GORDON BURGETT's
BIOGRAPHY
Gordon currently speaks nationwide
about How to Plan a Great Second Life
and Life After
Dentistry, offering keynotes, break-out sessions, and workshops
at conventions, dental meetings, retreats, and universities. He also speaks
from 50-100 times a year at colleges and universities, mostly in
Burgett has also published 1,700+ articles
and offered over 2,000 professional spoken presentations, including dental and
medical associations, conventions nationwide, and through university extension
programs. During that time he has appeared extensively on radio and TV, as a
guest author and a publishing specialist. Burgett is a long-standing member of
the National Speakers Association, the American Society of Authors and
Journalists, and the Publishers Marketing Association; has produced 26 audio
cassette and CD series and singles, and has written 31 books, including Standard
Marketing Procedures for Dentists, Sell and Resell Your Magazine Articles,
Publishing to Niche Markets, Treasure and Scavenger Hunts, Life After Dentistry
(with Dr. Jay Hislop), Niche Marketing
for Writers, Speakers, and Entrepreneurs, Self-Publishing to Tightly-Targeted
Markets, The Travel Writer’s
Guide, How to Sell More Than 75% of Your Freelance Writing, The Writer’s
Guide to Query and Cover Letters, Standard Marketing Procedures for All
Dentists (with Reece Franklin), Empire-Building by Writing and Speaking,
Speaking for Money (with Mike Frank), Ten Sales from One Article
Idea, and The Query Book.
* During the past two years, three of
Gordon's books were revised, updated, and reprinted. These include How to Plan a Great Second Life,
the Travel Writer's
Guide, and Sell
and Resell Your Magazine Articles. His first novel also saw life
late in that year: Lian McAndrews and the Perfect
Human World.
* Four of Burgett’s books have been Writer’s
Digest Book Club top choices: Sell and Resell Your Magazine Articles, The Travel Writer’s Guide, The Writer’s Guide to Query and Cover
Letters, and How to Sell More Than 75% of Your Freelance Writing.
* Gordon has owned and directed a publishing
company, Communication Unlimited, since 1981. It originally specialized in (and
continues to offer) books, reports, and cassettes about writing,
empire-building, and niche publishing. In 1995, his company merged with Marsha Freeman’s
Team Systems and created Dental Communication Unlimited and Medical
Communication Unlimited, to begin a series of standard operating procedures
manuals (and other, related office operations products) for health care
professionals. In late 2006 Burgett sold the dental and medical imprints but
retained the other branches of his publishing company.
Burgett earned four academic degrees: B.A.,
* To much kidding from his local friends, an article about and
two photos of Gordon appeared in the Pulitzer Santa Maria Times on April
24, 2004.
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