Gary Zenker

GARY ZENKER is an award-winning marketing professional who spends his days creating strategic business and marketing plans, and all sorts of marketing and web copy to help entrepreneurs and businesses sell more of their stuff at a higher profit margin. By night, he applies his writing talents to a variety of other writing and related projects. He also runs two writers groups to help others better their craft, reach their publishing goals and form relationships with other writers. BOOKS BY GARY ZENKER His book "Meetup Leader: How To Run A Successful and Profitable Meetup Group" is one of the few that combines leadership skills with group management. An easy-to-read guide for new leaders and those with more experience to achieve more with their group and the Meetup resource. "It's Not What You Think" In flash fiction format - 1,000 words or less - Gary Zenker weaves 34 fascinating tales of characters and situations that are both familiar and unusual; normal and quirky; believable and far-fetched. These are stories of love and hate; trust and betrayal; confidence and insecurity; sane and outright crazy behaviors. These stories will warm your heart, make you laugh out loud, shock your senses, and most of all make you rethink about how people relate to and interact with each other in situations that range from the common to the unusual. Includes QR codes to see several read live by the author. His first published book, "Says Seth: Life Observations from a Six Year Old Perspective" was co-written with his then six-year-old son Seth where Seth's funny comments are followed by his father's witty observations. The sequel: "Deathfarts.com: More Says Seth" cover's Seths observations from ages 7-8. Discover more at www.deathfarts.com. "The Ultimate DC Comics Action Figures and Collectibles Checklist" offers toy and pop culture collectors a massive listing of all things DC comics related, the first of its kind anywhere. Lavishly illustrated in black and white because...well, because it's less expensive when you buy the book. Which you should. A thoroughly researched and organized volume with checklist functionality that will please even the most obsessive collectors. The 22 books in the Archives series reprint classic articles and artifacts related to various rock and roll bands including the Beach Boys, Jan & Dean, the Beatles, the Monkees, David Cassidy, and KRLA newsletters. A treasure trove of stuff that would cost thousands of dollars to amass in their original formats, if you could find them at all. STORIES IN ANTHOLOGIES His flash fiction also appears in a number of book collections, including: "Chicken Soup For The Soul: Laughter," "Twofer Compendium," "The Trenchcoat Chronicles," "Overcoming Fear," "2020 in a Flash," "The Sh*t List," "Sheepshead Review," "Noir at a Bar: The Oxford Files," "Running Wild Anthology 2017," "Running Wild Anthology 2018," "Best of Running Wild 2018." His stories also appear in a number of online publications, including EverydayFiction.com, QuailBell.com, LiteraryYard.com, DownInTheDirt.com, ArielChart.com, and Smashedcat.com. Gary also created WritersBloxx (TM), a party game/writers tool offers storytellers the challenge to create a story from six or eight unrelated writing prompts. Find out more at www.writersbloxx.com. BACKGROUND ON GARY Gary is a full-time marketing strategic and copywriter, creating strategy and writing copy for nearly every medium that exists (and a few yet to be invented!) Gary also runs two writers groups, Main Line Writers Group in King of Prussia, PA, now approaching its eleventh year of success, and the Wilmington Writers Group, approaching its ninth year. There, he provides writers with a place to expand their skills through relevant programming and critique, as well as the opportunity to build friendships with other writers. You can get more information on both groups at www.meetup.com. In his spare time, he also writes flash fiction across all genre "just for fun." Search his name on YouTube for various short readings. Or try this link to one of his stories to start: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAXilv-sOGA