YES! You’ve Been Booked as an Author Presenter–Now, What Will You Say?

Cristen Iris is a developmental editor, nonfiction book collaborator, and author coach who specializes in working with mission-driven and self-motivated but often frustrated and confused clients. She helps them understand the publishing industry, embrace their thinking and work styles, and choose the most effective ways to write to and reach their target audience. The result: high-impact, commercially viable nonfiction books. Her clients have contracts with Big 5, academic, and respected traditional model independent publishers. Some have found satisfaction and success as self-published authors. They’ve earned more than 60 book and writing awards. Bestseller rankings including New York Times, Publishers Weekly, and Amazon Charts. Several of them consistently (week after week, month after month, and for several years) rank between #3 and 100 in one or more of their Amazon sales categories. National media coverage includes Parade Magazine, Rolling Stone, Billboard, and New York Post. And their books have been translated into more than a dozen languages. Cristen believes that writing and editing are a way of life, the constant creation and refinement of thought and action that leads to our highest level of contribution. In addition to her own statement of belief about the value of writing and editing, she embraces as a mantra Ezra Pound’s position that “Fundamental accuracy of statement is the sole morality of writing,” and enthusiastically agrees with Robert McKee that “in a world of lies and liars, an honest work of art is an act of social responsibility.” Cristen is a serious publishing professional for serious authors because: This is her passion. This is her livelihood. This is her legacy.