Eva Shaw, Author and Grief Recovery Expert

Meet Eva Shaw, Ph.D. Biography

Eva wants to hear from you. Meet her in this website and then contact her to speak at your writing conference or to take one of her Internet writing classes. Contact Eva at askeva@evashaw.com.

Look for the word prolific in a dictionary and one of the definitions will be Eva Shaw. Check best selling and award winning, too. You’ll see Eva’s name there as well.

As an author and ghostwriter, she has produced more than sixty books, which have garnered rave reviews and won prestigious awards. Her articles have appeared in those national magazines you see at the supermarket and scores of others. At last count, she has written more than one thousand articles. With this impressive publishing record, some writers might slow down. Not Eva. New books are underway and articles are being published monthly.

Eva is a lively, engaging, and highly sought-out speaker. At conferences and events throughout the United States, her presentations draw standing-room-only crowds who seek her advice on writing and publishing. Unlike other well-published writers, Eva happily shares the tricks of the trade and how you, too, can become as abundantly creative. With the sure-fire steps she outlines, every writer can be published.

Check the endorsements in her books. Your peers praise this gifted writing teacher. Thousands have taken her writing classes and they are living their dreams. They are published writers because they have taken Eva’s advice, read her books on writing, and enrolled in her courses.

Eva teaches writing with Education To Go, www.ed2go.com, and her unbeatable online classes are so popular that they are offered at 1200 colleges and universities worldwide. The courses are: Travel Writing, The Craft of Magazine Writing, Writing Your Life Story, and the highly popular Writeriffic: Creativity Training for Writers and now the advanced Writeriffic 2.

Eva’s latest books for writers are Writeriffic: Creativity Training For Writers and Ghostwriting For Fun & Profit.

Other books are: The Successful Writer's Guide to Publishing Magazine Articles and Writing the Nonfiction Book, from the Rodgers & Nelsen Publishers Successful Writer's Guide series. Other titles include Insider's Guide to San Diego (Falcon Publishing), For the Love of Children (Health Communications), the award-winning What to Do When A Loved One Dies (Dickens Press), Eve of Destruction (Contemporary Books), 365 Reflections on Love and Marriage and 365 Reflections on Friendship (Adams Media), 60-Second Shiatzu (Henry Holt), and the highly acclaimed book on early California history, The Sun Never Sets (Dickens Press).

The Orange County (California) Literacy Guild at the Festival of Women Authors recently honored Eva's work. She is a member of the Garden Writers Association of America and the San Diego Horticulture Society. She's an advocate for issues concerning women and children and an active volunteer. Eva is currently "building" a library for residents of the Florence Crittenton Center of Los Angeles.

"My typical day? Very structured and very flexible. I start the day at about 5:30 with a cup of coffee and some quiet time. By six, my husband Joe and I are off for the first of two, two-mile walks with Buttons, my Welsh terrier, around our coastal hometown of Carlsbad, California. I begin teaching my Internet classes with Education To Go at about 7:30 and then it's straight back to my current writing project. Sometimes that's a book, sometimes I work on articles or newspaper columns. When I'm researching material for books and articles, I search the Internet . Yet I also go to the library, which is about a mile from my house.

"My office is in my home and throughout the day, I often received phone calls from agents, publishers, and ghostwriting clients. Conference directors call regarding speaking engagements and conference appearances, which I book at much as year ahead of the event. Often television and radio producers call; often I'm interviewed by other writers and journalists for magazine articles.

"My days are full and I enjoy them. I usually 'leave' work about 4:30. Then I spend time with my family, friends and take another walk with Buttons.

"I take writing seriously. I love to write and share information."

A high-energy person, Eva volunteers, works in the gardens she created at her church, putters in her own 60-plus rose and cutting garden, hikes, reads everything and plays golf just for the fun of it. "It's impossible to be serious about the sport when you play like I do."

Eva adds, "Writing is never boring. You can do it any where and anytime. It's a great full-time career and fits well with retirement, stay-home parenting and any time in your life. Yes, you can make money writing for a living."