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WRITING AND COMMUNICATION

EFFECTIVE BUSINESS & NONFICTION WRITING

(2nd edition, Hannacroix Creek Books, 2001; 1st edition, Arco, 1985; $20.95 trade paperback; 178 pages;  ISBN 1-889262-26-9; hardcover, $30.95) Basics of nonfiction writing including style, content, business writing, memos, letters, and getting published. New material includes section on time management tips for writers as well as writing effective e-mails and faxes; updated resource section with web site addresses.

"Use Better Writing to Boost Your Career." National Business Employment Weekly, 10/8/94

"Office Communications: Getting the Message Across." Newsday, 4/4/88

"Writing Winning Thank-you Notes," Modern Bride, 2/87.

“Two Ways to Complain: Share With or Scare Off.” Independent News alliance, 1/9/81

MAKING YOUR OFFICE WORK FOR YOU

(Doubleday, 1989) Office design, lighting, furniture, and organizing for outside or home offices. ("The prose is succinct, enlivened with examples and augmented at key points by line drawings, checklists and summaries." Publishers Weekly) 2nd edition in preparation. Writers need to set up an effective office so they can do their work as effectively and efficiently.

"Permanent Delegation." EXEC, Spring 1995.

"Time Management: How to stop postponing your life." Working Woman, 5/85; edited and revised July 1998)

“Vacation:Working on Peace of Mind,” Newsday, 31/88 (rev. July 1998)

"Finding Time to Do It All." Secretary magazine, 1/96

“Working From Home: How to Make It Work,” Women & Co., 12/88

"The Five Essential Steps to Becoming More Productive." Boardroom Reports, 10/15/93

"Jan Yager's 30-Day File Diet." Boardroom Reports, 11/15/93

"Five Top Time Wasters." Redbook, 8/90.

"Remember, the Office Comes With the Job." Nat’l Business Employment Weekly, 5/24/87

“Ten Questions to Ask Yourself to Improve Your Time Management,” 1984 Convention Daily.

BUSINESS PROTOCOL: HOW TO SURVIVE & SUCCEED IN BUSINESS (Wiley, 1991; 2nd edition, Hannacroix Creek Books, 2001; Spanish edition, Vergara, 1993). Trade paperback, $21.95; hardcover, $31.95

Main selection, January 2001, Executive Program Book Club (part of Bookspan)

“A concise, readable and very helpful book. Jan Yager understands the importance of the human and well-mannered-side of business.” Etiquette expert Letitia Baldrige “A handbook on proper business decorum…” HR Magazine

“Is Someone Trying to Block Your Advancement at Work?” National Business Employment Weekly, 12/11/94

“Six Principles of Business Protocol,” Personal Excellence, Nov/Dec 1994

WORKPLACE RELATIONSHIPS

FRIENDSHIFTS®: THE POWER OF FRIENDSHIP AND HOW IT SHAPES OUR LIVES ($22.95 trade paperback; 288 pages including references, resources, illustrations, index; ISBN 1-889262-29-3; $31.95 hardcover, ISBN 1889262390) 2nd edition, Hannacroix Creek Books, 1999; Vergara [Spanish language edition], 1998; Jaico [India], 1998).   "a fascinating book"--FORTUNE magazine (Anne Fisher)

Other foreign editions: Taiwan, China; Japan (in preparation)

"You and Your Boss," Personal Excellence, 2/98

"The Power of No!" National Business Employment Weekly, Fall 1988.

FICTION/SUSPENSE NOVELS

UNTIMELY DEATH (with Fred Yager) $24.95 hardcover

JUST YOUR EVERYDAY PEOPLE (with Fred Yager) $16.95 trade paperback; $26.95 hardcover.

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