Question: Who is the intended audience?
Answer: Young athletes (5-24 years-old), coaches, and parents.

Q: What is the book about?
A: The purpose of the book is to present the important issues surrounding sports injuries in young athletes. It is a basic guide for young athletes, coaches, and parents on how to stay healthy and enjoy sports without getting hurt.

The book describes the function of bones, muscles, and joints during athletic activity as well as steps to optimize athletic performance. More importantly, the author explains how sports injuries develop and the preventive measures used to avoid them.

Q: How is this book different from other books on this topic?
A: It is easy to read and provides a simple approach for achieving the goals outlined above.

Q: Is there anything else we should know about this book?
A: The book has received reviews, which help emphasize the points made in this email. You can find the reviews at www.survivingaseason.com

Question: Who is the intended audience?
Answer: Salespeople, Sales Managers, Sales VP’s, Sales Directors, Professionals in Service Firms, Entrepreneurs and Baseball Fans.

Q: What is the book about?
A: This book is about sales and baseball and how, using the baseball analogy, they are nearly the same.  Four bases, four (not 7) steps. All-star baseball players share many of the same characteristics with all-star salespeople. This book will take veteran and rookie salespeople alike on a unique journey through selling, covering everything, leaving out nothing, and providing plenty of examples along the way. All to simply selling to the degree that you can sell more, in less time, more easily.

Q: Why are you the best person to write this book?
A: My company, Objective Management Group, Inc., has assessed hundreds of thousands of salespeople and that experience, data, and understanding, along with my 25 years of training and developing salespeople and sales managers, gives me a unique perspective on how to help salespeople over achieve.

Q: How is this book different from other books on this topic?
A: Baseline Selling answers the question, “why do 74% of all salespeople suck?” and shows that it’s more because the sales training establishment has complicated things so much, than because the profession has become so much more difficult.  The book accomplishes its goal of simplifying the sales process so that veterans can quickly become more effective, and newer salespeople can ramp up more quickly.  It does so by utilizing a baseball analogy which nearly anyone can easily follow, remember and apply.

Q: Is there anything else we should know about this book?
A: The book is already a best-seller, is required reading by sales experts and companies around the world, and is a fun, memorable and powerful read. Read reviews and what the sales experts have to say at http://www.baselineselling.com

Question: Who is the intended audience?
Answer: Young Readers – with emphasis on Native American kids – although everyone can benefit from reading about these amazing people.

Q: What is the book about?
A: Some of the many native athletes who have excelled in the field of sports include: – Naomi Lang, US Olympian, ice dance champion – Ross Anderson, US record holder, downhill speed skier – Jordin Tootoo, National Hockey League player, Nashville Predators – Stephanie Murata, US National Wrestling champion – Beau Kemp, Minnesota Twins, Rochester Red Wings – Alwyn Morris, Olympic gold and bronze medalist in kayaking – Cory Witherill, professional Indy car racing. These stories for young readers highlight the lives and achievements of these courageous and talented athletes.

The Native Trailblazers Series profiles stellar role models who have raised the profile of indigenous culture in North America. This exciting work of non-fiction reminds readers of the extraordinary contributions of Native Americans to our country’s social fabric. Ages 9 to 16 years

Q: Why are you the best person to write this book?
A: I am a Native American photojournalist with a great sampling of people that I have met in my career.

Q: How is this book different from other books on this topic?
A: None really exist that I know about – and it is contemporary.

Q: Is there anything else we should know about this book?
A: Click on the links below.

Vincent Schilling
Award-winning author of Native Athletes in Action and Native Men of Courage
Indian Country Today Correspondent – www.indiancountrytoday.com
Mix Magazine Columnist – www.mixmagweb.com

Learn more about me on Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/in/vincentschilling

Question: Who is the intended audience?
Answer: The intended audience – mystery/suspense readers. All the better if the reader enjoys golf but certainly not necessary.

Q: What is the book about?
A: The story follows PGA tour leader, Reid Clark, down to the Masters where on the last day of the tournament he receives a death threat. He then has to deal with the angst of more threats as he goes to NY to prepare for and play in another tournament. Good food, cigars and a little romance fill the pages making the book a fun summer read.

Q: Why are you the best person to write this book?
A: After a high school and college life of competitive sports, I know the ins and outs of many games. I was able to combine my passion for sports and mysteries to create Sudden Death, the first book in my Deadly Sports Mysteries series.

Q: How is this book different from other books on this topic?
A: While there are many non-fiction How To books on golf, there are very few mysteries. Sudden Death’s story is unique.

Q: Is there anything else we should know about this book?
A: I received some strong reviews from a few of the masters.

James Patterson said, “You like golf, you like murder mysteries – - then Sudden Death is your book!”

