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Janet Goldstein
Janet Goldstein Enterprises		15 Stuyvesant Oval #11F, New York, NY 10009 212-995-2218 http://www.janetgoldstein.com

Work with authors, entrepreneurs, business leaders, and nonprofits at all stages to take their ideas, platforms & publishing visions to the next level. Special focus on launching new books, ideas, and ventures. * high-level publishing assessment, strategy, and planning * proposal development, communications & coaching for new business and book ventures * messaging, positioning, branding & constituency-building strategies * marketing, speaking, and publishing blueprints and services * selected fiction and nonfiction manuscript evaluation, editing, and writing * public speaking on publishing and entrepreneurship, including "The Author as Entrepreneur" Janet's passion and expertise have been to discover, develop, and market authors, books, and ideas that can make a difference to the widest possible audience in such fields as business, psychology, women's issues, parenting, education, health, social sciences, religion, and fiction.

years experience: 25+ rates: project-based "starter" fees; hourly, project-based, and partnership arrangements for on-going clients

SKILLS

Writing, Book Doctor, Developmental editing, Proposal writing/editing

GENRES & SPECIALTIES

General fiction, Biography, Business/investing/finance, History, Religious, Mind/body/spirit, Health, Lifestyle, Children's books, African-American

TRADE REFERENCES

Praise for Janet Goldstein:
Janet provides motivation and a wealth of insights to inspire great ideas, and she drills down to help make them bulletproof." --Keith Yamashita, Stone Yamashita Partners and author of Unstuck

"Janet's contributions to my work have been critical. She will remain a key resource on my virtual team." --David Allen, president of The David Allen Company and author of Getting Things Done

"Janet discovered, named and published The Dance of Anger. Without her it never would have happened." --Harriet Lerner, Ph.D., on publication of the 20th anniversary edition of The Dance of Anger (over 2 million copies sold)

"Janet Goldstein helped the story [of Pigs in Heaven] find its way through the woods." --Barbara Kingsolver

LEADING CLIENTS

* Howard Behar, Ret. President, Starbucks North America and SBUX International, Seattle. His book,
It's Not About the Coffee, is coming from Portfolio/Penguin Group USA (January 2008)
* Sarah Bridges, Ph.D., L.P., LLC, executive consultant and writer, Minneapolis
* Kathy Caprino, executive coach and career transition consultant; her book, Breakdown, Breakthrough: The Professional Woman's Guide to Claiming a Life of Passion, Power, and Purpose (Berrett-Koehler,Fall 2008).
* Tony Coretto, Managing Partner, PNT Marketing Service, NYC
* Holly Hollenbeck, Founder, PassionSeekers.com and author of Sex Lives of Wives (Springboard/Grand Central Publishing), Omaha, NE
* Jane Melvin, Founder and Executive Director, Strategic Innovations Group, Chicago
* Bara Sapir, Executive Director, New York Test Prep ("Yoga for your mind"), NYC. Launch of Full-Potential test prep audio series coming in Fall 2007.
* David Schimmel, Founder, And Partners design firm, NYC
* Michael Bungay Stanier, Principal, Box of Crayons, Canadian Coach of the Year and author of Get Unstuck & Get Going
* Frank Wildman, Director, Feldenkrais Movement Institute

MOST RECENT PROJECTS

It's Not About the Coffee: Leadership Principles from a Life at Starbucks, coauthored with Howard Behar (Porfolio/Penguin Group USA). The book project began with high-level editorial and publishing advisement.www.howardbehar.com

BEST-KNOWN PROJECTS

Notable authors and experts she's personally edited and published include national best-selling:
Getting Things Done by David Allen
Fierce Conversations by Susan Scott
Unstuck by Keith Yamashita
Blessing of a Skinned Knee by Wendy Mogel
The ADD Answer Book by Dr. Frank Lawlis
If the Buddha Dated series by Charlotte Kasl
The Diet Cure by Julia Ross
Awakening the Buddha Within by Lama Surya Das
The Bean Trees, Animal Dreams, and other fiction and nonfiction by Barbara Kingsolver
The Dance of Anger series by Harriet Lerner
The Courage to Heal series by Ellen Bass and Laura Davis
Your Sacred Self and other books by Wayne Dyer
Raising Your Spirited Child by Mary Kurcinka

SPECIALIZED TRAINING, WORK EXPERIENCE, HONORS

Prior to launching her boutique Publishing & Strategy practice, Janet held increasingly senior editorial and management positions at HarperCollins Publishers, was part of the executive start-up team at Broadway Books, and was an executive editor and director of the Penguin Compass spirituality imprint at Viking Penguin. She has directed the book section of the NYU Summer Publishing Institute since 2005, is a regular participant in the annual book publishing workshop at the University of Michigan, and has spoken at the Small Press Center, the ASJA, and other venues.

KEY PERSONNEL

* Lyndell Brookhouse-Gil of LBGDesign for graphic design and website development
* Lana Abrams of Nine Design for graphic design
* Krista Reiner Carnes of Krista & Co. for speaking and business development

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