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Nonfiction Self Help, How-To | Narrative Body/Mind/Spirit | Nonfiction Nonfiction | Fiction | Screenwriting

NonFiction Self Help, How-To

Sam Horn's books Tongue Fu!, What's Hlolding You Back? and POP! Create the Perfect Pitch, Title and Tagline for Anything! have been favorably reviewed in Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, Investors Business Daily and Washington Post.  The top-rated speaker at two International Platform Association conventions, her impressive client list includes National Governors Association, Young Presidents Organization, NASA and Boeing.  Perhaps most importantly, she is known for her brilliant ability to help clients crystallize compelling, one-of-a-kind, commercially-viable books, brands and businesses that break out.  Through her weekend Book Camps, innovative POP Process, and one-one-one consulting, she shows people how to become IDEApreneurs and is thanked in the Acknowledgements of hundreds of books from grateful authors (ranging from housewives to Fortune 500 CEO's) who say, "I couldn't have done it without you." See Sam Horn's books »

NonFiction Body/Mind/Spirit Anne LeClaire is the bestselling author of eight novels including the Entering Normal and, most recently, The Lavender Hour,  and has been published in twenty-four countries. She  has taught creative writing in numerous workshops in the United States as well as in Ireland, France, Jamaica, and to women in prison. LISTENING BELOW THE NOISE: A Meditation on the Practice of Silence, her first work of non-fiction to be published in 2009 by HarperCollins, is a memoir based on sixteen years of practicing silence.  She is a distinguished Fellow of The Ragdale Foudation and is a member of the Fellows Council of The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She lives on Cape Cod with her husband, sixteen chickens and a black cat. See Anne LeClaire's books »

Narrative NonFiction

H. W. Brands, a Pulitzer Prize finalist for his N.Y. Times bestseller Benjamin Franklin, The First American, has written twenty books, coauthored or edited five others, and published dozens of articles and scores of reviews.  His other bestselling books include Andrew Jackson, Lone Star Nation, The Age of Gold, The Strange Death of American Liberalism, The First American, TR, What America Owes the World, The Reckless Decade, and The Devil We Knew.  His articles have appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, the International Herald Tribune, the Atlantic Monthly, the Smithsonian, the Journal of American History, the Political Science Quarterly, American History, and many other newspapers, magazines and journals. See H.W. Brands books. »