One of the most productive authors working today, D. J. Herda is also an award-winning editor, celebrity ghostwriter, and professional photographer/videographer. He writes, edits, and illustrates Articles (Magazines & Newspapers), Biographies, Columns, Fiction, Memoir, Nonfiction, Screenplays/Scripts, and Web Content. He also developed and taught Creative Writing Workshop at the college level in Chicago and elsewhere throughout the United States.
Herda is a former book, magazine, newspaper, photo, and video editor. He has authored more than 80 books on a wide range of topics, both fiction and nonfiction. He has written several hundred thousand short pieces, including several internationally syndicated newspaper and magazine columns (including the second most widely syndicated column in America behind “Ann Landers”), short stories, articles, and corporate and business features and profiles. He has had two stage plays in production. A former ghostwriter for Sammy Davis Jr., Lawrence Welk, Art Linkletter, Ronnie Schell, top CEOs around the world, and others, he is president of the American Society of Authors and Writers and a member of the Author’s Guild, the American Society of Journalists and Authors, and the Washington Press Club.
Check out Herda’s latest E.P. mystery, Solid Stiehl – The Death and Life of Hymie Stiehl, the first in a four-book series. Coming soon!
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