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Author Rebecca Black with her children's book, Save the Jellywonkers!

Author Rebecca Black 

Rebecca Black is most recognized as the co-owner, consultant, trainer, and creative lead of Etiquette Now! with clients from around the world. For over two decades, she created unique classes, lesson plans, and books, as well as written articles and answered etiquette questions for her, now retired, websites, blogs, and for others--most notably Yahoo. 

Rebecca - also known as the Polite One - began her career as a California credentialed teacher but found that the classroom environment limited her creativity. Thus, she retired early to find her calling in helping others through her etiquette training. 

Through these many years as a successful etiquette consultant and writer, she often yearned to spend more time focused on writing.  In 2014, she took the plunge, accepted fewer clients, and spent most of her 10-hour days tapping the keys of her faithful companion, her computer.  Those long days yielded over 50 etiquette books and lesson plans, all of which are available on Amazon.

However, as much as Rebecca loves helping others through teaching and writing etiquette books, it isn't her first love--well besides her loving husband Walker.  She loves writing fiction.  Surprise!  Yep, all these years of writing etiquette-related prose, she kept files of stories to finish at another time.  Well, that time has come.

Rebecca recently published three fully illustrated children's and three young adult fiction books. Check out all of her books and lesson plans!  

Contact Information & Websites

politetraveler@outlook.com

Former Websites

Etiquette Now!       The Polite One    

Blogs


Got Etiquette Advice      Got Wedding Etiquette      


Please also visit Rebecca's Amazon Author page.

Print Media Interviews with Rebecca

The LA Times..........The Toronto Sun

The Miami Herald..........The Pittsburg Tribune

The Boston Globe..........Life and Style

Sacramento Business Journal..........Associated Press

Sacramento Magazine..........New York Times

Comstock Magazine..........SierraStyle Magazine

Media Interviews

CBS 13...........My58

Sac & Co. (ABC)...........KCRA (NBC)

ABC News..........KFBK (radio)

CW Network...........The Today Show (NBC)

Fox 40

To watch a sample of her televised interviews, please visit our YouTube Profile.

Previous Clients

Noah's Bagels.......... California Milk Advisory Board

McGeorge School of Law..........Turner Construction

Granite Bay Golf Club.......... Sierra Cad/Cam, Inc.

The Sutter Club.......... Nehemiah Emerging Leaders Program

City of Roseville.......... California Association of Hospitals & Health Systems

Infinity Air Inc.......... Pacific Coast Companies, Inc.

Grant Bennett Accountants.......... Sandia National Laboratories

Multiple Sclerosis Society.......... Granite Bay Golf Club

The City of Davis.......... The Sutter Club

Northern California Golf Association.......... Kaiser Permanente

CA State University, Chico

School of Business

University of California, Davis

Graduate School of Management

STEP-UP Leadership Series

Center for Engineering Professionalism

Student Leadership Workshop Series

Greek Societies

Delta Sigma Pi

Chi Omega

Phi Alpha Delta

Kappa Alpha Theta

Feather River College, Quincy, CA

Student Support Services

University of the Pacific

McGeorge School of Law, Sacramento

Greek Societies

Alpha Phi, Stockton

Dine College, Arizona

Student Services, Title III


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