Lin Lacombe has over twenty years expertise directing successful strategic public relations and media campaigns in the book publishing, technology, and ?nancial services sectors. Now as a literary publicist she represents books such as: The Population Fix - Breaking America's Addiction to Population Growth; Listen Up! How to Communicate Effectively in the Workplace; Simply Successful Surgery; Growing More Beautiful; Awakening the Warrior Within; Raising Yourself: Making the Right Choice; Social Capital: How to Get It, How to Use It. Her corporate clients have included Hewlett Packard, Presidio Trust, and Paul Newman Foundation's ReNew America. She is also a Leader for the American Red Cross Disaster Information Task Force. Lin has served as Vice President for the Women's National Book Association and as Past President, now as VP Marketing, of the Bay Area Independent Publishers Association; She’s worked with Bay Area and national literary agents in “Meet the Agents” events, and is working with London-based Susan Mears Agency as its US co-agent. As a speaker, Lin has been invited to present to the Women’s Initiative, Wild Writing Women, California Writer’s Club, Northern California Publishers and Authors and NCIBA’s Annual Conference. Lin is a contributing columnist for Brian Jud’s Marketing Matters Newsletter, IBPA’s Independent, and other publications. She also writes essays, poetry, and memoir, and is developing two non-fiction