Publisher, Slipdown Mtn Pub, & Managing Partner, Five Rainbows Services for Authors (wshiel@slipdownmountain.com)
Wausau, Wisconsin Area
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- Publisher & Managing Partner at Slipdown Mountain Publications LLC
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- Managing Partner at Five Rainbows Services for Authors & Publishers
- F-16 Aircrew Training Manager at Lockheed Martin Aeronautics
- Reserve Mobilization Augmentee at US Air Force Reserve
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- Swinburne University of Technology
- Mississippi State University
- Michigan State University
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Walt Shiel’s Summary
At Slipdown Mountain Publications, we publish books for the unfettered mind with primary emphasis on military, paranormal, and historical topics.
Our subsidiary, Five Rainbows Services for Authors & Publishers, provides a full range of services to help authors and independent publishers achieve their publishing goals -- these services include editing, typesetting and layout, indexing, book cover design, book illustrations, cataloging-in-publication data, news releases, ghostwriting, and individualized publishing coaching for authors.
As the publisher and managing partner, I draw on 15 years experience as a freelance author of books and magazine articles, 20 years experience as an engineer and training specialist in the defense aerospace industry and 20 years as a US Air Force pilot and instructor pilot. In addition, I have 30+ years of experience designing, producing, and delivering training programs and seminars for engineers, pilots, writers, and self-publishers. Member of the Board of Directors of the Upper Peninsula Publishers and Authors Association.
MY BOOKS: "Cessna Warbirds" (military aviation history), "Devil in the North Woods" (historical fiction), "Pilots and Normal People" (short stories), "T-41 Mescalero: The Military Cessna 172" (Vol 1, Cessna Warbirds Series), and "Rough War: The Memoirs of a WW II US Fighter Pilot in Burma" (memoir scheduled for release in October 2008).
Walt Shiel’s Specialties:
Writing, editing, layout and typesetting, publishing coach, ghostwriting, all phases and avenues of micro- and self-publishing, all things aviation, training program design and development, bidding and writing proposals for government contracts, managing government contracts.
Walt Shiel’s Experience
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Publisher & Managing Partner
Slipdown Mountain Publications LLC
(Partnership; 1-10 employees; Publishing industry)
August 2004 — Present (4 years 5 months)
Books for the unfettered mind. Publisher of quality fiction, nonfiction (aviation and military history, cryptozoology and other 'high strangeness' ), historic military aircraft flight manuals, realistic fine art (originals and prints of aircraft, lighthouses, fairies, and wildlife). Subsidiary Five Rainbows provides a full range of 9-1-1 services for authors and other publishers -- editing, layout, typesetting, indexing, book cover artwork and design, coaching, and ghostwriting.
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Walt Shiel’s Interests:
aviation, military history, publishing, photography, technology, old radio shows, politics, US history, astronomy, physics
Walt Shiel’s Groups:
Small Publishers Association of North America (SPAN), Upper Peninsula Publishers and Authors Association (UPPAA), Experimental Aircraft Association
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