About Speak Easy Bookshelf

Who we are

Speak Easy Bookshelf is an independent publisher of one series: Speak Easy, a set of communication-skills books built around the same twelve core skills and rewritten from scratch for four different audiences — Kids (6–12), Teen (13–17), Adults (18+), and Pro, a professional edition for the workplace.

We are not an imprint of a larger publishing house. The books are published independently and sold through Amazon, in Kindle and paperback. There is no editorial board, no advance, no agent attached — just a publisher standing behind four books and answering its own email.

Why the author is anonymous

None of the four editions carries an author's name. That's deliberate, not an oversight. No guru, no personal brand, no face on the back cover claiming authority by reputation.

With no name to lean on, every claim in the book has to carry itself. That's the whole reason the research is named directly in the text rather than buried in an endnote, and it's why the source list in the back of each book (where one exists — see below) is built so a reader can check the claim rather than trust the author.

The publisher, Speak Easy Bookshelf, answers all correspondence about the books. See contact below.

How each edition is researched

The four editions are not researched to the same depth, on purpose — a citation-heavy appendix serves a working professional and would be the wrong thing to hand a seven-year-old. Here's exactly what each edition includes, not a blanket claim about all four:

Adults and Pro both name the research directly in the text (author and year, not a bare footnote number), and Adults' Science References appendix specifically corrects the most commonly misquoted statistic in communication research — the "93% of communication is nonverbal" claim wrongly attributed to Albert Mehrabian, whose actual study said something narrower and more specific.

Review copies & press

If you're a reviewer, educator, or journalist and want a copy to evaluate, email us at speakeasybookshelf@gmail.com with which edition and where the review or coverage would run. We don't have a formal reviewer program running yet, so requests are handled individually rather than through an automated system — expect a real reply from a real person, not necessarily a fast one.

If you've already read a book and want to leave a review as a reader rather than request a copy, that's a different, much simpler door: leave a review here.

Questions and contact

For anything about the books, the app, or this website — including a factual error you've spotted — email speakeasybookshelf@gmail.com. We also read Instagram @speakeasybookshelf, but email is the reliable way to reach us.