Ernie J. Zelinski is an international best-selling author, innovator, life-coach, unconventional career expert, and creativity consultant.

Ernie's many life-changing books have helped hundreds of thousands of individuals from all walks of life in their career transitions and in achieving a better work/life balance.

Ernie is the author of the two international bestsellers How to Retire Happy, Wild, and Free  (over 125,000 copies sold and published in 9 languages) and The Joy of Not Working (over 250,000 copies sold and published in 17 languages).

Ernie has negotiated over 105 book deals with publishers in 28 countries for his various creative works — which have now sold over 650,000 copies.

Ernie speaks on the topics of retirement planning, entrepreneurship, internet marketing, and creativity.

The Turkish National Society for Quality recently flew Ernie first class to Istanbul to have Ernie speak about The Joy of Not Working to 2,000 executives and scholars attending its 17th annual convention. 

Ernie managed to leverage getting fired from his engineering position over 25 years ago into a rewarding and lucrative career, earning a great living without a real job, showing others how to do so as well.

Ernie's latest work is the unconventional Career Success Without a Real Job: The Career Book for People Too Smart to Work in Corporations. Another recent work is 101 Really Important Things You Already Know, But Keep Forgetting.

He is presently transforming his The 777 Best Things Ever Said about Money (Japanese rights sold) and Life's Secret Handbook for Having Great Friends (French and Spanish rights sold) into Creative Downloadable Free E-Books to be used as viral marketing tools for his other successful books.  

Ernie Zelinski has books published by the following publishers:

• Ten Speed Press (Berkeley, California)
• Thomas Moore Publishing (Allen, Texas)
• Stanké International (Montreal/Paris)
• Amat Editorial (Barcelona, Spain)
• Gestión 2000 (Barcelona, Spain)
• Ediciones B., S.A. (Barcelona, Spain)
• Oniro in Barcelona (Barcelona, Spain)
• Editorial Armenia (Milan, Italy)
• Editorial Presença (Lisbon, Portugal)
• Group Eyrolles (Paris, France)
• Mirananda (The Hague, The Netherlands)
• Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag (Munich, Germany)
• Kedros Publishing (Athens, Greece)
• Kustannusosakeyhtiö Nemo (Helsinki, Finland)
• PPM Publishing (Jakarta, Indonesia)
• Boyner (Istanbul, Turkey)
• Think Tank Publishing (Taipei, Taiwan)
• CITIC Publishing House (Beijing, China)
• Yuan-Liou Publishing (Taipei, Taiwan)
• Voice Incorporated (Tokyo, Japan)
• Open Knowledge Corporation (Tokyo, Japan)
• Mulpure Publishing (Seoul, South Korea)
• Diamond Inc (Tokyo, Japan
• Like a Wildflower Publishing (Seoul, South Korea)
• Joong Ang Daily News (Seoul, South Korea)
• Gayatri/Livebook Publishing (Moscow, Russia)
• Prime-Evroznak (St. Petersburg, Russia)
• Wydawnictwo MUDRA (Krzeszowice, Poland)
• Portal (Prague, Czech Republic)
• Editora Sextante (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)

Visit one of Ernie Zelinski's Blogs:

Retirement Living Made Easy Blog

The Real Success Resource Center Blog

1. The Retirement Quotes Cafe
2.  Ernie Zelinski on Twitter
3. Ernie Zelinski on Linked-In 
4. Ernie Zelinski - Expert on Self-Growth
5. Retirement Jobs