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Melissa G. Wilson (born July 20, 1955) from Cleveland, Ohio is best known as a book author and ghostwriter. She is the author of 15 books with a number of bestsellers. Her latest book is called Networking is Dead: Creating Connections that Matter. It was a Wall Street Journal and Barnes & Noble bestseller. Her book, Networlding, was a #10 book on Amazon for an entire year.

Early life
She was born in Cleveland, Ohio and attended Ashland High School. Later she went on to Ohio Wesleyan University in Kent State. She was an Undergraduate at the University of Akron and her Graduate School was DePaul College of Law where she took a Law Degree in 1986. Her parents were Albert Goodman a florist and Marna Goodman who was a petshop owner. The family moved to Ashland, Ohio when she was aged 10. She grew up with two sisters, Cari and Cindy and a younger brother, Gregory.

Career
She taught English and Composition at The University of Akron while pursuing her MA in English. Started working as a technical writer at Babcock & Wilcox in Akron, Ohio after graduate school. She then became a consultant providing technical writing services to companies in Akron that included BF Goodrich where she rewrote their computer user manuals.

In 1987 she started her own company called Service Showcase, Inc. a referral service for both trade and business services in Schaumburg, IL. In 1990 Melissa wrote her first book published by Dearborn Publishing called "The Chicago Entrepreneurs Sourcebook." Her second book was also published by Dearborn Publishing in 1993 and called "Make Your Connections Count," a book on business networking. Melissa went on write a book published by Mc Graw Hill called "75 Cage Rattling Questions to Change the Way you Work." Melissa started Networlding Publishing, (when) a ghostwriting service and book marketing organization for thought leaders because her top value is “making a difference.” She found that she could make the biggest difference by following her “Power-of-Ten” Networlding process, helping ten authors a year.

Personal Life
Her husband is Craig S Wilson, an Author and her children are Graham Giovagnoli and Gavin Giovagnoli. They live in Ashland, Ohio.

Books

 * 75 Cage Rattling Questions to Change the Way You Work
 * Networking Is Dead: Making Connections That Matter
 * Shy-Town Girls
 * Lead Me to Success in Publishing
 * Masters Mashups
 * Building Strategic Relationships Through Networking
 * Facilitator's GuideBook: Corporate Edition
 * Participant's GuideBook: Corporate Edition
 * Mashups for Teens:
 * Mashups for Teens: From Princess Grace to Princess Kate
 * Masters Mashups