Paul McNeese, BS, CFP (Ret.), is an author and and an author services provider who runs his own company, OPA Author Services, through which he coordinates literary creative services and book production logistics for authors, aspiring authors, public speakers, and entrepreneurs who wish to bring their knowledge and expertise to the public through the power of words. He is also the managing editor for an author web portal, The Author's Roost, which is a platform for authors, speakers, coaches, consultants and other communications professionals to reach out to local, regional and national media and to event planners and corporate training departments.

Personally, Paul has more than four decades of experience in educating and motivating individuals and groups as a broadcaster, seminar/workshop  leader, author, publisher and speaker.

He has begun work on a new book, Betterchange: 12 Keys to Personal and Professional Growth, which will see publication in mid-2012. He has also recently completed a CD set based on the newest version of his “Betterchange” seminar, which he will soon begin offering in the Phoenix area, mainly through churches and other spiritual organizations.

An honors graduate of Northeastern University in Boston, Paul earned simultaneous undergraduate degrees in marketing and music and has done graduate work in psychology, economics and public policy at UCLA.

A Certified Financial Planner (CFP) for many years (1982 – 1993), he is a graduate of the College for Financial Planning in Denver. In pursuit of other interests over the years, he also completed a two-year associate degree curriculum in counseling at Cypress College in Los Angeles and an advanced management program in not-for-profit financial management at California State University, Fullerton.

Today he most enjoys editing good writing, designing book interiors, and assembling and directing creative teams that take books from concept to cash register.