Books, Authors, and Publishers Who Make a Difference

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

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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. -- .

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