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Andrea Costantine always dreamed of being a writer, is a lover of books, and an avid reader. Although writing was never a personal strength, she enrolled in a few college courses to polish her skills. She quickly learned that she wasn’t the typical college writing student and felt dismissed by the staff. Stuffing down the artist within, she hung up her writing hat for years. Luckily, her return to college for her master’s degree in Counseling Studies unleashed the writer within. After consecutively writing twenty page research papers for two years, Andrea returned to her passion and love for writing and creating.
In 2010, she paired up with Lisa Shultz to create Speaking Your Truth: Courageous Stories from Inspiring Women and How to Bring Your Book to Life This Year: An Exploratory Guidebook on Writing and Self-Publishing. She is currently working on her own books, including a children’s book, a book on soulful marketing, and other topics to be released in 2011.
As a writer, re-covering marketing coach, and past life mortgage loan processor – Andrea now works with aspiring authors to help them unleash the book inside of them. She offers services for book idea and creation, book marketing launches, content edits and structuring, along with layout design, and other writing services.
Born with an entrepreneurial spirit, Andrea is passionate about service, self-expression, and creativity and enjoys unleashing that spirit in others. Andrea is a professional freelance writer, author, speaker, and artist.
Andrea believes that having a book is one of the biggest accomplishments of an individual’s life and is one of the most rewarding goals a person can ever complete. She’s honored to work with so many talented writers and to help them share their message, talent, and gifts with the world.
You can follow her blog and connect with her on Facebook, Linkedin, Twitter, and You Tube.
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Lisa Shultz began her writing career in 2005 when she published her first book, 8 Strategies for an Extraordinary Life. This book was not designed with commercial intent but rather a gift to her daughters and the awakening of her dream of being a writer.
In 2010, she published her second book, an anthology, in partnership with Andrea Costantine, Speaking Your Truth: Courageous Stories From Inspiring Women. Her goal with this book and its subsequent volumes and spin offs is to provide a beacon of light, hope and connection for women as they navigate their lives while overcoming challenges and difficulties along the way.
Lisa’s two experiences of self-publishing were vastly different. Her first book was a with a self-publishing company and was a frustrating experience leaving her feeling out of control of the process and dissatisfied in the end. She took full control of the process in her second book, and this proved to be a much more rewarding experience. Together Lisa and Andrea discovered they could take charge of the time line and decisions themselves and self-publish without a publishing company and have a successful and satisfying end result. They achieved best seller status on Amazon on the day of their launch, which created the platform to share their expertise with the world.
They poured all their experiences of self-publishing into their book How to Bring Your Book to Life This Year: An Exploratory Guidebook on Writing and Self-Publishing. Together they have created a road map for others to follow who desire to publish their own book and avoid costly errors.
Lisa’s wish is to make the self publishing experience smooth, achievable, and profitable to anyone who desires to bring their book to life.
To learn more about Lisa, please connect with her on Facebook, Linkedin, Twitter, Google + and You Tube.
You may also visit her Personal Blog and Author Central.
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Donna Mazzitelli has been writing her entire life. Although she never considered herself a writer back then, her debut was in school, where she wrote stories and great introspective pieces for her teachers. In college, she loved the classes which required term papers rather than a final test at the end. It allowed her to expound on the subject matter to her heart’s content.
Her first job out of school was in the legal profession where, as a secretary and paralegal, she had the opportunity to write correspondence and legal documents in support of the office’s clients. After 12 years in the legal field, she moved into the medical arena and supported a hospital’s nursing administration. In this bustling setting, she drafted policies and procedures, training manuals, correspondence, and nursing department programs, including a community outreach program.
Throughout her work life she has supported organizations with her ability to write. Her last corporate job required that she create in-house training programs and training manuals to improve the quality of the products they manufactured.
Since that time, Donna has moved into memoir writing, blogging, informational articles for magazines and online communities focused primary on green and healthy living, as well as editing others’ writing.
Finding our voices is critical to living a heart-centered life. Donna loves helping others connect to their voices. Everyone has stories to tell, information to share, and profound a-ha moments. Yet, not everyone feels comfortable conveying these life moments through the written word.
Whether someone needs help transferring those life events onto paper, a partner to co-author, or another pair of eyes to review what they’ve written, Donna loves supporting others to bring their written voice to life.
You can connect with Donna on Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn, as well as her personal blog.
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Jan Haas had an experience when she was in seventh grade that changed how she looked at writing. She spent hours writing poetry, mostly about friends and their importance in her life. One night she wrote a poem after a difficult day and wanted to share it with her mom who was sitting with her aunt. Her aunt was going through a tough time, and when she read the poem, she started crying. At that moment, Jan realized the power of carefully crafted works and how they can touch within each of us the common thread of humanity.
Jan’s goal as a writer is to draw the reader into the story. She has a personal blog where she writes about being present, and finding spirit in the ordinariness of everyday. Through poetry and well-crafted ideas, she likes to give readers the chance to experience the magic of life one moment at a time. She is currently finishing a memoir called “Moving Mountains” that will be published later this year.
Jan has a good sense of how a book should flow, looking at a written piece for places that need clarification, more description, or a stronger pull that will grab the reader’s attention. She believes good content must be constructed well to keep your reader involved in the story.
Stories make up who we are, and they describe how we see the world. Jan’s heart virtue is to bring healing wherever she goes. Helping another person craft their story and/or create a book excites her as the writing process provides a great avenue to bring healing to the past, and hope for the future.
Please connect with Jan on Facebook, Linked in, Twitter, or her personal blog.
Let Jan help you write or give life to your own story or your family history! Visit Spirited Roots for more information.
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Wherever you find yourself in the process, Lisa, Andrea, Donna, and Jan have teamed up to help support you. Their website offers many resources and a way to interact and ask questions. They also offer private coaching and regularly put on workshops, tele-seminars, and webnars.
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