The gods were real. They were us. They've never gone out of business.

It seemed like a good idea at the time. 

In fact, it was a great idea… right up until it became a full-blown Texas-sized dumpster fire.

Meet Barnard and Audie: two intelligent, mid-30-ish guys with big brains, bigger opinions, and zero practice actually following through on a “life-changing” idea. Barnard has spent years building the kind of resource pile that really matters … mint-in-box Star Wars and Star Trek action figures. Audie is on his sixth major on the scenic route to a two-year degree and this time he’s totally going to stick the landing.

So, when Barnard gets a sudden burst of inspiration to film and write about hidden-gem travel spots across Texas, they do what any responsible adult would do: hit the road with smart phones, smart mouths, and a talent for making the worst possible decision on the first try. From kicker bars to the Alamo to the Mexican border, their trip ignites on night one. Then the spark meets gasoline in the form of two nefarious rednecks and a pair of wildly entitled debutantes.

It’s a weeklong joyride across the great state of Texas, if your definition of “joy” includes near-disaster, bad ideas multiplying in the heat, and two guys learning (repeatedly) that confidence is not the same thing as a plan. From the first night out, Donnie and Sid are on them like poop on a boot, less interested in herding cattle than herding Barnard and Audie into trouble. The result? It’s a fast, funny spiral into perilous, high-stakes mayhem with just enough heart to keep you cheering between the laugh-snorts.

And then, like a tumbleweed meeting a blow torch, two beautiful young women breeze across their path and complicate everything in the best (and worst) way. Can a lifelong friendship survive the open road, bad influences, and the inconvenient arrival of unexpected, highly questionable romance?

How many times have you laughed out loud reading a book? 

Texas Dumpster Fire is a laugh-out-loud, clean fun, road trip comedy with heart where every mile brings a new mistake, a new memory, and a new reason to ask, “How are they still alive?” If you like smart-alecky friends, escalating chaos, and the kind of adventure that starts with a dream and ends with someone saying, “Don’t tell my insurance,” this is your next book.
 

Grab your copy and hop in. Just don’t ask where they’re going to park the Smart Car. Especially if there’s a pickup truck involved.

If you’ve ever watched your best intentions collapse under the weight of a cluttered mind, unfinished plans, and that familiar shame of “Why can’t I just do what other people do?,” this book is for you.

Make My Life Work is a steady, hard-won guide for adults who’ve lived with neurodivergence, executive dysfunction, and the quiet fear that they’re falling behind. Mark Mills doesn’t offer a trendy “hack,” a magical morning routine, or another system you’ll abandon in a week. Instead, he shares seven weeks of short, powerful reflections, five per week, built to be read one bite-sized breakthrough at a time, because these are what has worked for him.

Following the spirit of Stephen Covey’s Seven Habitscombined with a grounded, practical spirituality Mills reframes effectiveness for people whose brains don’t cooperate on command. You’ll learn ways to shift from urgency to intention, build goals that don’t collapse at the first setback, and create a life design that fits you instead of punishing you for not fitting everyone else.

• Turn overwhelming to-do lists into clear priorities      (without self-judgment).
• Recognize what’s truly urgent versus what only feels     urgent.
• Work with your attention, energy, and emotions instead      of constantly fighting them.
• Stop letting “failure” define you. Start using it as information      for you to define yourself.
• Build momentum through patience, purpose, synergy, and      daily renewal.

This is the book you reach for when you’re tired of starting over, tired of pep talks that don’t translate into real life, and ready to become the kind of person who can keep promises to yourself. Whether you’re 20 or 60, newly diagnosed or simply exhausted, these pages will meet you where you are and walk with you toward something better: a well-balanced life that finally works. Because you are not broken and you are not done. Even if you are 65. 

Have you ever watched your intentions evaporate between “I’ll do it today” and “Why can’t I just do it?”

Rest assured, you’re not lazy. You’re paddling upstream.

Paddling Upstream: Build an ADHD Dream with Relentless Intent will become one of the top self-improvement essentials for people who want real change without pretending it’s easy and without some high-level guru giving academic advice that even neurotypical people have trouble implementing.

This book is self-help AND growth. It’s a book for the brilliant, exhausted, often-misunderstood mind, especially attention deficit disorder adults (ADHD/ADD), whether diagnosed or not. If you’ve lived with executive dysfunction and a lifetime of starting strong then stalling out, this book meets you with equal parts honesty, humor, and hard-won hope.

Mark Mills addresses what so many people quietly carry: burnout, inconsistency, shame, and the fear that you’re “failing at life” because he has carried those demons, too. Then he gives you something sturdier than motivation - relentless intent - a practical way of thinking that helps you keep showing up. You’ve heard lots of self-help and motivation buzzwords. When have you heard of relentless intent?

The author, maybe like you, grew tired of motivational books, managers and directors, and well-meaning friends and family saying, “just try harder.” So, this isn’t one of those books. It’s a book about developing follow-through by focusing on your dreams. It’s about building a life that fits your brain rather than the other way around that everyone else seems to teach. Each chapter is about a ten-minute read describing one doable stroke at a time.

If you’re looking for books that help you make yourself better, you have a deeply spiritual way of looking at the world while not overly religious, and you want to pursue serious goals while taking the world less seriously, you’ve found the right place.

Inside, you’ll find bite-sized reflections, practical perspective shifts, and memorable self-improvement quotes to help you:

• Stop feeling like executive dysfunction is a character flaw and start working around it
• Turn setbacks into school, failures into missed basketball shots instead of believing they are verdicts convicting yourself of unworthiness. You can exit the self-shame spiral.
• Create traction when motivation disappears by building tiny, repeatable steps into a habit that actually sticks
• Rebuild trust in yourself after years of “almost,” “not yet,” and “why can’t I?”
• Stay spiritually grounded without feeling boxed into a specific tradition or belief system
• Pursue a big dream and a busy life at the same time without burning out

If you’re tired of paddling harder while drifting backward, this is your reminder that you’re not broken, and you’re not alone. You can learn to work with your mind, not against it. Work with your dreams, not trapped inside them. Build the kind of steady persistence that lasts.

Pick up Paddling Upstream and start building your ADHD dream with relentless intent … today.

Some books whisper. This one opens the door and leaves the lights on.

In these poems, Mark Mills writes from the raw places where confidence and collapse live side by side, where the mind can be a sanctuary one moment and a storm the next. The pages move through insomnia and inspiration, devotion and doubt, quiet mornings and loud internal noise, holding nothing back except pretense. You won’t find that within the transparent honesty of these poems.

Threaded through the collection are the lived textures of ADHD: racing “thought-kids,” missed turns, sudden clarity, and the ache of trying to hold onto what keeps slipping away. There are visits to darker rooms in one’s mind such as shame, fear, grief, and the raw language of a mind at its edge. These contrast with sunrise moments of grit, tenderness, spirituality, and the kind of love that feels like rescue without pretending it’s easy.

This is poetry for grown readers who’ve done enough living to recognize a daily tug-of-war struggle : the urge to hide, the need to be seen, the fight to keep going, and the quiet decision to begin again. Paired with the book’s visual elements, the work reads like a private journal you weren’t meant to find … until you realize it’s describing you, too.

Perfect for readers who:
want emotionally honest, contemporary poetry
resonate with ADHD, anxiety, overthinking, or relentless inner dialogue
believe healing can be messy, funny, profane, spiritual, and real
look for light that doesn’t deny the dark, but defines it

Note: Contains mature themes and strong language.