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Lisa Collier Cool is a bestselling author and winner of 19 journalism awards, including a National Magazine Award for Personal Service. She was first published at age 9 in Ladies Home Journal (a letter to the editor) and as a professional writer has more than one million words in print including articles for American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists’ Pause Magazine, Essence, Family Circle, Fitness, Glamour, Good Housekeeping, Harper’s Bazaar, Health Monitor, Ladies Home Journal, Oprah Magazine, Parade, Prevention, Reader’s Digest, SELF, and the Wall Street Journal. A past president of American Society of Journalists and Authors, Lisa has written six books, including Beat the Heart Attack Gene with coauthors Dr. Bradley Bale and Amy Doneen, ARNP, about their evidence-based method of preventing heart disease, strokes and type 2 diabetes (www.baledoneen.com). She was literally the ghostwriter (with retired NYPD sergeant Ralph Sarchie) of the bestseller Beware the Night: A NYC Cop Investigates the Supernatural (St. Martin’s Press, movie rights sold to Jerry Bruckheimer at Disney Pictures) and attended an exorcism as part of her research. Her other books include How to Write Irresistible Query Letters and Bad Boys: Why We Love Them, How to Live With Them, When to Leave Them (with Beverly Hills psychiatrist Carole Lieberman, MD). Lisa loves snorkeling, tennis, gardening and swimming with dolphins. A native New Yorker, she is married, with three daughters (including identical twins) and a badly behaved border terrier. Her website is www.lisacolliercool.com. Lisa can be followed at www.facebook.com/lisacolliercool and www.twitter.com/lisacolliercool.