Smart Women Publish!: Creating, Publishing, and Promoting Your Non-fiction Book

Smart Women Publish! is the first book to give the author or aspiring author an insider's view of non-fiction book publishing from someone who has been there - both as a publisher and a successfully published author.

In Smart Women Publish!, Jan B. King advocates for publishing books based on your intellectual capital - your ideas which can and should be shared with others. King will guide you to make the right decisions to save you time and money as you consider how to create, publish, and promote your book.

Jan B. King is the founder and editorial director of eWomenPublishingNetwork, dedicated to transforming experts with important contributions in their fields into published authors. Her primary areas of concentration are business and self-help.

She began her career with Merritt Publishing, a then 30-year-old publishing company, in 1983. When the company's founder retired in 1990, she became President and CEO. Ms. King transformed this small niche publisher into an employee-owned business as well as a recognized brand for financial information to professionals and consumers. She doubled revenues during the first half of her eight-year tenure, finally leading the company through an employee-buyout and its eventual sale to a leading computer based training company in 1998.

Ms. King was also a member of TEC (The Executive Committee, a membership organization for CEOs) for six years, and co-founded a women's CEO group. In 1997, Merritt Publishing was named the 44th largest woman owned/run business in Los Angeles by the Los Angeles Business Journal. Her book Business Plans to Game Plans was well received by academics and business people alike and is in its 3rd edition (John Wiley & Sons, 2004).

She is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Southern California with a BA in History and Economics, is a certified NxLevel Entrepreneurial Training Program instructor and holds the SPHR (Senior Professional in Human Resource) designation from the Society of Human Resource Management. In 2002, she received the award for "Outstanding Performance as a Small Business Woman's Advocate" from the SBA/California Small Business Development Centers.

Ms. King’s views on business and on publishing have been widely quoted in Working Woman Magazine, the American Bar Association’s Bar Leader magazine, Small Business USA, Business Finance, the Los Angeles Business Journal, and on business web sites such as webhire.com, office.com, ybn.com, portera.com. She has also appeared on Making It! a small business television program on KTTV Los Angeles, The Economic Journal, a PBS business program, as well as on numerous nationally syndicated business radio programs.