Guest Profile: Robert S. Friedman

Robert S. Friedman, the founder of Rainbow Ridge Books, LLC, grew up in Portsmouth, Virginia, attended Woodrow Wilson High School and the University of Virginia, where he earned a B.A. in English. He has an M.F.A. in Writing from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, and two years graduate study at the University College of Swansea of the University of Wales.

He founded The Donning Company/ Publishers, in 1974, and was president and publisher until 1989. The company published a variety of books, including over 400 pictorial histories of counties, cities, and states. He started the first illustrated trade paperback line of science fiction and fantasy in 1978 (Starblaze Editions) with ten-time Hugo award winner, Kelly Freas. He published and marketed the first four-color graphic novel, the bestselling Elfquest series, and pioneered the first chain store distribution of the genre.

He and Frank DeMarco founded Hampton Roads Publishing Company in 1989, publishing over 800 books in eighteen years, including the trilogy of Conversations with God books by Neale Donald Walsch, all of which became New York Times bestselling books. He acquired bestselling books such as Lynn Grabhorn's Excuse Me, Your Life is Waiting, The Cosmic Ordering Service series, and Richard Bach’s Messiah’s Handbook and Hypnotizing Maria.

He is the co-author, with Eckhart Tolle, of a children’s book entitled Milton’s Secret: An Adventure of Discovery Through Then, When, and The Power of Now, now in film development with Hulo Films of Vancouver, Canada.

Retired from Hampton Roads in 2009, he has recently begun a new publishing venture called Rainbow Ridge Books, LLC, distributed by Square One Publishers in New York.

Website: www.iGodthe film.com

Robert S. Friedman's Shows:

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Feb 15, 2016

Founder of the AIM PROGRAM talks about concepts surrounding his work.

Co-Producer of iGod, the film, talks about the documentary and why they did it.

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