Marion E. Gold

"ESCAPE FROM HEAVEN," co-authored with award-winning and internationally acclaimed novelist Jerry Marcus, is Marion Estelle Gold's first novel.

Marion is also author of TOP COPS: Profiles of Women in Command. “TOP COPS” was endorsed by former Governors George Ryan (Illinois), George Pataki (New York), and Janet Napolitano, former US Secretary of Homeland Secretary, and Governor of Arizona. She wrote The Personal Publicity Planner – A Guide to Marketing YOU and co-authored Skirting Traditions: Arizona Women Writers & Journalists 1912-2012. Her two bylined chapters in in Skirting Traditions profile Arizona writers Jana Bommersbach - a nationally acclaimed investigative journalist and book author, and Pam Stevenson - one of Arizona's first on-screen television producer/writers and a video journalist. The book includes biographies of twenty-eight female writers and journalists from Arizona spanning the one hundred years since Arizona became the forty-eighth state in the Union. Skirting Traditions was named by the Arizona Historical Advisory Committee as an official Arizona Legacy Project, and part of Arizona's official 2012 Centennial celebration.

Marion’s essay on “The Heart and Soul of Communications” was also published in the centennial “Anthology” of the Illinois Woman’s Press Association, an affiliate of the National Federation of Press Women.

Marion also is well known as an experienced writer and marketing communications expert. Her articles and editorials appeared in marketing trade journals, and national & international newspapers, magazines and newsletters - including Advertising Age, the Chicago Sun-Times, the Chicago Tribune, the Arizona Republic and the Business Journal of Phoenix. Marion's award-winning articles on marketing, diversity, career planning and women in the workforce appeared in marketing trade journals, and national newspapers and magazines - including Advertising Age, the Chicago Sun-Times, the Chicago Tribune, the Arizona Republic and the Business Journal of Phoenix.

She was featured in Working Woman magazine and included by Today's Chicago Woman in its list of 100 Women Making a Difference. She was president of the Illinois Woman's Press Association (2001-2003) and vice president of Arizona Press Women (2009-2010).

Marion provides strategic insight, sound ideas, and creative editorial & consulting services to entrepreneurs, small businesses and nonprofit associations. Her services include a variety of editorial and marketing services, including the development of marketing & publicity materials, "Personal Publicity" and other specialty press kits, quality editorials, position papers and more.