In my work as someone who helps people create, write, publish, and market books, I’ve been fortunate to know and work with a lot of wonderful people. Here is a short list of some of the authors and publishers I’ve worked with or known in the fields of self-help, business, and spirituality. I call many of them friends.
Harri Aalto, author of The Landscape of Enlightenment: With Doors and Windows to Our World
Jay Abraham, author of Getting Everything You Can Out of All You’ve Got
Marc Allen, author of The Greatest Secret of All and publisher of New World Library
Robert Allen, author of Creating Wealth
Mustafa Ammar, author of Time to Move On
Tom Antion, author of Online Joint Venturing: How to Get in Front of a Million Warm Prospects in the Next 90 Days
Lisa Aires, developer of The Stillpoint Experience
Kenneth Atchity, book agent and author of Sell Your Story to Hollywood
Janet Atwood and Chris Atwood, authors of The Passion Test
Mitch Axelrod, author of The New Game of Selling
Ray Bard, publisher of Bard Press and author of Fired Up! Selling
Stephanie Barko, book publicist
Barry Beckham, author of The Black Student’s Guide to Colleges
Connie Bennett, author of I Blew My Diet! Now What?
Gail Berry, author of Little Fox and the Golden Hawk
Charles Betterton, author of The City of Light Sedona
Nat Bodian, author of The Joy of Publishing
Richard Nelson Bolles, author of What Color Is Your Parachute? Your Guide to a Lifetime of Meaningful Work and Career Success
Peg Booth, publicist, Booth Media Group
Lou Bortone, author of Video Marketing Rules: How to Win in a World Gone Video
Phil Brattain, author of Waging Love
Judith Briles, book shepherd and author of When God Says No
Jack Canfield, co-author of Chicken Soup for the Soul series and author of The Success Principles
Alex Carroll, the Radio PR Guy
Laurina Buro Carroll, author of Perfect Heath for Busy People
Cindy Cashman, author of Everything Men Know About Women
Dave Chilton, author of The Wealthy Barber
Deepak Chopra, author of The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success
Joel Comm, author of So, What Do You Do?
Nancy Cooke de Herrera, author of All You Need Is Love
Stephen Covey, author of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Cleon Cox III, author of The 50 Most Asked Questions From the Newly Unemployed
Willie Crawford, author of Soul Food Recipes
Alan Davidson, author of Body Brilliance: Mastering Your Five Vital Intelligences, and creator of Evolutionary Mystic Meditation
Tom and Bobby Drewes, co-founders of Quality Books
Steve Druker, author of Altered Genes, Twisted Truth
J. Michael Farr, publisher of JIST Works and author of Getting the Job You Really Want
Brian Feinblum, publicist
Timothy Ferriss, author of The 4-Hour Workweek
Arielle Ford, author of The Soulmate Secret: Manifest the Love of Your Life with the Law of Attraction
George Foster, book cover designer, Foster Covers
Diane Frank, poet and author of River of Earth and Sky
Rick Frishman, book publicist, Planned Television Arts, and co-author of Guerrilla Marketing for Writers: 100 No-Cost, Low-Cost Weapons for Selling Your Work
Ronald Fry, publisher of Career Press and author of How to Study
Kathleen Gage, author of Power Up for Profits: The Smart Woman’s Guide to Online Marketing
Valerie Gangas, author of Enlightenment Is Sexy
Fred Gleeck, author of Selling Information: How You Can Create, Market, and Sell Knowledge in any Field!
Peggy Glenn, author of Granny PottyMouth’s Fast as F*ck Cookbook
Seth Godin, author of Unleashing the Ideavirus and Tribes
Philip Goldberg, author of Spiritual Practice for Crazy Times
Dan Gookin, author of PC for Dummies, the beginning of the bestselling Dummies series
Greg Godek, author of 1,001 Ways to Be Romantic
Fred Gratzon, author of The Lazy Way to Success
David Hahn of Planned Television Arts
Daniel Hall, author of Write and Grow Rich
David Hancock, publisher, Morgan James Publishing
Mark Victor Hansen, co-author of Chicken Soup for the Soul series
Steve and Bill Harrison, course creators, Bradley Communications
Deborah Levine Herman and Jeff Herman, literary agents and authors of Write the Perfect Book Proposal
Shel Horowitz, author of Grassroots Marketing: Getting Noticed in a Noisy World
John Huff, author of Health Benefits of The Floating Bed: The Bed of Your Dreams
Michael Hyatt, author of Your Best Year Ever
Greg Jameson, author of Amazon’s Dirty Little Secrets II: AI Revolution: How to Use AI Like Amazon to Grow Your Online Sales
Debra Jason, author of Millionaire Marketing on a Shoestring Budget: How to Attract a Steady Stream of Happy Clients, Make More Money and Live Your Dream
Wendy Keller, literary agent and author of Secrets of Successful Negotiating For Women: From Landing a Big Account to Buying The Car of Your Dreams and Everything In Between
Mike Koenigs, author of Your Next Act and developer of the Superpower Accelerator
Louis Koster, developer of The Awareness Method — knowing your true self is everything in your entrepreneurial journey
John Kremer, author of The Book Authority Guide on Why You Should Write a Book, 1001 Ways to Market Your Books, and The Book Authority Guide on What to Write
James Lange, author of Retire Secure!
