"Michael Roney and his team took my book concept and made it a reality, providing invaluable guidance while going above and beyond in service." -Ziad Khoury, President, Frontline Performance Group, Orlando, FL

          

      

The Roney Group  is dedicated to bringing quality books to the broadest possible audience, employing decades of professional expertise in book publishing. If you're an author with a strong book idea and significant promotional platform, we'll help you develop your proposal and then present it to major trade publishers.

In addition to offering financial and contractual advice and service to clients, we are committed to assisting the author in every stage of the book's life. This includes working with the author to create and polish the proposal, placing the book with the most suitable publisher, and assisting the book's progress through publication and beyond. In short, we provide attentive professional publishing expertise and careful oversight for every aspect of the publishing cycle.

Our literary agency represents the following authors:

Marilyn Krichko with Jane Rollinson, The Rowers' Code. Based on success with dozens of major organizations, The Rowers' Code is the entertaining story of a team of eight professional colleagues who attend an offsite workshop. There powerful metaphors come to life as they learn to row together in a 60-foot Olympic-style boat while learning The Rowers' Code and applying it to their own situations at work.

Marilyn Krichko is a Fortune 500 corporate consultant who invented the highly successful OARS teambuilding program and Rowers' Code workshops. Jane Rollinson is Chairman of the Board for a healthcare company based in New York, and sits on the boards of several other organizations. She frequently interacts with C-Suite executives in all sizes of organizations from around the world. Combined, both authors have business contacts that include Cintas, Procter & Gamble, Kroger, Key Bank, Us Bank Corp, UnitedHealthcare, GlaxoSmithKline, HealthNet, Merck & Co., Kaiser Permanente, Microsoft, Starbucks Coffee Company and GE.

Ziad Khoury, Frontline Profit Machine: A Blueprint for Exploding Profits at the Point of Sale. (#1 Amazon Business Bestseller!) The Frontline represents by far the single largest employee segment in the worldwide marketplace. This is a segment that is untapped and is far from reaching its performance potential. This book brings to light that hidden treasure which most completely miss or simply overlook. It shares a proven tested model that helps deliver bottom-line results that many companies do not imagine is possible. It is enlightening, practical, inspirational and focused on bottom-line results.

Ziad Khoury has achieved phenomenal success in showing Budget Rent a Car, Virgin Holidays, First Choice, Sandals Resorts, and other customer-facing businesses in North America, Europe and elsewhere around the globe how to double profits by implementing a powerful formula called The Khoury Performance Equation.

Karim Jaude, The Smart Real Estate Investor's Guide.   The real estate market as we knew it before August of 2008 has changed forever. Yet this creates opportunities for smart, savvy investors who understand the market, play by the rules, and have the ability to acquire and manage distressed properties.The Smart Real Estate Investor's Guide provides a roadmap to real estate investing success in any economy. Inside are the tools readers will need to make smart investment choices and lessen the risks inherent in a volatile real estate market.

For the last forty years author Karim Jaude has developed, invested in, financed, brokered, and managed properties in eight countries. He made his first $1 million by age twenty-six by buying and fixing up distressed properties and businesses. His offices have handled more than $20 billion in real estate transactions. Karim writes, teaches, and speaks about real estate and has been published in more than 115 business and real estate periodicals nationwide.

Sandy Johnson, The Thirteenth Moon: A Journey Into The Heart Of Healing. Acclaimed author and former actress Sandy Johnson was hard at work on her novel of magic and mysticism set in Brazil when the phone call came using words such as "highly aggressive" and "fast-growing." With her life as she knew suddenly put on hold, she began to write her memoir, whose warm, uplifting and often humorous tone will inspire readers to join her on a journey of healing and self-growth. A revelation of how we heal, The Thirteenth Moon will appeal to everyone who is interested in the body's remarkable ability to heal itself, which science is just beginning to embrace. Whether you or a loved one are battling cancer, a chronic illness or a broken heart, this book will feed your spirit, enlighten your mind and touch your heart.

