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LIFE IS TOO SHORT to simply wish you were the author you’ve always known you can be.

You were meant to tell stories and to share your ideas with others. Telling stories is one of the most satisfying experiences a person can have. But how do you go about it?

I asked that same question every day—until things started to click for me. I made lots of mistakes and built new experiences on top of old ones and, in the end, I found a way to do professionally what I always knew I was meant to do.

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YOU’VE ALWAYS KNOWN you were meant to be an author, and it’s never too late for you to become one. With your commitment, and my dedication to helping and supporting you, you will succeed. I guarantee it!

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Russell Martin publishes select manuscripts in hardcover, paperback, ebook, and/or audiobook formats for his clients. Authors retain all rights and one hundred percent of income and pay a single fee prior to publication. They rave about the:

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Russell and I worked very closely together and he ultimately helped me find the storyline and chapter structure that were essential. With Russell’s advice, the voice ultimately became my grandfather’s own as he told his story, punctuated by short sections written in my first-person voice as I described my very close relationship with him. It worked!

David A. Armstrong, author of Dragons & Violins: A Memoir of War & Music, director of Pawn and The Assassin’s Code, Hollywood director, producer, cinematographer

I worked very closely with Russell on the publication of my award-winning novel Beethoven in Love, and his wealth of experience was invaluable. It was my first foray into the sometimes-impenetrable world of independent publishing, but Russell’s advice at every turn proved to be spot on.

Howard Jay Smith, author of the award-winning novels Beethoven in Love and Meeting Mozart

The haze of uncertainty I had felt vanished, and I said yes to finishing the book. Throughout the entire process of bringing What You Want Wants You to life, Russell has been unwavering in his encouragement, clarity, and focus. I have benefited enormously from the breadth and depth of his talent as a writer, editor, and publisher, and I am honored to be published by Say Yes Quickly Books.

Suzanne Eder, author of What You Want Wants You, published by Say Yes Quickly Books

In my near half century of directing and working in writing conferences and programs across the nation (including my score of years administering and working as a Master Teacher for the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts), I have worked with very few writers as capable, intelligent, and professional as Russell Martin.

David Lee, first Poet Laureate of Utah, Emeritus Professor of English, author of two dozen highly acclaimed books of poetry

Mr. Martin offers to general audiences precise and accurate, but highly readable, studies of extraordinarily complex issues. He does more: he sees beyond what is already known; he moves beyond synthesis to new insights. His work is disciplined, analytical, and creative. It is also profoundly humane.

Excerpt from the citation when I was awarded an honorary doctorate by Colorado College

[Russell Martin's] signature approach to seemingly offbeat subjects is careful research filtered through a novelistic sensibility to grasp the inherent story, which he unfolds in the engaging, almost offhand manner of a fictional amateur sleuth. Martin is, first and foremost, a consummate storyteller who deftly weaves such multiple disciplines as politics, history, art, science, and even current events into a narrative forming a coherent whole.

From Kirkus Review's review of my nonfiction book Picasso's War

I owe enormous gratitude to Russell Martin, author, filmmaker, writing-publishing coach, and editor and publisher at Say Yes Quickly Books. I’m indebted to him for hours of technical assistance, insight, and guidance that helped me grow as a writer by leaps and bounds.

Sue Westwind, author of The Land Erotic, published by Say Yes Quickly Books

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Russell Martin

Writing and Publishing Coach With Unparalleled Experience AND Expertise

RUSSELL MARTIN’S NONFICTION book Beethoven’s Hair, a United States bestseller and a Washington Post Book of the Year, has been published in twenty-one translated editions and is the subject of a Gemini-award-winning film of the same name. His highly acclaimed book Picasso’s War has been published in seven international editions; Out of Silence was named by The Bloomsbury Review as one of fifteen best books of its first fifteen years of publication, and A Story That Stands Like A Dam: Glen Canyon and the Struggle for the Soul of the West won the Caroline Bancroft History Prize. He is currently adapting his second novel, The Sorrow of Archaeology, to the screen.

He directed, produced, and wrote the documentary film Beautiful Faces, which won the Silver Palm Award of the Mexico International Film Festival. He produced and co-wrote the Monette Horwitz Prize-winning documentary film Two Spirits, and is an award-winning, internationally published author of two critically acclaimed novels, The Sorrow of Archaeology and Beautiful Islands, as well as many nonfiction books. He has written for Time, the New York Times, New York Times Magazine, and National Public Radio. His books and screenplays have been optioned by Robert Redford’s Wildwood Enterprises, actor Dennis Haysbert, the Denver Center Theatre Company, and New World Television, and he is a veteran script doctor and consultant.

For twenty years, he taught an annual creative nonfiction course at Colorado College and served on the faculty at numerous writing conferences. He has ghostwritten many books for high-profile clients and has coached and supported a number of other writers on their paths to publishing success.