Josh Wagner

National BestsellerUnlock the timeless secrets to building strong business partnerships based on the foundation of trust In The Go-to-Market Cheat Code: The Secret to Unlocking B2B Growth, award-winning entrepreneur Justin Gray and seasoned executive Josh Wagner deliver a research-rich and example-based exploration of why trust and relationships are the true foundation of every thriving business, and how you can build, maintain, and leverage trust in your own business dealings to gain an edge over competitors. This book avoids flash-in-the-pan trends and focuses instead on timeless proven principles that can help you scale your organization to the next level. Backed by a wealth of research and case studies, this book provides all of the practical tools readers need to bridge the gap between theory and practice. Readers will learn about topics including: The “digital mask” and how it has influenced the starting point of trust in any business relationshipThe perfect enterprise sales cycle and customer journey to get results without rushing through crucial trust-building stagesCulture, customers, and context, and how the joining of these three elements creates a perfect business relationship The Go-to-Market Cheat Code: The Secret to Unlocking B2B Growth is a timely, essential read for all executives and founders seeking to understand the importance of trust in business relationships and unlock the secret to stronger, more lucrative business partnerships.

In search of a cure for the poison that is slowly killing him, Riggs Bombay, the boy who is not afraid of one single thing, sets off in a lung-shaped airship, his toxic hallucinations in tow. While navigating through physical, mental, and spiritual realms, Riggs discovers a most peculiar book, which drives his quest to the farthest reaches of the universe. There, despite the efforts of power-hungry scoundrels, eccentric philosophers, insatiable spirits, and creepy old men, Riggs must deliver the book into the hands of the one person who wants absolutely nothing to do with it "Vortexes and inter-dimensional hijinks ensue, filled with filled with wonderfully bizarre yet fully realized characters. A plot about as head-spinning as head-spinning gets while, miraculously, managing to make complete and perfect sense before lastpage is turned...a hyper-real Dr.-Seuss-writes-No-Exit."-David Baxter; BROKEN FRONTIER"The weirdest book I've ever read."-Bob Spear; HEARTLAND REVIEWS"...falls somewhere between James Joyce and Douglas Adams."-Andy Smetanka; MISSOULA INDEPENDENT

When the unluckiest shepherd in the village marries the most beautiful woman in the country, tragedy sparks a fantastic voyage to the Land of the Dead. As a ship of stories carries Sergio toward the setting sun he encounters the world's laziest pirates, a monster hunter displaced in time, a mediaeval version of the Marx Brothers, and a psychotic Kris Kringle. Arriving at last on the shores of the mythical continent that civilization would later call America, Sergio plunges into a drama that leads him far beyond the world's horizon. *** "Impressively, Deadwind Sea never gets predictable...it both satisfies and confounds reader expectations while also being unabashedly romantic... Warmth emanates from its pages." -Jamie S. Rich, Senior Editor at Vertigo Comics

The world's first pregnant virgin in over 2000 years lives in Missoula, Montana. Her nomadic best friend is wallowing in the fallout of a disastrous Las Vegas love affair when she asks him to come back home for the miraculous birth. Now he has no choice but go back to the one town he can't ever seem to stay away from. Smashing Laptops is a romance with wanderlust among a community of guerrilla artists, gnostic magicians, and fly-fishing fanatics peering over the edge of the millennium, as rotary phones and telephone poles slowly disintegrate into the 21st century.

"Nine million different shapes for the sunlight to take. Nine million different ways light slows itself down to experience time." Lexie is a 15-year-old loner who believes she can see the future. After an intense visionary experience, Lexie realizes it's her mission in life to make sure her high school crush gets knocked up. Fortunately, she knows just the man for the job. If her vision is correct, their child will grow up to save the world. Along the way, Lexie seeks help from the old folks at a high-tech retirement home, a clique of self-proclaimed eco-radicals, and a story her ex-girlfriend once told her about a grotesque tongue who seduces souls at the world's end. Shapes the Sunlight Takes is a coming-of-age story, a lyrical work of fantastic fiction about the deals we make with our past and future selves, where the search for perspective among a climate of self-delusion leads to a showdown between freedom and fate inside the surreal landscape of Lexie's imagination." Wagner's novel does what all good novels should do: it made me think about the way that I think.... Shapes is an odd, intimate story about the messy and complicated relationship between reality and fantasy." - Theo Ellsworth; Capacity, The Understanding Monster "With an attention to feelings and language that I'm inclined to describe as enviable.... Wagner remembers what it's like to be a teenage lesbian and does the dirty work of reminding the rest of us." - Molly Laich; Missoula Independent

Five plays for the stage, connected by themes of the subterranean and the subconscious: Bleach Bone - Returning to the field where he murdered his best friend years before, a ranch hand confronts his memories, his motives, his place in the cosmos, and a mysterious pile of bones. Bleach Bone was a winner of the "New Rocky Mountain Voices" competition in 2012. Ringing Out - A post-apocalyptic Christmas story about a family of survivalists living in a bunker 15 years after the end of the world. Pit Girl - A short play of modern love and independence adapted from a scene in the novel Smashing Laptops. On q(n) - A scientist explores his conviction that Time is slowly grinding to a halt. Symbiotic: A Love Story - A man stumbles upon a fatal car crash in a remote location. One woman has survived.

In a world where eternal youth is just something folks are learning to live without, Riggs Bombay, the boy who is not afraid of one single thing, only wanted to find a cure for his hallucinations. What he finds instead is Periphery Stowe's old storybook-a mystery entangled in the pages of history, and coveted by the secret powers of the world. Now Riggs must lug his hallucinations through valleys and vortexes, dodging the greedy grasp of codgers, villains, and philosophers long enough to deliver Stowe's book to the one man in the world who wants nothing to do with it Written during an adventure of his own into India, Wagner's poetic first novel offers a whimsical glimpse into the source of our fears, and a wink to our longing for longevity. Obsessive characters and dazzling imagery span the eternal horizon of this charming fable, from one quiet mountain village, to the infinite eye of the void somewhere on the periphery of Mister Stowe's imagination.