Gordon Burgett
Publishing strategist and pre-print nonfiction court-of-last-resort reviewer and editor
- Role
- President, CEO at Communication Unlimited
- Location
- Novato, CA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Gordon Burgett
I mostly enjoy helping strategize, create, and build information-sharing empires for others (and myself), usually from writing, speaking, and publishing. Three related activities that I also particularly enjoy are (1) writing books (for myself and others),(2) speaking professionally, and (3) editing to-be-published books, helping ferret out errors, omissions, rambling, dawdling, fear, and less-than-great (even awful) prose.(I also sniff out bad titles.) In my mind all three are threads of the same cloth: clarity, sharing, simplicity, and flaw-eradication. I’ve written 1700+ published articles and 46 books, plus 18 for and with others. I\'ve also given paid speeches, and probably almost as many free talks along the way. It’s fun to play with oral and written magic, and even better getting it profitably shared. The first two are self-explanatory. In the third, there are three times when extra editing can be most effective: at the outset, to help create a path that relentlessly heads to your chosen goal; a midway assessment, and a no-nonsense, detailed final draft examination. How do you know that I can do what I say? That I\'ve actually done all three many, many times (as explained in the next section) isn\'t an iron-clad guarantee that I can help you with your writing, editing, and publication, but it sure ups the odds! Specialties: consulting in the empire-building arena, speechwriting, salvational editing, publishing, writing, professional speaking, and (again) saving others\' publishing hides!
Experience
President, CEO
Jan 1982 — Present · CA
Education
University of Wisconsin, Madison
M.A.
1962 — 1962
University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.)
1956 — 1960
Northern Illinois University
M.A.
1969 — 1970
Thunderbird (American Institute for Foreign Trade)
M.F.T.
1960 — 1961
Skills
- Feature Reporting
- Workshops
- Interviews
- Key Message Development
- Newspapers
- Travel Writing
- Book Production
- Ghostwriting
- Editorial Consulting
- Copy Editing
- Public Speaking
- Media Interviews
- Editing
- Content Development
- Conference Speaking
- Newspaper
- Publishing
- Product Development
- Blogging
- Workshop Presenter
- Script Doctoring
- Freelance Writing
- Publications
- Feature Articles
- Manuscript Development
- Content Strategy
- Marketing
- Live Reporting
- Book Marketing
- Editorial
- Medical Publishing
- Script Editing
- Author Management
- On-Camera
- Books
- Web Content
- Journalism
- Online Publishing
- Publicity
- Proofreading
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