Mise En Place, a firm specializing in productivity, organization, and workload management for overwhelmed professionals, will be hosting their successfully-renowned Getting Organized Workshop in the Boston area. The two-part event, which consists of their most popular offerings, will include The GO System® and Escaping the E-mail Vortex, and will be held Tuesday, Sept. 27^th, 2011, beginning at 8 a.m. at the Hilton Boston/Woburn located at 2 Forbes Road, Woburn, MA.

Ann Michael Henry, Founder and Chief Productivity Officer ofMise En Place, will lead this powerful workshop for professionals who feel overloaded and overwhelmed by their mismanagement of daunting to-do lists and ever-growing E-mail ecosystems.

“This is a great opportunity for busy professionals who haven’t yet been able to develop or incorporate a successful approach for organizing, managing, and/or executing their tasks,” said Henry. “Those who will benefit most from the workshop include individuals or companies who are looking for a customizable solution that will fit their work style, personality, goals, and objectives. Here, they will be able to obtain and utilize the necessary tools and solutions to implement, maintain, and support their organizing needs within their personal and professional environments.”

Attendees of The GO System® will learn specific, effective solutions that will help their company grow in many ways. As one of the most popular offerings ofMise En Place, The GO System® offers methods that will improve the company’s productive use of time, contributions to bottom-line results, and overall health by eliminating productivity-killing stress and anxiety.

“Previous attendees continue to thank me for providing them with ultimate calmness, enlightenment, and liberation, as they experience less frustration and stress and more continual improvement in organization, task management, and overall job satisfaction,” Henry said.

Attendees of Escaping the E-mail Vortex will also learn to create and maintain strategies for controlling their E-mail ecosystem by becoming aware of the misuses of the inbox, understanding the golden rule of E-mail management, and instilling steps for clearing through overloaded inboxes, outboxes, and spam.

“Many participants have been able to reclaim their sanity and relationship with their E-mail systems after attending this workshop, as many of them learn about features and options they were previously unaware of while using Outlook,” said Henry. “This course teaches them how to traffic incoming messages, organize folders and attachments, and how to manage the overall experience so E-mails no longer become interruptions.”

Henry’s knowledge and expertise will help attendees to establish strong foundational habits for success, process and prioritize tasks in a productive manner, create proven strategies to help manage incoming and outgoing communication, and improve overall technique, performance, and management of professional organization.

Henry has guided countless busy professionals, as she has worked with Fortune 500 companies, major universities, law firms, and many other accredited companies. Henry thrives providing others with the ability to apply tips, tools, and proven techniques to a client’s individual work-style. She is a three-time published author, and is a member of the National Speakers Association, Network for Productivity Excellence, Society of Human Resources Managers, and National Association of Professional Organizers.

Mise En Place, founded by Henry in 2003 in Rochester, NY, has continued to grow and recently acquired Clearwater Productivity in 2010. Since then, the company has been serving many New England-based clients and interested professionals with successful webinars, newsletters, articles, and events, which has sparked interest in theBostonarea. As a result, Mise En Place has continued to receive several requests to conduct workshops locally, which is why Henry will be presenting her successfully-renowned event in Boston this September.

Join Ann Michael Henry for this powerful, two-part informational workshop! The Getting Organized Workshop will be held Tuesday, Sept. 27^th, 2011 at the Hilton Boston/Woburn located at2 Forbes Road,Woburn,MA. The GO System® will run from 8 a.m. – 12 p.m., and will include a Continental Breakfast. The second part of the workshop, Escaping the E-mail Vortex, will run from1:30 p.m. – 3 p.m. Attendees may register for both sessions at a cost of $277 or register for the courses individually. As individual courses, the cost of The GO System® is $189, and the cost of Escaping the E-mail Vortex is $149.

For more information or to register for The Getting Organized Workshop, please contact Ann Michael Henry via 585-924-8470, annmichael@m-e-p.com, or www.m-e-p.com.

 A new book recently published by two Rochester, NY co-authors, entitled Generation Preservation: My Story in Trusted Hands, is a culmination and result of the need to help individuals and families preserve the most important information, wishes, and memories.

“Generation Preservation can be used as a tool to help others clarify, chronicle, and manage vital personal information for themselves or loved ones, and is intended to give a designated trusted person(s) a guide to direct your wishes and preserve your legacy,” said Glen Cone, co-author of Generation Preservation.

Cone, an independent financial advisor with Commonwealth Financial Group in Webster, is passionate about helping clients to establish, reach, and maintain financial goals for retirement, their future generation’s needs, and charitable causes. Jeanette Cooper, also co-author, is a marketing manager with Maplewood Estates in Fairport, and is passionate about the preservation of people’s lives, memories, and that which had meaning to them. Together, they combined their complimentary skills to form the basis and structure of Generation Preservation.

