GORDON BURGETT


Many of Gordon's books were revised, updated, and reprinted. These include How to Plan a Great Second Life, the Travel Writer's Guide, Sell and Resell Your Magazine Articles. His first novel has also seen lifer: Lian McAndrews and the Perfect Human World.

Gordon also co-authored (with Dr. Jay Hislop), Life After Dentistry: What Are You Going to Do With Your Extra 30 Years?

Gordon currently speaks nationwide about How to Plan a Great Second Life and Life After Dentistry, offering keynotes, break-out sessions, and workshops at conventions, dental meetings, retreats, and universities. (See www.super-second-life.com).

* Burgett has also published 1,700+ articles and offered over 2,000 professional presentations, including dental and medical associations, conventions nationwide, and through university extension programs. During that time he has appeared extensively on radio and TV, as a guest author and a publishing specialist. Burgett is a long-standing member of the National Speakers Association, the American Society of Authors and Journalists, and the Publishers Marketing Association; has produced 26 audio cassette series and singles, and has written 27 books, including Standard Marketing Procedures for Dentists, Sell and Resell Your Magazine Articles, Publishing to Niche Markets, Treasure and Scavenger Hunts, Niche Marketing for Writers, Speakers, and Entrepreneurs, Self-Publishing to Tightly-Targeted Markets, The Travel Writers Guide, How to Sell More Than 75% of Your Freelance Writing, The Writers Guide to Query and Cover Letters, Empire-Building by Writing and Speaking, Speaking for Money (with Mike Frank), Ten Sales from One Article Idea, and The Query Book.

* Four of Burgetts books have been Writers Digest Book Club top choices: Sell and Resell Your Magazine Articles, The Travel Writers Guide, The Writers Guide to Query and Cover Letters, and How to Sell More Than 75% of Your Freelance Writing.

* Gordon has owned and directed a publishing company, Communication Unlimited, since 1981. It recently published What Every Superintendent and Principal Needs to Know, Teachers Change Lives 24/7, and The Perfect School under its Education Communication Unlimited imprint, as well as four reports in its "Excellence in Education for Superintendents and Principals" series.

C.U. originally specialized in (and continues to offer) books, reports, and cassettes about writing, empire-building, and niche publishing. For many years his company also operated Dental Communication Unlimited and Medical Communication Unlimited, to offer a series of standard operating procedures manuals (and other, related office operations products) for health care professionals.

* Burgett earned four academic degrees: B.A., University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana (Latin American Studies), M.A., University of Wisconsin, Madison (Luso-Brazilian Studies), M.F.T., Thunderbird Graduate School (Foreign Trade), and an M.A., Northern Illinois University (U.S. Intellectual History). He was twice a university dean, taught Portuguese and history, created a city recreation program in Illinois, directed CARE (and Peace Corps) programs in Colombia and Ecuador (including the Land Directorship of the HOPE ship medical/dental program in Guayaquil), twice studied in Brazil, played professional baseball, and led a gold hunt up the Paushi Yaco (Upper Amazon) River in Ecuador.

 



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