Steven Formanwas born in the Boston area in 1942, graduated the University of
Massachusetts in 1963 and started his own seafood marketing company in
1970. He has always had a passion for writing but did not publish his
first book until 2009.He devoted most of his adult life to building a
one-man company into an international, multi million-dollar enterprise
from the ground floors of Boston's Haymarket square to the grounds of
the emperor's
palace in Tokyo. He has seen small ideas grow into gigantic successes
and he has played a part in creating entirely new industries that remain
viable and vibrant today.
In 1992, he and his wife, Barbara, traded the cold New England
winters for the warmth of Boca Raton, Florida and have been enjoying the
best of both worlds since. The unique, contrasting life styles of Boston
and Boca inspired him to write "Boca Knights", the book he promised
himself to write many years ago. The sequel, "Boca Mournings" is
releasing on Feb 2. He and his wife became Florida residents recently
but still divide their time between their two favorite cities. His
daughter, Jana, settled in Boca with her husband and two beautiful
children. His son David
lives in Massachusetts with his wife and son, and their three rescued
cats and one rescued dog.
Steve has learned that the business and literary worlds have much in
common; create a good product, market it to the public and hope
consumers buy it repeatedly. The main difference he has experienced
between his two careers is the public's perception. Over the years he
has sold millions and millions of pounds of seafood but no one has ever
asked him to sign a piece of fish. Write a good book, however and
suddenly a lot of people want his signature on something besides a
check.
C. Hope Clark
(Hope) founded and serves as editor of
www.FundsforWriters.com
, a well-known writer's reference that reaches 20,000 readers weekly
with grants, markets and motivational editorials that generate
stacks of thank-you notes from readers. Writer's Digest voted FundsforWriters one of its 101 Best Web Sites for Writers for the
past nine years.
Hope's dozen
ebooks are rapid sellers ranging from Grants for the Serious
Writer to Short & Sweet; Markets for Fillers. Hope has published in
magazines like Writer's Digest, The Writer Magazine, ByLine
Magazine, Next Step Magazine, College Bound Teen, TURF Magazine, and
Landscape Management. The Shy Writer is a nonfiction paperback she
penned to aid writers like her who have difficulty appearing in
public. Published in 2004, it continues to readily sell and was
rereleased as a second edition in Fall 2007.
After 25 years as a
manager with the federal sector, she requested an early retirement
in her forties to write full time and manage FundsforWriters,
marrying her knowledge of grants and her love of writing.
She lives in
Chapin, South Carolina on the banks of Lake Murray and has completed
a novel, the first of an agricultural mystery series, which is
currently being read by several agents. She is married to a
recently retired federal agent who inspires her love of mystery
writing.
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