His articles, opinion pieces, and reviews have appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, the Boston Globe, Buzz Magazine, CBS News, the Jerusalem Post, and the Columbia Journal of Law and Social Problems, among other places. One of his New York Times opinion pieces was anthologized in a college textbook on writing. He has served as a consultant on creativity to the NBC and WB Television Networks and to the largest law firm in Los Angeles, Loeb & Loeb; and as a faculty member at UCLA (1990-2001) and New York University (1997-2000).

He also consults to a broad variety of authors, ranging from international bestsellers to individuals seeking to become published authors. His clients and students include five bestselling authors. Among them: Patricia Aburdene (Megatrends and Reinventing the Corporation); Sheneska Jackson and Jenoyne Adams; and Maureen Quinn, who wrote a novel under his direction and sold screen rights to Janine Turner of TV's Northern Exposure, and many others who sold their novels-often their first novels-to major publishing houses.

Levin has also worked with individuals on a psychiatric unit (for two years); in hospitals, prisons and jails; in public schools across the country; and in a homeless shelter.

Bestselling author Scott Turow says, "Michael Levin is a discerning-and kind-writing coach who has won consistent plaudits from the many persons I've sent his way."

Dan Poynter, author of The Self-Publishing Manual, says, "Michael Levin shows writers exactly what they need to do to avoid rejection and find agents and publishers. I highly recommend him."

Lew Hunter, former chair of the UCLA Film Department, describes Levin as "the greatest developer of prose talent I have ever known."

Books and Projects by Michael Levin

27 Ghostwritten Books and 2 Projects for Movies/DVDs
Due to confidentiality agreements with the authors, the titles of the books cannot be identified. Instead, the general topics of books I've ghostwritten:

1. Corporate Biography: A Multi-Billion Dollar Corporate Acquisitions/Technology Firm
2. Business Consulting - Negotiating and Developing Power in the Workplace
3. Entrepreneurship and Real Estate-nonfiction book; author built a $500 million real estate business
4. Marketing - A book by one of the most internationally famous marketing "gurus"
5. Women's Health - A New Version of a Book About Breast Cancer
6. Long Term Care Insurance and Elder Care
7. Website Content and Business Plan for a web-based business
8. Business Consultant's book on Maximizing Income in Medical Practices
9. Chinese Porcelain - Art Book on the History and Creation of a Certain Ming/Ching Era Pottery
10. The Psychology of Dieting, for a therapist who specializes in patients with eating disorders
11. Memoir - World War II and the Holocaust
12. Memoir - A Leading Philanthropist of the Southwest
13. Memoir - 19th Century Genealogical Study of one of Los Angeles' Best Known Families
14. Autobiography - One of L.A.'s leading real estate investors
15. Memoir - Surviving Parkinson's and Alcoholism
16. Memoir - Mental Illness and Recovery (Currently in Development as a Major Motion Picture)
17. Montessori Home Schooling Guide
18. Architecture - A Book on Designing the Ideal Residential Home for You
19. Women's Empowerment - An Inspirational Book About Breaking Through Fear, by an important businesswoman in Los Angeles
20. Sales and Consulting - By the business partner of one of the world's leading motivational experts
21. DVD script - U.S. Sports Cars
22. Screenplay - Feature length film ghostwritten for a business executive and U.S. Senate candidate
23. Memoir/Biography of one of Los Angeles' leading business people, philanthropists, and public citizens
24. Business book - financial planning
25. Book and seminar workbook - two personal coaches in New York
26. Memoir of a Southeast Asian immigrant who survived Communism in her native country and now lives the American dream
27. Nonfiction book on a new approach to aging

Nonfiction - General - 6 Books

28. Banking on Our Future, with John Bryant, Beacon Press
29. The Boomer's Guide to Sex That Still Sizzles, Penguin/Putnam
30. Welcome to the Jungle! The Unauthorized Biography of Jim Rome
31. The Writer's Internet Sourcebook, No Starch Press
32. Complete Idiot's Guide to the Pentagon, with Jeff Cateau, Penguin/Putnam
33. Complete Idiot's Guide to Your Civil Liberties, Penguin/Putnam

Nonfiction - Religion and Spirituality - 5 Books

34. Complete Idiot's Guide to Jewish Mysticism and Spirituality, Penguin/Putnam
35. What Every Jew Needs to Know About God, Ktav Publishing House
36. Guide to the Jewish Internet, No Starch Press
37. Where There's Smoke, There's Salmon, a Book of Jewish Quotations
38. Journey to Tradition, Ktav Publishing House

7 Published Novels

39. The Socratic Method - Simon & Schuster hardcover, Random House/Ivy Books, paperback, optioned for film by Frank Perry
40. Settling the Score - Simon & Schuster hardcover, Random House/Ivy Books, paperback
41. Alive and Kicking - Simon & Schuster hardcover, St. Martin's Press, paperback
42. Janine and Alex, Alex and Janine, Putnam/Berkley, became ABC Sunday night Disney movie of the week "Model Behavior"
43. Sam and Derek, Derek and Sam, Putnam/Berkley
44. Party of Five Novelization, Archway/Simon & Schuster
45. The Shidduch Diaries, Seraphic Press, 2005