Martin Svensson Author

Yousef Erakat, also known as Fousey, is a YouTube personality, actor and motivational speaker with over 15 million subscribers on his YouTube channels, over 21 million on social media and over 1.7 billion views. In 2015, Fousey won “Show of the Year” for youtube.com/FouseyTube at the 5th Annual Streamy Awards. In 2016, he won “Entertainer of the Year” at the 6th Annual Streamy Awards for his daily vlog, youtube.com/doseoffousey. He has toured worldwide with Roman Atwood. Yousef has starred in Tyler Perry's “BOO! A Madea Halloween” Part One and Two; YouTube Red’s feature film, “We Love You”, Netflix’s scripted comedy series “Reality High” and YouTube Red’s “Fight of the Living Dead”. Yousef has partnered with AdBlitz, Verizon, Nike, Google and Microsoft for major brand campaigns. He was listed 3rd on the list of "40 Inspiring Muslims Under 40" by MBMuslima Magazine. Last year, he trained and appeared in his first boxing match for the “Fight Night” Charity Event in London to raise money for Yemen. Raised in the Bay Area Yousef is of Palestinian descent. He attended San Jose University where he earned his BA in Theater Arts and Writing. And now, he begins to share his life story with the world with the hope to inspire others who might be facing similar battles.

Martin Svensson and Leif Eriksson have written around 40 books each, including both fiction and true stories. They started writing together in 2010 and have since then produced a large number of official autobiographies for international actors, models, pop/rock stars, sports stars and influencers. Most recently:

• Samantha Fox’s Amazon bestseller Forever (BackBeat Books) 
• UFC star Alexander Gustafsson’s The Mauler (Hodder & Stoughton) 
• Former Guns N’ Roses drummer Matt Sorum’s Double Talkin’ Jive (forthcoming 2021)
• Perez Hilton's TMI – My life in Scandal (Chicago Review Press)

Today, Martin and Leif have an established team of researchers and co-writers that they work together with on a project-by-project basis.