JEAN-NOEL BASSIOR   

AUTHOR, JOURNALIST

• Freelance writer who also shows authors how to get published. Has written for Redbook, McCall’s, Parade, AARP The Magazine, Woman’s World, New Age Journal, Complete Woman and many other publications. Work has been syndicated worldwide by The New York Times Syndicate, Knight Features (London) and other agencies.
• Author of Space Patrol: Missions of Daring in the Name of Early Television, a saga of live TV in the 1950s (McFarland, 2005). Website: www.spacepatrolbook.com

 

• Specialty: Celebrity profiles for magazines and newspapers in the U.S. and abroad. Interviews include: Celine Dion, Mike Wallace, Larry King, Ed Bradley, Shirley MacLaine, Sarah Ferguson (Duchess of York), Goldie Hawn, Tony Bennett, Mary Tyler Moore, Jane Seymour, Tipper Gore, Ed Asner, Wolf Blitzer, Lorraine Bracco, Linda Evans, Naomi Judd, Andy Rooney, Bill O’Reilly, Loretta Lynn, Marie Osmond, Shania Twain, Tom Arnold, Henry Winkler, Valerie Harper, Bill Cosby, Sally Jessy Raphael, Heather Locklear, Ed Begley Jr., Robert Stack, Tony Danza, Geraldo Rivera, Della Reese, Maury Povich, Michael Keaton, Joan Rivers, Liz Smith, Mick Fleetwood, Dionne Warwick, Tony Curtis, Crystal Gayle, Amy Grant, Barbara Mandrell, Annette Funicello, and many others. Ghost-wrote Richard Simmons’ weekly column in Woman’s World for two years.

 

• Interviews with best-selling authors include: Judith Krantz, Wayne Dyer, Deepak Chopra, Bernie Siegel, Buzz Aldrin, Sam Keen, John Gray, Joseph Chilton Pearce, Dr. Laura Schlessinger, Rupert Sheldrake, Larry Elder, Army Archerd, James Redfield and others.

 

• Featured guest on many talk shows, including “Coast to Coast A.M.” with George Noory, and on Fox News affiliates; quoted in the Author 101 series, Bestselling Nonfiction: The Insider’s Guide to Making Reality Sell, about how writers work.

 

• Awards: National Mature Media Award, Bronze Medal, for “How to Be the Greatest Grandparent Ever” with Russ Wild (Modern Maturity, Nov-Dec, 2001). Nominated for Rondo Award in 2004,  Best Book and Best Writer categories; and in 2003 for Best Article, “The Search for the Ralston Rocket,” which appeared in Filmfax magazine.

 

TEACHER

Created the Get Published Now seminar for The Learning Annex, Learning Tree University, Cerritos College and University of California (Davis). Currently teaches “Introduction to Getting Published” and “Take Your Writing to the Next Level” at UC Riverside.

 

PRIVATE CONSULTANT (20 Years)

Helps authors get published with two coaching programs: Get Published Now: Crash Course is a one-hour private session that shows how to pitch your book idea to agents and editors and look like a pro. Book Mentoring: Total Support coaches authors through every phase of the book-writing process, from focusing the idea to getting published. This intense, personal program is geared to authors who know they have a book to write but need help getting started. You’ll learn how to plan the book, find your voice, research and conduct interviews, organize large amounts of material and dissolve writer’s block by letting go of the “perfect pictures” that feed procrastination. Author Susan Shumsky says: “Thank you, Jean-Noel. If it weren't for you, I would not have gotten an agent and had my first book published by Simon & Schuster.”