Clive Cussler said, “Pure fun, pure intrigue. The action never stops till a fascinating climax!”

The Foundation, the second book in my series is being edited now as is The Fix, a college football gambling novel that I’m writing along with ESPN Anchor, Ryan Burr.

Question: Who is the intended audience?
Answer: People who are interested in learning more about Indian boarding schools, Native American art, Angel DeCora, football in its early days, the legendary Carlisle Indian School football teams, the advent of the Rose Bowl, the Redskins naming controversy and, of course, the fascinating man that was William Henry Lone Star Dietz. Alumni of the colleges at which he coached: Washington State, Purdue, Louisiana Tech, Wyoming, Haskell Indian Nations University and Albright College and Redskins fans are also interested in the book.

Q: What is the book about?
A: The book is about the life and times of Lone Star Dietz, the most colorful coach ever to grace the sidelines of a football field. Dietz was a Renaissance man. In addition to being an athlete, he was an artist (the book is heavily illustrated by works done by him, his first wife, Angel DeCora, and their students), an educator, a movie actor, a championship dog breeder (their dog won best of breed at Westminster in 1915), a writer, a singer and is still controversial today. Even his detractors consider him to be a fascinating person.

Q: Why are you the best person to write this book?
A: Some would say because I’m too naive to know better. Others would say because I persevered and followed the story through to the end. I think it’s because I found his life was more interesting than the legends that grew around him that I let his story unfold as it was rather than imposing my own preconceptions on him. I completed the book where others didn’t because I stuck with it. Because I had the time and resources to travel to the numerous places Dietz lived and worked and was willing to spend hour after hour hunched over microfilm readers, I was able to write his story. Others who started books on him either didn’t have the time or were smart enough not to spend significant parts of their lives on such a project.

Q: How is this book different from other books on this topic?
A: Although this is the only book-length biography of Lone Star Dietz, magazine articles outlining his life have been written. Unfortunately about half of what one reads about Lone Star Dietz is not true or is badly distorted. Keep A-goin’ also places Dietz in the times and places in which he lived, something that is necessary for the reader to understand fully what was transpiring. Lone Star was a Forrest Gump sort of person in that he was involved with historical events and rubbed shoulders with numerous famous people. He was a household name during the first half of the 20th century so his antics were covered nationally. Dietz was a larger-than-life person; this book tells his story warts and all.

Q: Is there anything else to know about this book?
A: Writing the book has been a rewarding experience as several people have thanked me for writing it. Large publishing houses did not take on the project because they did not perceive that there would be a large enough audience for the book. The book attempts to be complete, fair and accurate. A critic of my conclusions pointed out that I provide the information necessary to allow the reader to come to his or her conclusions about the book.

Finalist for ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Award
www.LoneStarDietz.com

Brooke De Lench: HOME TEAM ADVANTAGE: The Critical Role of Mothers in Youth Sports (HarperCollins 2006)

Question: Who is the intended audience?
Answer: As many professionals state; “It should be required reading for parents, pediatricians, coaches and staff.”

Q: What is the book about?
A: HOME TEAM ADVANTAGE provides constructive, practical and forward-thinking advice to help mothers not only understand the current youth sports culture but the critical role they can play in balancing the hard-wired competitive instincts of many of the fathers and men running youth sports with a nurturing and cooperative spirit that is second-nature to women. The book arms mothers with the tools and the confidence they need to make their children’s sports experience and that of the entire family, safer, saner, less stressful and more balanced by restoring mothers to their natural role as nurturers and guardians of children at play, a role that was lost when youth sports became big business, ultra-organized and dominated by individuals focused only on competition and feeding their own egos.

Q: Why are you the best person to write this book?
A: Packed with stories from my own experiences deep in the youth sports trenches, as a mother, coach, and Editor-In-Chief of MomsTeam, the leading source of information on the Internet about youth sports parenting, and drawing on the latest research from sports safety experts, child psychologists, and social scientists, Home Team Advantage provides the deep wisdom and seasoned advice of a veteran sports mother and youth sports expert.

Q: How is this book different from other books on this topic?
A: I am a youth sports expert unlike all of the youth sports parenting books which are written by successful male ex-professional athletes or by journalists peering into the culture of youth sports. I am able to write about exclusion from sports from the heart and Home Team Advantage is the only youth sports book to tackle physical, sexual and emotional abuse and catastrophic sports injury and death.

Q: Why were you compelled to write a book with tough messages such as urging women to become involved at the coaching and administration levels of youth sports?
A: I am convinced that the solution to the youth sports crisis is not to ask parents to sign a code of conduct but to challenge the status quo in a new and different way: By creating a balance in youth sports between the values and attitudes of men and women and in the process restoring mothers to their natural role as guardians of children at play.