Anthony's background as a trained stage actor with over 2,000 performances as an Actors Equity member provides the primary basis for his critically acclaimed ability to empathize with a wide cross-section of personalities. [See his reviews at Amazon.com.] He is able to convincingly write in a number of distinctly different literary voices. His film and documentary experience are also of great use in telling narrative stories that also have film or television potential.

He was selected for the prestigious American Film Institute fellowship in Screenwriting, and received his MFA in writing there in 1990 after winning AFI's Paramount Studios Fellowship Award for his script, The Frog's Legacy. He was then selected out of 2,000 entrants for the Walt Disney Studios Screenwriting Fellowship, and spent a year writing for the Touchstone Pictures division.

His first nonfiction book, A Checklist for Murder, was acquired in auction by Dell Books as a mass market paperback and turned in solid sales. Anthony adapted his book as a two-hour television movie script and sold it to NBC Studios for a movie of the week. For the next several years, he worked as a freelance script doctor and story editor.

Anthony was hired by the Discovery Channel to write a two-hour documentary entitled Deadly Spree, based on a true story, which still airs. His true crime writing was also featured on a one-hour episode of The Prosecutors for Court TV.

Anthony served as a national Judge for the Illinois Arts Council, writing individual evaluations for over 100 screenplays for their 2003 Writing Awards. He also worked on finishing his longest running project, the historical novel, Tesla's Best Secret. His screenplay adaptation of that novel was a finalist in the Alfred Sloan Fellowship for Robert Redford's Sundance institute.

During 2005, Anthony completed his nonfiction book Tiny Dancer for Thomas Dunne Books at St. Martin's Press, and the advance copy was selected by Reader's Digest as their Editor's Choice for August, 2005 -- their 1,000th Commemorative Issue. The Kansas City Star named Tiny Dancer "one of the Top 100 Noteworthy Books of 2005."

In addition to his own writing, Anthony served as a freelance editor for books and book proposals that have recently sold to Hay House, VanderWyck & Burnham, and Rodale Press. He also wrote book proposals for other authors who have gone on to garner publication contracts with Rodale Press, Random House, and St. Martin's Press, and also edited the first two manuscripts for a new series of humorous books written by gay and straight couples, called E-Musings, which have sold to Marabout for French translation.

Anthony sold his first fiction to Mortalis in 2006, a new imprint at Random House in a two book deal. The Last Nightingale was released to acclaimed reviews, including a rave from the NY Times. It was also nominated by the International Thriller Writers (ITW) for best trade novel of 2007. It is the first of a new series, set in early San Francisco shortly after the Great Earthquake, and focuses on the early evolution of criminal profiling. His second in the series, The Hidden Man, also is set in San Francisco, but at the 1915 World Exposition. That book's release was on June 24th, 2008. His newest book sale is to Writers Digest Books where he will co-author a how-to book for aspiring nonfiction authors, set for release in Fall, 2009.

Anthony Flacco Print Media Credits
Reader's Digest Magazine
Stars and Stripes Newspaper [military paper sent to all U.S. combat forces]
Events Quarterly Magazine

Books written by Anthony Flacco
A Checklist For Murder, Dell Books; Tiny Dancer, St. Martin's Press; The Last Nightingale, Mortalis; Ballantine Books, Spring 2007; The Hidden Man, Mortalis, Ballantine Books, Spring 2008; The Tao of the 21st Century Nonfiction Writer, Writer's Digest Books, Fall, 2009

Documentaries
Deadly Spree (2-hour) The Discovery Channel
The Prosecutors Court TV

Recent Editorial Credits -- Published Books
The Mommy Chronicles, Hay House
Front of the Class, VanderWyck and Burnham
But You Knew That Already, Rodale Press
The Postcard Killer, Avalon Books
Rebel and the Rose-Cumberland House
Truth at Last: The Real Story of the MLK Assassination-Lyons Press
God's Shrink-HCI
At Wit's End-HCI

Projects
With my screenwriting background, I make it a point to write in strongly visual terms.
I believe that the most important part of any storytelling endeavor is to get into the heart and mind of the central characters. Even the most diverse personalities will share various common traits, and those traits can be the keys for creating strong characters on the page. The Who, What, When, and Where of a story are same the things that are covered in any journalistic approach. But the Why of any person's behavior is always a mother lode of fascinating twists and turns in human personality.

