Welcome to StoryFocus Communications.

Below you can find information about:

-- Alan Fox,
-- His two books,
-- And his work as a professional business writer and communications director.

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ALAN FOX is a writer and a recognized public relations expert with 15+ years of experience in using story-driven PR programs to help build businesses and brands. He has worked with a high number of the world’s best-known brands, and with many leading companies to promote a wide range of specialized brands.

Over the course of his long public relations career, he has also developed a sub-specialty by helping dozens of business authors to promote themselves and their books as branded products. He is himself the author of two novels and relates well to the challenges of industry experts and business spokespeople in promoting a product or a brand concept.

Fox has been featured as an expert source on the business uses of storytelling by “The Chicago Tribune”/Tribune Media Services, “Entrepreneur Magazine,” “Chief Learning Officer Magazine” and other leading print media. He has also appeared on numerous radio stations across the country to discuss effective presentation techniques and the high art, craft, and principles of great showmanship.

His fiction writing has garnered enthusiastic reviews across numerous publications and online outlets including: BlogCritics.org, “The Electric Review,” “Midwest Book Review,” “Roundtable Reviews,” “Slug Magazine” and others.

Alan Fox’s career clients (in alphabetical order) have included: Alpo Dog Foods; American Oceans Campaign; Anguilla Tourist Board; Bender Helper Impact; Bragman, Nyman, Cafarelli; CBS Consumer Products; Coca-Cola; DreamWorks Home Video; DVD Entertainment Group; Friskies Cat Foods; HarperCollins; Harvard Business Review Press; Hilton Hotels; Interactive Digital Software Association; James Beard Foundation Awards; JWT (J. Walter Thompson); Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts; M. Young Communications; MAP (Management Action Programs); Medialink Worldwide; McGraw-Hill; MPRM Public Relations; Nestle USA; Penguin Group; Philips Electronics; Portfolio Marketing Group; Porter Novelli; Red Cross; RL Public Relations; South African Tourism; Starbucks; Telair International; TIME Magazine; Twentieth Century Fox; Universal Studios; Warner Bros.; Wiley/Jossey-Bass; The World Cup; and others.

Author Alan Fox writes love stories about people looking for a sense of awe and wonder in a brutal world.

They are stories about people looking for opposites to common thinking. Opposites to common existence. Opposites to the normal.

These are stories about people who want to see angles and connections that others are not seeing. They want to fit ideas together in ways that bring new attitudes and new dreams into the world. They want to create new life.

And in this way, to make a strange, brutal world into a beautiful place.

Fox is the author of two novels: "The Seeker in Forever" and "The Girl Made of Cool."

The Seeker in Forever (Revised Second Edition)
By Alan Fox
Fiction | Literature
ISBN-13: 978-0-9762276-1-8 | $18.95 US
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The Seeker in Forever tells the story of two young people who must face a war craze in America, and they fight back by trying to start a love wave.

Set in a color-splashed dreamscape, the book tells the story of a young man and woman who come into the world filled with ‘the right thing.’ With wanting to do the right thing. And the two young lovers bring a talent for finding happiness in a troubled, brutal world.

Immediately, they come up against a major villain -- a political goliath who is leading a crowd of people to power in America by promoting a war craze. He’s running a big show; he’s charming; he’s convincing; and everybody has to go along with his program.

Now this army of people tries to force the young man and woman to go along with the war madness. But they fight back -- by finding a new vision for where the country should go.

They set out to start a love wave across the national scene. A peace, love and wonder wave.

And they’re going to start by teaching the political giant at the top -- the most warlike man in the country -- about the true nature of love.

“The Seeker in Forever” tells the story of two young people who tear a hole in space and hurl the world into a mindbender. Into a psychedelic, offbeat, rhythmic, color-splashed journey of love. ... If this isn't jazz, it'll have to do until the real thing comes along. ... The story will fill you with wild feeling and leave you burning with modern cool.

The Girl Made of Cool (First Edition)
By Alan Fox
Fiction | Literature
ISBN-13: 978-0-9762276-2-5 | $18.95 US
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The Girl Made of Cool (First Edition) is a story collection, featuring two new novels and a short story by Alan Fox.

In the centerpiece novel, "The Girl Made of Cool," Fox tells the story of a young man and woman who are falling in love with each other, but the young lady doesn’t know it. She thinks that she’s falling in love with the young man’s far more handsome, more perfect friend.

The story becomes about the battle between the two men to win her heart. And about how each of the three people has a hidden talent that emerges as they struggle.

