Nina Amir
Nina Amir is a seasoned journalist, nonfiction editor,
author, consultant, and writing coach and publishing mentor with more than 30 years of
experience in the publishing field as well as the founder of Write Nonfiction in November, a
blog and writing challenge. Currently, she also serves as the national Jewish Issue Examiner
and a staff writer at Grocery Headquarters magazine. She also is a popular speaker on topics related to publishing and
writing.
Amir holds a BA in magazine
journalism from Syracuse University’s S.I Newhouse School of Public Communication
with a concentration in psychology. An award winning journalist, she has edited or
written for more than 45 local, national and international magazines, newspapers,
e-zines, and newsletters on a full-time or freelance basis producing hundreds of
articles. Her essays have been published in five anthologies and can be found in numerous
e-zines and Internet article directories.
She also has a proven track
record as a book editor; one of Amir’s client’s books (Enlightened Leadership) was
self-published and then purchased and re-released verbatim by Simon & Schuster
(Fireside) and another (Radical Forgiveness) won the 1998 Writer’s Digest Self-Published
Book Award (Inspirational category), received a contract from William Morrow but remained
self-published and went on to sell over 115,000 copies; recently Radical Forgiveness was
purchased by Sounds True. Another of her client's books (Finding Heaven Here) recently was
purchased by O-Books, a fast-growing British publisher. Her clients' proposals regularly get
them contracts with agents as well.
As a publishing mentor, Amir
teaches workshops, teleseminars and classes on how to get published. She also speaks to
organizations, writing groups and at conferences on topics related to writing, getting
published, building platform, and realizing the dream of becoming a published author. She works
with individual aspiring authors not only on their manuscripts but on staying inspired as they
maneuver their way through the sometimes long and arduous path to becoming
published.
In addition, Amir is an
inspirational speaker,
spiritual and conscious creation coach, teacher, and the regular holiday and spirituality
expert on Conversations with Mrs. Claus, a weekly
podcast heard in more than 90 countries and downloaded by 110,000 listeners per month
(www.thefamilyyak.com). Through her writing and speaking, Amir offers human potential,
personal growth and practical spiritual tools from a Jewish perspective, although her work
spans religious lines and is pertinent to people of all faiths and spiritual
traditions.
Amir has written and
self-published several booklets and workbooks, including:
- Using the
Internet to Build Your Platform One Article at a Time, 8 Tips for Getting
Publicity, Exposure and Expert Status by Providing Free Copy
Online
- The
Priestess Practice: 4 Steps to Creating Sacred Space and Inviting the Divine
to Dwell Within It
- The Kabbalah
of Conscious Creation: How to Mystically Manifest Your Physical and Spiritual
Desires
- From Empty
Practice to Meaning-Full and Spirit-Full Prayers and Rituals…in Seven Simple
Steps
- Navigating
the NarrowBridge: 7 Steps for Moving Forward Courageously Even When
Life Seems Most Precarious
She co-authored of
Planting Seeds of Change…and Watching Them Grow with Karen Stone,
MSW.
All of these booklets are
available on her websites: www.copywrightcommunications.com or
www.purespiritcreations.com.
Currently Amir has six books
in process:
- The Kabbalah
of Conscious Creation, 7 Steps to Tapping Into the Divine Flow of Giving and
Receiving (Alternate title: 7 Steps to Creating Your Soul’s
Desire, How to Find Your Divine Purpose and Fulfill
It)
- Setting a
Place for God, A Woman’s Guide to Creating Sacred Space and Inviting the
Divine to Dwell Within It
- The Living
Fully Challenge: 12 Months to a Fully-Lived Life
- So You Think
You Wanna Dance, Advice and Encouragement from Professional Male Dancers for
Those Who Want to Follow in Their Footsteps
- Turning Life
Lessons Into Stories Worth Telling, How to Create a Business Speaking and
Writing About What You Know Best
- The Proposal
Process, 9 Ways to Make Sure Your Nonfiction Book Succeeds (Before You
Actually Write It)
She also is blogging a book
about how to blog a book (howtoblogabook.com).
And she compiled a Jewish celebrity cookbook, for which she is seeking a
publisher.
Amir lives in
Los Gatos,
CA, with her husband and
two children.
You can read Amir's blogs
here:
www.howtoblogabook.com
www.purespiritcreations.com/wordpress
www.mysoncandance.wordpress.com
www.writenonfictioninnovember.com (Coming soon:
Writenonfictionnow.com)
Read her Examiner column
here:
http://www.examiner.com/x-7363-San-Jose-Jewish-Examiner
Listen to Amir's podcasts or radio appearances here.
