As a medical writer and the former Editor-in-Chief of Living Well Today, Tampa-based author Debra Fulghum Bruce, PhD, has written more health books than any writer this past decade. Deb's innovative and persuasive book proposals have won her contracts with such prestigious houses as HarperCollins, ReganBooks, Rodale, Dell, Bantam, Ballantine, Macmillan USA, Simon & Schuster, Dutton, Avon, Henry Holt, Harmony (Random House), Berkley, W. W. Norton, John Wiley, and Kensington.

As a member of the Author's Guild and the American Medical Writers Association, Deb has published more than 2,500 feature articles on myriad health topics in such magazines as Woman's Day, Prevention, Vibrant Life, and Success. As a regular contributor for MightyWords.com (eMatter) with her own collection page, Debra Fulghum Bruce Health Collections, Deb's MightyWords ebooks have been best-selling items. Most recently, she completed extensive writing projects for Parenting.com (Time Warner), as well as a series of four Q&A childcare titles with Little/Brown in NY. Deb also wrote extensively for the new Reader's Digest Medical Breakthroughs (2001) on groundbreaking medical treatments for women.

Features and excerpts from her many books have recently appeared in popular mass-market magazines such as Esquire, Forbes, Baby Talk, Prevention, Walking, Cooking Light, Redbook, Martha Stewart's Living, Reader's Digest, Men's Health, McCall's, U.S. News and World Report, Redbook, Glamour, Vogue, Cosmopolitan, Shape's Cook, Woman's Day, Elan, USA Today, and Woman's World Weekly. Deb has done numerous radio and TV talk shows and interviews, including call-in shows. She and her many coauthors have appeared on CNN News, ABC News, CBS News, NBC News, and the Today Show, as well as radio and television talk shows. Her book I'd Kill for a Cookie was chosen by USA TODAY as one of the Top 10 Health Books in l997.