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GORDON BURGETT's BIOGRAPHY
In 2003, 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 also saw
life late in that year: Lian McAndrews and the Perfect Human World.
Earlier, in late 2001, Gordon 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.
* 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 Writer’s Guide, How to Sell More Than 75% of Your Freelance
Writing, The Writer’s 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 Burgett’s books have been Writer’s Digest Book Club top choices:
Sell
and Resell Your Magazine Articles, The Travel Writer’s Guide, The Writer’s
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 originally specialized in (and continues to offer)
books, reports, and cassettes about writing, empire-building, and niche
publishing. In 1995, his company merged with Marsha Freeman’s Team Systems and
created Dental Communication Unlimited and Medical Communication Unlimited, to
begin 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.
* Gordon is also the creator of Agemasters, a publishing imprint of
Communication Unlimited, a speaking firm about second life planning, and an
Internet acknowledgment and listing service for athletic achievements in
running, walking, cycling, swimming and wheeling.
See below for currently available publications.
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