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For decades, Stanford Books has helped authors turn ideas, drafts, and completed manuscripts into professionally prepared books with a clearer path to publication, presentation, and reader discovery.

Our team has supported over 50,000 authors with publishing guidance, editorial direction, author branding, marketing strategy, and distribution support built around each book's goals and stage.

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Author Highlight

Dr. Alexander Randall 5th

Alex Randall has taught the Psychology of Dreaming all over the world. Thousands of dreamers in more than 40 countries have turned on their dreaming minds.

Alex is professor of Digital Media Communication at the University of the Virgin Islands. He is the faculty adviser to the communication laboratory and the radio stations WUVI, "The Voice of the University." Among other courses, he teaches the Psychology of Sleep and Dreaming and classes in Creative Problem Solving.

His dream work has practical application. He dreamed up the world's first e-commerce business, Boston Computer Exchange, and the East West Educational Development Foundation, which recycled computers and supported democracy around the world after the fall of the Berlin Wall. He turns dreams into action.

Randall is the author of Dream Wizard Conquers His Knightmare, Dream Wizard ESCAPES, Dream Wizard Pirate Gold, and the forthcoming Dream Wizard at Altered State University, among many other publications.

He earned his doctoral degree at Columbia University under the direction of Dr. Margaret Mead, working on the origins of novel ideas, the diffusion of innovation, and the psychology of sleep. His dissertation was a field study among a tribe of dreamers. He holds two additional master's degrees from Columbia and a bachelor's degree in Psychology from Princeton, where he studied sleep and dreaming with Dr. Henry Reed and psychedelics with Dr. Humphry Osmond. His research focuses on the psychology of the visionary experience, creativity, innovation, entrepreneurship, and the edges of insanity.

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Can I hire Stanford Books for just one service, like editing or cover design?

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What marketing and publicity support do you offer after the book is ready?

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Can you help me develop or ghostwrite a manuscript that is not finished yet?

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