Online Book Club, Harvard Professor & Author OUTSMARTING ANGER on the "Your Book Is Your Hook!" Show

BROOKLYN, N.Y. - May 14, 2013 - PRLog -- Kristen Weber, co-founder of Shelf Pleasure, a destination website for women who love to read, and Harvard medical professor and author, Dr. Joseph Shrand, will appear as guests on the Your Book Is Your Hook! Show on WomensRadio.com.

Ms. Weber will discuss how writers are able to leverage reader sites like Shelf Pleasure to support their writing careers and books. Dr. Shrand will discuss his new book, OUTSMARTING ANGER, and share how he got published.

To listen to the show: http://www.womensradio.com/2013/05/social-proof-online-book-club-harvard-author-dr-shrand

New York, NY (May 14th -- May 20th, 2013): Kristen Weber, co-founder of Shelf Pleasure, a destination website for women who love to read, will talk with radio personality and host Jennifer S. Wilkov about how to leverage reader sites like Shelf Pleasure to support their writing careers and books.

She'll also discuss how readers in today's digital world  are finding information about the books they read. Ms. Weber will also talk about how an author can work with Shelf Pleasure to productively promote their work.

Harvard medical professor and author, Dr. Joseph Shrand will discuss with radio personality and host Jennifer S. Wilkov his new book, OUTSMARTING ANGER, how and why he wrote it, and how he got published. He'll also talk about the difference between anger and aggression and why books like OUTSMARTING ANGER can help us resolve the outrage we feel about recent national events. He'll also share advice for new writers who want to write and publish a book about particular human experiences like anger in today's publishing world.

Host Jennifer S. Wilkov will discuss social proof and the value of having others review and recommend your book to more readers during her Education Corner segment during the show.
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The “Your Book Is Your Hook!” Radio Show airs weekly on Tuesdays at 9:00am on the WomensRadio Network at WomensRadio.com and is syndicated on Google News and Live365.com. The “Your Book Is Your Hook!” show was created to provide the opportunity to go behind the books and discover the process from thought to sales of how other authors have succeeded in getting published and how they use their book as their hook with someone who is successful in this field and experiencing the same journey herself.  Listeners also find out about industry professionals and resources to help them as a writer and author with their book projects so they can write, market, publish and make money with their books.

Ms. Wilkov is a #1 international best-selling, award-winning author, an award-winning freelance writer, a speaker and trainer, the creator of the trademarked “From Thought to Sales In 90 Days” book process, an author manager and a book business consultant for other authors and writers. Her experience and knowledge of the book business and the people in it as well as her understanding of the author’s experience from conceiving the idea to getting published are vital parts of the experience of the show.  The show has left guests wanting to come back for more.

Some of Ms. Wilkov’s most prominent guests include Dominique Raccah (Publisher of Sourcebooks & Co-Chair of the Book Industry Study Group), Aaron Rosenstein (Senior Marketing Manager at Createspace), Julia Cameron (International Bestselling Author), Debbie Macomber (#1 New York Times & USA TODAY Bestselling Author), Marci Shimoff (#1 USA TODAY, Amazon, Barnes and Noble.com and Publishers Weekly Bestseller & a NY Times Bestselling Author), Victoria Moran (Oprah-featured Author of ten books including an international bestseller), Suzy Welch (3-time NY Times Bestselling Author & Keynote Speaker at the WBENC 2010 Annual Conference), Karin Slaughter (NY Times & #1 Internationally Best-Selling Award-Winning Author), Linwood Barclay (Internationally #1 Best-Selling Author), John Gilstrap (International Best-Selling Thriller Author), Michael Palmer (NY Times Bestselling Thriller Author), Carla Neggers (NY Times Bestselling Romance Suspense Author), Darryl Strawberry (NY Times Bestselling Author), Tom Wilson (the author of the cartoon strip Ziggy), Phil Sexton (Publisher & Community Leader of Writer’s Digest), Heather McCormack (Book Review Editor at Library Journal), Margaret Marbury (Editorial Director at Harlequin Books & Executive Editor at MIRA Books), Deborah Brody (Executive Editor of Harlequin’s Nonfiction Program), Michaela Hamilton (Executive Editor of Kensington Publishing), Jane von Mehren (Senior Vice President, Publisher, Trade Paperbacks for the Random House Publishing Group), Jennifer Enderlin (Vice President and Associate Publisher of St. Martin’s Press), Angela James (Executive Editor of Carina Press, Harlequin's Digital-First Imprint), Tara Parsons (Executive Editor for HQN & LUNA Books), Alvina Ling (Editorial Director at Little, Brown Books for Young Readers), Mark Coker (Founder of Smashwords), Katharine Sands (Literary Agent with Sarah Jane Freymann Agency & Author), Peter Rubie (CEO & Literary Agent of Fine Print Literary Management & Author), Jennifer DeChiara (Literary Agent & President of Jennifer DeChiara Literary Agency), Ted Weinstein (Literary Agent & President of Ted Weinstein Literary Management), Janet Kobobel Grant (Literary Agent & Founder of Books & Such Literary Agency), Regina Brooks (Literary Agent & President of Serendipity Literary Agency), Mike Sacks (Member of theVanity Fair Magazine Editorial Team & Author), Larry Light (Executive Vice-President of Mystery Writers of America), Mari Smith (Author and dubbed “The Pied Piper of Online Media” by FastCompany.com), Ken Corday (Author and Executive Producer of NBC’s Daytime Drama “Days of Our Lives”), Kathy Kinney (Co-Author, Actress well-known as Mimi Bobeck from the “The Drew Carey Show”), Carley Roney (co-founder of The Knot Inc), Peter Shankman (Author & Founder of Help A Reporter Out), Anita Katzen (Partner at Schulman Wolfson & Abruzzo CPAs), and other industry professionals including Hollywood producers, publicists, ghostwriters, social media experts, authors in various genres and many more. Photos and more information http://www.yourbookisyourhook.com and http://www.jenniferswilkov.com

Women’s Online Media and Education Network (W.O.M.E.N.) began with a very large mission: to give women (and other lesser hear voices) the opportunity to have a much larger voice over a great geographic area.  Today, W.O.M.E.N. publishes http://WomensRadio.com, a rich streaming content site; http://WomensCalendar.org, the largest listing of women’s events internationally and nationally; and http://AudioAcrobat.com, a sensational tool anyone can use to produce and/or publish streaming audio, video and podcasts anywhere on the web.