Jeff Rivera is a well-respected and connected book publishing executive. As a media personality and author, he and his work have been seen nationally in Publishers Weekly, School Library Journal Teen, Fast Company, The Los Angeles Times, New York Observer, Mediabistro, GalleyCat, SethGodin.com, Billboard.com, Forbes.com, TMZ, WNBC, WABC, WCBS, American Latino TV, SITV, The Boston Globe, NPR and many other media outlets.
He has interviewed over 100 celebrities and power players in book publishing and entertainment, including Hugh Hefner, James Patterson, Enrique Iglesias, Janet Evanovich, Nicholas Sparks, Andrea Bocelli, Jeff Kinney, Macy Gray, Philippa Gregory, Harlan Coben, Alejandro Sanz, Mark Victor Hansen, Juan Luis Guerra, CSI creator Anthony Zuiker and Dancing With the Stars' Brooke Burke.
Rivera is the author of Forever My Lady, a novel published by Grand Central Publishing, and My Two Uncles & Me, a children's book for the Kindle.
About Jeff Rivera
Rather than write one book and seeing what happened, Blake set out on focusing on volume rather than a one-hit wonder to garner him success. The gamble paid off and 25 books and 30 months later, Blake not only has made over a million dollars in sales but caught the eye of one of America's favorite thriller writers, Clive Cussler.In my brief interview with Blake,
I asked him exactly how the opportunity came about and what it really is like working with such a commercial fiction giant.