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"No Kill Date"

Venture Literary Sells Jon Gabriel’s Weight-Loss Book to Beyond Words/Simon & Schuster

On February 5, 2008, Greg Dinkin of Venture Literary sold World English rights (excluding Australia) to Jon Gabriel’s The Gabriel Method: The Revolutionary DIET FREE Way to Totally Transform Your Body to Beyond Words. The book will be published in December 2008 collaboratively with Simon & Schuster’s Atria imprint, the same combination that made The Secret a best-selling sensation. Translation rights are being handled by Whitney Lee, wlee@fieldingagency.com.

Gabriel, who went from 409 pounds to a sculpted 184 pounds without dieting, will share the story of his amazing transformation. He was supposed to be on United Flight 93 on September 11, 2001, for a meeting in San Francisco to sell his bond trading firm. A scheduling quirk made him miss the flight, and that’s when he realized that he had been given the gift of life yet had chosen instead to kill himself slowly with food.

After trying every imaginable diet, including hiring Dr. Atkins for $3,000, Gabriel came to the conclusion that it’s not just what we eat that affects the way we look and feel—it’s how our mind communicates with our body that changes our metabolic makeup. The Gabriel Method reveals why diets don’t work and explains a truly unique and revolutionary diet-free way to lose weight. It’s not a diet; it’s not even a program. It’s a concept and an approach. The concept is that as long as your body wants to be fat it will force you to be fat and when your body wants to be thin, it will force you to be thin. The approach is easy for anyone to incorporate and is sustainable for a lifetime.

When The Secret took the world by storm, it wasn’t the beginning of a trend. It’s more accurate to call it an awakening, in which people are finally beginning to understand the connection between mind and body. While The Secret explains the law of attraction, The Gabriel Method takes the same concept to offer a targeted solution to a specific problem. Even as Gabriel shares his amazing story, at its core, it is a prescriptive book with specific advice on how to lose weight using the mind-body connection.


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