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Gone with the Grain designs and builds home decor for retail and wholesale.

YOUR WORDS MATTERAs a writer, you pour your heart and soul into your work, and likely hope to teach, entertain, or inspire. Whether you love to write a hard-hitting romance or an epic fantasy adventure, you are an artist with a unique talent and voice. Readers in every genre eagerly await new content, ready to discover the next great work. Your work. Unfortunately launching a career is more than just writing, and the challenges are just beginning.WRITING A BOOK IS HARD. PUBLISHING IS EVEN HARDER.The new world of publishing has many opportunities for you to publish, but those opportunities bring a number of questions. How do I get reviews? Can I get into a brick and mortar store? How do I use social media? Should I go on a book tour? Who is my targeted audience and how do I reach them? How do I market? These questions inspire doubt and fear, making it all that much harder to navigate the complicated and ever-changing world of publishing.YOU ARE NOT ALONESince the advent of e-publishing the book world has seen a revolution, allowing many authors to achieve the dream of writing full-time. Red Coat Public Relations can help you master the literary industry and cement yourself into your new career. Our team has more than fifty years of collective leadership, project management, digital development, and marketing experience. Together we can help build your brand and launch your career.

Risk Management Planning & ConsultingRisk management involves far more than just buying a standard policy at the lowest bid.Business risk management requires realistic assessment of the specific risks your particular business faces, your firm's capacity to cover losses from capital reserves or current revenues, your cash posture and profit picture and your short- and long-term plans for growth.USI offers risk management planning and weighs all these factors to:Establish practicable risk-management goalsDesign a risk-management plan realizing your most cost-efficient balance of insurance, personal-insurance and risk retentionImplement your risk assesment by negotiating coverages and premiumsMaintain your plan through continual review and modification to answer new circumstances The outcome is solid, secure protection – the essential foundation upon which you build your company's future.

Your business encounters risks every day - some are obvious, some are hidden - but all could seriously impact your business. Identifying and managing these risks takes an experienced professional, but many organizations don't have the expertise or the budget for this critical function. I provide these services and more. I go Beyond Insurance® by assessing your exposures and working with you to design a plan to reduce or avoid them. I am in touch with you regularly, helping to execute safety programs, providing information on how to protect your assets and continually auditing and revising the process. And, I do this at no additional cost.