As a writer of nonfiction books and book proposals, I focus on stories that make genuine and powerful statements about the positive side of human nature. Often, that means delving long and hard into very dark places, in order to understand the story's conflict. But I am only interested in pursing stories with an honest and compelling expression of hope. Literary expressions of despair are an easy way for a writer to affect a worldly appearance, but I see such points of view as failures of insight.

See www.AnthonyFlacco.com

Lisa Wysocky was born in Minneapolis and raised in a nearby suburb. She studied to be a horse trainer at the University of Minnesota and, after graduation, had many wins on the national and world championship show circuit. Lisa eventually had a second run at college where she studied communications and journalism.

A knee injury cut short Lisa's career as a horse trainer, but six years as a correspondent for Nashville's afternoon paper, and her reputation in the music industry as a writer of quality biographical material, piloted Lisa into public relations. She opened her own firm in 1989, and since then Lisa has earned kudos from clients and media alike. Lisa is also very active in assisting clients with their public image and with their interview skills.

In addition to public relations, Lisa has headed two independent record labels, edited countless books for other authors, written a weekly syndicated celebrity lifestyles column for Ag Features, and has been a regular featured guest on Jones Radio Networks syndicated overnight show, Danny Wright All Night.

Lisa is the author of the critically acclaimed book, The Power of Horses: True Stories from Country Music Stars (Fura Books, 2002), which features true horse stories from eighteen of country music's top artists; and the co-author, with Brad Cohen, of the uplifting and motivational Front of the Class: How Tourette Syndrome Made Me the Teacher I Never Had (VanderWyk and Burnham, September 2005). Front of the Class won the 2006 IPPY Award as the best Education/Academic/Training book for 2005, and the 2006 Foreword book award for best Education book. Front of the Class and Lisa's co-author, Brad Cohen, were seen on Oprah on May 19, 2006.

Many of Lisa's accomplishments have come through her own Success Within program. Success Within focuses on being the best you that you can be. Lisa's book, Success Within: How to Create the Greatest Moments of Your Life (Champion Press, August 2005) incorporates this concept into a program that has transformed thousands of lives. Lisa is also a motivational speaker, and gives her audiences step-by-step advice on how they can create their own personal success stories. In her spare time Lisa trains horses at Saddle Up!, a riding facility for children with disabilities in Franklin, Tennessee.

Lisa Wysocky Print Media Credits
Appaloosa Journal
Appaloosa World
The Lariat
Career World
Western Horseman
Careers for the Handicapped
Unmistakably Nashville
The Tennessee Speaker
The Tennessee Thoroughbred
The Nashville Banner
The Quacker News
Music City News
Country Plus
Coast to Coast Country
American Profile
Nashville City Paper
Country Music Today
Personal Excellence
All the Rage
many, many others

Books Written by Lisa Wysocky
The Power of Horses: True Stories from Country Music Stars (Fura Books, August, 2002)
Success Within: How to Create the Greatest Moments of Your Life (Champion Press, August 2005)
Front of the Class: How Tourette Syndrome Made Me the Teacher I Never Had, by Brad Cohen with Lisa Wysocky (VanderWyk & Burnham, September 2005)

Writing Awards
2006 IPPY Award Winner for Best Education/Academic/Training Book for Front of the Class

2006 Foreword Winner for Best Education Book of 2005 for Front of the Class

Documentaries
The Trail of Hope: wrote, directed, and produced two-hour straight-to-video documentary on the needs of Native American communities

