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My writing services have helped over forty fine authors with their books. Here are twelve of them. Please check them out:

The Intentional Networker: Attracting Powerful Relationships, Referrals & Results in Business
by Patti DeNucci
Intential Networker

Are you investing time and money to attend networking events? Are you meeting people and exchanging business cards, but not getting the results you want? Are you hesitant to network at all because it's unpleasant, frustrating, time-consuming, and ineffective? Many books on the topic of networking and business relationships encourage you to get out there, network as much as possible, and exchange dozens of business cards. Not so fast! Networking and business referral expert Patti DeNucci believes you could be trying too hard, networking too much, and doing so without enough planning and focus. What's more, you could be networking in the wrong places, with the wrong people, and in ways that could sabotage your reputation and your chances of attracting what you want. In response, Patti wrote The Intentional Networker: Attracting Powerful Relationships, Referrals & Results in Business, a book that teaches you a more holistic, purposeful, and effective approach to networking.

You can purchase this book on Amazon.com.

Berried in Chocolate
by Shari Fitzpatrick

From the owner of The Berry Factory (www.berryfactory.com) comes this down-to-earth, heartfelt business success story, designed to appeal to the ever-growing number of people who are drawn to home-based entrepreneurship and who are searching for successful role models. A dozen key lessons are illustrated with events from the author's personal and professional life in the field of luxury chocolate-dipped fruits.

You can purchase this book on Amazon.com.

Rebooting My Brain: How a Freak Aneurysm Reframed My Life
by Maria Ross

Rebooting My Brain is the true story of what happens when you get yanked out of your life by a crisis and have to get back on the ride all over again. With refreshing candor, Maria Ross shares how the relentless pace of her life came to a screeching halt when an undetected brain aneurysm ruptured and nearly killed her. Along her stubborn road back to health, her resulting cognitive and emotional challenges forced her sometimes kicking and screaming to reframe her life, her work and her identity. With humor and heart, Ross shares what it was like being blind for six weeks, how a TV crime drama and a brain-games website played key roles in her recovery, and why a handmade necklace helped her regain her sense of self. Ross reveals the keys to her extraordinary comeback and how her perspective is forever changed, mostly for the better. Funny, touching and real, this book not only shares an inspirational story of transformation but enlightens readers about the surprising effects of brain injury... and explores the question, How do our brains define who we are?

You can purchase this book on Amazon.com.

Six Figures: Mixing Friendship & Business … Like a Good Martini
by Gina McAndrew, Lee Knapp, Barbara Parsons, Susan Cullen, Nicolle Carfagnini, and Lauri Mitchell

Six Figures is one of those rare books that grabs you from deep within and doesn't let you go until the last page. Even then, you're left with the incredible craving for more -- more real life stories of love, friendship, laughter, learning, tears and inspiration. Meet Bad Girls -- Gina, Lauri, Nicki, Susan, Barbara and Lee -- six professional women, all from different states, backgrounds and age groups who come together in an accidental meeting at a business conference in Minnesota. Take a trip with them down memory lane as they each take turns retelling their version of the blossoming of a wonderful friendship that has weathered the years of life's greatest ups, downs and in-betweens. Prepare to find yourself laughing out loud and reaching for the tissue box while rethinking your own life and searching to reconnect with your long lost girlfriends! This is truly an inspiring real story about six women on a journey to find success, themselves and each other in the process! Definitely a MUST READ!

You can purchase this book on Amazon.com.

The Un-Game: Four-Play to Business as Unusual
by Ingrid Martine

“The Un-Game” is both a captivating novel and an inspirational invitation for organizational leaders to engage in a cutting-edge paradigm shift about how 21st century organizations do business. While speaking specifically to managers and other leaders, it also has universal appeal—we are, after all, managers of our own lives. Like the young protagonist, Sam Adler, who longs to be a great manager, we too want to live our lives with clarity, focus, ease, and grace instead of walking around in a mental fog. With the support of master coach Sophia Zabar and four great manager mentors who challenge his meaning-making system, Sam learns to “unchain his brain” and recognize the roadblocks impeding the constructive change and spectacular success he desires for his struggling customer support department. He learns that—to his surprise—the “enemy” of this deeply needed change is not the enemy after all, but only a loyal opponent whom he can learn to outplay! Through author Ingrid Martine’s incisive four-step process—presented with the clarity of a management manual and the engaging fun of a novel—the reader can learn along with Sam the distinctions and skill-sets that allow him to see and systematically challenge his most closely held and often invisible beliefs, opinions, and conclusions. He finds that, while some still serve him, many out-dated notions need to be discarded in order for him to achieve the goals that light up his life. With limiting beliefs no longer invisible, Sam learns—as will the reader— how to design “games worth playing and goals worth playing for.”

You can purchase this book on Amazon.com.

