Is Independent Consulting Your Next Role? You've been successful inside organizations, and now it's time to extend that success to potential clients. But you don't want to be a smarmy marketer. Instead,...

Suspect your coworker of working against the company? Mischief—or worse—follows that person around. You need a corporate spy.Traditional spies stand outside, looking in. Corporate spies stand inside. That's...

Free your inner nonfiction writer as you learn to write fast and well. Do you want to write nonfiction better and faster? But when you try to write, you feel stuck, or you don't like what you wrote, or...

Dana needed a summer job to escape becoming an unpaid babysitter for her family. But it was 1977. And women need not apply—especially women who'd just graduated from high school.Ready to earn that job,...

What makes a great heroine? Not the cape. Not their weapons or their physical attributes. Great heroines act. In this mystery-oriented collection, Johanna Rothman offers you five original short stories...

Do you dream of speaking at a conference? You want to share your successes—and maybe your failures. Conference committees accept proposals they understand. Those same committees reject confusing proposals. You...

The world needs a little cleaning up, and Amanda Scott and Associates have the will, the technology, and the power to do so. With high-tech gadgets, superior hacking skills, and an ability to extract...

Would you like your organization to innovate more? Start with your management practices. You might never have seen innovation in management. You are not alone. Learn to create an environment where people...

You can excel at managing people when you lead and serve them. You might have only seen managers try to direct and control others. You might think you can't possibly lead and serve others. Especially...

You can become an excellent manager when you manage yourself first. If you're like most managers, you've never seen management excellence. You are not alone. Modern management requires we first manage...

Would you like the chance to visit another world? Maybe see a glimpse of an alternative reality? In this genre-spanning short story collection, Johanna Rothman brings you five original short stories....

Does your agile project feel like a death march, with immovable deadlines, long backlogs, and no time to do the work right? If so, you're not alone. Fake agility has your project by the throat and won't...

Do you believe in magic? Even if you don't, do you ever wonder what—or who—causes some of the problems in our world? You might want the equivalent of magical cops to keep you safe.That's the role of the...

The holidays are all about our humanity—good, bad, and in between. In this collection, Johanna Rothman offers this heartwarming collection of holiday short stories. This collection contains these five...

Scale collaboration, not process.If you’re trying to use agile and lean at the program level, you’ve heard of several approaches, all about scaling processes. If you duplicate what one team does for several...

Are you a technical person, such as a software developer, tester, writer, or project manager? You know that a job search is tough. You have to network, online and in person. You have to customize your...

Hiring a person for your team is the single most important decision you can make. It has long-lasting impact, whether you are the manager or a team member. Would you like to learn to hire great people?...

If you have trouble estimating cost or schedule for your projects, you are not alone. The question is this: who wants the estimate and why?The definition of estimate is “guess.” But too often, the people...

Does your organization value and rank projects based on estimation? Except for the shortest projects, estimation is often wrong. You don’t realize the value you planned when you wanted. How can you finish...

Distributed agile teams have a terrible reputation. They don't deliver "on time," and too often, they don't deliver what the customer needs. However, most agile teams, have at least one remote team member....

Will you join us this Halloween? What do you want from a Halloween night? Spooky decorations? A bowl of candy? A ghostly chill in the air? How about a werewolf's curse? A final dance with the dead? A...

Will you be our valentine?  What do you want for Valentine's Day? A heart-shaped box of chocolates? Dinner out with the love of your life? A romantic river cruise?  How about a murder mystery? Betrayal?...

A Magazine Celebrating Romance:Love romance? Love discovering the best new writers with bite-sized stories? Or maybe you prefer to treat yourself by escaping into a sure-to-please favorite author's world...

The readers, the fans, the reviewers all weighed in over the first year of Pulphouse Fiction Magazine. Five issues, almost 100 stories. They raved about some stories, liked others, and found some eye-opening,...

Forget run-of-the-mill holiday stories. In this cleverly creative WMG Holiday Spectacular anthology, award-winning editor Kristine Kathryn Rusch offers a carefully curated collection of unexpected holiday...

Take your wildest imagination, and you might just come up with a Pulphouser: a rare creature only found on the pages of Pulphouse Fiction Magazine.Add in some more strange creatures and critters, and...

Looking for love in all the wrong places? If you love a good romance, your search ends here. These eleven stories hit the heart-shaped target of love that romantics of every age crave, as accurately as...

When you ask a bunch of professional writers to send in stories to a Pulphouse Fiction Magazine anthology called Snot-Nosed Aliens, you get a bunch of really, really strange stories. Perfect.Known for...

14 Tales of GadgetsWe love our toys. Modern-day worker bee or undercover criminal, every aspect of our lives teems with gadgets.  Office, home, automobile, bicycle — even while doing the shopping or going...

In this third Fiction River Special Edition, award-winning editor Kristine Kathryn Rusch proves a master of intrigue with a wide variety of spy stories. Ranging in tone from satire to serious, from touching...