Skilled editor for your nonfiction book, primarily business/leadership, true crime, self-help/health. I love first-time authors.
Book editor and independent publishing consultant who loves working with first-time authors. I edit books, evaluate manuscripts, draft web copy, and advise on publishing options for authors of nonfiction. I also judge national book awards, blog on Medium, and kayak when the boss isn't looking.
Instructor for noncredit continuing education classes in how to write, publish, and market a book. Added a course on how to write your story for memoir writers.
Edward T. Creagan MD, Sandra Wendel
How long am I going to live? Who will be with me when I die? Will my family forgive me? Will I have pain?—are among the 31 vital end-of-life questions patients and their families ask. This book is about navigating those last days, at the bedside, and saying farewell with hope, love, and compassion.Dr. Edward Creagan provides the reassuring answers patients and families deserve. He has dedicate... read more
Vegas like you've never seen, tales you've never heard -- until now. Sizzing, behind-the-scenes stories about the men, the Mob, movie stars, and missing money that made '50s and '60s Vegas such a hot spot in the Nevada desert. “On opening night at the Cal-Neva Lodge, Sinatra's guests included Marilyn Monroe, Joe Kennedy and his son, John F. Kennedy. Also there that weekend were Johnny Roselli ... read more
From the Ashes of Fruit Trees Grew Today’s Silicon ValleyThousands of cookie-cutter homes for high-tech workers sprouted from the funeral pyres of a vanishing way of life as acres of lush fruit trees were bulldozed and burned to create today’s Silicon Valley. One of the children who grew up in this new suburbia in San Jose, California, was Tom Liggett, a neglected, unwanted child of dysfunctio... read more
Jordan, Robert, Wagner, Olivia
Creagan MD, Edward T., Wendel, Sandra
Milton Mendel Kleinberg
The war brought about scarcities of just about everything...except misery. “Alle raise,” (everybody out), the German soldiers screamed as they pounded on our door with the butts of their rifles. And thus began a 4,500-mile journey from Poland through Russia and Siberia and eventually to Uzbekistan in Central Asia, as the author’s family used bribery and darkness of night to flee as the Nazis i... read more
The summer of 1939 turned out to be the last summer of author Lucy Lipiner’s childhood. On September 1, when she was six years old, her parents roused Lucy and her older sister from their beds, and with other relatives in tow fled their town of Sucha and the invasion by Nazi Germany . Their journey of survival was not easy, and in Long Journey Home: A Young Girl’s Memoir of Surviving the Holoc... read more
13 seconds of pure terror in a shootout with a drug dealer... Real crime. Real-life cop stories. Sergeant Mark Langan relives his front-row seat working the seamier side of crime during his decorated twenty-six-year career from youngest rookie in 1978 to narcotics sergeant on the Omaha Police force. Langan caught bold burglars who silently entered homes to get thrills off of touching sleeping ... read more
A haunting triple murder... the inside story of the investigation. When two worlds collide—the illegal transportation of tons of Mexican cartel marijuana to inner city gang members in a Midwestern city’s “hood”—three bodies end up burning, caught in a web of greed as a major international drug deal goes very bad. The chilling trail of evidence from a remote wooded area where three bodies are s... read more
Father Ken Vavrina
“The very first bridge I crossed was choosing to study for the priesthood, a decision that took me and everyone who knew me by surprise. Then came a series of bridges that once crossed brought me into contact with diverse peoples and their incredibly different yet similar needs.” Father Vavrina has served as a priest for many years, and has served several missions trips to help the needy. Fath... read more
DOCTOR, CAN YOU NAVIGATE THE DANGEROUS WATERS TO REACH A FINANCIAL POSITION TO DO WHAT YOU WANT, WHEN YOU WANT? For even high-earning physicians, wealth-building is fraught with complexity.Read this book to gain insights about *The forces that shape a physician's relationship with money, *Common financial mistakes physicians make, *Habits that separate wealthy physicians from struggling physic... read more
Sandra Goldberg Wendel
(COLOR EDITION) A bit of memoir with a dash of recipes You don’t have to be Jewish to enjoy these family stories or the ethnic-flavored goodies. Just pull up a chair to our dining room table and savor the love (served with a hearty dollop of butter and sour cream) in every recipe. Like dessert, the best is saved for last, and you’ll find Diana “Nama” Goldberg’s easy recipe for the World’s Best... read more
Rock me all night long— A decade of rock history… and a decade of rock fan adoration for one little chiquita from Omaha who spent star-studded nights with superstars of eighties rockdom: David Lee Roth with Van Halen, Billy Squier, Ozzy Osbourne’s Jake E. Lee, Paul Stanley of Kiss, Motley Crue’s Nikki Sixx, Bret Michaels and Poison, Vivian Campbell and Def Leppard, the J. Geils Band’s Peter Wo... read more
On they came, from Belgium and New Hampshire, from Ireland, Germany and Scandinavia, from the Chicago fire, from the territories: Utah, Wyoming, Kansas, the Dakotas.All the way they brawled, about Indians, about border lines, about slavery, about who was the bigger imbecile.And then they fought County Seat Wars in most of the 3,000 new counties. A thousand of those remaining ended up in south ... read more
Chris LeGrow
Grab your walker, secure your catheter, and make sure there’s double adhesive on your dentures! Then hang on for dear life because you are about to ride along with the covert Senile Squad—a bunch of elderly cops who refuse to stop catching crooks. Fighting street crime the old-fashioned way is their modus operandi. The Ol’ Blues, led by their cigar-chewing Sarge, bring justice back to the stre... read more
Marilyn June Coffey
