"Dr. Keith Barton successfully combines professionalism with common sense advice.  His coaching knowledge and style has enabled me to improve my literary creativity as well as my writing techniques.  With his help and expertise, I have two manuscripts under review by publishers, and an agent who is interested in a novel. I highly recommend Dr. Barton as a writing coach for those who wish to be competitive in Draconian industry."

Randy A. Birken, M.D.

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"Keith Barton gave me the encouragement to tackle a task I thought was impossible, a task that I thought I lacked the skills to complete. But encouraging me to start and then let the events flow enabled me to record the excitement and emotion of a period in my family's history that would otherwise never have been put to paper.

As the last surviving member of a family whose past is buried in the mining and rough-and-tumble early years of Joplin, Missouri, only I had the oral history that would save the story for grandchildren and great grandchildren. It wasn't a spectacular story, but one that involved events in the lives of every day people, but it was something I knew and wanted to share. Keith encouraged me in my plans to fill in the gaps of absolute knowledge with my imagination, and thereby create a story that, hopefully, carried the historical realities of my family and their relationships.

His coaching made it happen and I will be grateful forever."

John T. Leslie