Elizabeth Coplan

July 22, 2010

Elizabeth's First Autograph Party

Off to the Pacific Northwest Writers Association Conference held near the Seattle airport. Staying at the Hilton and lLooking forward to connecting with old friends agent Rita Rosencrantz, writer Karen Alaniz and writer (an my editor for In Our Prime) Nancy Worrsam.

Especially excited to participate in the Authors Autograph Party tomorrow night because I am representing two books: In Our Prime and When One Door Closes.

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June 19, 2010

Thanks to all who attended!

This is not the best picture, but you get the idea. The Eagle Harbor Book Company was quite the scene on Thursday night. I understand over 80 people attended my reading of When One Door Closes.

Let me know if your local bookstore is interested in my presentation. I am told it's very entertaining as well as profitable!

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June 9, 2010

Elizabeth Reads from When One Door Closes on June 17

Please join me at Eagle Harbor Bookstore on Thursday June 17 at 7:30 p.m. for my reading from the book When One Door Closes!

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June 2, 2010

The Vitality of Human Experience: Elizabeth's Biography

Elizabeth Coplan's professional life includes over 30 years of corporate writing and marketing. A degree in English Literature from the University of Texas prepared her for a brief stint teaching creative writing. Later she worked with the offices of prime ministers, presidents, numerous chief executives, international companies, labor organizations, and institutions of higher learning and religion as managing editor of Chief Executive Magazine in New York.

However, life at the top of Fifth Avenue's Olympic Tower meant long hours and no social life outside of work. Elizabeth followed her dreams of Hollywood screenwriting fame to Beverly Hills. In Los Angeles, she wrote technical manuals for Collins Foods International, a Fortune 500 company, while working on her screenplay, attending UCLA writing classes at night, and collaborating with famed literary agent Florence Fieler, on a historical romance novel.

While international fame eluded her, Elizabeth was promoted to marketing manager for Collins Foods preparing presentations for the Board of Directors, stockholders, financial analysts, and employees. As a company spokesperson, she dealt with every PR expert's nightmare, 60 Minutes, when the television show investigated the death of another restaurant's customer from an overdose of sodium bisulfate, a common ingredient in salad bars.

After moving to the Pacific Northwest, Elizabeth became Director of Communications with Touche Ross (now Deloitte). A pioneer in the field of professional services marketing, Elizabeth promoted accounting, tax, and consulting services. She established Touche as the premier business consultants to the Seattle Times, the Puget Sound Business Journal, and the Daily Journal of Commerce.

While at Touche, Elizabeth met and married her soul mate Scott Coplan and later left the firm to join Davis Wright, a then little-known local law firm. Her marketing and public relations strategies brought the Northwest law firm into the national limelight as the firm grew from 150 attorneys and 5 offices to 300 attorneys and 10 offices in less than five years. Her groundbreaking techniques of community service promoted the firm through sponsorship of public television and radio, an unheard of approach for marketing professional services at the time. She worked with the Wall Street Journal and the Los Angeles Times and developed television and radio marketing opportunities for the firm.

Since the mid-1990's, Elizabeth has focused her career on business development consulting including presentation training, mentoring programs, individual marketing plans, and personal coaching in addition to a variety of corporate writing projects. Through COPLAN AND COMPANY, Elizabeth has built a client list that includes professional service firms, public and private companies, non-profits as well as individuals.

Elizabeth is also co-creator, editor and writer of A Wild Ride, a website and blog for parents of challenging children. Her personal essays also appear in an upcoming anthology Don't Let the Sound of Your Own Voice Drive You Crazy: Midlife Musings.

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June 1, 2010

My Essay Appears in When One Door Opens

When One Door Closes--Reflections from Women on Life's Turning Points is a collection of essays and poems from fifty-three women from diverse backgrounds that speaks to women of all ages as they journey through life. Psychotherapist, educator, and author Terri Spahr Nelson has spent the last thirty years helping women to face difficult challenges and to find peace in their lives. In this latest book, Ms. Spahr Nelson illuminates the issues that women have in common. She has created an anthology that shows how women carry on despite the challenges and uncertainties in their lives. Throughout this inspiring work, she gives readers an opportunity to reflect on the lessons learned from each woman's story and also provides questions for further contemplation. "This book is for your mind and for your heart," Spahr Nelson writes. Posted by Elizabeth at 3:06 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)