Originally created in spring 2010, Cone and Cooper decided to collaborate on the inclusive and detailed project when discussing the challenges faced in their professional fields. Since then, the book has been presented to many audiences including churches, assisted living facilities, recreation centers, senior centers and beyond, which has helped Cone and Cooper gain feedback and further develop the immense value that Generation Preservation offers.

“This is an easy-to-use, flexible book that every household should have to preserve the family history,” said Cooper. “The amount of time it will take to fill in will save countless hours and dollars to try to retrieve this important information at a later time.”

For more information about Generation Preservation, or to schedule a speaking presentation, please visit www.GenerationPreservation.net, or contact Glen Cone at 585-727-7806 or gcone@ae.cadaretgrant.com, or Jeanette Cooper at 585-203-7982 or jacooper@rochester.rr.com.

This week we’re asking, ”As a writer, what are some of the challenges you face, and how do you overcome those challenges?“ Many writers face many different challenges. It could range from (and/or include) writers block, not having enough time to write, or organizing their manuscript, to confusion about the publishing process, understanding E-books, or how to publicize their book. Which ever it may be for you, we are asking you to share  you’re experiences. Please feel free to comment below and add to the discussion!

Beer Cart Girls Save the World was the number one selling book for Write Words and has been in the top 10 out of 916 books at Fictionwise in the Suspense/Thriller category.

“It all started with the question, ‘What kind of training is needed to become a beer cart girl?’” said Piccarreto. “From the beginning, I wanted three themes in the book: golf, training of beer cart girls, andDecember 21, 2012. This book is strictly for entertainment and is intended to provide a diversion for the reader.”

The book takes place on the shore of Canandaigua Lake, as the popular five-week beer-cart-girl certification program is in full swing. This year, however, the program turns out to be very dangerous. Strange things start to happen, as many elements are at play, includingDecember 21, 2012, a solar cataclysm, a missing ancient Egyptian necklace, the CIA, Middle Eastern terrorists, and more. Luckily for Verne, the main character who left his high-powered Wall Street position to purchase the course, two aspiring beer cart girls are determined to help him straighten out this mess and, in the process, for a few believers, help save the world.

Piccarreto, a graduate of Colgate University, has been working nearly 30 years in the pharmaceutical industry and is currently in Quality Assurance for UCB Pharmaceuticals. He came up with the idea for this book a few years ago, and officially stared writing it in November 2009.

“Readers should expect off-the-wall characters, a few laughs, and a suspense-filled mystery,” said Piccarreto. “They will also learn what it takes to be a beer cart girl and what it takes to win a country club invitational.”

Originally from Greece, NY, Piccarreto has been an avid golfer since 10 years old and currently plays out of the Caledonia Country Club. He lives in North Chili with his wife and son, enjoys reading in his spare time. He is also working on writing his next book, which will feature many of the same characters as his first title.

Beer Cart Girls Save the World is currently available for download ($6.50) at Amazon Books, Amazon Kindle, Write Words Inc., Fictionwise, eReader, eBookwise, Mobipocket, and All Romance Ebooks. For more information about Beer Cart Girls Save the World, please contact Piccarreto at johnpiccarreto@yahoo.com.

At Betta Book Publishing, we value your input and take all of your suggestions, feedback, and requests very seriously. We always listen to and empathize with you, our authors and writers of the community, because we want to make sure you experience the highest and best when publishing your work.

To help you accomplish this, we’ve been working diligently to make any and all updates and upgrades to provide you with the smoothest experience when working with us.

Throughout the last year, we’ve been extremely busy with many exciting, different projects! We’ve since published a few more new titles, which you can see on our Web site, and have also been working with writers on their poetry and short-story projects.

We’ve also been working very hard at developing our Annual Writing Contest, which was a great success last year. As you may have noticed, our Annual Writing Contest is continuing to expand, and as of this year, is now open to a national audience! Our deadline for this year’s Contest just passed (although the late period runs through August 8th, so there’s still time to submit if you’re interested!), and we are now preparing to review submissions and plan for our Awards Ceremony.

And there’s more! As we continue to grow, we also continue to add more services to our offerings, which our authors have been enjoying! We’ll post more in upcoming blog entries, so stay tuned!

We’re also now in the process of updating our Web site (keep checking back as we keep adding more content!), as well as all of our social media outlets to keep providing you with more info, highlights, and updates of all things Betta Book Publishing.

So, what should you expect from here? We are getting back into the swing of things in the blogosphere, and will continue to post more frequently. In fact, you’ll notice that we will be posting more news, updates, author highlights, and more in the coming days/weeks.

