Michael N Marcus

Latest books:

"Failure To Communicate"

"Can I Find God Before I Die?"

"What's Wrong With Trump?"

"Love For & From My 4-Legged Son—how an ordinary golden retriever became an extraordinary dog"

"Internet HELL" (bestseller, now a paperback as well as an ebook)

"Do As I Say, Not As I Did" (on three bestseller lists)

"Typography for Independent Publishers"

"Anthology of Third-World Email Scams"

Personal website:

www.MichaelMarc.us

Facebook page:

www.facebook.com/michael.n.marcus

Publishing website:

www.SilverSandsBooks.com

Publishing company on Facebook:

www.Facebook.com/SilverSandsBooks

Author page on Facebook

https://www.facebook.com/MichaelNMarcusAuthorPage

Twitter: https://twitter.com/michaelnmarcus

Blog about books and other things:

www.BookMakingBlog.com

Hilarious (and sometimes poignant) bestselling book:

"Stories I'd Tell My Children (but maybe not until they're adults)"

Available in hardcover, paperback and ebook editions.

----------Recent books about publishing----------

"1001 Powerful Pieces of Author Advice"

"The Look of a Book"

"The One-Buck Book Marketing book"

"The One-Buck Author's Website Book"

"Self-Editing for Self-Publishers"

"DBA, LLC, INC, ©, IRS, LOC, LCCN, ISBN, ETC.: What Indie Authors Need to Know About Dealing With the Government"

"YOU can have your own book publishing company"

"499 Essential Publishing Tips for a Penny Apiece"

"Writers Can Get Away With Apparently Absurd Tax Deductions That Ordinary People Can't"

"What Do You Call That Funny-Looking Thing? terminology for self-publishers"

"STINKERS! America's Worst Self-Published Books"

"Brainy Beginner's Guide to Self-Publishing"

"Get the Most out of a Self-Publishing Company: Make a Better Deal. Make a Better Book."

----------Coming sooner or later----------

"The 100 Worst Self-Publishing Misteaks"

"No More Ugly Books"

"Publish Your Book Without Losing Your House"

Michael N. Marcus either is now or has been a journalist, author, publisher, advertising copywriter, public relations practitioner, photographer, band manager, amateur attorney, golf ball SCUBA diver, recording engineer and founder and president of AbleComm, Inc. ("the telecom department store").

He published a newspaper when he was in sixth grade, has provided the words for over 100 websites and blogs, has been an editor at Rolling Stone, and has written for many other magazines and newspapers. Michael specializes in making technology understandable, and often humorous. He has written over 40 books, and more are planned. At least eleven of his books have been bestsellers.

Born in 1946, Michael's a proud member of the first cohort of the Baby Boom, along with Dolly Parton, Candy Bergen, Donny Trump, Billy Clinton and Georgie Bush.

At the urging of a misguided guidance counselor, he went to Lehigh University to become an electrical engineer, and was quickly disappointed to learn that engineering was mostly math -- and slide rules were not as much fun as soldering irons.

Michael was one of the few literate people in his engineer-filled freshman dormitory and made money editing term papers. He got in big trouble when he got caught running intercom wire from his dorm room to a friend's room two floors below, and when an inspector found a payphone in his suitcase.

Later, his college apartment had an elaborate and illegal multi-line phone system, a phone booth with a toilet in it, and an invisible phone activated by two hand claps.

Michael lives in Connecticut with wife Marilyn, the ghost of golden retriever Hunter, and a lot of stuff—including both indoor and outdoor telephone booths, a "Lily Tomlin" switchboard, lots of books, CDs and DVDs, and many black boxes with flashing lights. Marilyn is very tolerant.