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Jan Yager received her BA in fine arts from Hofstra University, her MA in criminal justice from Goddard College, and her PhD in sociology from City University of New York Graduate Center. Beginning in her early twenties, with fulltime positions at Macmillan Publishing Company, followed by Grove Press, Jan has been an editor, director of subsidiary and foreign rights, acquisitions editor, book publicist, author event planner, media trainer, consultant, book coach, permissions editor, and award-winning author of 65+ books. Her titles in a range from genres -- from nonfiction and fiction to illustrated children's books and poetry -- have been published by Simon & Schuster, Scribner, Doubleday, Penguin Random House, Square One Publishers, and s ...more

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Shout out to my dear friend, Elia Schneider, a talented film director, writer, and playwright from Venezuela, who moved with her family to the USA. She left us too soon, four years ago, in 2020, from a rare cancer. Elia was only 68 which is relatively young today with so many of us blessed to live well into our seventies and beyond! Elia's most recent film was Tamara (2016),the true story of a law Read more of this blog post »

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“Why are you delaying? What is the putting off of a project telling you? Is it that the project was not the right one to be working on in the first place?”
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“You might succeed with whatever it is that you are delaying finishing, but the key point is that you’ll never know unless you have the courage to keep going and get it out there.”
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“Throughout this book, it is emphasized that through your promotional efforts, YOU are the one who is going to make the greatest difference in the success of your book."--Jan Yager, HOW TO PROMOTE YOUR BOOK (Square One, 2023), Introduction, page 5 in paperback edition”
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