Francine Brevetti | Founder | Legend Crafter

About the Founder

Francine Brevetti ghostwrites nonfiction books, either books about business for entrepreneurs and executives or memoirs. She also coaches clients who want to write a book themselves but need support.  

A native of San Francisco, she is a longtime journalist who started her writing career in the late 1970s with America's oldest daily, The Journal of Commerce. Then she moved to Hong Kong where she freelanced for almost 13 years as a business writer, intent on witnessing the reversal of sovereignty to the People's Republic of China in July 1997. From 1985 to 1997 she contributed to American, British, Australian and Asian English-language dailies, magazines and trade journals, mostly on matters of finance, foreign trade and travel.

During that time she wrote a guidebook to China and traveled often to the mainland and throughout Southeast Asia.

In 1997, she returned to San Francisco where she still lives. She secured a commission to write the history of America's oldest Italian restaurant, Fior d'Italia. The book "The Fabulous Fior -- over 100 Years in an Italian Kitchen" sold well and is now out of print. A second edition with three extra chapters is available on an e-book, Kindle or Nook

She worked as a business reporter for the Oakland Tribune from 1998 to 2008. She has been helping clients write their nonfiction books since she left the Tribune

About the Company

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Services Offered

Nonfiction writing, books, websites, promotional materials. I specialize in business writing, personal or family stories, art or philosophy. I excel at business profiles. I also offer book coaching and copywriting.

Clients

I work with individuals or corporations. If they desire to write a book, they must feel motivated to write a book to completion.

Testimonials

- Francine has been a God-send in helping put together my book. She's indefatigable in helping organize, clarify and express ideas in a way that's reader friendly and flows naturally. Her patience, kindness and hard work have helped push the project along to completion in a timely manner. Highly recommended.

- Francine has been a friend and associate for almost twenty years. After an extensive search for the right person to document the history of Fior d’ Italia we chose Francine. She shined. Francine is not only a great writer but she was extremely diligent in her research for the book. While working on “The Fabulous Fior” Francine helped us in other areas. She assisted us in our marketing, promotion and newsletter. Her ability to clearly communicate was very valuable to us.

Based on our experience with Francine and having observed her working with others I can highly recommend Francine. Her dedication to a project, diligent research and ability to write in a way that makes what could be a dry subject come to life and make it very interesting to the reader makes Francine very valuable and unique. Francine, in my opinion, is a professional’s professional.

Sincerely,
Bob Larive
Owner Fior d’ Italia (1990-2012)