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Fifteen-year-old Chantel Christie is making her mark on the world as a singer and a positive role model for children as the youth ambassador on HIV/AIDS. She is now also an author. Her first book is called I Want To Live! A Teenagers Guide To Finding Self Love.

In this podcast episode, we talk to Chantel about I Want To Live!, which is a teenager’s guide to everything from diet and exercise to finding self-love.

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Transaction Publishers is widely acknowledged as a major independent publisher of social scientific books, periodicals and serials. They offer publications in older, established disciplines such as economics, political science, history, sociology, anthropology, psychology, as well as recently established disciplines ranging from area research to urban studies, policy analysis, and philosophy of social science, organizational behavior, and criminology.

In this podcast episode Paul Myatovich, Sales Manager at Transaction Publishers, speaks with us about the company and the things they’ve done to expand during this economic downturn.

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Jackie Christie is a model, actress, fashion designer, author and mother of three. She also heads the successful record label, Jean Rah Fya records. Her husband Doug Christie is a long-time NBA basketball player.

Together, they wrote No Ordinary Love: A True Story of Marriage and Basketball, a first hand look into the private life of a professional basketball player and a behind the scenes peak into the crazy world of the NBA.

In this podcast episode, Jackie tells us about No Ordinary Love and what they do to keep the Christie family running smoothly.

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Meriwether Lewis, the leader of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, died at age 35, on October 11, 1809. His death under mysterious circumstances is the subject of a new book, The Death of Meriwether Lewis: A Historic Crime Scene Investigation, co-authored by James E. Starrs and Kira Gale. Professor Starrs is also leading a team of forensic scientists for the purpose of analyzing Lewis’s remains to determine whether his death was a homicide or suicide.

In this podcast episode we speak with Starrs and Gale, who tell us why the death of Lewis has become such a passion for both of them, and fill us in on the progress of their project.

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Since 1976 Publication Services, Inc. has provided full-service book production services that emphasize the editorial quality of the end product. With fully staffed offices located in Illinois and India, their services include product development, OCR scanning, copyediting, page composition, file conversion, indexing, proofreading, and translation/copyediting in many languages. In addition, they offer a full-service art studio and Illinois-based project management services for worry-free book production.

In this podcast episode we talk to Molly Redenbaugh, PubServe’s Director of Marketing & Product Development. She tells us why PubServe insists on keeping many of their services inside the United States, and also previews their new e-book bundle.

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Author Suzanne Murray, NCC, is founder and Managing Editor of StyleMatters Writing Services LLC, a publishing services firm partnering with publishers and authors to create and develop content for all genres of books, articles, web sites, social networking media, marketing products, video and more.

In this podcast episode, Suzanne previews her developing memoir, The Happiness Project, an account of her evolution from self-doubt to self-belief, from feelings of weakness to recognition of her relentless strengths as a mother, artist and entrepreneur. In discovering the secret to finding happiness amidst chaos, Suzanne guides us on an inspiring journey through our shared turbulent times, visiting the iconic ghosts of Lehman Brothers, Afghanistan and Katrina, and exploring the redefinition of the American Dream by a brave new generation coming of age. Grappling with the tumultuous forces of life as an entrepreneur and wife of a deployed military officer, Suzanne reveals her existential faith to believe that by just pursuing the happiness project, she’s already made it a success.

Murray’s first book, Leading With Your Values, was published with Dr. Paul King of the Wharton School in 2007. Suzanne will be at the StyleMatters booth (2358) on May 30-31 at BookExpo America 2009.

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Adrian Gostick is the author of several successful books on employee engagement and retention. The Carrot Principle, a book he co-authored with Chester Elton, has been a New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller, and 24-Carrot Manager has been called a “must read for modern-day managers” by Larry King of CNN.

Gostick and Elton have now released the 2nd Edition of The Carrot Principle. We spoke with Gostick about what the two experts have learned since the printing of the original version, and the additional insight the 2nd Edition has to offer.

For more information, visit the Carrot Culture Website.

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Indiana University Press, founded in 1950, is recognized internationally as a leading academic publisher specializing in the humanities and social sciences. It produces approximately 140 new books annually, in addition to 30 journals, and maintains a backlist of some 2,000 titles. It emphasizes scholarship but also publishes text, trade and reference titles.

Its major subject areas include African, African American, Asian, cultural, Jewish and Holocaust, Middle East, Russian and East European, and women’s and gender studies; anthropology, film, history, bioethics, music, paleontology, philanthropy, philosophy and religion. It also features an extensive regional publishing program under the Quarry Books imprint.

In this podcast episode we are joined by Marketing and Sales Director Pat Hoefling, who previews some of her favorite new titles in the IU Press Catalog.

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When many of America’s top executives seek a strategic communications expert they are eventually led to Strategic Facilitator, Tony Jeary. Jeary has invested his life and career in helping others discover new clarity for their vision, develop focus on direction and create powerful execution strategies that strategically impact achievement and results.

In this podcast episode Jeary tells us about Purpose-Filled Presentations. In this book, written for pastors, teachers, small group leaders, greeters, staff members, as well as anyone interested in becoming better at personal evangelism, Jeary brings his techniques and strategies to the church.

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Compared to The Beatles and The Rolling Stones, very few books have been written about Led Zeppelin. And nothing like this book has ever been published about the pioneering British rock group.

For Sonic Boom: The Impact of Led Zeppelin, author Frank Reddon conducted over 40 exclusive, primary source interviews with audience members, musicians, broadcasters, published Led Zeppelin authors, university professors, ethnomusicologists, and others. The result is an unprecedented look at how the band influenced the course of popular music history.

In this podcast episode, Reddon lets us in on some little-known facts about the legendary band and talks about their influence, which is still running strong today.

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Beyond Words Publishing was founded in 1983 as a publisher of fine coffee table books and, in partnership with Atria Books, has grown into the well-known Mind, Body, Spirit publisher of New York Times Best Sellers, The Secret and The Hidden Messages in Water, as well as a multimedia company that produces and distributes transformational DVD and music products.

In this podcast episode we catch up with Danielle Marshall, Marketing Manager of Beyond Words. Danielle fills us in on the exciting new titles Beyond Words is bringing to BookExpo America 2009.

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City Diecutting-Book Displays is the country’s premier manufacturer of quality point-of-purchase corrugated displays for both books and AV materials. In business for more than 20 years, City Diecutting services over 400 publishers exhibiting at BEA.

In this podcast episode we speak with Frank Matonti, Vice President of Sales for City Diecutting. Frank delves deeper into the company’s vast experience in publishing and tells us why City Diecutting products help push more books out the doors of retailers.

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Computac, Inc., a software developer based in West Lebanon, New Hampshire, was founded in 1965. They provide comprehensive, turn-key system solutions for customers across the United States and Canada. Computac’s Retail Division offers point-of-sale/inventory management products to bookstores and magazine stores.

In this podcast episode, we speak with Mike Hartman, Computac’s Retail Division Vice President, about their newest product for the book retail industry, [i]merchant.

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Wholesale Christian Books is a bargain book wholesaler. Not a publisher, they acquire most of their product from publishers by truckload and sort it to sell individually by title. Their standard discount on bibles is 70% off the publisher’s list price and books are 80% off.

In this podcast episode, we speak with Wholesale Christian Books Sales Executive Estelle Davis.

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