Real Estate Entrepreneur and Mentor, Tom Burtness, Hits Amazon Best-Seller List With New Book, “The New Masters of Real Estate”

Tom Burtness, real estate investment expert, recently hit Amazon.com’s Best-Seller List with his new book, “The New Masters of Real Estate: Getting Deals Done In The New Economy,” climbing to #28 in Amazon’s Top 100 books.

Orlando, Fla. – October 29, 2010 – Tom Burtness, real estate investment expert and coach, recently released a book co-written with Ron LeGrand and other leading real estate experts across the country.  The new book, published by CelebrityPress™, is titled “The New Masters of Real Estate: Getting Deals Done in the New Economy.”

“The New Masters of Real Estate” was released on Thursday, October 21, 2010.  On the day of release, the book climbed to #28 overall and was also a #1 Best-Seller in four different categories.  These categories include Real Estate Investments, Buying & Selling Homes, Direct Marketing and Business & Investing: Real Estate.  The book also appeared on the lists “Movers and Shakers in Books” and “Hot New Releases in Business & Investing.”

Tom Burtness authored a chapter in the book titled, “Catching The Giant Wave!”

Tom has founded over twenty successful businesses and organizations in the past thirty-five years in a wide diversity of fields, ranging from consulting engineering, construction, and real estate businesses, to a theatre production company and a church.

Tom is passionate about helping people find and realize the vision for their lives, families and businesses. Dubbed a “mentor of mentors,” Tom served as director for North and Central America for a distance-learning institute that provides masters-level business leadership training.  In this role, Tom oversaw an international network of over two hundred mentors, and taught seminars, short courses and in-service training events in Canada, Costa Rica, Guatemala, and throughout the Unites States.

Tom currently co-owns and runs four businesses, including a real-estate investment business with his son-in-law, Zach Morrison; a real estate investment capital funding business; an investment advisor firm; and a green energy residential improvements business.

After such a successful release, Tom will soon be inducted into The National Academy of Best-Selling Authors™, an organization that honors authors from many of the leading independent best-seller lists.

To order your copy of The New Masters of Real Estate, please visit http://www.amazon.com/New-Masters-Real-Estate-Getting/dp/098290830X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1288034349&sr=8-1

To learn more about CelebrityPress®, please visit http://www.CelebrityPressPublishing.com

About Tom Burtness:

Tom Burtness has been an adventurer his entire life, relentlessly pursuing the optimum approach to conquering the challenging waves in his own life, family, and career. He is an entrepreneur to the core.  Tom has founded over twenty successful businesses and organizations in the past thirty-five years in a wide diversity of fields, ranging from consulting engineering, construction, and real estate businesses, to a theatre production company and a church.

Tom is passionate about helping people find and realize the vision for their lives, families and businesses. Dubbed a “mentor of mentors,” Tom served as director for North and Central America for a distance-learning institute that provides masters-level business leadership training.  In this role, Tom oversaw an international network of over two hundred mentors, and taught seminars, short courses and in-service training events in Canada, Costa Rica, Guatemala, and throughout the Unites States.

His teaching and writing style blends both the why and the how-to.  Tom possesses a rare ability to see both the philosophy behind a principle and the way to live it out; it has been said of Tom that he is a “bridge between the theoretical and the practical.”  Tom finds it curiously ironic that his engineering specialization of illumination design parallels his passion to assist his students in achieving practical “illumination” to excel in their fields of endeavor.

Tom and his wife of thirty-five years, Emily, carry their passion for mentoring into their family life as well.  They home educated their four children from grade school through graduation from high school.  The three older children have all graduated from college with honors.  Erick is a CFA, Kristiana is an editor and screenwriter, Michelle assists in the real-estate business, and Hannah is studying graphic design at the University of Illinois.

Tom extends his love for taking calculated risks into his leisure activities as well. He has enjoyed many years of the excitement involved in off-road motorcycling, scuba diving, downhill skiing, rock climbing and rappelling, and being a private pilot.  Tom is a long distance runner and completed three half-marathon events last year.  His personal motto is “Never stop adventuring!”

Tom currently co-owns and runs four businesses, including a real-estate investment business with his son-in-law, Zach Morrison; a real estate investment capital funding business; an investment advisor firm; and a green energy residential improvements business.  Tom can be reached at [email protected].  He and Emily reside near Champaign-Urbana, Illinois and are avid fans of the University of Illinois.  Go Illini!

About Celebrity Press™:

Celebrity Press™, founded by JW Dicks, Esq. and Nick Nanton, Esq., is a business book publisher that publishes books from thought leaders around the world. Celebrity Press™ specializes in helping its authors grow their businesses through publishing their expertise to reach a larger audience and build a bigger platform. Celebrity Press™ has published books alongside Brian Tracy, Ron Legrand, Mari Smith, Kelly O’Neil, Alexis Martin Neely and many more of the biggest experts across diverse fields.

If you’d like to learn more about Celebrity Press™ or to see if we’re a good fit for your book project, please visit http://www.celebritypresspublishing.com/contact-us

About The National Academy of Best-Selling Authors™:

The National Academy of Best Selling Authors™ was founded by two attorneys, JW Dicks, Esq. and Nick Nation, Esq. who are also best selling authors and represent authors and experts nationwide.  Both of the attorneys are members of multiple organizations, associations and academies that recognize and honor the best in the business, and they thought a similar organization should be created for Best Selling authors who don’t always get recognition for their accomplishment. Authors themselves, they recognized that only a very limited number of books made the major New York Times Best Seller list and just like the awards shows put on by the entertainment-based organizations, they wanted to have more categories for authors to be accepted and recognized for their accomplishment. The National Academy of Best Selling Authors™ now honors authors from many of the leading independent best-seller lists.

To find out more about The National Academy of Best-Selling Authors™ visit http://www.academyofauthors.org/

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