Vicki Lansky, author of Feed Me I’m Yours
Jeffrey Lant, author of The Unabashed Self-Promoter’s Guide
Sandy Lawrence, CEO, Perceptive Marketing
Gerald Leonard, author of Culture Is the Bass
Ryan Levesque, author of Ask: The Counterintuitive Online Method to Discover Exactly What Your Customers Want to Buy . . . Create a Mass of Raving Fans . . . and Take Any Business to the Next Level
Michael Levine, book publicist, Levine Communications, and author of Guerrilla P.R. 2.0: Wage an Effective Publicity Campaign without Going Broke
Jay Conrad Levinson, author of Guerrilla Marketing
Mitchell Levy, author of Being Seen and Being Heard as a Thought Leader: What’s Necessary for Individuals and Businesses to Transition from the Industrial Age to the Social Age
Hong Liu, author of Mastering Miracles: The Healing Art of Qi Gong
Jim Lord, author of Bounce Back Higher
JoAnna Lund, bestselling cookbook author on QVC
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, author of The Science of Being and Art of Living
Ron Martino Sr., author of The Self Image Solution
Ken McArthur. author of Impact: How to Get Noticed, Motivate Millions, and Make a Difference in a Noisy World
Jack McHugh, newsletter publisher
Jed McKenna, author of Spiritual Enlightenment: The Damnedest Thing
Peter McWilliams, poet and author of You Can’t Afford the Luxury of a Negative Thought
Josh Mettee, founder of American West Books
Steve Blake Mettee, publisher of Quill Driver Press and author of The Fast-Track Course on How to Write a Nonfiction Book
Janet Mills, publisher of The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz
Rita Mills, CEO, the Book Connection
James Misko, author of How to Finance Any Real Estate, Any Place, Any Time: Strategies That Work and novelist of As All My Fathers Were
Jeff Moses, author of Oneness: Great Principles Shared by All Religions
Jan Nathan, executive director of Independent Book Publishers Association
Peter Nathan, executive director of Independent Book Publishers Association
Steve O’Keefe, book publicist, Orobora, Inc., and author of Set the Page on Fire
Helena Olson, author of Hermit in the House
Joanna Penn, author of Your Author Business Plan
Diane Pfeifer, author of Gone with the Grits cookbook
Ellie Phillips, author of Kiss Your Dentist Goodbye
Luther Pirc, author of The Blessing of Maharishi
Debra Poneman, founder of Yes to Success and The Awake Method
Dan Poynter, author of The Self-Publishing Manual
Beeaje Quick, author of God Made Me from Spare Parts
Dominique Raccah, publisher of Sourcebooks
Rick Raddatz, CEO, of Meetn.com (and an alternative to Zoom)
Linda Radke, publisher of Story Monster Ink and author of The Economical Guide to Self-Publishing: How to Produce and Market Your Book on a Budget
Marilyn and Tom Ross, authors of The Complete Guide to Self-Publishing
Yun Rou, author of Turtle Planet: Compassion, Conservation, and the Fate of the Natural World
Allen Rubin, author of The Hierarch of Needs in the 21st Century
Noah St. John, author of Afformations
Joe Sabah, author of How to Speak for Fun and Profit
Carl R. Sams II, author and photographer, Stranger in the Woods
Penny Sansevieri, author of From Book to Bestseller
Ronnie Schmidt, author of How to Get Hired Fast
Terry Schmidt, author of Strategic Project Management Made Simple
Marci Shimoff, author of Happy for No Reason
Rudi Shur, publisher of Square One Publishers and author of How to Publish Your Nonfiction Book, Second Edition: A Complete Guide to Making the Right Publisher Say Yes
Dean Sluyter, author of Natural Meditation: A Guide to Effortless Meditative Practice
Gibbs Smith, publisher of Gibbs Smith
Jeffrey Smith, author of Seeds of Deception
Sara Freeman Smith, author of Turning Stones into Gems
John Sorflaten, novelist of Thrall Conspiracty: Solar Conjunction
Robyn Freedman Spizman, author of The Thank You Book
Todd Stocke, editorial director, Sourcebooks Trade
James Stoxen, author of The Human Spring Approach to Thoracic Outlet Syndrome
Victoria Sutherland, publisher of Spirituality & Health magazine
Rob Ten-Tronck, author of Bodacious Book for Billionaire Wannabes
Tsufit, author of Step Into The Spotlight! A Guide to Getting Noticed
Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev, author of Inner Engineering: A Yogi’s Guide to Joy
Joe Vitali, author of Zero Limits and The Attractor Factor
Jeff Walker, author of Launch: How to Sell Almost Anything Online, Build a Business You Love, and Live the Life of Your Dreams
Dottie Walters, author of Speak and Grow Rich
Rabbi Edgar Weinsberg, author of Conquer Prostate Cancer
Carl Weschcke, publisher of Llewellyn Publications
Ruth Westheimer, author of Dr. Ruth’s Sex After 50
Thomas Woll, author of Writing for Profit: Successful Bottom-Line Management for Book Publishers
Betsy Wright-Lampe, publisher of Rainbow Books
Ernie Zelinski, author of The Joy of Not Working

About John Kremer
John Kremer is author of 1001 Ways to Market Your Books, the Relationships Matter Marketing program, and many other books and reports on book marketing, Internet marketing, social media, and book publicity. -- John Kremer on Book Marketing.