The massive orphan train exodus whisked three-year-old Teresa from the safety of her New York orphanage, where the worst thing the Foundling nuns did was wash her curly black hair, to a desolate house and cold-hearted "parents" in Kansas. There she entered a small and strange Volga German world whose inhabitants spoke a language she had never heard. In this odd world, she encountered whippings... read more
Craig W. Ross, Angela V. Paccione, Victoria L. Roberts
An inspiring, practical and progress-oriented blueprint for energetic achievement. Amid constant swirl, uncertainty, and complexity is your team capable of doing big things? Too often people are pulled together, labeled a “team,” given a directive, and expected to deliver results quickly. Soon, however, due to lack of focus, increasing pressures and competing priorities the team suffers from D... read more
Cristy Clarke Hedgpeth
"This is the go-to book for all things Iowa Great Lakes, especially Okoboji, from past history through present times. It is loaded with rare images, plus your favorites, and all the information you need. I love this book, and you will too." ~Mary Kennedy, Curator of the Iowa Great Lakes Maritime Museum
Benjamin Sledge
Self-Harm, Self-Injury, Cutting Hope for a Generation, Help for Families *includes workbook, journal, and accompanying videos Many in the emerging generation have found themselves in a hopeless cycle of self-harm. Whether it's cutting, burning, hair pulling, or beating themselves up with guilt and shame, they can't get out of the same rut. Most aren't even sure why they do it. All they know is... read more
Mike King
Most Americans have historically viewed the nation s great public hospitals as refuges of last resort for poor and uninsured people. But these iconic institutions some recently closed, some renamed, others rebuilt -- have also served as a safety valve for the nation s highly profitable medical industrial complex. They are a key to understanding the evolution of America s $3 trillion health car... read more
Strap in, put down your “nogs,” and get ready for takeoff. Combat veteran Seth Wilson puts his rigorous pilot training to work as a real estate entrepreneur and shows you how to navigate through uncharted skies to land successful real estate deals, provide on-target customer service, and shoot for savvy investment strategies. Take an insider’s view from the cockpit through lessons learned in t... read more
Discover the Passionate Leader within YouDan Foxx has spent more than 50,000 hours face-to-face with over 4,500 top execs from America’s finest companies, from high-flying high techs to promising start-ups. With pressure from boards of directors and investors to deliver dollars and high-ticket IPOs and with expectations from direct reports to make the savvy decisions, these CEOs bare all behin... read more
If you could fast forward your life to your deathbed and hear your regrets (and joys), then rewind and live your life with that knowledge, would you do it? This book provides that knowledge. After fourteen years in the funeral business, Chris Meyer has sat with families and listened to their “could’ves,” “should’ves,” and “would’ves.” In doing so he learned many lessons—lessons that kept repea... read more
Christine Matzen
Do you want to become a leader worth following?Are you excited about launching a new business? Maybe you are already a business owner/entrepreneur. Certainly, you’re the leader in your own life.Do you know the number one investment you can make for your business? That’s an investment in YOU. The leader of any business can make or break the success of that venture. Becoming a developed leader w... read more
Jennifer Herbranson
Do you hate marketing your book? Are you daunted by the task? Don't know where to start? Tired of hearing ALL the marketing you have to do to be a "real" author?Stop right here.You want to just write books. But you also want to sell books, quit your cube job, and be a full-time author.To do that, you absolutely must--no-way-around-it--market your book.But not the way you've been told.In this b... read more
Lynn-Vannoy, Barbara, Lynn-Vannoy, Barbara
Talia Wagner, Allen Wagner
Are You Married but Living Like Roommates?Do you sleep back-to-back or even separately? Do you feel lonely, bored, and sexually frustrated in your marriage? Have you, in fact. Become just roommates?Millions of couples live empty parallel lives and wonder, “is this all there is”?Talia and Allen Wagner, Marriage and Family Therapists, have shed a light on this sadly familiar, silent epidemic of ... read more
Chocolate cake makes sweet dreams come true. In a real-life fairy tale, author Sheryl Ness shares how she fell in love with Vincenzo, a chef in a quaint Tuscan kitchen, over his decadent hot chocolate cake. This enchanting memoir will transport you to the cobblestone streets, lush hillsides dotted with grapevines and olive trees, and unique characters that create the backdrop for Sheryl’s Ital... read more
Michael A Endicott
No one had an inside view of the renaissance of Richard Nixon after Watergate better than the Secret Service Agent by his side for fourteen years—Michael Endicott.This is a story about politics, history, and power. But, most of all, this is a story about a working-class kid from the south side of Tacoma, Washington, who became a Secret Service Agent and traveled the world, building a relations... read more
Bank Robber Turns to Stacking Bitcoin:Cryptocurrency Trader No Longer Needs Banks The "Skinny Bandit"--a whiter-than-cocaine kid from the gang-filled streets of Otay in San Diego--who robbed banks to eat ironically no longer needs banks because of his steady success in Bitcoin trading and other cryptocurrencies. Meticulous and calculating, Richard Stanley continually evaded capture and grew br... read more
William Dorsch, March 2023
Chris Schneider, February 2023
Ricardo Fayet, December 2022
Scott Habegger, August 2022
Robert Naismith, July 2022
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I'm a publisher and content strategist with more than 20 years of experience, specializing in nonfiction publishing and consulting.
Maplewood, NJ, USA
Career editor with a love of the perfectly crafted sentence. Travel, memoir, literary fiction, women's lit, health & well-being.
New Jersey, United States