Teaching Algebra to Chickens
by Donald E. Peckham with illustrations by Bill Keeling

Have you ever stopped to wonder how the universe can go on forever? How once upon a time there was nothingness and yet everything that now exists was somehow created out of that nothingness? Have you ever wondered if there’s a master designer God, the universe, the Force, or whatever you’d like to call it that made everything? And if this ultimate being made everything, then who made him? And then there’s the smaller stuff: How does our brain work? Why are we so different from animals or are we? Do gender differences really matter? Why is there war? What will happen to humans if we destroy our environment? What happens when we die? The fact is that life is filled with endless unanswerable questions, but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t ask them. Join author Don Peckham as he ponders those things in life that defy explanation and the things that seem beyond our comprehension. While we think we may know the answers, Don will challenge you to look past those beliefs that you readily accept and question their validity. We may not be able to answer every question that life raises any better than a chicken can learn algebra, but we can open our awareness to a place of wonder and respect for the unanswerable.

You can purchase this book on Amazon.com

Owning Patricia: a story of Breaking Free
by Patricia Bonelli

Patricia Bonelli built a successful twenty-year career in law enforcement, even though she started life on the wrong side of the law. As a teenager, she was neglected by parents and quickly learned how to survive on the streets by offering the only thing of value she thought she had-her body. As a single teenage mom, Patricia began a seemingly impossible turnaround to save her own life, so she could save her children. Through resourcefulness, determination, and sheer guts, she made it from one side of a holding cell to another. Her story shows that choice determines destiny and that new choices are always possible. No one is beyond redemption. And she shows us all that adversity can be our greatest teacher if we are courageous enough to embrace its gifts. An inspiring read that will change the way you see those on both sides of the law.

You can purchase this book on Amazon.com or on Patricia’s website: www.lifecoachandmentor.com.

Conquer Prostate Cancer: How Medicine, Faith, Love and Sex Can Renew Your Life

by Rabbi Ed Weinsberg

This book is fun to read! Full of love and humor, courage and practicality, it empowers patients to face diagnosis with dignity, explore their options realistically, and tackle recovery with optimism and determination. It is also an insightful resource for their wives or partners, family, friends, doctors, and other healthcare providers. Winner of FOUR national awards!

Wise Irish Women: A Journey of Love, Loyalty, and Friendship to Inspire the Irish Spirit
by Patricia Connorton Kagerer and Laura Prendergast Gordon

Open the door to the legends of successful, inspirational women with one common thread - a heartwarming connection to Ireland. Each story, in its own unique way, is about pursuing a dream and making a difference. Whether it's one by the great mystery writer Mary Higgins Clark, playwright Marianne McDonald, or the authors themselves, each illustrates how these wise women have made a difference in their own corner of the world. Covering areas such as Irish charm and Irish luck, among others, over 35 women from all walks of life chime in with stories that will make you both cry and laugh out loud - from surviving as a widow, to breaking the curse of alcoholism, to finding love in the most unlike of places. Welcome to Wise Irish Women. Allow this magical book to inspire you to take a step toward your dreams and your own unique life experience.

You can purchase this book on Amazon.com

It's All in the Tone:
The Life and Music of Johnnie Jessen
by Johnnie Jessen as told to Kim Pearson.

Read an excerpt from this full life memoir of Seattle's own Johnnie Jessen, a well known musician, performer and teacher for almost eighty years. His unique method of "glottal" blowing has enabled him and his students to attain a superior tone on all woodwind instruments, and his charismatic personality and colorful history has inspired generations of professional musicians and music lovers. This book can be purchased from the Jessen Music Foundation (Email: jessenmusic@comcast.net) and all proceeds will go toward providing music scholarships to deserving junior high and high school students.

"I received a copy of your book, "It's All in the Tone: The Life & Music of Johnnie Jessen." I read the book over the weekend and my heart was touched. Thank you for the wonderful job you did putting this remarkable man's story down on paper."

A charming book about adoption, family, and the love beween a daughter and her mother. At times funny, and at all times touching, The Mommy Orphanage is sure to delight children and parents alike.

Media Tips for Authors: How to Get Free Publicity for Your Book
by Whitney M. Keyes

After the Book is Written – Then What? Writers tend to be introverts, happy to be hunkered down in front of our computers, communing with our keyboards. Writing is a solitary activity. We like it that way. On the other hand, nearly all writers want to be published authors. We want other people to read our beautiful words. Otherwise why write them? But once we do achieve that hoped-for nirvana, publication, an upsetting thing happens. Our books will just sit there on a bookstore’s shelf (until they are returned) if we don’t talk about them. Talk about them out loud. To other people. We have to learn how to market, sell, and promote. OMG. Not what we thought we were getting into. Not what we’re good at.

What’s a way around this problem? Well, we can get other people to talk about our books for us. Preferably people in the media, who can get even more people to listen to them. But that means we have to talk to the media. And we don’t know how to do that either. Now what? Read this deceptively short and simple booklet, “Media Tips for Authors: How to Get Free Publicity for Your Book”. Have you ever noticed that all the truly useful tools are usually the short and simple ones?

Keyes’ book is such a useful tool, managing to take a complex subject and break it down into a few easy steps. Then it shows you how to walk those steps, giving practical exercises and real-life examples of how authors can easily use the media to help them promote their books.

This sweet little gem of a book is available at www.WhitneyKeyes.com. If you’re an author wanting to sell your book, I recommend you hop over there and buy one.

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