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Hi, if you would like 700 interesting posts on writing, personal and professional development, career and other topics, you might find my two blogs valuable to you.
One is Lynnecurryauthor.com and the other is workplacecoachblog.com.

I started writing when I learned what words meant. It was a raisin bran cereal box that did it. Even though I read backwards (I was dyslexic), I was stunned to learn that people could communicate with others even without being physically present.

The newspapers became a candy land of writing -- there was so much there and I wanted to be in them. Despite being died-in-the-wool shy, I started carrying my poems to my town’s newspaper office and leaving them in their mail slot.

I was eight when the newspaper surrende Hi, if you would like 700 interesting posts on writing, personal and professional development, career and other topics, you might find my two blogs valuable to you.
One is Lynnecurryauthor.com and the other is workplacecoachblog.com.

I started writing when I learned what words meant. It was a raisin bran cereal box that did it. Even though I read backwards (I was dyslexic), I was stunned to learn that people could communicate with others even without being physically present.

The newspapers became a candy land of writing -- there was so much there and I wanted to be in them. Despite being died-in-the-wool shy, I started carrying my poems to my town’s newspaper office and leaving them in their mail slot.

I was eight when the newspaper surrendered and published my first poem. I was hooked!

Before and after college I dreamed of becoming a full-time writer. I sent my poems and one awful play to every publication I could find. The desire to eat convinced me to get a day job and to go to college, though I used that play to substitute for a formal college application. They gave me a full-tuition scholarship, no doubt for chutzpah.

I still loved newspapers and reading Ann Landers, Amy Van Buren and Mike Royko’s columns convinced me I could write an advice column. I wanted to change the world and was convinced that words were a powerful way to do that.

“The Workplace” started in the Anchorage Times, then was picked up by the Anchorage Daily News, the Tri-city Herald, the St. Petersburg Times, the Morris Daily Herald and a small Vancouver-based syndicate. Although it started out a narrative column, after six weeks in the ADN, the editor called me and said there was a packet of mail waiting for me. Readers liked the column and had written me questions, which created the current “dear Abby of the workplace” approach. The best of these columns are published in Won By One and Solutions, still available on Amazon and Barnes & Noble.

Along the way, I wrote Managing Equally and Legally, McFarland, 1990 and 200 articles for a wide variety of business, trade, women and teen magazines.

Fiction still tugs at me. I’m a third of the way through a novel on internet dating scams, have written two short stories and had a memoir published in Anchorage Remembers.

On July 17, 2014, I wrote a one page query for Beating the Workplace Bully and sent it to 7 agents. One wrote back within the day and two others within the week. All three liked the proposal I wrote and I went with the agent who first wrote me; within six weeks we had offers from six publishers and AMACOM is releasing the book in January of 2016; Brilliance Audio has the audio rights.

What do I need now? Readers:)
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	Beating the Workplace Bully: A Tactical Guide to Taking Charge 4.01 avg rating — 148 ratings — published 2016 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Managing for Accountability: A Business Leader's Toolbox 4.93 avg rating — 15 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Solutions: 411: Workplace Answers 911:Revelations For Workplace Challenges and Firefights 4.77 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2014 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Navigating Conflict: Tools for Difficult Conversations it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 6 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Won by One 4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1997	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Managing Equally and Legally: A Practical Business Guide to Preventing Discrimination Complaints and Termination Lawsuits it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1990	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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So it’s a gut punch to learn a less experienced colleague, hired three years after me and doing similar work, earns at least ten percent more than I do.

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A master writer. A propulsive story, an engaging plot. It faltered a bit toward the last quarter of the book, but the beginning was so strong it rates a 5. I hope my novels accomplish what Ryan's do. ...more
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The corporate machinations felt realistic, especially for that time. The writing felt conversational, like real person talking to you. Although I don't share the MC's orientation, her challenges made me root for her. ...more
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Journey of Discovery What if the most dangerous part of an expedition isn’t where you go, but what you lose when you come back? In Expedition, Valerie Vogrin opens with a woman returned from overseas work stripped of her memory, and knowing only two t ...more
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