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Steven Schragis Author

Before founding One Day University in 2006, Steven Schragis’s career spanned a variety of roles in education and media. He was the founder/CEO and publisher of the Carol Publishing Group, parent company of Citadel Press, University Books, Birch Lane Press, and Lyle Stuart. His companies published nearly two thousand books including twelve national NY Times bestsellers---two that reached #1 in over a dozen countries. Steven was co-founder and publishing director of Spy Magazine, one of the most influential media properties in recent decades, as well as marketing director of Reed Business Information, one of the world's largest publishers of trade magazines and business information. He was also the marketing director of the Doral Hotel Corporation.
As an attorney admitted to practice in New York and Florida, Steven has taught intellectual property law and marketing classes at New York University, the University of Chicago, and Harvard Law School. He has been profiled in Forbes, New York Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, and on PBS and NPR in connection with his innovations in continuing education.

Rick Frishman, publisher of Morgan James Publishing in New York and founder of Planned Television Arts (now called Media Connect), has been one of the leading book publicists in America for more than thirty-six years. Rick works with many of the top book editors, literary agents, and publishers in America, including Simon & Schuster, Random House, Wiley, Harper Collins, Pocket Books, Penguin Group, and Hyperion Books.
Rick has also appeared on hundreds of radio shows and more than a dozen TV shows nationwide, including Oprah and Bloomberg TV. He has also been featured in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Associated Press, Selling Power Magazine, New York Post, and scores of other publications. He is the coauthor of thirteen books, including national bestsellers Guerrilla Publicity, Networking Magic, and Where’s Your Wow?