Authors
How real authors used their books to create leverage, clarity, and lasting impact
These are not influencer stories or overnight success narratives.
They’re professionals who used a serious book to do serious work.
How to Read These Stories
Every author comes to Manuscripts with different goals, fears, and constraints. This page is designed to help you find stories that feel familiar, not aspirational. Filter by what matters to you, and see how others navigated the process.
While the majority of authors we work with are publishing thought leadership nonfiction, we also support select memoir and fiction projects where editorial depth, originality, and long-term intent are central to the work.
Madeline Pasimio is a practicing dentist in the San Francisco Bay Area and the author of Contrary to Conception — a deep dive into the history, science, and lived experiences behind birth control.
Michael Biarnes works at the forefront of healthcare strategy, focused on improving patient outcomes and advancing meaningful innovation.
But beyond healthcare, he’s become known for something deeper:
Helping people redefine success.
Carlo Mahfouz operates at the frontier of AI and human potential.
As VP of Strategic Technology Partnerships at Laerdal Medical, he works at the intersection of:
• Advanced technology
• Healthcare transformation
• Leadership ecosystems
• Human-centered innovation
Yogesh K. Soni is an AI-native product leader who has launched and scaled multiple 0→1 deep tech products across B2B and B2C markets.
Steve Tang is a CEO and leadership speaker who came to authorship through lived responsibility, not aspiration. During the COVID pandemic, he found himself navigating high-stakes decisions, cultural strain, and leadership ambiguity with no existing playbook.
Dr. Miriam “Dr. Z” Zylberglait Lisigurski is a physician and wellbeing expert who has spent her career inside the systems that reward endurance, perfection, and self-sacrifice. Like many physicians, she was trained to prioritize competence over connection and performance over presence.
Clinical psychologist, trauma expert, educator, and speaker with decades of experience working across counseling, forensic psychology, and higher education, who had accumulated immense insight but lacked a structured way to transmit it at scale.
Physician and nonprofit leader carrying a deeply personal story that required care, structure, and emotional safety to translate into a finished memoir rather than remaining an unwritten burden.
