Terry Sacks is an independent writer-editor with more than twenty-five years of experience in communications. During that period he has written dozens of news stories, magazine articles, and speeches, as well as several books. For the past fourteen years, Sacks has headed his own writing and communications firm, Terence J. Sacks Associates. He is active in the Independent Writers of Chicago (where he has also served on the board), the American Medical Writers Association, and the Publicity Club of Chicago.