About the Author
A native of Colorado, John B. Michaels, born John M. Bartosh, graduated from
Golden High School in Golden, Colorado in 1965. Then he attended Mesa Junior
College in Grand Junction and received an Associates Degree before he
transferred to Colorado State University in Fort Collins. John later completed
his schooling at Metro State College in Denver, where he received a B.A. Degree
in Psychology in 1971. With respect to more than his formal education, John
said, “More important, as so many others who have made their fair share of
mistakes in life, I also graduated with honors from the ‘school of hard
knocks.’”
John’s business background includes twenty-eight years of retail furniture sales and management. Along the way, he worked as a store manager and management-training manager for Furniture Row Companies, one of America’s largest privately owned furniture companies. John has authored and successfully marketed two self-published books on the subject of business leadership: The Heart of Management and Practicing Dynamic Leadership in the Workplace.
At the ripe age of sixty-three, John has learned that the most effective way to teach various aspects of self-improvement is to employ subtle, self-instructing, motivational techniques. And the author added, “The elements of tact and humor in conjunction with the practice of basic or reverse psychology are also important. I tried to combine all of these factors in writing this book.”
John said, “I wasn’t born with a natural gift to write, particularly fiction. When I first started to put my pen to paper in writing this book, eye strugguld wit bowth tha basik elemunts an tha fein pointz a wel grammir. Or perhaps that should be—I struggled with both the basic elements and the fine points of good grammar. Anyway, I was saved, for the most part, when I purchased a handy little book titled The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Grammar and Style, written by Laurie E. Rozakis, Ph.D.
“For some unknown, idiotic reason, and as compared with The Chicago Manual of Style or Kate Terabian’s A Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses, and Dissertations, I easily understood Rozakis’s rights and wrongs of sentence structure, word usage, spelling, punctuation, etc. For that valuable reference book, whether it was written for literary scholars or for ‘idiots,’ I am eternally grateful. Now, I hope that you will enjoy reading Laughing Your Way Out of the Doghouse as much as I enjoyed writing and editing it.”
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