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  Achieving Native-Like Second Language Proficiency (Speaking) by Betty Lou Leaver is a research-based catalogue of factors that would seem to predict ability to reach the highest level of foreign language proficiency and is based on common characteristics shared by more than 200 near-native speakers, identified by self-report, survey, and interviews by master testers. One of those common characteristics turned out to be the social environment in childhood. Nearly all survey respondents reported growing up in a bilingual or multilingual home or community. The conjecture is that having been surrounded by other languages, (1) additional sounds (not present in the native language) lodged in the brain for later use (whereas, typically, unused sounds disappear around age 15 or even earlier) and (2) the concept of another language as a form of communication facilitated the embrace of any other language later not as a system of words and grammar rules to be learned but rather as a tool for e

  Today's Publisher's Pride is Andrew's Awesome Adventures with His ADHD Brain  by Kristin and Andrew Wilcox , which reached #197 in attention deficit disorder, a great achievement since this particular category is pretty broad and, therefore, competitive. AWARDS Literary Titan Gold Award Best Indie Book Award Readers' Favorite Book Award Read more posts about the Wilcoxes and their book, click  HERE . Sign up for the MSI Press LLC newsletter Follow MSI Press on  Twitter ,  Face Book , and  Instagram .   Interested in publishing with MSI Press LLC? Check out information on  how to submit a proposal . Interested in publishing with  MSI Press LLC ? Check out information on  how to submit a proposal . Planning on self-publishing and don't know where to start? Our  author au pair  services will mentor you through the process. Interested in receiving a free copy of this or any MSI Press LLC book  in exchange for  reviewing  a current or forthcoming MSI Press LLC book? Co

  Congratulations to Steven Greenebaum, whose multiple-awarding winning book,  An Afternoon's Dictation , was recently selected as a second runner-up in the Indies Today Book Awards competition in the category of religion. Awards this book has earned Winner. London Book Festival Literary Titan gold award Indies Today Runner-up Firebird Book Awards honorable mention Pacific Book Award Finalist (runner-up) The BookFest honorable mention Chanticleer International Book Awards For more posts about Steven and his books, click  HERE . Purchase this book at discount from the  MSI Press webstore . Use Coupon Code FF25 for 25% off. Sign up for the MSI Press LLC newsletter Follow MSI Press on  Twitter ,  Face Book , and  Instagram .   Interested in publishing with MSI Press LLC? Check out information on  how to submit a proposal . Planning on self-publishing and don't know where to start? Our  author au pair  services will mentor you through the process. Interested in receiving a free cop

    We are getting ready to launch  The Book That (Almost) Got Me Fired  by Kelly James. Look for it around June 15, 2024. Description: You're 52. Divorced. Single mom to a teenaged son and a tween daughter. Happily self-employed but worried about the cost of health insurance, the inevitable impact of perimenopause on your body, and whether you should keep dating a sexy plumber who's sweet and funny but lives an hour away and doesn't seem that into you. So, after 22 years of fulltime freelancing, you take a day job as a tiny, creaky cog in the corporate American machine where you're decades older than most of your coworkers - and you write about it. The Book That (Almost) Got Me Fired: A Year in Corporate America is an entertaining, midlife memoir that shares what (and what not) to do when you make that corporate leap. Follow  MSI Press  on  Twitter ,  Face Book , and  Instagram .   Sign up for the MSI Press LLC newsletter Interested in publishing with  MSI Press LLC ?

  Today's Publisher's Pride is A View through the Fog by Bob McGee , which reached #84 in bridge engineering. AWARDS Pinnacle Book Achievement Award Literary Titan gold award Read more posts about Bob and his book, click HERE . Sign up for the MSI Press LLC newsletter Follow MSI Press on  Twitter ,  Face Book , and  Instagram .   Interested in publishing with MSI Press LLC? Check out information on  how to submit a proposal . Interested in publishing with  MSI Press LLC ? Check out information on  how to submit a proposal . Planning on self-publishing and don't know where to start? Our  author au pair  services will mentor you through the process. Interested in receiving a free copy of this or any MSI Press LLC book  in exchange for  reviewing  a current or forthcoming MSI Press LLC book? Contact editor@msipress.com. Want an  author-signed copy  of this book? Purchase the book at 25% discount (use coupon code FF25) and concurrently send a written request to orders@msipress

 So often there is complete shock after getting a cancer diagnosis, especially one in late stage 4. There is simply not enough time to learn everything you need to know while simultaneously coping with managing the medical, daily requirements just to stay alive. You need help! To learn about the disease, funding the fight, emotional matters, physical support, and so much more. It is out there -- by the time I found it, Carl had died (his fight was brief), but others do not have to struggle with finding support. Not only are there support groups, but there are whole support organizations with all kinds of information and resources. Cancer Support Community (logo above) and others are listed at Carl's Cancer Compendium (see link below). Here, as well, is some help caregivers:  Caregivers Guide to Cancer For other Cancer Diary posts, click  HERE . Blog editor's note: As a memorial to Carl, and simply because it is truly needed, MSI Press is now hosting a web page,  Carl's Canc

  It is Tuesday. Monday's madness is over, and Wednesday will take us over the hump, so Tuesday it is--for some serious discussion with authors. Tuesday talks mean to address authors in waiting and self-published authors who would like to go a more traditional route or who would at least like to take their steps with a publisher by their side.  Today's post attempts to answer royalties and the filing of taxes -- yes, it is that time of year! What to File If you received more than $600 in royalties last year (2023), your publisher is required to send you a 1099 with the amount of royalties paid listed. The 1099 is due by January 30. Chances are that your publisher did not take out taxes from your royalties. That is just not "a thing," so you will have to figure out what you owe the IRS from your earnings. If you received less than $600 in royalties last year (2023), your publisher will not send you a 1099. However, you are still required to report all royalties receive