How top fitness model Jennifer Nicole Lee turned a personal success story into a global campaign for health and fitness

Advantage author Jennifer Nicole Lee is a model more ways that one. Not only is she one of America’s top fitness models, but, as a wife and mother, she’s also a model for women who aspire to live long, healthy, happy and fulfilling lives. Author Advantage caught up with JNL just after she flew back to Miami from Paris and got her to sit still long enough to answer a few questions.

How a vacationing psychologist trapped on a troubled ship in the Mediterranean turned a nightmare at sea into a lesson that launched a book. The Advantage Q&A with Ghislaine Labelle, author of Calming the Waters at Work.

Not many people would look at being set adrift with an unhappy crew in the Greek Cyclades as an unexpected benefit to a much-needed vacation, but most people aren't Ghislaine Labelle.

The difficult personalities and the clashes of temperament that tilted the decks of a holiday cruise gave her an insightful view of the way small groups are organized and how they can either come together in harmony or find themselves sinking in deep water. The result is a souvenir useful to everyone who has been blindsided by stormy meetings and fractious encounters. Author Advantage caught up with Ghislaine on the eve of publication of Calming the Waters at Work, her account of a cruise gone wrong.

Putting together a winning team means more than just chasing the stars. It means building a business on the foundation of a great idea and finding the players you need to make that idea a winner.

In his years building the Orlando Magic, cofounder Pat Williams has learned one must pursue dreams relentlessly, and enlist teammates "because you can't do it alone. You've got to go out and sell." A renowned motivational speaker and author, he uses that strategy to market his books, too. "Somebody once said I could sell a double bed to the pope," he says. Even if he's not quite that good, as the author of more than fifty books (including three this year with Advantage), he has a lot to share:

When Tara Kennedy-Kline discovered her son had Asperger's syndrome, she learned to communicate with him -- then wrote a book to communicate what she had learned.

Tara Kennedy-Kline, a dream coach and business owner of her own toy retail company in Pennsylvania's Lehigh Valley, took an interest in writing after her youngest son, Alex, was diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome. Her book, Stop Raising Einstein, will be published by Advantage Media in November.

The book is moving and informative. As she writes in the introduction, Stop Raising Einstein offers not just one mother's story, but also "activities, journal prompts, and food for thought." The book's takeaway message? "Open your mind and heart to one another's dreams and imagine the possibilities!"

Last summer, she sat down with contributing editor Jennifer Spivey to talk about her decision to write Stop Raising Einstein and what happened next.