Syndicated Radio
Ricky Lynn Gregg's Rockin' Country Hour: produced weekly one-hour syndicated radio show
Regular guest on Jones Radio Networkss syndicated overnight show, Danny Wright All Night

Syndicated Print
Syndicated writer with Ag Features with a weekly celebrity lifestyles column, Down Home, that appeared in weekly newspapers around the country, as well as in CMT (Country Music Today) magazine

Television and Radio PSAs
The National Brain Injury Association
National Organization for Victim Assistance
American Lung Association
The National Captioning Institute
The Center for Disease Control
The Silent Witness Initiative

Recent Book Editing/Book Proposal Credits
The John Wooden Pyramid of Success, 2nd edition by Neville Johnson, Cool Titles, April 2003
Rattlesnake Lawyer by Jonathan Miller, Cool Titles, February 2004
Crater County (a Luna Cruz mystery) by Jonathan Miller, Cool Titles, February 2004
Amarillo in August by Jonathan Miller, Cool Titles, February 2004
Leadership on Trial: Lessons from the Apprentice by Ann Vanino, Circlix Publishing, May 2005
System Busters by Philip Beyer, Beyer Printing, July 2005
The Pleasure's All Mine by Joan Kelly, Carroll & Graf, February 2006
Both Sides Now by Dhillon Khosla, Penguin/Tarcher, April 2006
Volcano Verdict by Jonathan Miller (a Luna Cruz mystery), Cool Titles, September 2006
Reclaiming the Sky by Tom Murphy, AMACOM, September 2006
Cary Grant: The Wizard of Beverly Grove by Bill Royce, Cool Titles, November 2006
Win-Win Parenting by Fran Walfish (currently under consideration)

Projects
I feel most comfortable in the areas of biography, memoir, self-help, or how-to, although I also love editing mystery and other types of fiction. My areas of expertise/personal interests are: working with celebrity clients; pets, animals, horses; overcoming odds (I always root for the underdog); extraordinary personal achievement; hiking, the outdoors, sports; music; and business. My writing is very open and approachable, as I want every reader to feel this is a book they could read and enjoy. One of my strengths is writing in another person's voice (coming from years of doing interviews for my celebrity public relations clients). Picking up the cadence of another's words, and the flow of their dialogue, is very important to me. As a free-lance editor, I am a stickler for consistency, and correct grammar and punctuation. I have also had great success in writing non-fiction book proposals,

I find every person I meet fascinating and enjoy working with just about everyone. And, in over two decades of writing, I am proud to say I have never missed a deadline! Creating a book can be a wonderful experience or a nightmare. In addition to creating the best book possible, my goal for the end of the process is that my collaborators and team will want to jump in and do it all over again.

http://www.lisawysocky.com

As a freelance journalist, advertising copywriter and collaborative author, Tim has written about a huge range of subjects from computers and the Internet to personal branding, senior health and martial arts. A passionate activist who has traveled the world in search of unforgettable stories, his guiding star as a writer is finding the story within the story through journalistic investigation, interview and perspective.

A Southern California native, Tim began his writing career as a trade journalist after graduating from Cal State Fullerton in 1986 with a degree in English. First at a trade magazine for Cahners Publishing, then with Black Belt Magazine, and later as one of the founders of Coastline Magazine, Tim developed his reporter's skills as well as his love for great stories. Leaving full-time employment in 1994, he put in a stint as a freelance ad writer/beach bum, living by the water in Laguna Beach with good friends and slowly building his business writing skills working with organizations like the Cal State University, Fox, Gateway, Amgen and dozens of other major companies. In 1999, he wrote his first business book, The Brand Called You, with Personal Branding guru Peter Montoya. This was followed by The Personal Branding Phenomenon and a 2002 re-issue of The Brand Called You which went on to become one of the most successful self-published books of that year and continues to sell in Japan.

