Ghostwriter Bob Olson
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About Bob Olson, Ghostwriter of Nonfiction Books
  
—  Autobiographies, Self-Help Books, Business Books, Inspirational Books...

If you read my interview about ghostwriting, you already know pretty much everything about my life as a ghostwriter. This page is to let you know a little more about my personal life and professional background aside from ghostwriting.

Family Life

I’ve been married to my high school sweetheart, Melissa, since 1986. In fact, we've been together since 1979, when she was only twelve and I was only fifteen years old. We fell in love and still can’t get enough of one another, even after 27 years. We work together, play together and are pretty much attached at the hip.

Melissa and I live in Kennebunkport, Maine with two cats, Pesky and Max, and a young dog named Libby. Libby is a black lab mix that we saved from the pound when she was only eight-weeks old. Libby and I take a three-mile walk every day to give her some exercise and to get me away from my computer. I tend to work twelve hours a day otherwise, so getting a puppy really helped me to find balance—you can’t tell a puppy that you are too busy with your business to take her out to do her business.

Experience / Accomplishments

Below is a brief list of my accomplishments, most of which is from the last few years. I provide this list for you as evidence of my reputation and status as a writer and businessman. While there have been several accomplishments related to the holistic/spiritual field, this is not an indication of what types of books I prefer to write. While I enjoy writing about those subjects, I am also a former private investigator and marketing consultant, so I have a wide-range of interests that require the use of both sides of my brain.

 
bulletFormer Private Investigator

I became a private investigator in 1984 after graduating from St. Anselm’s College with a degree in Criminology. After handling a variety of cases ranging from criminal to domestic to worker’s compensation, I eventually specialized in personal injury investigations involving products that crippled and killed people. My clients were Boston’s most prestigious law firms, including Swartz & Swartz, Sugarman & Sugarman and Hill & Barlow.

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Former Marketing Consultant

I became a marketing consultant in 1995 teaching business owners the marketing strategies that had made my own businesses successful. My first client was the head of one of the largest law firms in Massachusetts who agreed to test my marketing strategies. After doubling the firm’s clientele and making them millions of dollars in added profits, my new marketing agency was quickly in high demand.

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Author: Win The Battle: The 3-Step Formula To Conquer Depression And Bipolar Disorder

After suffering from a five-year chronic depression, I wrote a book to give hope and inspiration to people suffering with similar brain disorders. The book became a bestseller in many major markets and continues to be one of the publisher’s top sellers.

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Author:  Understanding Spirit, Understanding Yourself: Two Journeys Of Self-Discovery Through Spirit Communication

This is the collaboration mentioned in the home page interview where I ghostwrote my co-author’s chapters and alternated those with chapters of my own. The collaboration turned out much more powerful than if either one of us had written a book alone.

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Author: Grief And Belief: Spiritual Insights On Life-After-Death That Bring Hope, Comfort And Peace To The Grieving

After studying such subjects as mediumship, near-death experience, past-life regression and after-death communication for more than five years, I realized that one’s level of grief is often in direct relation to one’s level of belief in an afterlife. This book explains the power and benefits of spiritual exploration. (not yet published)

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Founder & Editor: OfSpirit.com Magazine

When I founded OfSpirit.com Magazine, I never expected it to turn into one of the top resources for holistic, spiritual and self-improvement information on the Internet. I was simply filling a hole I recognized while doing research for a related book. Today, writers, experts and famous authors from around the world provide OfSpirit.com Magazine with articles and interviews that fill our 1500 plus pages. Not only has my role as editor of the magazine taught me a lot about alternative healing, it has given me invaluable experience editing the hundreds of articles we publish every year, which has improved my own writing abilities beyond measure.

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Founder: BestPsychicMediums.com

This site was created after writing a book on this subject. Recognizing that there were many scam artists ripping people off in this field, and since I had received over 100 readings from psychic mediums around the world in preparation of this book, I created this website to offer my personal recommendations to the public. Like OfSpirit.com Magazine, the site took off beyond my wildest expectations and flooded me with media interviews, public speaking invitations and even opportunities to be included in other authors’ books on the subject.

