LISA COLLIER COOL’S BIO

            Lisa Collier Cool is a bestselling author, blogger and winner of 18 journalism awards.  She was first published at age 9 in Ladies Home Journal (a letter to the editor) and as a professional writer, has written more than one million words for America’s leading magazines, newspapers and websites.  In the journalism community, she’s known as “the queen of queries,” due to her book HOW TO WRITE IRRESISTIBLE QUERY LETTERS, which is widely used in writing courses.  She is past president of American Society of Journalists and Authors, a trade group of more than 1,400 nonfiction writers who have met rigorous membership standards, and serves on the board of the Writers Emergency Assistance Fund, a charity that aids needy professional writers.

           Lisa has written hundreds of articles for Associated Press, BabyTalk, Caring Today, CBS MoneyWatch, Cosmopolitan, The Daily News, Essence, Family Circle, Fitness, Glamour, Good Housekeeping, Harper's, Harper's Bazaar, Health Monitor, Ladies Home Journal, Marie Claire, Oprah Magazine, Parade, Parenting, Parents, American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists’ Pause Magazine, Penthouse, Prevention, Redbook, Reader’s Digest, SELF, USA Weekend, Wall Street Journal, Woman's Day, Writer's Digest and many others. 

            Her popular Day in Health blog appears on Yahoo.com, where she is a featured “health expert.” She is also lead health blogger/editor for General Electric’s healthymagination.com/blog and has written for Intelihealth.com, Parents.com, CBS MoneyWatch, and Alight.com.  Corporate clients include American Academy of Family Physicians, Coca-Cola (the Beverage Institute), McDonald’s, Olay, SonoSite, Inc.  and others.  She has written a wide range of corporate materials, including content for annual reports and special advertising sections for The Wall Street Journal.

            Lisa is a four-time winner of the June Roth Memorial Medical Journalism Award (2007, 2006, 2003 and 1996).  Other honors include the IOF Osteoporosis Journalism Award; three National Health Information Awards, the Henry R. Luce Award, American Society of Plastic Surgeon's Media Circle of Excellence Award, American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery's Journalistic Achievement Award, three ASJA Outstanding Article Awards,  and the Donald Robinson Award for Investigative Journalism. 

          Her article, "The Preventable Cancer," was one of three Good Housekeeping stories on colon cancer that collectively won the National Magazine Award for Consumer Service.  The series also won an American Digestive Health Foundation Award; and was featured at a White House press conference with Hillary Clinton and Katie Couric.  She has also been honored by the American Liver Foundation for excellence in reporting on hepatitis C.  She has been a contributing editor of Cosmopolitan and other national magazines.

            Lisa is the author of six books.  She was literally the ghostwriter of BEWARE THE NIGHT: A New York City Cop Investigates the Supernatural (with coauthor Ralph Sarchie), which was published by St. Martin's Press in October, 2001 and reached #3 on the Amazon bestseller list and #10 on Ingram's bestseller list.  Movie rights were sold to Jerry Bruckheimer at Disney Pictures.  As part of Lisa’s research for the book, she attended an exorcism. Her previous books are: BAD BOYS: Why We Love Them, How To Live With Them, When To Leave Them (with Carole Lieberman, M.D.), HOW TO GIVE GOOD PHONE, HOW TO WRITE IRRESISTIBLE QUERY LETTERS and HOW TO SELL EVERY MAGAZINE ARTICLE YOU WRITE.  She is currently collaborating on a new book called BEAT THE HEART ATTACK GENE with coauthors Bradley Bale, MD and Amy Doneen, ARNP. The book is under contract to John Wiley and Sons.

            Lisa has taught writing courses at Parson's School of Design and Discovery Center, and spoken at many writers' conferences.   She is a member of the Association of Health Care Journalists and has nearly 80,000 followers on Twitter.  She is also active on Facebook, LinkedIn and Google+.

            Her media appearances include over 200 radio talk shows in the U.S. and abroad; and A Current Affair, ABC News, AM Philadelphia, Cleveland Exchange, Fairfield Exchange; the Early Show, Good Housekeeping Reports, Good Morning America and Hard Copy, as well as Reader’s Digest podcasts.  Before becoming a freelance writer, she was a literary agent, selling more than 400 books, many of them bestsellers.  Lisa is married, with three daughters (including identical twins) and two badly behaved border terriers.