Tim's career has taken an exciting upward turn in 2006 with the publication of Risk and Grow Rich, written for Kendra Todd, winner of The Apprentice 3 (ReganBooks) and How to Make the Rest of Your Life the Best of Your Life, written for Mark Victor Hansen and Art Linkletter, (Nelson Books). Tim has built a reputation as one of the most astute business and self-improvement writers in the business, with the marketing background to craft sharp, highly compelling proposals as well as winning manuscripts. He is also a co-founder of the websites PreferredConsumer.com, SecondPrime.com and BookSurgeon.com.

Book Writing/Editing Credits

How to Make the Rest of Your Life the Best of Your Life
Risk and Grow Rich
God is Not a Christian
Checks Don't Lie
The Automatic Millionaire Workbook
Simple Health Value
The Brand Called You
The Personal Branding Phenomenon

Projects

I think business, success and self-improvement books can go far beyond the tired conventions of the genre...and they should. The world is full of books that riff on the same formulas: the CEOs secrets to success, how to make more money, steps to greater fulfillment and so on. But the ones that push the envelope are few and far between.

I delight in working with authors to concoct the daring and audacious, to try new ideas and explore the boundaries of an idea. I don't want to be middle of the road; that's where you get run down, as Mr. Miyagi said in The Karate Kid. I want an exciting concept filled with opportunities to surprise and startle the reader. Then I build beneath it a detailed, exhaustively considered structure, like the foundation beneath a challenging modern piece of architecture. That makes the writing a great deal of fun...and I think the process of creating a book from nothing should be fun and stimulating.

I've received astonished compliments for my ability to get inside the heads of my authors and write in their "voice." It's a natural gift, but it's also the result of years of honing my skills. Combined with a love of interviewing and research that gets to the heart of a story, the two give me an ability to evoke bold, often startling thinking from authors. I write fast, work at a high energy pace, and am comfortable with maximum or minimum involvement from my authors. In any case, I think the result is the rarest of works: a book that actually makes people think and changes minds.

In over a decade of ghostwriting full-time, Rusty Fischer and his clients have been published by such industry leaders as Wiley & Sons, HCI, Hay House, Walker & Company, Bloomsbury USA, Simon & Schuster and McGraw-Hill.

He and his clients have also appeared in Chicken Soup for the Soul, A Cup of Comfort, Dummies Guides and the Guerrilla Marketing series. Over 100 of his essays, stories, tips, editorials, and ideas have appeared in such nationally recognized periodicals as Seventeen, Writers Digest, Inc.com, Publishers Weekly and Good Housekeeping.

In addition, his clients have appeared on such highly-rated talk shows as Oprah, Dr. Phil, The O’Reilly Factor, FOX News, Showbiz Tonight, The Today Show, 48 Hours, Dateline NBC, Scarborough Country, Maury Povich and Montel Williams, magazines like People, The New Yorker and In-Style, and newspapers such as The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post and The Orlando Sentinel.

Over the years he has come to specialize in several popular genres that now make up the bulk of his most recent writing credits. These include celebrity bios, self-help, how-to, business, health, diet and nutrition, and extreme adventures.

His clients have included several sports stars, a former Miss America, a record-breaking mountain climber, a Playboy Playmate, a Miss USA, a former Apprentice contestant and soap star Jed Allan, of Santa Barbara, Days of Our Lives and General Hospital fame, with whom he co-authored Please, Spell the Name Right.

His health titles include helping write the NY Times and Wall Street Journal bestselling Body by God: The Owner's Manual for Maximized Living and Crack the Fat Loss Code.

In business he has collaborated with such entrepreneurs and CEOs as the founder of DollarDays.com, Marc Jacobs, on their Book Secrets of Retail: Or How to Beat Wal-Mart. He has written several books for noted commercial real estate speaker Mike Lipsey, including Lessons from the Last Knight: Business Ethics from Robert E. Lee and Secrets of Success.

His work on such bestselling series as the Chicken Soup and Cup of Comfort books has led to writing chapters for other popular literary bands. Recently several of his chapters were featured in the Dummies Guide to Gambling and he just completed a chapter for an upcoming Guerrilla Marketing Guide.

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