Doris Booth is founder and president of Authorlink.com, the news and information magazine for editors, agents, writers, and readers. She began her journalism career at age 19 writing weddings and obituaries for a local newspaper, a subsidiary of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. She eventually became the company's vice president and the award-winning managing editor. Doris amassed numerous journalism awards early in her career. Her newspaper series on U.S. race riots of the late 1960’s was included in the U.S. Congressional Record. In Washington D.C. and Texas she worked as a District publicist for the third most powerful man in government, then U.S. Congressman Olin E. (Tiger) Teague. She was hired as an investigative reporter by then-Dallas Times Herald Publisher Tom Johnson (later head of the Los Angeles Times). Instead, she turned to advertising and marketing.
After a short stint at a Dallas advertising firm, she opened her own advertising firm, representing Fortune 1000 companies. She produced award-winning video advertising and training pieces. But her first love has always been books and writing.
In 1996, she founded Authorlink.com, ranking among the top 100 best websites for writers. The company also has a literary agency that represents several bestselling authors. Booth has sold projects to St. Martin’s Press, Simon & Schuster, Sterling Press, Berkley Books/Penguin, Farrar Straus Giroux and other dominant houses. The agency is no longer accepting new authors but writers are encouraged to use www.authorlink.com as a comprehensive resource.
She has lectured for a number of writers’ conferences, including the Independent Book Publishers Association and the Whidbey Island MFA Writing Program.
Doris adamantly believes in and supports traditional publishing houses and maintains there is an overwhelming need for curation in the literary world.
However, self-publishing also fills a specific niche. Authorlink‘s production unit has produced more than 200 e-books and print books, using the latest technology.
The challenge for authors today, Doris believes, is in navigating the complex publishing market. One of her primary goals is to provide traditionally-published and self-published authors alike with the resources they need to navigate the publishing process and to get savvier about distribution. Her book, UNLOCKING THE SECRETS OF E-BOOK PUBLISHING, GET YOUR BOOKS INTO EFFECTIVE SALES CHANNELS (WITH OR WITHOUT AMAZON), has been cited by Ingram Spark/Ingram Content Group as “A must-have resource…packed with imperative information for navigating the [sales] channels.”
Insights Into Doris
Doris is a slightly reclusive writer, speaker, editor and entrepreneur who relishes people’s stories. Her favorite place is a secluded get-away house in the East Texas piney woods. She hates traffic, noise, and crowds. She also hates fish and likes pizza and Mexican food. She loves being around other creative people and spending time listening to sounds of the woods from her long porch overlooking the forest.
Reading and writing have been Doris's lifelong interest. The books that appeal to her the most are those with heart, and yes, an intelligent “message.” To catch her eye, the story must have shape. Her favorite writer remains Ernest Hemingway who indeed fathered the modern novel. Doris's favorite contemporary is GREEN ON BLUE by Elliot Ackerman, which gave her more insight into the Afghan War than any other work.
She believes most American writers have forgotten how to tell stories, while Europeans still know how. Somewhere out there in America, excellent writers are waiting to be discovered. Getting readers to notice good writers is the ultimate challenge. Authorlink is passionate about helping them achieve that goal.
An Exclusive Authorlink Interview with Liane Moriarty Author of Three Wishes (HarperCollins, June 2004) By Doris Booth September 2004 ... View Article
An Exclusive Authorlink Interview with Valerie Ann Leff First-time author of Better Homes and Husbands (St. Martin's Press, June 2004) By... View Article
An Exclusive Authorlink Interview with Kate Lehrer Author of Confessions of a Bigamist (Shaye Areheart Books/Crown/Random House, May 2004) By Doris... View Article
An Exclusive Authorlink Interview With Randall Wallace The New York Times bestselling author of Pearl Harbor Oscar-nominated screenwriter of Braveheart... View Article
An Exclusive Authorlink Interview with Rachel Cline Author of What to Keep (Random House, April 2004) By Doris Booth August... View Article
An Exclusive Authorlink Interview with Bob Welch Author of American Nightingale (Atria/Simon & Schuster, June 2004) By Doris Booth July... View Article
Do we dare let the baby drive? Lu Hanessian, host of "Make Room for Baby" on the Discovery Health Channel, touchingly answers the question in her first book about navigating the rough road of new motherhood.
In her 11th novel, My Sister's Keeper, New York Times bestselling author Jodi Picoult tells the heartbreaking story of what happens when a mother and father decide to create a child for the purpose of saving the life of another sick and dying sibling. Jodi explores the ethical, moral, and emotional fallout involved in genetic planning, and examines what it means to be a good mother, father, sister and a good person.
Michael Feiner, a former Fortune 500 executive turned professor at Columbia Business School, has developed a different set of laws for managing a successful business. In his book, The Feiner Points of Leadership, the author presents 50 leadership laws covering the more emotional, human side of effective managementareas usually neglected in business books.
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