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Founder: GriefAndBelief.com

Recognizing a relationship between one’s level of grief and one’s level of belief in an afterlife, I created this site as a resource site for people dealing with grief to learn more about spiritually related subjects. Despite being a tiny site compared to my other sites, I have received more emails of gratitude for publishing this website than from all my other sites put together.

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Foreword Writer: The Complete Idiot's Guide To Communicating With Spirits

When the publisher invited me to write the Foreword for this book, I jumped at the opportunity. It is one of the most comprehensive books on the subject.

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Foreword Writer: The Complete Idiot's Guide To Divining The Future

I felt truly spoiled to be invited to write the Foreword for this book, as well. The book producer said the publisher had never asked the same person to write two Forewords for the same book series.

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Featured in: How To Get A Good Reading From A Psychic Medium

This was another honor to be featured as an expert in this book on mediumship.

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Featured in: Empowering Your Life With Angels

This, too, was an honor to be featured in this book on angels.

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Article Writer

While I have been published in magazines and newspapers across the country, the majority of my writing is on the Internet, both on my own websites as well as several other magazines, e-zines and resource sites. OfSpirit.com has more than forty articles I’ve written about mind-body-spirit subjects alone, including articles about my personal experiences trying practitioner services involving past-life regression, healing bodywork, meditation, tarot, astrology, channeling, palmistry and even a crystal reading.

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Lecturer, Speaker, Workshop Facilitator

I began public speaking as a marketing consultant, and have since shared my knowledge and experiences through lectures and workshops for all my books. Public speaking and authoring books tend to go hand-in-hand. Over the years, I’ve spoken to thousands of people in audiences ranging from forty to four hundred on subjects including: marketing, depression, grief healing, personal and spiritual growth, mediumship, nonfiction book writing, and book marketing and promotion.

Comments & Compliments

"Bob Olson writes books that sell!"
~ Larry Abramoff, publisher

"If you're looking for a smart, committed, top-notch writer who
knows his stuff, stop right here. You won't find anyone better than
Bob Olson."

~ Cheryl Richardson, New York Times bestselling author

"Bob Olson is an experienced writer with an intuitive sense of what readers crave."
~ John Holland, author

"Bob Olson is a gifted writer who entertains and involves the reader. I've interviewed Bob many times and have found his books to be well written and moving."
~ Jordan Rich, WBZ Radio host

"Bob Olson's the first ghostwriter I recommend when my colleagues ask for a referral."
~ Lynn Robinson, author

"Clear, concise, and clever. Bob Olson has a gift for writing about obscure or confusing concepts in a way that is easy to grasp. He's the only person I'd ever trust to write any part of my books."
~ Michael Gerrish, author

 

 


Bob Olson

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In 1996, Bob wrote his first book, Win The Battle, which became a bestseller in several markets and jumpstarted Bob's career as an author.





In 2003, Bob wrote Understanding Spirit, Understanding Yourself after five years of research. He teamed up with a co-author, ghostwriting her chapters as well.





In 1999, Bob began ghostwriting nonfiction books for other authors. Today he writes autobiographies, business, self-help, how-to and inspirational books for other people.





Since 2000, Bob has been the editor of OfSpirit.com Magazine featuring over 1500 pages of holistic, spiritual and self-help articles and interviews. It is one of the largest resources on the Internet for this specialized niche.





In 2002, Bob founded GriefAndBelief.com as a resource for the grieving and in connection with a book he is currently writing.





In 2001, Bob founded this website, BestPsychicMediums.com, while researching a book on the topic. The site became an instant hit even though the book took another two years of research before completion.





In 1996, Bob created ManicDepression.com to promote his first book. It played an integral role in helping the book become one of its publisher's top sellers.





In 2002, Bob was honored with the invitation to write the Foreword for this book. Because of his related websites and a book he wrote on the subject, he is considered an authority in the field.





In 2003, Bob was again asked to write the Foreword for a second Idiot's Guide. It was the first time the publisher ever asked one person to write a Foreword for two books in the same series.