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Tom and Marilyn Ross

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Tom and Marilyn Ross

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Tom and Marilyn Ross
Consultants / Authors / Speakers

Tom and Marilyn Ross -- authors, speakers, consultants, coaches -- are the champions of self-publishing. This internationally acclaimed team has helped thousands of authors sell millions of books through About Books, Inc., the company they founded in 1977 and have since sold. Now Marilyn focuses her energy on helping writers and small presses through Self Publishing Resources.

These publishing gurus have been noted and quoted in U.S. News & World Report, Publishers Weekly, The Los Angeles Times, Writer’s Digest, Bottom Line Personal, John Naisbitt’s Trend Letter, Investor's Business Daily, Rocky Mountain News, Denver Post, San Diego Union, Chicago Daily Herald, Phoenix Gazette, The New York Times, Newsweek and others. Entrepreneur magazine dubbed Marilyn a “trend tracker” in a previous issue. Additionally, the Rosses have appeared on scores of radio and TV shows, including NPR’s “All Things Considered.” They are included in many Who’s Who directories.

CNN’s website featured Marilyn in a top story, Self-Publishing for Profit. Booklist said of them, “The Rosses write with realism and extraordinary thoroughness.” The San Francisco Chronicle commented, “The authors are energetic yet irreverent, and the attitude is refreshing. They bring this same invigorating style to their best-selling Complete Guide to Self-Publishing, Jump Start Your Book Sales and Shameless Marketing for Brazen Hussies.” A reporter on NPR’s “Marketplace” observed, “The bible of this self-publishing craze is The Complete Guide to Self-Publishing by Tom and Marilyn Ross.”

Marilyn has been on the faculty of Folio’s New York Face-to-Face publishing conference and had spoken at colleges and universities -- plus publishing and writing associations -- from coast to coast. Writing and publishing conference planners often call upon her as a speaker. Attendees love her entertaining presentations and the results-oriented, immediately-usable information dispensed. If you’d like to discuss hiring Marilyn Ross for an upcoming conference, just go to the speaking page.

Marilyn is a professional member of the National Speakers Association, Publishers Marketing Association, SPAN, the Authors Guild, and the American Society of Journalists and Authors.

These busy folks not only help authors successfully write, publish and market their own books and information products -- they have written and self-published 13 books of their own. Following the “success formula” they espouse, five of their books have been sold to major trade publishers. They have intimate knowledge of the joys and frustrations of publishing.

In 1996, the Rosses launched an international nonprofit trade association for self-publishers, small presses and assertive authors. The Small Publishers Association of North America (SPAN) is now the second largest such organization in the world.

Previously Marilyn Ross owned and operated an advertising and public relations firm. Today, through Self Publishing Resources, she accepts a limited number of ongoing coaching and hourly phone consulting clients. So if you need help shaping a manuscript, advice on book printing issues, or assistance with a profit-making book promotion campaign, contact her today!


During their off hours, Tom and Marilyn indulge in less cerebral pursuits. Tom enjoys catching trout and Marilyn's been known to "clown around."

Peaches Ross is the real power behind us. She runs the office with an iron paw. A Samoyed Husky mix, she insists on greeting every visitor and sitting (lying?) in on every meeting.

Pookey Ross  Lest you think we are so gauche as to run a book organization without a cat, allow us to introduce our blue-eyed feline. A devilish Siamese, Pookey keeps us laughing with his antics.


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PUBLISHERS MARKETING
ASSOC.S


FOUNDERS
SMALL PUBLISHERS ASSOC.
OF NORTH AMERICA
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Marilyn@MarilynRoss.com
719-395-8659 (Mountain time)
P.O.B. 909 (209 Church Street)
Buena Vista, CO 81211
Fax 1-719-633-1526


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COLORADO INDEPENDENT
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