Published Work - Byron Laursen Ghostwriter
Byron has worked with dozens of clients for over 30 years. He has created two best-selling memoirs with sports legend Pat Riley, and rollicking autobiography for pop culture icon Wolfman Jack along with numerous other collaborations with leading scientists, business professionals, self-help authors and people like you who want to work with a trusted professional to finally make your book a reality. Get in touch with Byron today.
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Showtime: Inside the Lakers' Breakthrough Season
By Pat Riley
Years in journalism had built my interviewing and writing skills. A good interviewer loves people and knows how to build a trustworthy environment. When Show Time came along – my first book project – Riley entrusted me with full access to his personal diaries and innermost thoughts. I studied game tapes until I got into the team’s rhythms, and could put readers in the middle of the excitement, as if they were season ticket holders at the Forum. And the voice on the page rang true to his family, friends and fans. The result was compelling storytelling and several weeks on the NYT best sellers list.
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The Winner Within: A Life Plan For Team Players
By Pat Riley
The Winner Within is Riley’s inspirational how-to, highlighting what it takes to be part of a successful team, whether it’s a small company, a corporate behemoth or your nuclear family.
My researching skills were key as I needed to find and relate numerous parallel stories of team dynamics to enrich and enlarge upon the core themes. Our collaboration ranked number 15 among the best selling nonfiction books of the entire year.
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The Neuro Revolution: How Brain Science Is Changing Our World
By Zack Lynch
Better understanding of our human brains through sophisticated imaging is the driver for numerous breakthroughs happening across all realms of science. I’m not a scientist, but I am an avid researcher who loves to keep on learning. I also have an uncanny ability to distill complex information into easily understandable, highly entertaining reading. I conducted several interviews with top scientific minds as well as entrepreneurs on the leading edge of research and application: people like V.S. Ramachandran, Director of the Center for Brain and Cognition at the University of California, San Diego.
This San Francisco Chronicle best seller details advances in art, criminology, warfare, finance and all the ways we will interact in these fields in the future.
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Have Mercy!: Confessions of the Original Rock & Roll Animal
By Wolfman Jack
Some great extroverts are astonishingly shy in person. With his outsized personality and otherworldly wolfish howl you’d never know the Wolfman would be a sensitive cat. I needed to be compassionate and encouraging – which comes naturally to me. Once he remarked “I feel like I’m talking to my shrink, man!”
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The Portable Coach: 28 Surefire Strategies for Business and Personal Success
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The Courage to Encourage
By Dr. Elizabeth Garcia-Janis
As editor to award-winning psychiatrist and founder of Phoenix Global Humanitarian Foundation Dr. Garcia-Janis, I helped bring life to her accounts from the humanitarian missions she has served on in the U.S. as well as all around the world. Her adventures included New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina and surviving tsunamis in Thailand.
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Multiple Contusions of the Heart: The Fight Against Childhoood Trauma and Abuse
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Multiple Genius: The Amazing Journey and Great Accomplishments of M. I. T.’s Dr. Alfred Kiehle
By Commander Dean Horn, U.S.N. Retired
I love writing memoirs and biographies, getting to explore so many topics. As a scientist and engineer, Dr. Kiehle gave the US Navy the best protected warships in the world. He went on to visionary leadership at MIT, bringing women into engineering.