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The Game and
Toy Connection is part of
Making Connections,
which began with
PublishersAndAgents.Net nearly 5 years ago, and includes 9
connection services. Our everyday operations are now shifting
between L.A. in Santa Monica and Oakland, California.
Our Founder,
Creative Director, and Director of Public Relations is:
Gini Graham Scott, Ph.D.,
Director,
Gameworld
Gini Graham Scott is not
only a writer who has
published
over 40
books
and a
business consultant and workshop leader, but a game designer
with
over 2 dozen games, puzzles, and craft items with major
companies. Two new games published by Briarpatch were
introduced at the American Toy Fair in February 2007 - Do You
Look Like Your Dog? and
 Jackpot. Previous
games have been published
by Hasbro Industries, Pressman Toy, the
John Hansen Company, and others. Now she has some new games based
on recent books -- the Bad Bosses
Good Advice Game, the Truth About Lying Game, and the Mind Power Game. Examples of
previously published games and puzzles are on our Website.
She is also a speaker on licensing and
networking techniques and was a panelist and moderator on
"Pitching to the Pros" at the American Toy Fair in February 2006 in
New York.
Her most
recent books and articles focus on work issues, creativity, business management,
marketing, resolving conflict, and crime. She is a speaker, workshop/seminar leader, and
organizational consultant to business, government, and non-profit organizations. She has
spoken to top executives, managers, professionals, and the general
public. Her column on relationships in work and business has been in a dozen papers, including
the Oakland Tribune and L.A. Downtown News.
 Her latest books are:
30 DAYS TO A MORE POWERFUL
MEMORY
(AMACOM 2007),
DISAGREEMENTS, DISPUTES, AND ALL OUT WAR (AMACOM 2007), A SURVIVAL GUIDE
TO MANAGING EMPLOYEES FROM HELL (AMACOM 2006), RESOLVING CONFLICT
(IUniverse 2006), THE
EMPOWERED MIND (IUniverse
2006), A SURVIVAL GUIDE FOR WORKING WITH
BAD BOSSES
(AMACOM 2005),THE
COMPLETE IDIOT'S GUIDE TO PARTY PLAN SELLING (Alpha
Books 2005), HOMICIDE
BY THE RICH
AND
FAMOUS
(Berkley Books, 2006; Greenwood 2005; ), A SURVIVAL
GUIDE FOR WORKING WITH HUMANS (AMACOM 2004), DO YOU LOOK
LIKE
YOUR
DOG?, (Broadway/Random House 2004); WORK WITH
ME! RESOLVING
EVERYDAY CONFLICT IN
YOUR ORGANIZATION
(Davies-Black 2000), and THE COMPLETE IDIOTS GUIDE TO SHAMANISM (Alpha Books 2002).
She has been a featured guest on hundreds of TV and radio programs, including
Good Morning America, Oprah, Montel Williams, the OReilly Factor, CNN, and many others. She has been teaching
classes on business, law, organizational behavior, public relations, marketing,
management, psychological profiling, and privacy for the University of Notre Dame de Namur
and the Investigative Career Program for private investigators in San Francisco. She has a
Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of California at Berkeley, a J.D. from the
University of San Francisco Law School, and M.A.s in Anthropology and in
Mass Communications and Organizational, Consumer, and Audience Behavior.
from California State University, East Bay. She has also recently set
up a film and TV production company,
Changemakers
Productions, in partnership with other production companies, to
package low budget (up to $3 million) films with scripts and TV
shows she has developed.
Bio and promotional details are at
www.giniscott.com; samples
of books
and articles are at
www.giniscott.net.
If interested in Gini Graham Scott as a speaker or workshop/seminar leader,
details are at
www.ginigrahamscott.com.
A speaker's video
is at
www.ginigrahamscott.com/videoaudio.htm.
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