We also enjoy communicating with everyone out there, so please stay connected with us! We invite you to follow us on Twitter and become a fan on Facebook!

We’re so happy to be back in the blogosphere! More to come soon!

Once submissions are received and judged, winners of the contest will be recognized and rewarded by or around October 1^st.

“The winners of our contest will be rewarded with cash and gift prizes,” said Kelly Sabetta, Founder and President of Betta Book Publishing. “We are giving away more than $2500 worth of prizes to first-, second-, and third-place winners, as well as the opportunity to be featured in a Betta Book Publishing publication.”

Many local companies are also showing their support for the First Annual Writing Contest, including First Niagara Bank, Balance Point, Midnight Janitorial, Lift Bridge Book Shop, and Robben’s Nest Stitchery.

The contest, which opened in May, is made up of four categories; Fiction, Non-fiction, Poetry, and Scripts; with at least four subcategories in each. Manuscripts may be submitted electronically or via postal mail, and must include the Contestant Application Form and a one-page synopsis of the work. A full list of guidelines and regulations of the contest are posted on the Betta Book Publishing Web site.

For more information, please contact WritingContest@bettabookpublishing.com, or visit www.bettabookpublishing.com.

“We decided to expand our First Annual Writing Contest to include the Upstate NY region due to the feedback we’ve been receiving from interested participants,” said Kelly Sabetta, Founder and President of Betta Book Publishing. “We’ve had many inquiries about the contest and continue to receive messages from writers who are very excited and motivated by the opportunity.“

The contest is designed to show support for, and give back to, Greater Rochester Area’s writers, as well as Upstate New York’s writers. Betta Book Publishing will reward contestants with at least $2,500 in cash and prizes for first-, second-, and third-place winners. Also, all applicants will retain the rights to their submitted work.

The contest is made up of four categories; Fiction, Non-fiction, Poetry, and Scripts; with at least four subcategories in each. Manuscripts may be submitted electronically via Betta Book Publishing’s Web site, or address via postal mail. Betta Book Publishing will be accepting manuscripts until August 1^st.

For more information, please contact 585-576-5297, WritingContest@bettabookpublishing.com, or visit www.bettabookpublishing.com.

“We are not just a handy-man type company; we are an all-around type construction company.”

David Lenhard, Founder and Owner of Top Quality General Contracting, established the company in December 2009 to help local and regional property owners with their commercial and residential projects.

“We help first-time homebuyers and homeowners who are looking for upgrades, remodeling, or repairs,” said Lenhard. “We also help customers who buy and flip houses who need contractors to come in and do the work for them, as well as assist builders who build residential and commercial properties from the ground up.”

Top Quality General Contracting offers an array of services including electrical, plumbing, ceramic, vinyl and floating hardwood flooring, carpentry, roofing, landscaping, siding, plowing, drywall, and painting. “We do new work and old repairs,” said Lenhard. “There’s no job too big or too small.”

With their can-do attitude, Top Quality General Contracting doesn’t specialize in just one area. Many of their employees specialize in different fields. They include licensed plumbers and electricians with more than 12 years experience; roofers with more than 20 years experience; landscapers with more than eight years experience; and carpenters with more than 20 years experience.

With such a wide range of employees on their team, Top Quality General Contracting offers their customers many years of experience to help them create or recreate the design of their project. Because they offer such rich resources, they provide the customer with less hassle and more personalized customer service tailored to their every need.

“Our main goal is to provide ‘Top Quality’ work and a fair price to our customers and community,” Lenhard said. His company, which is fully insured, offers fair and competitive rates, free estimates to their customers, and the promise to keep the quality of their customer’s property.

For more information about Top Quality General Contracting, please contact David Lenhard at 585-355-3717 or topqualityGC@yahoo.com, or visit www.TQgeneralcontracting.com.

As a first-time published author, Kathe began to create an adventurous story about a young girl who embarks on a car-ride journey with her parents and her dog. The adventure, as readers will experience, will spark new conversations and memories as families read this book together.

“Writing children’s books brings me back to the time when I read with my kids,” Kathe said. “It makes me feel part of the character, which is what I hope to bring to parents and children who spend time together to experience the adventure in Wow, What a Ride!”

Wow, What a Ride! is a fun, educational book that will continue to provide a new experience each time it is read. The characters, sceneries, and expressions will connect each reader to their childhood memories, imagination, and child-like spirit.

“This is a book that will allow parents and children to explore together,” Kathe said. “I wrote this story to bring enjoyment to others as it continues to be brought to me.”

Kathe is currently working on her next children’s book, which will be a continuation of Wow, What a Ride! For more information, please contact Kathe Yuksel at WowWhatARide@rochester.rr.com.