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More About Carol J. Amato

Seasoned speaker, featured expert, and author

With a background in writing and publishing that began in the 1980s and nonfiction book coach to many experts, highly accomplished Carol J. Amato is a seasoned, ideal resource for feature stories, media quotes, guest podcasting, and virtual summits.

For over three decades, Carol has trained in or written for a wide variety of
industries, including high-tech, aerospace, publishing, banking, legal, education, and marketing, to name a few. She is a highly accomplished content creator.
Her specialty is how-to books.

She is an award-winning author of 29 books and over 200 articles in national
publications. Her recent titles for experts include Maximize Your Competitive Edge: 17 Secrets to Make Your Small Business Look Like a Fortune 500 Company and Maximize Your Publish-ability: How to Start and Run a Writers’ Critique Group. Upcoming are Maximize Your Book Sales: Exhibiting at Trade Shows on a Shoestring Budget,
Maximize Your Visibility: Creating a Media Kit for Your Nonfiction Book, Maximize Your Credibility: Creating a Media Kit for Yourself as a Speaker, and Maximize Your Book’s Layout: How to Typeset Your Self-published Book.

As Top Writing Coach, Carol shows entrepreneurs, speakers, coaches, and other
experts how to increase their visibility and brand by helping them write, publish, and market quality books based on their expertise. With her user-friendly process, she handholds her clients from idea creation through marketing and helps them avoid the frustration, stress, and usual quagmires that plague many first-time authors.

Carol prides herself on her ability to make complex concepts easy to understand, on keeping her coaching groups small, and on providing as much individual help as
clients need.

Clients describe her as having exceptional expertise, willing to go the extra mile, always a pleasure to work with, and as straightforward, honest, and
trustworthy—a consummate professional.

Carol has a B.A. from the University of Portland (Oregon), and an M.A. from California State University – Fullerton. She is a founding member of the Independent Writers of Southern California (IWOSC) and the Publishers’ Association of Los Angeles (PALA), both of which recently merged with the Writers’ and Publishers’ Network (WPN), and the current president of the Writers’ Club of Whittier.

To learn more, contact her at carol@topwritingcoach.com.