Meet The Book Catalysts

We’ve coached clients who’ve signed deals with McGraw-Hill, Warner Books, and Simon Schuster, among others. Our clients have appeared on Oprah, CNN, National Public Radio, Dateline, 20-20, The Discovery Channel, Good Morning America, and The Today Show.

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Lynda McDaniel

Lynda McDaniel, founder and director of the Association for Creative Business Writing, brings more than 25 years of writing, teaching, and learning to her coaching.

Lynda has written 1,000 feature articles for major publications, and she is the author of a dozen books, including her award-winning Words at Work: Powerful business writing delivers increased sales, improved results, and even a promotion or two (which took top honors from the National Best Books Awards). Whether she’s coaching or training, Lynda draws on personal experiences from her 25+ year career to help others increase their confidence and catapult their creativity.

Writing and book coaching
About seven years ago, Lynda began teaching and speaking about writing and found she loves getting people fired up about writing. In 2009, she founded the Association for Creative Business Writing. Since then, she’s helped hundreds of executives and staff write more effectively and start/finish/publish their books. Her clients and students hail from organizations such as Microsoft, Visa, The Boeing Company, Del Monte, T-Mobile, Key Bank, Wells Fargo Bank, City of Seattle, YMCA, American Society of Training and Development, Acclaro Inc., InVision, U.S. Small Business Administration, University of Washington, University of Puget Sound, Stanford University, First Choice Health, American Society of Safety Engineers, and American Society of Women Accountants.

Writing credits
Lynda’s long career as a journalist includes feature articles for magazines and newspapers such as Southern Living, Country Living, Yoga Journal, Law & Politics, Associations Now, American Cinematographer, AmericanStyle, NICHE, Atlanta Journal Constitution, Charlotte Observer, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, beliefnet.com, guideposts.com, and washingtonpost.com. She has written for associations and organizations such as American Society of Assn. Executives (ASAE), New York Medical College, American Chiropractic Assn. (ACA), International Assn. of Business Communicators (IABC), and the National Restaurant Assn. (NRA).

Virginia McCullough

Virginia McCullough has enjoyed a long career as writer, ghostwriter, and book writing coach. Virginia’s most recent of her 12 coauthored nonfiction books is The Oxygen Revolution (Hatherleigh, updated edition 2012), coauthored with Paul Harch, M.D., a pioneer in the field of hyperbaric medicine. She broke into conventional and independent book publishing with two coauthored books, TMJ Syndrome: The Overlooked Diagnosis, (Congdon & Weed) with A. Richard Goldman, DDS and Touch: A Personal Workbook, with Greg Risberg, MSW. As a ghostwriter, Virginia has written eleven books for neurologist and smell and taste specialist, Alan R. Hirsch, M.D., including What Flavor is Your PersonalityScentsational Sex, and How to Tell if Your Teenager is Lying.

Over the last three decades, Virginia has written or “rewritten” well over 100 books—and edited many more—for doctors, therapists, business owners and leaders, professional speakers, and other individuals with compelling stories to tell. A seasoned presenter, Virginia has taught live and virtual workshops on writing and publishing books and the keys to producing stand-out book proposals. She’s also a long-time member of the Authors Guild and other professional organizations.

Regardless of subject matter, Virginia’s work with clients can begin at any stage, from developing a fresh idea to producing a book proposal package to adding the polish to a finished project and making it shine!

Get your book off to a fast start—and strong finish—with The Book Catalysts.

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