and Romania to compile this fascinating and accessible daily guide to some of the most compelling historical events that have shaped today’s world.

Ripped out of today’s headlines.Jena stumbles onto a hotbed of hidden criminality—a discovery that puts a target on her back. Abnormal results of clinical drug trials, buried by an international pharmaceutical company. The drug researcher in charge dies of an opioid overdose. The head of the FDA's Center for Drug Evaluation and Research goes missing. Will the FDA Director turn whistleblower? Did Jena’s stepfather die in vain?Eyes in the sky, she sees. Head in the clouds, she searches. Feet on the ground, she answers the call—Jena Halpern, the reluctant police consultant.A twisted tale, rife with corporate greed and government corruption. A mystery/thriller whose damaged characters and their criminal behavior paint a catastrophic vision for the future. Treat yourself to a new and different binge read, today.

‘ Let me introduce you to my line of work and you will soon discover that ‘Grey man’ has many skills, a person who is a multi-tasking individual who has to be that way to enable him or her to survive if they choose to last in the back stabbing, cheating and Machiavellian world of Close Protection. I will take you on my journey of a fresh faced young man who is struggling, finding his direction as he tries to establish his career as a Body Guard. The pitfalls, the lies, deceit, back stabbing, the tedium, the drama’s and finally the rewards of working in this line of work, the addiction that it can be. My first steps in the Close Protection world and through my short stories I will relate the different matrix’s which the Security world has. All the stories are actual incidences that have happen to me, people and company names have been changed or omitted to protect their identities, they are simple stories that shows the world which I had worked in, they are set in the city and rural areas of England, to the mountains of Austria, the grasslands of the Congo and to the Southern State of Texas, the Capital of Washington D.C. and sky scrapers of New York in the USA, they are set in the late 1980’s to 2000, a period of time when the mobile phone was a new gadget, there was no internet for everyone and certainly no Global Positioning Systems and the Close Protection world was a “Closed Shop” run by the old and bold ex-military men who controlled who could work or not work on the Circuit. It was not a matter of what you knew but who you knew that got you a job. Welcome to the world of the Journeymen working on the Circuit.’

Here’s Jena! Out of nothingness, she discovers the truth beneath the homicides. Four murders within six months, a record for the riverside community of Bullhead City. A serial killer is suspected by local police, the work of one maniac. But they can’t do it alone. Is it a closeted homophobe or the desperate diversion of an abused girl-child? Just wait, you got a BIG SURPRISE comin’ to you.Eyes in the sky, she sees. Head in the clouds, she searches. Feet on the ground, she answers the call—Jena Halpern, the reluctant police consultant.A mystery/thriller whose hidden characters, their secret motivations, and the unintended consequences are as real as it gets. Treat yourself to a twisted thrill ride, tonight.

It's time to get behind the football team with an impossible dream!What happens when eleven llamas unknowingly eat the ashes of one of the greatest footballers of all time? They become brilliant at football, of course! Managed by eleven-year-old Tim, his unusual friend Cairo and Scottish World Cup-winner McCloud (yes that 'happened' apparently), Llama United goes on an amazing cup run. But who wants to lose to a team of stupid llamas? Nobody, that's who!Rival teams will do anything in their power to stop Llama United in its tracks. When the best cup in the world is at stake, football can be a nasty old business . . .Scott Allen's Llama United is full of football funnies and laugh-a-minute llamas, illustrated by Sarah Horne.Support the team in the second hilarious Llama United book when they go to the World Cup in Llamas Go Large.

"Baseball got in me when I was little. It runs in my family, and it rubbed off on me. It's a disease." —Dennis "Oil Can" Boyd, Red Sox pitcher (1982-1989)Baseball is woven into the fabric of American life. For every New Englander, the Boston Red Sox are an institution: kids grow up listening to the Sox on the radio or watching ballgames with their families on a hot summer night. No Sox fan ever forgets his or her first visit to Boston's Fenway Park and its storied Green Monster. The dedication of “Red Sox Nation” is unmatched in the world of sports, and when the “Curse of the Bambino” was finally broken in 2004, New Englanders cheered and cried with joy.500 GREAT BOSTON RED SOX QUOTES is the perfect companion to a baseball lover’s summer. It will rekindle those special memories of afternoons sitting in the bleachers at Fenway Park—the smell of the hot dogs, the crack of the bats, and the cheers of the crowd. Including memorable quotes by all-time greats like Cy Young, Babe Ruth, Ted Williams, and Carl Yastrzemski, to more current favorites like Pedro Martinez, Nomar Garciaparra, David Ortiz, and Dustin Pedroia—and many, many, players in between—this book will broaden every Red Sox fan’s love of the game. "I went out to play the game of baseball because I love to play it. I did it right. I did it the right way. I worked hard doing it." —Roger Clemens, Red Sox pitcher (1984-1996)

Llama United are the football team with a World Cup dream!Llama United has gone from strength to strength after their first Cup win, gaining fame and fortune along the way. Sadly the England football team is not having the same success and, with the World Cup looming, their manager is desperate to find a magic ingredient to beat their bitter rivals. Friends (and llama managers) Tim and Cairo have just that ingredient and agree to loan some of Llama United's top players. But not everything is plain sailing and, with Cairo strangely distracted by the rival team, and the llamas having trouble settling in, Tim has his work cut out for him. It seems not everybody wants to support the team with an impossible dream . . . Llamas Go Large: A World Cup Story is the second hilarious Llama United book from Scott Allen, full of football funnies and laugh-a-minute llamas, illustrated by Sarah Horne.

Kids around the world are fascinated, even obsessed, with dinosaurs. With all the easy-to-remember (and G-rated, too!) jokes inside the pages of 101 Hilarious Dinosaur Jokes, your children can add a roar of humor to all that dinosaur fascination. The book is filled with pun-laden jokes and riddles both silly and strange. It's sure to be your child's backseat companion during the ride home after your next trip to the Natural History Museum!