Look and Listen

Biography

My career in publishing began in the fall of 1976 with Random House. In 1979 I joined the book division at Warner Communications, where I spent more than twenty-three years in sales and management. During that time the company expanded to become The Time Warner Book Group (sold in 2006 to Hachette Book Group USA, a French Company).

My sales team distributed over a thousand titles a year from a number of large publishing houses including Little, Brown; Warner Books; Hyperion; Miramax Books; Bulfinch; Back Bay; Little, Brown Books for Young Readers; and Disney. I sold books to some of the largest independent booksellers and mass merchants in the country as well as managing a sales force nationwide. I retired as Vice-President, Director Field Sales in 2003.

Over the years I was fortunate to have worked on books written by such bestselling authors as: • David Baldacci • Michael Connelly • John Feinstein • Robert Kiyosaki • Alice Sebold • Anita Shreve • Scott Turow • Jack Welch • Sandra Brown • Nelson DeMille • Malcolm Gladwell • James Patterson • David Sedaris • Nicholas Sparks • Robert James Waller • Tiger Woods I was also fortunate to have worked on thousands of multi-million copy bestselling titles such as: • The Bridges of Madison County • Simple Abundance • The Lovely Bones • To Kill A Mockingbird • The Celestine Prophecy • Presumed Innocent • The Notebook • The Lion King • Rich Dad, Poor Dad • Scarlett • Megatrends • Catcher in the Rye • Along Came A Spider • Absolute Power • Kiss the Girls • The General's Daughter

Now I spend my time writing, teaching, and speaking with writers about the marketplace and the business of publishing. My commitment is to provide essential information writers need for achieving success. My goal is to help writers become successfully published authors by educating them about the business of publishing and revealing the secrets of the largest booksellers and publishers in the world.

Inspiration

The authors with whom I have worked over the years that never forgot what it was like to be a struggling writer, regardless of the pressures from their publishers. They never waivered in their attempt to improve their craft regardless of the money and fame. These are true writers who just happen to be published authors.