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“Your Book Is Your Hook!” – Publisher Dominique Raccah of Sourcebooks & Author Ken Corday, Executive Producer of “Days Of Our Lives”

July 13, 2010 by

[HTML1]More about Dominique Raccah
Dominique Raccah is the publisher of Sourcebooks, the company she founded in 1987 and is now the largest book publishing company in Chicago. From that small start, Raccah has directed a continuously growing entrepreneurial company that morphed into a general trade house which happily produces everything from bestsellers in fiction, to number one titles in both baby names and college guides, fourteen New York Times Bestsellers and more than twenty national bestsellers.

Sourcebooks attitude of innovation, pioneering a line of cutting edge bestselling mixed-media titles (MediaFusion) that led to an early involvement in digital book projects, and more recently iPhone apps, enhanced digital books and many digital partnerships. She is excited about taking a leading independent book publisher into an evolving digital landscape.

Dominique currently serves as co-chair of the Book Industry Study Group.

More about Ken Corday
Ken Corday is the Executive Producer of Days of Our Lives and author of the new memoir, The Days of our Lives.

He was only a teenager when his parents, Ted and Betty Corday, first created NBC’s daytime drama Days of Our Lives in 1965.  Ken received his Bachelor of Arts in Music from the University of California, Santa Cruz, before receiving a Master’s Degree in Music from San Jose State University. Prior to taking over “Days of our Lives” as Executive Producer in 1985, Ken worked on the show for almost ten years, first as a composer, then as Assistant Producer, and finally, as Executive Producer
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He has received two Emmy Awards for Music.  He has also received eight nominations for an Emmy Award for Best Daytime Drama.  “Days of our Lives” won the Emmy Awards for Best Daytime Drama 1975, and Ted and Betty Corday received a Lifetime Achievement Emmy Award in 1988. In addition, Days of Our Lives has won four People’s Choice Awards, two TV Guide Awards, and ten Soap Opera Digest Awards: four for Favorite Show and six for Outstanding Daytime Serial.

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About Jennifer S. Wilkov

Radio show Host Jennifer S. Wilkov is a #1 international best-selling award-winning author and the creator of the From Thought to Sales in 90 Days™ Book Process. Jennifer has supported first time and seasoned authors and writers with the writing, getting published and marketing of their book ideas and projects as well as the building of their platform to raise their visibility to readers and the media.

She is also an award-winning freelance writer (2009 Silver Eddie Award for an article featured in Marie Claire April, 2009 issue) who has been quoted and whose writings have appeared in national magazines and newspapers.

Jennifer has sat on Boards of Advisors and spoken at major industry events including the New York Center for Independent Publishing, the American Society of Journalists and Authors, RT Booklovers Convention, Writers for New Orleans, Self-Publishing Book Expo and BookExpo America.

Through the years, Jennifer’s works have been endorsed by Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Robert Allen, Barbara De Angelis, Treehugger.com, publicists, literary agents, publishers, many in the field of green book publishing, her martial arts Senseis in Shintaido and Aikido, and many more.

Jennifer is also the Host and Executive Producer of the Your Book Is Your Hook! Show on WomensRadio. Your Book Is Your Hook! is designed to serve and support authors, writers and readers of books and other writing mediums. It showcases industry professionals and authors who share insights, experiences and wisdom about writing, marketing and publishing your book and beyond including Hollywood film, television, radio and more..