#BookBlitz: Let's Talk Leadership by #ArvidBuit @RABTBookTours @letstalkleadership2025

The Psychology of Power, Presence, and Purpose in Modern Leadership

 

Non-fiction — Leadership & Executive Psychology

Date Published: December 3, 2025

 

Let’s Talk Leadership is a psychological exploration of what truly shapes leaders and the cultures around them. Leadership is not a technique or a collection of frameworks. It is an inner journey, driven by personal history, emotional patterns, and the narratives that guide behavior. In this book, executive coach and C-suite advisor Arvid Buit reveals the hidden mechanisms that influence decision-making, presence, authority, and organizational impact.

Drawing on years of working closely with CEOs, founders and executive teams, the book uncovers how leaders are formed, why they act the way they do, and how they can grow beyond their limitations. It exposes the emotional architecture of leadership, explains why organizations mirror the mindset of their leaders, and shows why many development programs fail to create real change.

The book is divided into three parts.

Part I explores the psychological nature of leadership. It explains how early experiences shape adult leadership behavior, why leaders carry personal narratives into the workplace, how emotional signals travel through teams, and why strong leadership is often misunderstood or resisted.

Part II introduces five perspectives that allow you to understand and analyze leadership in any environment: the Collective, the Strategist, the Father, the Decision-Maker and the Creative. These perspectives help you see how leaders influence culture, make decisions, give direction, create safety and foster innovation.

Part III presents a practical seven-step development method. It guides you through assessing your current leadership identity, identifying blind spots, designing new behaviors, improving communication, building discipline, navigating change and inspiring others. The focus is on deep, sustainable transformation rather than quick fixes or surface-level techniques.

Let’s Talk Leadership is written for executives, managers, founders, HR-professionals, coaches and anyone serious about understanding the psychological reality of leadership. It offers a clear and honest approach to self-awareness, personal growth and organizational influence. Leaders who understand themselves create stability, meaning and direction for others. This book shows how to begin that process and how to develop a leadership presence that is both conscious and authentic.

#BookBlitz: Amazing Amanda & the Crazy School Carnival by #BeverlyAbear @RABTBookTours #Giveaway

Kids Books / Young Adult

Date Published: 01-14-2026

Amazing Amanda and the Crazy School Carnival includes comedy and yet realistic life issues. Readers will laugh, giggle, worry, and cheer Amanda's attempts at growth. Amanda is a pre-adolescent girl who deals with body issues, middle-school drama, angst with new girls, coming of age issues such as seeing beyond the surface, handling responsibilities of leadership, and questions about faith. Set in a mid-size central Minnesota town, the story is told exclusively from Amanda's point of view. Amazing Amanda is a clean, family friendly story.

This is Abear's debut novel.

Coming soon: Book 2 Amazing Amanda and the Mystery of the Black Cat and Book 3 Amazing Amanda and Her Bright New Day. The series takes readers through Amanda's entire sixth-grade experience.

#BookTour: The Brain that Breeds All Villainy by #PeterHeavenHeld @RABTBookTours

Speculative Fiction

Date Published: December 5, 2025

IZON is a company poised for world domination. Its AI and robots can replace any human worker, any government. Just two things stand in the way of its CEO. A female programmer out to avenge his greed. And the People’s Republic of China.

Tima Chelovekova lands her dream job with IZON, the hottest AI and robotics startup in Silicon Valley. But IZON CEO Jase Vestiger doesn't just want to get fabulously rich. He wants Tima’s invention to take over rival tech companies, replace humans with IZON services, corner governments - and run the world. This puts them on a collision course in a whirl of mega-corporations, AI prompts and Chinese hackers. Their conflict spans from Vienna to California, from superyachts to prison cells, from the peaks of technology to the deepest ethical questions. A striking tale of the AI age, a truly 21st century masterpiece of speculative fiction.

#BookTour: Ceremony of Innocence by #StephenAsher @RABTBookTours #Giveaway

Literary / Historical Fiction

Date Published: 12-02-2025

Publisher: Scrivener Quill

It is June 1924 when an inquisitive but skeptical Gemma Danforth graduates from Wellesley College. Despite a loving family, an idyllic New England girlhood, and family summers in the Hamptons, little had assuaged her doubts Now, with college behind them, she and two classmates leave America bound for post war France where they will be immersed in the pulsating culture of European modernism. While in France, she reunites with her Paris based parents, and, in Nice, amidst its creative ferment, she falls in love with Rhys, a British aristocrat and ex-pat journalist. During this year spent along the Cote d’Azur, encounters with Sara and Gerald Murphy, Somerset Maugham, Zelda, Isadora Duncan and others, adds a depth and richness to the ambience of le midi. And so begins the process of displacing her doubts.

She and Rhys return to American where their values collide with antithetical and alien attitudes. It is these experiences that come to challenge long-held beliefs and provide a vivid counterpoint to their recent immersion in the Modernist aesthetic and world view.

Resolved to return to France, Gemma shares a final day in America with Gerald Murphy at his ocean front Hampton estate. As this unhurried afternoon unfolds, it becomes clear that Gemma’s skepticism and doubtfulness have been replaced with a clear-sighted maturity and hardened resolve. The next morning, aboard the Ile de France, Gemma and Rhys sail for France. 

#BookReview: If You Stayed by @bcherryauthor

Synopsis: There once was a man who loved me, until he forgot every memory we've ever shared…

Gabriel Sinclair would forever be my first. My first best friend, my first kiss, my first love…and my first heartbreak. The accident that nearly took his life ripped the memory of me from his grasp—and for the last decades, I've let the guilt of that one terrible night keep us apart.

It took me years to make peace with the fact that he would no longer be in my life, so when he shows up as the architect for my new home, my world's tossed upside down. Now, I'm trapped in a loveless marriage, raising a child, while Gabriel stirs up feelings I thought long buried. It feels like my soul is waking up after years of being in a deep slumber—and my controlling husband will do whatever it takes to keep us apart.

I know I should push Gabriel away to protect him from the shadows surrounding me. Yet, I can't deny the hope that blooms whenever he's near—the chance that he might remember me, that we could reclaim the chapters of our story that we've lost. 

Nothing good could come from us, but I can't help but wonder what would happen if this time...he stayed. 

There once was a man who loved me… And now he's my only hope for tomorrow.

#BookReview: Craving My Rival (The Mafia Academy #4) by @authorprayne

Synopsis: The final installment of The Mafia Academy Series- A dark enemies to lovers romance set at a mafia boarding school for the sons and daughters of the most powerful mafia lords.

Polina Aminoff

At the Sicuro Academy, the Russians and the Italians give each other a wide berth. We’re bitter enemies after all. So imagine my disbelief when my brother announces that I’m to wed Dante Accardi, next in line to run the Accardi Italian crime family. After the shock subsides, I’m determined to save myself. It’s not until my plan is in full swing that I realize there might be more to Dante than I thought. But those closest to me, those who were supposed to protect me have always hurt me. Now I must decide whether to trust him with my heart or if he’ll just be another person in my life who brings me to my knees.

Dante Accardi

Polina Aminoff is a Bratva brat and an ice princess that I don’t think even an easy-going guy like me can thaw. And I’ve never had an issue melting the panties off a woman before. I’m just as unhappy about our engagement as she is, but my father made it clear—it is my duty to the family. Once we’re forced together, another side of Polina shines and I start to think we could have a future together that doesn’t involve being bitter rivals. But she’s hiding something, I just don’t know what. Which leaves me wondering, can I ever really trust my enemy?