The young lady is a mystery beauty. ... And a hidden ‘her’ begins to emerge that is far more lovely and charismatic than either man imagined. She becomes a lady made of love, and elusive cool.

This collection also includes:

The novel "Hell Has Blue Skies," a love story about a young college graduate named Jack Flynn who enters the business world and discovers that it’s filled with crazy people -- with all kinds of confidence artists playing elaborate games with each other. And as the young man deals with one con-game after another, he slowly reveals that he’s actually something special: a quiet, beautiful, brilliant systems thinker with an amazing head for business. The story follows his journey toward enlightenment and love in the business world.

Finally, this collection is made complete with “The Lovely Lady at the Love Museum” -- a short story about an anthropologist and a businesswoman who take on a real-estate tycoon in New York City to save the life of a beautiful ‘love museum.’

Praise for "The Seeker in Forever"

"Highly recommended . . . to be given high praise for an originality and cleverness that is as entertaining as it is thought-provoking."
— Small Press Bookwatch, Midwest Book Review

"A mind-bending world . . . This flight through the imagination requires a full and complete appreciation for the raw, elemental beauty of the human experience."
— Miranda Orso, The Electric Review

"This book will take you on a wild ride . . . A definite read for anyone looking for a rare adventure of violence, insanity, and power struggles."
— Adreann Stephens, SLUG Magazine

"The reader should be forewarned that this is not your mother's political satire, but instead a whole new animal altogether. . . . Prepare yourself for a bit of joyride the open-minded will undertake with gusto."
— Sylvia Cochran, Roundtable Reviews

Praise for "The Girl Made of Cool"

"Excellent — original and creative."
— John Aiello, Editor/Reviewer, "The Electric Review"

"I really enjoyed the book. It is my kind of love story. ... Five stars. It has been months since I read such a love story. ... Enthralling ... wonderful and deep ... and what a great ending. ... ‘The Girl Made of Cool’ is an unconventional and refreshing read. The characters are fascinating and their personalities evolve all throughout the book."
— Patricia Ortin, Blogger/Reviewer, "Peace, Love and Reviews" | Anaheim, CALIFORNIA

"A refreshingly delightful book ... humorous and entertaining."
— Brandé Waldron, Blogger, "Book Junkie" | Medford, MASSACHUSETTS

"Alan Fox's second novel is an intelligent, thought-provoking love story. . . . The titular ‘The Girl Made of Cool’ — the book consists of Alan Fox' second novel and two stories — is a subtle, harsh, intelligent story of a love triangle between three friends. . . . Fox shows us exactly why he is regarded as an expert in the field of storytelling. The Girl Made of Cool is far from your average love story. Instead it highlights the two very different interpretations of love that [the antagonist and the hero] Chet and Ridley embody, and through [the hero] Ridley gives it an almost ethereal atmosphere, and even shows where love belongs in our universe."
— Catherine Tuckwell, Reviewer/Journalist, “BlogCritics.org” | Sunderland, UNITED KINGDOM

"The Girl Made of Cool is really good. ... A wonderful book of love with three great love stories."
— Sherrie Plummer, Blogger, “Just Books” | Gas City, INDIANA

"I thoroughly enjoyed ‘The Girl Made of Cool.’ . . . These are three great stories. . . . ‘The Girl Made of Cool" seemed more to me to be a social commentary on relationships and the different ways there are of approaching them than anything else, and by setting up the setting in such away, it allowed Alan Fox more freedom to work with what he was trying to say and to use his beautiful style for the things that actually mattered in the book. . . . . [The hero and antogonist] Ridley and Chet, roommates, are two very different people, both in love with the same girl. It was incredibly interesting watching how these two totally different personalities approached the same situation. . . . ‘The Girl Made of Cool’ was a great story, but it was not the only story in the book. If you have ever been duped by a charming guy or worked in the crazy business world, give this book a try!"
— Audrey Baker, Blogger/American-Traveling-Abroad | JAPAN

"The Girl Made of Cool is a quirky read. ... A very funny account."
— Michelle Greathouse, Blogger, “Michelle’s Book Blog” | Milner, GEORGIA

"This book was refreshingly cool. ... I wished it didn't have to end."
— Cindy Chan, Blogger, “I Love Book Gossip” | Brooklyn, NEW YORK

For Further Information Contact:

Alan Fox
Principal / Director
StoryFocus Communications
New York City
Tel: (718) 775-5540
Email : storyfocus at gmail dot com