Sandy Johnson's first book The Cuppi, a novel about a 12-year-old runaway who was murdered in New York's red-light district, led to appearances on Good Morning America, The Mike Douglas Show, feature articles in The San Francisco Chronicle and Newsday, and a two-page spread in People Magazine. Her second novel, Walk a Winter Beach, was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Her nonfiction work, The Book of Elders: The Life Stories and Wisdom of Great American Indians, garnered a starred Publishers Weekly review , while her The Book of Tibetan Elders, written with the assistance of the Dali Lama, was deemed "spellbinding" by Library Journal.

Burke Franklin, Business Black Belt. A black belt means strength, speed, flexibility, quickness and power. This timely and powerful guide is aimed at the millions of entrepreneurs and managers who must position themselves and their companies to thrive in the rigorous but high-potential economic road-to-recovery ahead. Packed full of powerful lessons learned from Franklin's many years of in-the-trenches experience, this book is dense with essential business-building wisdom learned the hard way, and dispensed in hundreds of highly entertaining and informative personal anecdotes and advice.

Burke Franklin is the founder and CEO of Jian and creator of the world's best-selling business planning software, now with over two million users. He has served as an elected delegate to the White House Conference on Small Business and in 1996 was nominated for Ernst & Young's Entrepreneur of the Year Award.

Garry Berman, Best of the Britcoms, 2nd Edition. Best of the Britcoms is the nationally acclaimed and definitive guide to the finest British television situation comedies to cross the Atlantic and grace our TV screens since the mid-1970s. This revised and enhanced 2010 edition will continue the successful tradition, including the later developments of each series' storyline, detailed information on specials and cast reunions that have occurred in the intervening years, and all-new, definitive coverage of the last decade's newest hit Britcoms enjoyed by millions of Americans.

Garry Berman is a pop culture journalist and novelist who is also author of We're Going to See the Beatles.

Michael Klein, Something for Nothing (fiction): This compelling new academic novel combines a revealing view of academic lifestyle with contemporary political intrigue, playing on the challenges of intellectual integrity and personal ambition, overcoming disappointment and sustaining hope, fostering love while avoiding temptation. The characters are well drawn, the dialogue is engaging, and the well-turned plot has some unexpected twists.

Michael Klein, Ph.D. is an internationally recognized authority in international economics, and is the William L. Clayton Professor of International Economic Affairs at the Fletcher School, Tufts University. "Academic politics and modern economics are possibly the two great follies of our time. Michael Klein does a wonderful job wrapping them up together for our reading pleasure in this sharp, affecting and ingenious fiction." - Jonathan Wilson, author of the novel A Palestine Affair (Random House).

Michael Mann, Ph.D, The Secret Life of Organizations. If you're running your company using a classic organizational chart, you could be making a big mistake. This groundbreaking title shows readers how to uncover and utilize the real lines of communication and influence in any large organization. The result: higher functionality, efficiency and success.

Michael Mann, Ph.D. is the Chairman of EnCompass Knowledge Systems, Inc., a provider of computer-supported solutions for corporate governance and knowledge management, and an Adjunct Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of Southern California. He serves as an outside director of public and closely held firms in the technology, health services, and consumer products sectors.

Thomas Palermo, The 15-Minute Miracle. What can be accomplished in just 15 minutes a day? You can learn conversational French, or perhaps firm and tighten your gluts. Or, you can start a relationship with your son or daughter that will affect every decision they will eventually make in their personal and professional lives, affecting their success in school, in relationships, in their physical and emotional health, and eventually their careers and marriage.

Thomas Palermo is the President of Positive Parenting and Executive Director/Founder of Families First, where he dedicates his days to empowering parents. He currently provides in-home intensive parent services and staff training for case mangers and therapists for the NYC Children's Protective Services as well as the NYC Office of Mental Health. Palermo has previously authored Parenting: The Instruction Manual Your Child Should Have Come With and Jumping In Puddles: A Guide To Positive Parenting.

