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Catherine Coulter

Sheree Bykofsky
Catherine Coulter
Catherine Coulter is well known for her work in two different genres:  historical romance and contemporary suspense thrillers.

Catherine’s  KnockOut and TailSpin  have hit #1 on the New York Times bestseller list and now her husband calls her “Snake Eyes” making her a famous gambling term!  The author of dozens of bestsellers, Catherine Coulter made her Romance debut with 1978's The Autumn Countess, a fast-moving story she describes as "a Gothic masquerading as a Regency." Six more Regency romances followed in quick succession; then, in 1982, she penned her first full-length historical novel, Devil's Embrace. She counts several trilogies among her most popular historicals, notably the Bride Trilogy -- which, in turn, spawned an ongoing story sequence featuring the beloved Sherbrooke family of Regency-era England.
In 1988, Coulter tried her hand at contemporary romance with a twisty little page-turner called False Pretenses. Her fans ate it up and begged for more. Since then, she has interspersed historicals with contemporary romantic thrillers (like the novels in her bestselling FBI series) in one of the most successful change-ups in the history of romance publishing.

 

Sheree Bykofsky

Sheree Bykofsky
Sheree Bycofsky
Author, publisher, literary agent, speaker and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Publishing at New York University

Agent

Sheree Bykofsky, AAR, www.shereebee.com represents over 100 book authors in all areas of adult non-fiction as well as literary and commercial fiction. Among Sheree's non-fiction clients are Taro Gold, Jane Eldershaw, Bill Walsh, Margo Perin, Albert Ellis, John Carpenter (first millionaire on "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?"), Bill Baker (President of Channel 13, PBS in NYC), Supermodel Roshumba, and Richard Roeper (of Ebert and Roeper). In the area of fiction, Sheree's clients include Donna Anders and Leslie Rule.

Author and Speaker

Sheree Bykofsky is the author, co-author and editor of more than twenty books, including the best-selling The Complete Idiot's Guide to Getting Published (Pearson, 2003), now in its fourth edition, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Publishing Magazine Articles (Pearson, 2000), The New York Public Library Desk Reference (Simon & Schuster, 1989), three editions of the regional bestseller The Best Places to Kiss in and Around New York City (Beginning, 3rd edition, 1993), The Big Book of Life's Instructions, (Harper, 1995), Me: Five Years From Now (Warner, 1990 and then Hyperion, 1999), Sexy City Cocktails, (Adams, 2003), Popping the Question: Real-Life Stories of Marriage Proposals From the Romantic to the Bizarre (Walker, 1996), The 52 Most Romantic Dates in and Around New York City (Adams, 2001).  Sheree's most recent books include Put Your House on a Diet (Rodale, 2005) and The Downtown Girl’s Guide to Wine: How to Buy, Serve and Sip with Style and Sophistication (Adams). She has written articles for a variety of magazines and newspapers, including The Writer, which featured Sheree's cover story "The Six Secrets of Getting Published" in 2004. 
Sheree is also an avid poker player and author, with Lou Krieger, of Secrets the Pros Won’t Tell You About Winning Hold’Em Poker (Kensington) and The Rules of Poker: The Ultimate Argument Settler (Kensington).  In December 2005 Sheree placed first out of 164 women who competed in the World Series of Poker Ladies' Circuit Event at the Showboat in Atlantic City.
One of Sheree's oldest books, 500 Terrific Ideas for Organizing Everything (Simon & Schuster, 1992), has hundreds of thousands of copies in print and was recently #20 on bn.com after ten years in print. Many of Sheree's books, including Me: Five Years From Now have been selected by the Literary Guild.

Sheree, a member of ASJA, NATJA, IFWTWA, and Authors' Guild, is also a freelance travel writer whose expertise is in romantic places, spas, luxury travel, food and wine, golf and skiing. Sheree is a contributor to offbeattravel.com, goworldtravel.com, honeymoonersreviewguide.com, travellady.com, and TravelWorld International Magazine.

Steve Savage

Steve Savage
Steve Savage
Author and Speaker
 

Steve Savage is an acclaimed sales and management strategist who has helped dozens of companies dramatically increase their sales and profits. He’s a sought after speaker and his most recent book is Guerilla Business Secrets co-uthored with Jay Conrad Levinson.

Mr. Savage’s strategies are based on a lifetime of building companies throughout the Western Hemisphere. He has achieved many dazzling successes (and a few failures). He co-founded Institutional Financing Services in 1979. He took the company from zero to $60 million in six years and sold it to Colgate Palmolive in 1985.

Steve Savage’s academic credentials are solid, with a BA in philosophy from Wheaton College and an MBA in marketing from Michigan State University. He grew up in Ecuador, speaks and writes perfect Spanish, and has lived in Brazil and also learned Portuguese. However, his marketing and sales tactics do not come from the ivory tower. They come straight from the trenches.
Jay Levinson, author of Guerrilla Marketing (20 million copies sold) describes Mr. Savage as “the most brilliant and gutsy guerrilla marketer I have ever known.”

 

 

 

 

 

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