Beyond The Cellar Door

Tales to send chills down your spine, raise goosebumps and stand your hair on end. Tales to terrify and disturb, to intrigue and unsettle. Fans of horror and the supernatural will relish this collection of original stories, featuring among much else… - a haunted swimming pool - something horrible in a garden shed - a doppelganger husband - a zombie mother-in-law - a ghostly sender of emails - and an embalming that goes very wrong indeed…

After their strict and unbearable grandfather moves into their home, Jeff and his sister Megan spend their summer days exploring an old, abandoned house. Original.

Part memoir, part business book and with a focus on women and wine, this is an in the trenches book about how Charlton rebuilt her winery as told through some hilarious stories using zany antics and off-the-wall guerilla marketing. Light up that entrepreneurial gene inside you as she shares, throughout this book, her own "Working Girl" approach to business. Including her constant focus and passion for her customers, without whom there is no business. Sixteen years ago Kathy Charlton made a hard right turn, the new owner of a bankrupt winery, knowing nothing about running a small business, nor wine other than she liked her red wine served cold, sometimes over ice if she was in a hurry. Gone was the security of her 25-year corporate career. Semiconductors to Grapes while not a natural career path helped unveil the entrepreneur gene inside her. That gene went on steroids and marketing became her middle name. "I took every wine-pouring gig I could get to get my name out there. Even poured in a funeral home with my wine displayed in a "stainless steel casket." Local wineries told me to shut down; my business reputation damaged beyond repair and I'd never make it with no experience . . . . . . well, maybe not a smart personal trait on my part but never tell me I Can't Do It." Sipping wines at sunset it wasn't . . . as Charlton details battling everything from a leaking septic system that shut the winery down, exploding wine presses, shortchanged bottle inventory, and a now-legendary lawsuit to halt her business by the United States Olympic Committee. How did she do it? Well, that's where the hard work and yes, the fun began as Charlton (with no background in the wine industry) takes a winery with little name-recognition and massive quality issues and parlays it into an award-winning operation with double-gold medals to prove it. So, pour yourself a glass of wine and put your feet up. This Working Girl has a story to tell you -- from Behind the Cellar Door.

This book links research in wine marketing/management and wine tourism, offering international and multidisciplinary perspectives. Addressing the evolving nature of the wine tourism industry and market, the book brings in new research streams and technology advances such as; social media, customer empowerment and engagement, co-creation, social / responsible marketing and wine consumption. Each section includes an introductory chapter written by the editors discussing the aims and the chapters of the section. Section chapters provide theoretical and research based insights with practical implications, while every section is also complemented with case studies that further enrich the practice and industry implications of theory. Researchers will find in this book a holistic analysis of research and cases relating to the management and marketing of wine tourism businesses and visitors.

"An utterly satisfying examination of the business of popular music." —Nathaniel Rich, The Atlantic There’s a reason today’s ubiquitous pop hits are so hard to ignore—they’re designed that way. The Song Machine goes behind the scenes to offer an insider’s look at the global hit factories manufacturing the songs that have everyone hooked. Full of vivid, unexpected characters—alongside industry heavy-hitters like Katy Perry, Rihanna, Max Martin, and Ester Dean—this fascinating journey into the strange world of pop music reveals how a new approach to crafting smash hits is transforming marketing, technology, and even listeners’ brains. You’ll never think about music the same way again. A Wall Street Journal Best Business Book

Dominik MacFie seeks one thing, and one thing alone. Revenge on the man who cost him his life. Lady luck was on Dominik’s side when she put him in the vicinity of the man who’d stolen his heritage, his honor, his pride, and most of all his life. Lady luck had nothing to do with Dominik’s sneaking into the man’s castle to attain vengeance. And he would have, had a comely lass with a bruised face not screamed at the sight of him. Dominik cannot get the bonnie lass from his mind, he has to see her again. Has to find out why her face is bruised. And he has to seek that retribution against his mortal enemy. Mairi McAllister’s a prisoner in a castle. She’s scheduled to be wed to the laird who’s holding her hostage by using her brother as collateral. She rues the night she screamed at the sight of the brigand with the dagger who could have put an end to her misery and her captivity. So why does she want to see the mercenary assassin again? Fate has thrown these two together but a mutual hatred will keep them together. Until fickle fate puts her life in imminent danger again. Now, Dominik has to make a choice.