Stone & Stone law firm of Toms River, NJ helped GRE earn three total registered trademarks: This buys you financial freedom and the time to live your “daydream.” Instead, everyday people are simultaneously creating both passive income today and an appreciating asset for tomorrow with cash-flowing real estate. That is why they must keep working at their day job into old age. The obvious “Don’t quit your day job.” play-on-words references that most people only invest for the future. 15, 2020 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ - The influential real estate investing education company Get Rich Education (GRE) won a registered trademark for the phrase: “Don’t Quit Your Daydream®” from the U.S. “It can come through creating stories, so that’s kind of where I found my voice through ‘Other Side of the Tracks.As Published In Business Insider, TOMS RIVER, N.J., Jan. “It can come through your words, and there’s so much power in the pen,” she added. “I just really wrote myself into these two towns (Bayside and Hamilton) and into these characters, and it actually really helped, because I learned in the end that having a voice or standing up for what you believe in doesn’t always necessarily have to be with a megaphone in the middle of a protest, or on a stage under lights with a microphone.” “Writing ‘Other Side of the Tracks’ became like a form of therapy for me,” Alyse revealed. “Other Side of the Tracks” is available for pre-order wherever books are sold. I’m really looking forward to meeting readers and talking about their favorite parts, (parts) maybe they didn’t like so much and just connecting with the people that will be inspired and touched by this story.” “The story has belonged to me for so long, and I’m just so happy that it’s not just going to be my story anymore, that it’ll belong to everyone else. “I’m most looking forward to being able to connect with readers,” she said. “There’s no fantastical elements like aliens or anything, because it’s not like a fantasy, but they’re contemporary stories with classic spins.”Īlyse shared her excitement about her debut novel’s release. “Because I really feel – especially when it comes to writing contemporary stories – they’re very character-based as well, and so my stories are very character-led.” “I really just kind of like to write books that are loosely based on the classics that we love so much, and I like to put my own spin on things and modernize them,” she noted. “When my classmates read it, they were crying and laughing … It was just so emotional and it opened up this big discussion where I felt like I’d finally gotten my voice.”īefore selling “Other Side of the Tracks” at auction to Denene Millner Books – an imprint of Simon Teen – Alyse faced more than 200 rejections, but she has since been featured in Bustle women’s magazine and has received more than 200,000 impressions and counting on social media platforms such as TikTok. “I wrote about a racially divided town separated by train tracks and what happens when Black blood is spilled on the White side of town, and how these people react to this mystery that’s going on in the middle of their towns and how that promotes one missing unity,” Alyse explained. “And I really didn’t feel like I could be myself and really share how I felt about social justice and things like that … So I kind of poured that division that I had within myself into these pages.” “I was raised as one of the only people of color in every space that I was in, and a lot of people had varying opinions,” she noted. “This was during the time when the Black Lives Matter movement just kind of started getting a little bit more media attention, and I wasn’t really quite sure how I fit into it.”Īlyse said part of an inner conflict went into the book. “‘Other Side of the Tracks’ was born (in) that time,” she added. “In my sophomore year of college … I ended up going to school for English, just because I love reading so much, and my creative writing professor gave us this assignment and she told us to write a 10-page story about anything,” Alyse recalled.
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