FastPencil PREMIERE Launches New Book "Conversations with Wall Street"

CAMPBELL, Calif., Nov. 8, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Today FastPencil announced the launch of "Conversations with Wall Street: The Inside Story of the Financial Armageddon & How to Prevent the Next One" by Wall Street executives Peter Ressler and Monika Mitchell. The book offers a never-before-heard account of some of the most dramatic economic events in U.S. history and carries the highly selective FastPencil PREMIERE imprint reserved for highly successful, best-selling authors and experts.

"Conversations with Wall Street" documents the moving human drama unfolding behind the scenes from the key players at every major firm in the mortgage securities industry. In this book, Ressler and Mitchell break down why the market model does not work and how the U.S. can fix it with confidential market information that only those on the inside know. Now everyone will know – from Wall Street to Main Street – what really went wrong in the financial Armageddon and how the U.S. can rebuild its broken system.

"People across America and the world have been hurt by the U.S. financial crisis. The Occupy Wall Street headlines and international protests are proving that people want answers; they want real solutions," said co-authors Ressler and Mitchell. "'Conversations with Wall Street' is a call to action for America and the world."

Alan Webber, co-founder of Fast Company, wrote in the book's foreword: "Read this book; underline it, then sit down with your friends and neighbors to talk about it. Let's start a conversation with America to put America back together again from Wall Street to Main Street."

"Conversations with Wall Street" takes a rare behind-the-scenes look at how Wall Street makes money and answers the questions millions of people affected by the financial crisis are asking from Occupy Wall Street encampments to the hard hit communities across countries. The book is loaded with confidential, honest conversations that demystify the system by revealing, in candid easy-to-understand language, how and why the current economy is broken and what the American public, the financial industry and lawmakers can do about it.

The book is the first of its kind to offer solutions through a unique and ground-breaking platform outlined in the book's "Social Contract for the Financial Industry" for how to fix the market model from the traders, salesmen and bankers who drove the industry - the very people who brought the markets down. They candidly explain what they did and why they did it, and how they would do it differently going forward.

Ressler is the CEO of Wall Street executive search firm RMG Search serving the institutional debt markets. He is an expert on Wall Street human capital with 30 years experience as a talent broker for the top investment banks and hedge funds - including Goldman Sachs, Lehman Brothers, Bear Stearns, Merrill Lynch, Bank of America and more. Ressler is also an internationally known speaker on business ethics and value-based leadership in finance.

Mitchell is a renowned leader in the Responsible Profits and CSR movement. She is CEO of Good-b (Good Business Int'l) in New York, a dynamic new media company leading the charge for socially responsible and sustainable business and named by the Washington Post Leadership Playlist as "Standout Company of the Year." She currently blogs on socially responsible business and 21^st century finance for the Huffington Post.

"'Conversations with Wall Street' is a compelling book that explains exactly how the Wall Street machine operates, making it simple for anyone to understand how the economy works and providing practical solutions for the future," said Steve Wilson, CEO and co-founder of FastPencil. "Peter and Monika approached FastPencil because of our speed to press and simple publishing process, and we've been able to get this book out right in the middle of this global social movement."

Ressler and Mitchell are part of a growing number of best-selling authors signing with FastPencil PREMIERE for its proprietary partnerships in technology and distribution, speed to press, wider market reach, higher author royalties and greater transparency throughout the publishing process.

Pricing and Availability

"Conversations with Wall Street" is available today in paperback for $14.95 and digital versions for $7.99 through the FastPencil PREMIERE Marketplace, http://premiere.fastpencil.com/conversations-with-wall-street, and major e-retailers including Barnes and Noble and Amazon.

About FastPencil

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