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Our Partial Project List

Our brushes with "Hollywood"

• Frank Bona Productions: "Three Men, Three Visions: FDR, Mao Zedong, and Nelson Mandela" - a projected series for children and young adults.
• Video Lease Productions: Manfredi Trucking Training Video for Auto-washing trucks; CEI Eaton Township Fly Ash/Bottom Ash Facility with Training video script, Community forum script, Air monitoring script, Bottom Ash script and Four Systems Vocational Program scripts for employees.
• Akron Child Guidance Center: Promotional Video for the Center's Programs and Trust Camps
• Public Service Announcements: League of Women Voters Of Cleveland; created scripts and met with celebrities for production.
• Video Production Projects: Legal Video Project for Civil lawsuit, concerning a powder-coating company. Infant Mortality in Cleveland Program for City of Cleveland Health Department. Short Documentary on Cleveland Bridges and film school projects, radio PSA's and scripts.
• Mothers Against Drunk Driving: Wrote TV public service announcement for organization.
• Screenplay Work: "Rent-a-Death: A Three-Act Play" for the stage. Script doctor for several screenplays; Wrote full-feature animated film "Tabitha", optioned in 1998.
• Numenorean Films: Responsible for concept development for several proposed television series. Provided analysis and feedback on project development.

Business Plans in Action

Due to confidentiality concerns, we really cannot name businesses, but we would like to tell you just how diverse our business plans have been. We've written business plans for an airline, an oil and fuel seller, an outdoor sports-field company, a lot of real-estate and investing projects, a fish farm, insurance companies, jewelry businesses, restaurants, churches, condo-renting projects, construction and renovation projects, engineering organizations, telecommunications companies, and even a mobile internet cafe. Well, you get the point.

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Our Success with Grants and Funding

• Wellington Exempted Village School District: Wrote and obtained grants for amplified classrooms. Presentation to community regarding grants and their efficacy in a school district
• Ravenna City School District: Wrote and obtained grant for recycled scrap tires for completion of a track for new stadium, and a grant for the Outdoor Education Area/Wetlands Laboratory Project, developing nature area in new campus. Also wrote proposals and assisted in curriculum development brainstorming for Continuous Improvement Plan, Literacy initiatives, Middle School Improvements, Learning Centers, Early Childhood projects, and Safe Schools, among others. Presentations included community meetings and small group sessions to promote idea sharing and new visions.
• Streetsboro City School District: Wrote and obtained grant for Character Development and Education grant. Wrote other grants for literacy, education and teacher development needs. Developed grant and program for 21st Century Learning Centers and made key decisions in future planning for computer and audio/visual needs.
• Chardon City School District: Worked with community members to plan, generate funds and solicit contributions to improve athletic facilities, particularly the running track. Conducted seminars, meetings and city wide events. Wrote proposals towards renovation of high schools existing track and field.
• Friends of St. Michael : Writing grant proposals, for non profit organization which includes a camp for refugee and war scarred children in Rhodes Greece, an orphanage in Guatemala and proposed health and eye clinics in Rhodes, Bosnia, Albania and Chios, Greece.

Impeccable Research

We don't really know where to start with this one. For almost every major project we've been involved in, a good deal of research was needed. We have access to some rather extensive libraries and databases around the world, and we're masters of internet data retrieval. Really nothing to list here; we're however safe in the assumption that when it comes to looking up information, or looking for it, there's virtually nothing we can't find. We are very proud though to have done a lot of research for encyclopedias published by The Gale Group Publishing Company. We did a lot of Internet database research and analysis of websites, and were contributing writers to a number of articles contained in reference books including Contemporary Authors, DISCovering U.S. Government Agencies, African-American Firsts and World Biography.

Painstaking Editing and Proofreading

While we can't really share names, (again, that whole confidentiality thing!) we can say that we've edited our share of novels and screenplays for clients. We use the Chicago Manual of Style rules for grammar and spelling with hand-printed documents, and double-check our work for accuracy by doing two read-throughs. We know how important your work is, and it's our job to make it so. Whether you have a few letters that need a quick once-over before presentation, or you have a large manuscript that needs extensive doctoring, you can count on us to get everything done correctly and timely. We know all about deadlines! We charge per page in these situations so you will know beforehand our estimates before we dot a single 'i'. In some cases, we can arrange a 24-hour turnaround time as well.

Powerful Presentations

Ever had to walk in front of a crowded room and give a presentation? How about using Powerpoint to create a detailed, informative outline for your clients? Then you know this isn't just "Show and Tell" anymore these days. It's "Show with some pizzazz and Tell with enthusiasm". In a high-powered, high-tech world, how you present yourself and your ideas makes a world of difference. Take some of these examples:

• Wellington School District: Lectured the parents and teachers on grants; how to write one and how to receive funding for projects.
• Ravenna City School District: Met with several government and state officials to present Ravenna's plan to use spare-tire rubber on their outdoor track. Presentation was very successful, and the school received its funding.
• Cleveland Engineering Society: Had several meetings to discuss works in progress, projects, financial information and such to the board of directors and managers.
• Flexible Packaging Association Fall Executive Conference 2003: Joined approximately 200 CEOs, and company representatives in the packaging industry, and gave a presentation to them, detailing our findings and outlook of the flexible packaging and food preservation industries in a retail environment.
• Planned and orchestrated several events city-wide for the Cleveland Dept, of Health.

Unlocking our Creativity

If the logo that brought you here is any indication, you're looking at two very creative people as well. It takes a lot of imagination and talent to write novels, screenplays, stage plays and other media devices - and we just happen to have done all that. Take a look at our individual efforts:

Unpublished Novel: RiffRaff
Agented Novel: "Michael; High School Student and Shapeshifter"
Optioned Screenplay: "Tabitha"
Produced Stage-play: "Rent-a-Death"
Published Novel: "Exiles of Dal Ryeas"
To-Be-Published Novel: "Thieves and Warriors"
Several other screenplay projects forthcoming

Our Publications

We mentioned before about a few books we have out there, but this is our full bibliography:

How to Get Things Done: An Achiever's Guide to Time Management
Successful Delegating
Sugars and Sweeteners: Trends and developments in Foods and Beverages
Adding Life to Food: Food Preservation Techniques and Trends
Active, Controlled and Intelligent Packaging
The Savvy Guide to Digital Photography
Planning the Perfect Meeting
RFID and NFC: A Beginner's Guide Also contributors to several cookbooks and novels

Technical Accomplishments

Technically-speaking, we've done quite a lot. Stuff like handbooks and manuals for workplaces and organizations, reports and product descriptions, technical articles, and medical, legal and scientific writing and interpretations for laymen.

Buying, Selling and Trading

Trading across the globe was something we sort of stumbled into. When you've written as many business plans as we have, you get a huge network of managers, CEOs, and presidents. It leads to so many leads. While we cannot guarantee anything will happen, we can tell you this much. We know a lot of people who can do a lot of things. We've dabbled in sugar, oils and fuels, stocks, FOREX, fruit and vegetables. Yes, we feel we can facilitate with the best of them.

Public Relations, Advertising and Agenting

Whether you're looking for a hungry agent to promote your newest book, or you've got a company that needs a little attention, we can help with this. We've successfully agented three books for authors, and eager to do more. We also love the social network, and are very skilled at getting messages across to the masses. Contact usand let us show you how our PR and advertising talents can make you the talk of the town - or the story for the world.

Business Consulting and Planning

While we write great business plans, it would probably make sense that we also know how to plan business. Feel free to hook upwith us if you need some advice or assistance with creating, designing, planning or expanding your business. You'll find us a lot of fun to work with.