Linda and her now 18-year-old son, Tosh, just released their first collaboration—Generation Green—with one of the world’s largest teen imprints, Simon Pulse (Simon & Schuster, Aug. ’08). To learn more (and see what other green teens are doing, take their "green teen challenge," view their author video, and Tosh's eco video blogs), go to: www.GenerationGreentheBook.com.
"Every generation thinks they want to change the world. If the latest generation is serious about it, Tosh and Linda provide the blueprint. This book is deep and yet fun and smart and filled with great tips, facts, stories, and interviews. Every school needs to have Generation Green as part of their curriculum!"
-- Ed Begley, Jr. Living with Ed, for Discovery's Planet Green
Linda can't reveal all of the books/proposals/articles she's worked on or is presently writing because she's a ghostwriter (thus, often invisible). But she can share that Oprah.com has given one of her most recent ghosted books substantial repeated coverage (love that!), and serious clients will be given the book in order to view the author's acknowledgment of her work when appropriate.
Harmonic Wealth:
The Secret to Attracting the Life You Want
By James Arthur Ray, with Linda Sivertsen
Hyperion, April 2008
(to see details on the actual book deal, see the Writing Clients page)
"Harmonic Wealth offers access to abundance in all areas of life through practices that are both fun and profound. The entire book goes down easy..."
—Michael Beckwith
"The first book I've seen that distinguishes between knowing and doing..."
—Dr. Joe Vitale
"I love this book. James Ray pulls no punches. He tells is straight, the way it is..."
—Jack Canfield
"Harmonic Wealth is both refreshingly candid and filled with powerful, transforming content. James Ray is masterful at being both relatable and informative."
—Lisa Nichols
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The Will to Survive: See publishing details below By Bobby Smith, P.h. D. with Linda Sivertsen |
A dedicated Louisiana State Trooper for eleven years, Bobby Smith was shot in the face and blinded by a cop killer on a dark highway. After losing his eyesight, his career, his wife, and later his daughter to a car accident, Bobby nearly became one of the 800+ cops a year who commits suicide. Instead, he went back to school, earned his doctorate in counseling psychology, and along with being a therapist for cops, is opening the only trauma facility for police and fireman in the country. Bobby is a hero to cops. As the leading law enforcement speaker in the world, his lectures bring officers to their knees with tears, and then leave them uplifted with his comedic, insider stories.
Linda conceived of this book for Bobby Smith, PH.D, wrote the proposal for what she believed would be the definitive bible of law enforcement, and sold the book to the CEO of Jodere Publishing Group, with Linda signed on as the co-author. Bobby and Linda wrote the book in eight weeks, and completed the final editing process with the publisher. Regretfully, the publishing house went bankrupt after missing their October '04 release date. Bobby has recently self-published the book, and it's selling briskly to his massive cop, FBI, DEA, and international audiences. To date, even with the great disappointment of losing their publisher, Linda feels that this is the most important work she's ever done. "When taking Bobby's eyesight, I think God gave him a little more of all the good stuff. My world is infinitely brighter from seeing it through his inspired vision!" she says. (Read an excerpt, even if you're not a cop or someone who loves one, you'll be spellbound by his life and the lives of all cops.)
Lives Charmed, Linda's first book, was released to
critical acclaim in the fall of 1998 (still in print).
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Lives Charmed: By Linda Sivertsen Get Linda's book, Lives
Charmed, at |
What Others Are Saying about the
interviews for Lives
Charmed . . .
"Linda Sivertsen is a great interviewer.
She really listens and asks terrific questions and follow-up questions;
the kind most people don't even think to ask. Unlike most journalists,
who have become cynical and distrustful, Linda makes you feel safe,
allowing for a deeper interview experience."
— Jack Canfield, creator
and co-author of the best-selling Chicken Soup
for the Soul series
"My interview with Linda Sivertsen was one of the best
I have ever done."
—Arnold Palmer, golf legend
"I love this book [ Lives Charmed ]
and tore through it, reading it cover to cover several times. I get
tons of books sent here to the station and this one stands out as one
of the best I've read. Lives Charmed is a real gem, and so
is Linda Sivertsen. I would give her air time whenever she wanted it."
— Kip Wallace, WHEE-AM, Martinsville, VA
"From this reservoir of stories, Sivertsen reinforced
her beliefs that 'there are ways of thinking and modes of living that
breed success, and they can be learned.' [ Lives Charmed ]
is a new genre of books in which she combines spirituality, self-help
and celebrity tell-all to create a different kind of reading experience."
— Bodhi Tree Book Review
"The interview for Lives Charmed was
the best interview of my life."
— Beatrice Wood, world-renowned artist/ceramicist
(102 years old at the time of this comment)
"Linda is a dream interviewer. I
felt safe telling her anything; I loved our time together."
— Tatjana
Patitz, supermodel
"I'm not very open to sharing my feelings, probably because
I'm English. It took me a year to yield to this interview and
I trusted Linda only because of our long and dear friendship. I cannot
say enough about our time together. It was better than therapy."
—
Lord Robin Russell
"Linda, I normally hate interviews, but you made it fun. You
knew things about me that even I didn't know. You should be a reporter.
— Sandy Gallin, Academy-Award-Winning producer and talent
mogul
"Linda, Mahalo to your talent. Lives
Charmed is awesome!"
— Wyland, artist, environmentalist, whale
muralist
"The book is a jewel. I'm honored to be a part
of it."
— Robert A. Johnson, Jungian analyst and best-selling
author
"... I must say that this is one of the most insightful
interviews I've read about Beato. I simply didn't want it to end.
If I didn't know better, I would have thought that Linda had known
Beatrice all of her life. She took the time to penetrate the many
layers of a woman who didn't expose herself to many. A real woman--very
concerned about global affairs--who just happens to be a legendary
figure."
— Marlene Wallace (the official photographer of Beatrice
Wood, whose work appears in the Smithsonian, and books and periodicals
throughout the world)
"From sports figures to fashion supermodels,
Sivertsen's interviewees have a common thread of positive thinking
and sound spiritual basis. Virtually no aspect of interaction and experience
is neglected."
— The Book Loft Review
"The beauty of a work such as Lives
Charmed is that it will sell so wildly,
it will change the fact we are currently feeding the subconscious
with our art and our media. The subconscious is bursting at the
gills, overfed, and is absolutely running the show. With books
like this, we will start feeding our higher conscious, which should
train book publishers, moviemakers, magazine publishers and newspaper
reporters that this is just as saleable a product as feeding the
subconscious. I see Lives Charmed spinning
off into follow-up books and a weekly television show, thankfully,
because the more products we can sell to our higher conscious,
the sooner we will relieve Mother Earth's burden."
—
Guru
Singh (Author, named "Best Guru in L.A."
by
Los Angeles Magazine )
