I Michael Grossman is the author of five books: Coming to Terms with Aging: the Secret to Meaningful Time, from RDR Books; Shrinkwrapped: my first fifty years on the couch, from RDR books; The Power, a novel from the EbookBakery.com, and Mike the Moose, Master of Marbles, a children's book, from the EbookBakery.com.Grossman is CEO of www.ebookbakery.com, which specializes in helping authors complete manuscripts, get books designed, and finally distributed world-wide as paperbacks and ebooks.COMING TO TERMS WITH AGING is a look at American's reluctance to face and incorporate human mortality in our lives. It offers a unique perspective on how our denial of death has changes our culture and discourages introspection. SHRINKWRAPPED: MY FIRST FIFTY YEARS ON THE COUCH chronicles going to psychotherapy in the late forties. Discover the bias against therapy for a boy growing up in a blue-collar Michigan town in an era when corporal punishment was seen as positive parenting and where troubled families rarely sought professional help. The author's teachers sent him to a Freudian psychoanalyst at age 7, the first of a parade of therapies that would include Rogerian bear-hugs, Gestalt dream analysis, Rolfing, Bioenergetics and even LSD. Untangling the complex, sometimes eccentric and other times abusive family relationships that enmeshed his Midwestern boyhood, the author finally faces fundamental truths that lead to a profound transformation. By turns funny, poignant and shocking, SHRINKWRAPPED is above all a story of hope, of growing insight and ultimately of love reborn.Grossman's first fiction is, THE POWER. THE POWER is driven by our archetypal curiosity about invisibility; our fly-on-the-wall fascination with it in the tradition of Wells' classic The Invisible Man and seen currently in our wonderment at Harry Potter's magic cloak. In THE POWER, magic becomes the metaphor that asks the question: how should Edwin, the main character, and also the reader use personal power? When does power degrade and when does it fulfill? THE POWER is a vicarious ride that leaves readers themselves empowered and more deeply aware of their own unique magic.MIKE THE MOOSE, MASTER OF MARBLES is just plain silly, but if you believe moose can have impudent personalities as the author does, don't fail to go with Mike and his human sister Carrie on their earthly and even galactic adventures. A great book for older kids and adults who've retained the ability to act like a kid.POEMS IN DISAPPEARING INK, Grossman's first book of Poetry, is a series of coffee-table explorations of everyday emotions - from feelings at the doctor's office to moments at a wake, to our love of our dogs. In simple yet crystal language, it poetically covers the gamut of commonplace human experience.THE REALM is ethical fiction, a story of travel to a special Hell where morality is turned on its head. Though a series of unique adventures, and faced with fear and temptations, the protagonist grapples with Christianity and his efforts to evolve into an ethical human being.I Michael Grossman, the founder of a leading national cruise travel company, has additionally written numerous newspaper commentaries and consumer and trade articles on topics ranging from ecology, ethics, travel marketing, flying,bank marketing and even applied ergonomics. His articles have appeared in Advertising Age, Ergo Solutions, The CLIA Cruise Industry Annual Report, The American Banker and Plane and Pilot. Grossman has appeared on national TV and radio shows including as a frequent guest on Arthur Frommer's Travel Channel show and NBC-TV's New York City affiliate. Grossman holds a BA and an MA in English from Michigan State University.Born in Muskegon, Michigan, Grossman currently resides in Rhode Island with his wife.Read more about this authorRead less about this author