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ABOUT US
Leonard G. Goss worked inside book publishing for over thirty years, most recently as editorial director/senior acquisitions editor at B&H Publishing Group. Before that, he led editorial efforts at Crossway Books, Zondervan Publishing House/HarperCollins Publishers, and the Evangelical Book Club. He began his publishing career with John Wiley & Sons.
Len has solicited, developed, and edited hundreds of books, including several Gold Medallion winners, and has launched many writing careers in both the fiction and nonfiction fields. He is the author ofA Brief Style Guide to Good Writing for Authors and Editors, and he is the coauthor, with Don Aycock, of Writing Religiously and The Christian Writer's Book, and together they edited Inside Religious Publishing. Their most recent book is The Little Handbook to Perfecting the Art of Christian Writing: Getting Your Foot in the Publisher’s Door. Len’s writing is also widely published as chapter contributions in other books. He has spoken and offered many courses at numerous industry writing guilds and publishing conferences around the country, and is a member of the Academy of Christian Editors and several other professional societies. He is honored with biographical reference listings in Who's Who in the Midwest, Who’s Who in the Media and Communications, Who's Who in Finance and Industry, Who's Who in Religion, Notable American Men, International Directory of Distinguished Leadership, and the Dictionary of International Biography.
Len enjoys exercise walking, channel surfing, international travel, reading literary biographies and early-to-mid-twentieth century American and British poetry, studying new and alternative religions, occasionally playing golf (never successfully), playing guitar (even less successfully, considering he used to live in Music City), eyeball astronomy, cafe´ philosophy, listening to all kinds of music, and watching college football. He has sponsored over a dozen books in the field of C.S. Lewisania and has been an adjunct professor of world religions at the college level. He is a poet for whom the actual writing of a poem is a mythological event. Len is a native of San Diego and earned degrees from Phoenix College, Arizona State University, Canterbury College/University of Windsor (M.A.), and Trinity Evangelical Divinity School/Trinity International University (M.Div.).
Carolyn Stanford Goss worked in book sales for many years before entering publishing’s creative side. Earlier she started her publishing career in college textbook sales for Random House and later was a special sales account manager for McGraw-Hill’s Professional Book Group. She has also worked in marketing and special sales for Richard D. Irwin Publishers, Mott Media, Inc., Publishers, and Providence House Publishers. Her extensive experience includes being a professional writing coach, book editor, free-lance copy editor, book doctor, ghostwriter, and copywriter for the past several years, and she has worked on major projects for several book publishing houses.
Carolyn has done collaborative projects with many authors and has ghostwritten or is currently ghostwriting several other books, both fiction and nonfiction. She is a co-contributor along with son Joseph Stanford Goss to Narnia Beckons, edited by Ted Baehr, and the author of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe Family Reading and Viewing Guide and Skills for Success, a modular life and study skills curriculum used by the Consortium of Online Christian Colleges.
She holds an undergraduate degree with high distinction in English from Arizona State University, and was elected to Phi Kappa Phi and Kappa Delta Pi. After graduate work at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, she earned the master's degree from the graduate school of Vanderbilt University with an emphasis in American literature. Her reading interests include literary fiction, current biography, and inspirational works, and she taught English composition courses and a specialty seminar in the literature of C.S. Lewis at the college level. Beyond this, Carolyn is a sometime morning news anchor for WVLP 98.3 radio in Valparaiso, Indiana. Len and Carolyn have homes in Mesa, Arizona, and Valparaiso, Indiana, have two sons, two daughters-in-law, and four lovely granddaughters—Lia, Sylvia, Maddie and Shelby. They are the coauthors of The Little Style Guide to Great Christian Writing and Publishing, which has become the most regularly used, concise, and yet definitive style guide for writers and editors in religious publishing. The Little Style Guide covers the waterfront of editorial issues, including punctuation, grammar, spelling rules, elements of style, rules for capitalization, number use, and book production.
They have worked with very many topflight popular and best-selling authors, including Willie Aames, Ken Abraham, Jay Adams, Sunday Adelaja, David Aikman, Don M. Aycock, Ted Baehr, James Scott Bell, William J. Bennett, John Bisagno, Henry Blackaby, Ken Blanchard, Ron Blue, Stephen Bly, Kenneth Boa, Pat Boone, Bob Briner, Harold O.J. Brown, Mac Brunson, Larry Burkett, Melody Carlson, D.A. Carson, Robert Coleman, Gary Collins, Chuck Colson, Vicki Courtney, Larry Crabb, William Lane Craig, Jack Deere, William Dembski, David Dolan, Jimmy Draper, John Dwyer, Bruce Edwards, Tom Elliff, Roger Elwood, Ronald Enroth, Tony Evans, John Feinberg, Shaunti Feldhahn, Ajith Fernando, Daniel Fuller, Donna Gaines, George Gallup, Jr., Al Gansky, Richard Ganz, Norman Geisler, Jeanette Clift George, Ken Gire, Jack Graham, Douglas Gresham, Wayne Grudem, Os Guinness, Gary Habermas, Carl F.H. Henry, Mike Huckabee, R. Kent Hughes, Selwyn Hughes, June Hunt, Susan Hunt, Tony Jeary, David Jeremiah, Mark Joseph, Mary Kassian, D. James Kennedy, Graham Kerr, Treena Kerr, Richard Land, Stephen Lawhead, Robert Lewis, Kathryn Ann Lindskoog, Terry Lindvall, Max Lucado, John MacArthur, James MacDonald, Louis Markos, Josh McDowell, Lucinda Secrest McDowell, Alister E. McGrath, Robertson McQuilken, Tracy Lindsey Melchior, Dean Merrill, Calvin Miller, Gene Mims, Frank Minirth, Christopher Mitchell, R. Albert Mohler, John Warwick Montgomery, Beth Moore, Karen Moore, J.P. Moreland, Patrick Morley, Gilbert Morris, Cec Murphey, Chuck Norris, Oliver North, Wayne Oates, Thomas C. Oden, Marvin Olasky, Stephen Olford, Jennifer O'Neill, Susan Titus Osborn, George Otis, J.I. Packer, Frank Page, Luis Palau, Dorothy Patterson, Paige Patterson, Charlie Peacock, Nancy Pearcey, Frank Peretti, Clark H. Pinnock, John Piper, Rebecca Manley Pippert, Ray Pritchard, Thom Rainer, Michael Reagan, Jeremy Reynalds, John D. Robb, Adrian Rogers, Leland Ryken, Charles Ryrie, George Sayer, Francis Schaeffer, Quentin J. Schultze, R.C. Sproul, Leonard Sweet, Joni Eareckson Tada, Cal Thomas, Elmer Towns, John Trent, Ruth Tucker, David Tyree, Maylo Upton, Jerry Vines, Ken Wales, Susan Wales, John F. Walvoord, John Wesley White, Warren W. Wiersbe, Don Wilton, Sherwood Eliot Wirt, Kurt Wise, Robert Wolgemuth, Cindi Wood, John Woodbridge, Philip Yancey, Ed Young, Sr., Ed Young, Jr., and Zig Ziglar. Len has also worked with dozens of the best and brightest academic and scholarly authors in the Christian world.
