Tommy Lanham with Jeff Rivera

Tommy Lanham is a L.I.F.E. Coach and L.I.V.E. Speaker. He is Americas Expert Enthusiator adding life to your life one life at a time. New York based up-and-coming broadcast journalist Jeff Rivera is also a highly acclaimed author and sought-after speaker on new media and publishing. But, most recently, Rivera is being featured in segments of the new syndicated half-hour reality TV show The Write Stuff on the CW television network. The Write Stuff is an American Idol type show for aspiring authors. The Write Stuff producers came to Rivera and asked him to tape sixty-second segments giving show contestants “pointers & advice” on getting your work published, after being very impressed with what they saw on Rivera’s own Gumbowriters.com site, on which he offers very helpful guidance, on all areas of publishing, to aspiring writers & authors. In addition, Rivera is just beginning his work with mega media outlet The Huffington Post, contributing a regular blog/column and on-camera video segments, mainly focusing on issues related to “young Hollywood”. Rivera has also been brought on board by web giant MediaBistro.com to conduct a series of on-camera interviews for their web-channel, called Media Bistro Weekly Round-Up, after the success of Rivera’s GalleyCat.com column on Media Bistro, for which he’s been interviewing various authors over the past year. As anchor man for Media Bistro Weekly Round-Up, one of his first upcoming on-camera interviews will be with best-selling novelist James Patterson. Rivera’s success speaking on panels at various events, helped lay the foundation for his segue into on-camera and on-air broadcasting work. Some of these panels have included the New York Roundtable Writers Conference, the New York Writers Union Conference, the Latino Book Publishing Conference and the Internet Marketing Panel for Authors & Artists at the Harlem Book Fair.