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Daniel Hudson Burnham, architect
Donna Beech has been a professional writer, ghostwriter and editor since 1998. Her work has consistently been award-winning and critically acclaimed.
In 2009, "The Everyday Advocate: How to Stand Up for Your Autistic Child" (April 2010) was sold to Penguin (NAL) at an auction between the top six publishing houses in New York.
In Europe, "Twee Uur Op/Twee Uur Af" (aka "Expected the Unexpected"), the story of the four Dutch rowers who broke the North Atlantic record for the fastest unsupported crossing, was published in Spring of 2009 by Uitgeverij Podium, the leading publisher in the Netherlands.
Upon publication of "The Healing Choice," the authors, Dr. Candace de Puy and Dr. Dana Dovitch, were invited to Washington, D.C. to present their findings to the United States Congress. "The HeartMath Solution" was named HarperCollins' Lead Book of the Year.
In the American media, her books have been featured on Oprah, ABC's World News Tonight, CNN Headline News, NBC's Today Show, PBS, Inside Edition, The View, Good Morning America and The Dr. Phil Show.
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Working with an Emmy-award winning crew, Donna wrote, directed and produced Chef Skills with Paolo Sacca, a series of culinary videos to accompany her 25 guidebooks to "Becoming a Gourmet Chef" for Harcourt Brace Education.
Online she has written web content for Dimensional Fund Investors, an investment firm of nobel laureates; more than 50 management profiles for the largest real estate company in the world, CB Richard Ellis, Beverly Hills; and over 160 cycling articles on CyclingReviews.com.
As lead writer for the award-winning Penrose Productions, she wrote over a dozen comedy videos for corporate training, such as Little Known Moments in History, Ignorance & Bliss and RealMagick.com. She also enjoyed the opportunity to serve as development director for the Los Angeles International Film Festival and Pacific Renaissance Theatre.
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With a Master's degree and advanced training in psychoanalysis, Donna has had the pleasure of creating dozens of books -- for world-class athletes, adventurers, scientists, psychoanalysts, attorneys, CEOs of the Fortune 500 companies Lockheed, Nike, Aveda and Reebok, nobel laureates in economics, attorneys, executive coaches, motivational speakers, actors, an Italian chef, a Navy Seal and a taxi-driving poet.
All writing or editing inquiries welcome.
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