Tamim Ansary and Joe Quirk, operating as Storytellers Ink, offer a comprehensive writing-editing service for those who have a story to tell and need help telling it in writing.  Contact us through this website or by writin gto joequirk@gmail.com and tell us about your project.  We charge $50 an hour and offer a one-hour free initial consultation. 

Tamim Ansary is the author of 

• Destiny Disrupted, A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes, a popular world history (Public Affairs, 2009)
• West of Kabul, East of New York, a literary memoir of his own bicultural life (Farrar, Strauss & Giroux, 2002)
• The Other Side of the Sky, with Farah Ahmadi, a memoir of her life as a Afghan refugee in America (Simon and Schuster, 2004)
• The Widow’s Husband, historical novel, coming 2009 from Vox Novus.
• Five series of nonfiction childrens’ books on various subjects.

 Joe Quirk is the author of

• Exult, literary fiction (Vox Novus, 2009)
• Call To The Rescue: The Story of the Marine Mammal Center (Chronicle Books, 2009)
• It’s Not You. It’s Biology: The Science of Love, Sex & Relationships (Perseus Press 2008). Nonfiction, national bestseller in paperback, translated into 17 languages, available in 20 countries.
• The Ultimate Rush (St. Martins Press, 1999). Novel. National bestseller in hardback. 250,000 paperbacks printed. Film option renewed by Warner Brothers.

Ansary has worked as an editor at the publishing firm Harcourt Brace Jovanovich(1980-1989),  as associate editor of The Asian Student, a biweekly journal about Asian politics and culture published by The Asia Foundation (1976-1978), and as an editor and writer at The Portland Scribe, a weekly community newspaper (1973-1976). His wide-ranging monthly column appeared at www.encarta.com from 1998-2009.

Quirk has written web-content, video scripts and screenplays, publicity copy, and humorous animated presentations, and has ghost written a science fiction novel, a political memoir, and other works.

 

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