Fiction / Short Stories
Date Published: February 24, 2026
Fiction / Short Stories
Date Published: February 24, 2026
Leadership, Business
Date Published: March 13, 2026
Why do confident people keep getting promoted over competent ones?
Why does modern leadership often look like meetings, buzzwords, and no real decisions?
M.B.A. is a sharp, satirical business book that examines the uncomfortable realities of modern education, leadership, and corporate culture. With dry humor and analytical clarity, it challenges the myths surrounding higher education, management, teamwork, and “hard work,” revealing why so many smart, capable professionals feel stuck despite doing everything they were told would lead to success.
This book explores why credentials don’t equal competence, why confidence is often mistaken for leadership, and why organizations reward appearance over results. It breaks down how flawed systems—not a lack of talent—create inefficiency, burnout, and poor leadership across companies, institutions, and workplaces. Rather than offering motivational clichรฉs or productivity hacks, it provides a clear-eyed explanation of how professional life actually functions in today’s economy.
Written for professionals, managers, MBA candidates, and anyone questioning the value of modern business culture, M.B.A. exposes the gap between titles and ability, education and outcomes, and leadership language versus leadership behavior. It explains why teams frequently slow down high performers, why clarity feels threatening in organizations, and why real competence often goes unnoticed.
This is not a self-help book. It’s not a business manifesto. And it’s not another guide filled with inspirational quoquoteI
It’s a calm, unsentimental critique of the systems that shape education, leadership, and work—and a guide to understanding them without buying into the illusions they sell.
If you’re tired of corporate buzzwords, skeptical of MBA hype, frustrated by ineffective leadership, or curious why the modern workplace rewards the wrong behaviors, this book will give you the language and clarity to finally make sense of it.
Women’s Fiction
Date Published: April 14, 2026
Publisher: Acorn Publishing
Cece Belle is a high-functioning neurodivergent. She’s also a big believer in destiny, but when her soulmate Robby dumps her mid-flight to Israel, she instantly regrets ever telling him she’s on the spectrum.
Not one to dwell in misery, Cece sips some chamomile hibiscus tea to set herself straight. And with meditation and spirituality on her side, she looks to what’s next. Yet another blow hits when she is kicked out of her rabbinical studies program for “strange behavior.”
Then, she meets Joel. With his quirky demeanor and ability to say all the right things, he gives Cece the desire to begin a new relationship. There’s only one main obstacle: Cece loves living in Los Angeles, and Joel is a diehard New Yorker.
She marries him anyway, despite misgivings that extend beyond their geography. After all, this is her carefully drawn plan—marriage, then kids, then happily ever after. Sometimes though, the best-laid plans are better left in dreamland where they can’t go awry.
Cece in Wonder Land is a twisty journey down a rabbit hole of unexpected anxieties, disappointments, and more questions than answers. But where there is hope, there is life, and maybe Cece can hang on for the next bit of wonder bound to come her way.
Thriller
Date Published: March 26, 2026
Publisher: Acorn Publishing
New to the neighborhood and reeling from the traumatic birth of her second child, Marlowe Moore is barely holding it together. Battling postpartum depression and anxiety, she’s desperate for stability.
But when she learns that a woman who once lived in her family’s new home vanished without a trace, Marlowe becomes obsessed. As strange things happen and neighborly smiles feel like veiled threats, Marlowe can’t shake the feeling that someone is hiding something.
She spirals further into paranoia, fixated on the abandoned case and determined to seek justice. But how can a woman who feels lost find a missing person?
Juggling the demands of her beloved family and her harrowing mental illness, Marlowe doesn’t realize she is caught in a cat-and-mouse game that could cost her everything … including her life.
Historical Fiction
Date Published: 10-07-2025
Publisher: NorthStar Press
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