With a foreword by noted Columbia University Journalism Professor Samuel G. Freedman and chapters written by two dozen of America's most successful independent magazine journalists and nonfiction articles, this book offers many practical strategies and suggestions on how to establish and maintain a business as a freelance writer. Published in 2003, it's already in a fourth printing. Click here for more.

A collection of Tim's magazine profiles of people making the world a better place for their communities, their families and themselves: the professor who runs Computer Camp in Appalachia; the best pickup basketball player in America; Big City Forest; Johnnetta "Sista Prez" Cole; Eric Heiden; Frank Serpico; the Silver Surfers who teach fellow seniors to use the Internet; Operation Santa Clause, and dozens more. Read the first chapter at left. Click here for more info or to order.

Written with an anonymous co-author, a former stockbroker confessing his many sins, this tell-all at the peak of the Wall Street boom exposed many of the common but then little-known ways that brokers routinely mislead and sometimes outright lie, cheat and steal from clients. The book caused a stir in financial circles and rose to No. 42 on Amazon. Read media reviews or the first chapter or left or Click here for Amazon reader reviews and to order.

This fast-paced case study, described by reviewers as a business thriller, followed Rick Grajirena, an American entrepreneur and former world sailing champion, in the many ups and downs as he tried to get rich in the newly wide-open Russia when it was a financial frontier in the 1990s. The book is used in graduate school courses on international business and law. Click here for reader and media reviews on Amazon, or to order.

Co-authored with Garrett Oliver, the acclaimed brewmaster at the Brooklyn Brewery, and with a foreword by Michael Jackson, the world's foremost beer writer, this book has been hailed as a great introduction for anyone who wants to know more about beer: history, ingredients, brewing techniques, varying tastes, storing and serving beer, beer and food, and much more. Click here for more info and to order.