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Jay Papasan is the vice president of publishing and executive editor at Keller Williams Realty, Inc., an Austin, Texas based, residential real estate franchise company, the second largest of its kind the North America. In 2003, with the release of The Millionaire Real Estate Agent, co-authored by Gary Keller and Dave Jenks, Papasan became a bestselling-author. Since then, he has gone on to co-author five more bestselling books. He is also a motivational speaker, an editor and uthor at KellerINK, and a principal of the Papasan Real Estate Team.

History
Papasan spent several years as an associate editor at Harper Collins Publishers, where he worked on books including Body-for-Life by Bill Phillips and Go for the Goal by Mia Hamm. A graduate of the New York University graduate writing program, his freelance work has appeared in Texas Monthly and Memphis Magazine.

He joined Keller Williams Realty in September of 2000.

In 2003, Papasan and Keller founded KellerINK and released the first book of the Millionaire Series: The Millionaire Real Estate Agent. Co-authored by Gary Keller and Dave Jenks, the work made Papasan a best-selling author when it spent time on BusinessWeek's Bestseller List.

In 2005, the KellerINK team co-authored their second book, The Millionaire Real Estate Investor, which reached The New York Times Bestseller List, as well as BusinessWeek's bestseller list.

In 2007, he collaborated with Rick Villani and Clay Davis on FLIP: How to Buy, Fix and Sell Houses for Profit.

He started Papasan Team Realty with his wife Wendy in 2009.

In 2008, he co-authored Your First Home with Gary Keller and Dave Jenks.

In 2009, the team wrote SHIFT: How Top Agents Tackle Tough Times which was Nielsen BookScan's #1 Real Estate Book for 2009 and, in 2010, #6 on the Wall Street Journal Business list and #14 on the New York Times Business list. The same year, Papasan co-authored Soci@l with Ben Kinney.

In 2011, Papasan worked with Buddy Norman to create Shift Commercial: How Top Commercial Brokers Tackle Tough Times.

The third book in the Millionaire Investor Series, HOLD: How to Find, Buy, and Rent Houses for Wealth, debuted in USA Today's Bestselling Book List at number 62 in October of 2012.

Keller and Papasan announced their first non-real estate book in July 2012, The ONE Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results, which will be released in April, 2013.

Awards
In 2011, Papasan and co-author Ben Kenny won the third place Bronze Award at the annual National Association of Real Estate Editors competition for Soci@l.

At the same awards ceremony the following year, in 2012, Papasan and Buddy Norman received the Bronze Robert Bruss Book Award for Shift Commercial.