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James Frey

Owner, American Literary Press

410-882-7700, 800-873-2003

jim@americanliterarypress.com

James V. Frey is the current owner of American Literary Press, a Baltimore, MD-based book publisher that has published books written by more than 1,300 first-time authors during the past 20 years.

Jim is a Cum Laude graduate of Dartmouth College. Following graduation from Dartmouth, he served as a high school teacher in Southern New Hampshire. Subsequently, he spent 15 years with Xerox Corporation in various Sales and Marketing capacities, accountable as a senior manager in his last two assignments. During the 1990’s, he was a General Manager for several large office technology firms and served as a director on five companies’ Board of Directors. Since 1999, he has been an owner of/investor in six entrepreneurial ventures, including American Literary Press.

In 2001, Jim self-published his own industry-targeted “how to” book, based on his experience with both big and small business, that generated $25,000 in sales. In his estimation, Jim considers the publication of his 86 year-old father’s autobiography by American Literary Press in 2006 to be one of one of his major professional accomplishments.

With nearly two decades of experience, American Literary Press has the knowledge necessary to produce books exactly as our authors envision them. Our ability to adapt to the wishes of our authors is one of the primary reasons our company has been chosen by more than 1,200 aspiring and first-time writers. Not a single book is published unless it is one that we can proudly claim as our own, for we require that our books meet the highest standards for editorial accuracy, design and production.

American Literary Press provides authors with a wide variety of options from which to choose, including author-marketed publishing and programs that include professional marketing services. One of these options is certain to serve your needs. First, let’s evaluate your publishing project.

American Literary Press is your best solution if:

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No other company can do more to satisfy your expectations because publishing is our only business. We are a full-service publisher, not simply a printer or bookseller with a high-tech copy machine.

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What about ghostwriters?

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Host: What about ghostwriters?

James Frey: If you are looking to write your own story; we get this question all the time. I have written the best book or I am thinking about writing the best book since the 'Da Vinci Code'. But I want to hire somebody to help me write the book.

Those people are available, but it will cost a lot of money to get that kind of professional writing assistance from people for your book. I am not saying you should not do it, but be aware that there is a cost of hiring someone to help you write your book. You have some wonderful sources available to help you in terms of giving some critique, some input, some suggestions, you have family members available to you probably, most likely, you have personal or professional acquaintances who could give you input and assistance and I will encourage you to use that rather than to think about hiring a ghostwriter to help with writing your book.