Wellness Feels Good
Our award-winning copywriter collaborated with Meg Root to craft a website for her wellness coaching business.
The Secrets to Writing a Successful Business Plan: A Pro Shares a Step-by-Step Guide for Creating a Plan That Gets Results, by Hal Shelton
Published in collaboration with SCORE, this Amazon bestseller contains worksheets, checklists, charts, and financial tables. We were intimately involved in its development, from writing the cover title, chapter titles, subheads, and tip box heads to polishing the back cover description, and reviewing the e-book. This book has done extremely well, garnering Hal radio and TV…
The Joy of Financial Security: The Art and Science of Becoming Happier, Managing Your Money Wisely, and Creating a Secure Financial Future, by Donna Skeels Cygan
This book, which was featured in the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal (a major coup for a self-published book), mixes financial advice with scientific research on happiness. It was an organizational challenge, but we worked closely with the author to create this award-winning and critically acclaimed book. The book has been so…
The Journal on Active Aging, published by the International Council on Active Aging
We handled every pre-production task for the Council’s magazine featuring award-winning designs for senior communities. From writing and editing to photos and permissions, we turned in a complete package that was ready for design.
The Discreet Guide to Executive Women: How to Work Well with Men (and Other Difficulties)
This is an award-winning book, and the author has created a successful motivational speaking career and information products based on it, even appearing on CSNBC as their subject matter expert.
Staying Power: How to Age Proof Your Home for Comfort, Safety and Style, by Rachel Adelson
Written by a gerontology expert, this cutting-edge book has received rave reviews in the press, including one by the well-respected author of the New York Times “The New Old Age” blog. We collaborated with Rachel on the cover title and text as well as the back cover description and the book’s content. This self-published book…
Start Your Own Business: The Only Start-Up Guide You’ll Ever Need
Developed while I was managing editor of Entrepreneur magazine, this comprehensive, nearly 700-page business primer is now in its 7th edition and has sold over 300,000 copies. It continues to be Entrepreneur’s bestselling book, and I edit every update.
Secrets of a Financial Aid Pro: Master the College Funding Process and Give Your Child Lifelong Financial Skills Without Losing Your Cool, by Jodi Okun
Not only has this book earned critical acclaim in major book review publications, including being selected for review in Publisher’s Weekly (virtually unheard of for a self-published work), but Baker & Taylor (which rarely represents self-published works) asked to distribute Jodi’s book to libraries. We were intimately involved in its development, including creating a concept…
Rivelations for Business Professionals: Simple Changes You Can Make Now to Achieve the Extraordinary Life and Business You Desire, by Jim Riviello
We developed this book as the foundation for a series of information products based on Jim’s successful leadership coaching business. Our designer also developed the branding. The large silhouette of the “X” on the cover (which is central to the message behind his coaching) is featured throughout his business, from his website and social media…
Retirement Game-Changers: Strategies for a Healthy, Financially Secure, and Fulfilling Long Life, by Steve Vernon
This Amazon bestseller has garnered national press from the likes of the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times, and has resulted in a landslide of speaking engagements and interviews for the author, who is a highly regarded retirement expert for Stanford University. We designed the cover and the interior, wrote the title, collaborated…
Quick Wins for Healthy Eating: Easy Changes You and Your Family Can Make Now!
This wellness coach has been featured on the TV show “Rachel Ray” and has met with Michelle Obama at the White House as part of her initiative on childhood obesity. We wrote the front- and back-cover text, and created checklists, worksheets, sidebars, and tip boxes.
Quest for Distinction: Pepperdine University in the 20th Century, by W. David Baird
We oversaw every production task for this 752-page book, published by prestigious Pepperdine University. From back cover and interior design, proofreading and indexing to printing, warehouse and fulfillment (even setting up their Amazon Seller’s account), we finished this huge book on a tight deadline so it was ready for the university’s annual freshman weekend event.
Pressure: From FBI Fugitive to Freedom, by Malik Wade
We were involved in every detail of developing Malik’s compelling book, which details his rise to drug kingpin as a teen, through his years on the run from the FBI, and finally his redemption as founder of a nonprofit dedicated to helping at-risk kids. After releasing his book, Malik returned to us to publish an…
Prescription for Extreme Health, by Dr. Joe Esposito
Written by the nationally renowned author, speaker, radio and TV personality, Dr. Joe, this information-packed book features his revolutionary take on getting well and staying well. In addition to editing and design, crafting his cover title and back-cover description, and managing the offset RFQ and printing process, we developed a bonus section focusing on nutrition…
Out of the Shadow of 9/11: An Inspiring Tale of Escape and Transformation, by Christina Ray Stanton
Not only did we finish this gripping book on a tight deadline so Christina could tie it into the 20th anniversary of 9/11, but we set up her accounts with Barnes & Noble and Amazon so she could sell her book worldwide. We guided this first-time author through every phase of publishing her book, from…
Muddy Roads Blue Skies: My Journey to the Foreign Service, from the Rural South to Tanzania and Beyond, by Vella Mbenna
This Award of Heroism winner and first-time author took advantage of nearly every service we offer, from creating a hard cover, ebook, and audiobook, to PR management, website design and copywriting, to book award packaging and submission. The results have been phenomenal: Her story of transformation from rock bottom to the top of the world…
Israel Matters: Understand the Past, Look to the Future, by Mitchell Bard
This is one of three educational books we have developed for the nonprofit Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles. We also wrote the title and the back cover description. It was picked up by Behrman House, a leading Jewish educational publisher.
How to Get Unstuck: 25 Ways to Get Your Business Growing Again, by Barry Moltz
We were honored to edit the fifth title in this international keynote speaker’s roster of top-selling books.
How They Sell Music, by Adley Stump, country music star and “The Voice” finalist
Featuring 12 chapters about how to make it in the independent music industry—each written by a different artist—this book was a challenge to edit as a cohesive piece. But we pulled it off, also honing the front- and back-cover text and creating a value-added resource appendix.
High-Tech, High-Touch Customer Service: Inspire Timeless Loyalty in the Demanding New World of Social Commerce, by Micah Solomon
We played an essential role in creating this critically acclaimed and top-selling book for the international keynote speaker and the media’s go-to subject matter expert. We also edited Micah’s two e-books for Forbes magazine and his first independently published book.