Jamal Ali Hussein, Nomad to Harvard: Immigration, Opportunity, and Ten Key Lessons for Making It In America. Jamal Ali Hussein, a young African Somali nomad, arrives in the United States as a refugee with $64 in his pocket. Initially detained at Boston's Logan Airport, he fights deportation and makes influential friends. He seeks political asylum when civil war erupts in his country and his father is involved in the struggle to overthrow the dictator, Siad Barre, and his family flees on foot to a refugee camp in Ethiopia. Against this backdrop, Hussein puts himself through Harvard, where he earns an MBA, becomes a CPA in Massachusetts while continuing to build a successful career, becomes an American citizen, and ultimately finds himself as a wealthy global executive who routinely hops continents as a Managing Director and CEO at Citibank Cote d'Ivoire, and one of Citigroup's 100 Country Chiefs around the world. This book is the inspirational true story of how he did it and the 10 lessons he learned along the way.

Garry Berman, We're Going to See The Beatles: An Oral History of Beatlemania By the Fans Who Were There. Packed with scores of first-person interviews, incredible narrative detail, and rare photos that immerse the reader in time and place, this is the first illustrated oral history told by the first generation of Beatles fans --those teenage baby boomers who were there when the Fab Four first landed at JFK, were in the audience at the historic Ed Sullivan Show debut, watched them up close at Shea Stadium in 1965, and experienced numerous other close encounters throughout the years. Features an exclusive foreword from Sid Bernstein, is the legendary impresario that brought the Beatles to America, and supported as an official title of The Fest for Beatles Fans.

Garry Berman is a long-time contributor to Beatlefan magazine and was previously author of Best of the Britcoms: From Fawlty Towers to Absolutely Fabulous, which received favorable reviews from publications such as Entertainment Weekly and Publishers Weekly. Best of the Britcoms went into its second printing in March, 2000, and has also been offered by PBS affiliates across the country as an on-air pledge drive gift. Berman actively promoted Best of the Britcoms and has been interviewed on radio, cable television, and in print.

Ken Dashow, "He Literally Hit that Ball to the Moon" (And Other Really Annoying Things). This collection of comedic essays, one-act plays, poetry, and parody springs from the twisted, yet logical mind of NYC radio personality and successful screenwriter/playwright Ken Dashow. Featuring a special section with thinly veiled satires on the many personalities he has known from the world of rock 'n roll, these stories reflect Dashow's razor-sharp observations on the absurdity of daily life, dissecting the hyperbole of politicians, authors and celebs of all stripes.

Ken Dashow is a twenty-five year veteran of New York radio, having spent seventeen years at "the place where rock lived," WNEW-FM, and the last eight at Q104.3, doing afternoon drive at New York's only classic rock station, with an average audience of 1.5 million listeners a week. Ken also starred on The Golf Channel in 2006, and had a featured part on the season opener of Law & Order: C.I. He is a published playwright, a screenwriter whose movies play constantly on cable, and a stand-up comedian. He regularly appears on New York TV as the go-to guy for rock information, and is often quoted in Crain's Business, The Hollywood Reporter, The Daily News, and The New York Post.

Noah Weinberg, The Five Levels of Pleasure. There is ultimately only one motivating factor to all decision making: pleasure. Encompassing many of the most notable social and philosophical observations of all time, This book takes readers step-by-step on a thoroughly secular journey of self-examination, enlightenment, and empowerment, combining timeless truths in the context of pop culture and contemporary challenges. Each step clearly defines a concept and shows how it applies to everyday life. Successive steps build upon previous understandings. The end result is a roadmap for successful decision making for achieving self-mastery and growth toward becoming one's "ideal person."

Noah Weinberg was the internationally acclaimed founder of Aish International, a worldwide educational organization with 35 outreach branches located on five continents in 25 major cities, boasting hundreds of thousands of members. An estimated 100,000 people have already attended Aish's programs. Its Web site, Aish.com, receives 2.1 million visits monthly, reflecting the broad appeal of Noah Weinberg's approach to education. Weinberg also was the author of What the Angles Taught You (ArtScroll) and The 48 Ways to Wisdom (audio).

 

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