Elizabeth Eagan Cox has penned dozens of corporate histories for some of America’s most prestigious companies, including: Ayres Hotel Group, Billabong USA, Cabo Yachts Inc., Forever 21, Matsushita Avionics and TXI Cement Mfg. Co. Elizabeth was a columnist for Old California Gazette and she is a former school librarian. She enjoys digging up intriguing stories about history and incorporating these facts in her writing. In A GHOST OF A CHANCE she used many elements of history to bring the story to life, including the study of late-nineteenth century sleight-of-hand magic, Victorian architecture, and details regarding California’s founding Hispanic culture.

Elizabeth is a member of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) and the worldwide Irish Clann Mac Aodhagain.

About ‘going green’: This book is based on a short story I sold to a British e-zine several years ago. When I decided to use the short story as the building block for a novel I knew I would want it published by a reputable royalty-paying e-book publisher. I was delighted when www.ebooksonthe.net offered me a contract.

But why choose e-book publishing over hardprint? For me it was a logical way to have a positive Eco-friendly impact… A way of doing something good for the environment. E-book reading is not for everyone, but it is viable option that has significant results over hardprint publishing:
No trees are cut down.
No paper manufacturing with use of toxic chemicals is needed.
No energy is spent in the transporting and warehousing of books and transporting to point-of-sale bookstores.
No energy is spent in purchasing books because a person can do it from a home computer. And now, a host of manufacturers offer handheld e-book readers at a variety of prices. Eco-friendly e-books are becoming more accessible to everyone and e-books costs less than their mass-market paperback competition.

I believe life is a journey, as we travel let us take memories and leave no harmful footprints – EEC.