SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 18, 2005 — A few weeks ago she was being rescued on a rowboat in New Orleans from Hurricane Katrina’s wrath. Today, she’s in San Francisco starting a global business. How did she do it? Like many other people, Sara Lu decided to wait out the storm at home. She had lived in New Orleans for fifteen years. This was not her first hurricane and she thought it would be like so many others that came before it. She thought it would be a brief interruption from her normal routine. “Of course, we were mistaken,” says Sara. “By the time we realized this the water had come half way up the stairs of the second floor of my home.” It didn’t take long for her to realize the danger she was in with her family. “My friends used a rowboat to rescue us. The few things I took with me included my laptop and a few books. We were among the thousands of initial evacuees who went to Houston. After a few days I decided it would be best to take my children someplace else. We had relatives in San Francisco, so here we are.” One book Sara took from her flooding home was Stop Working by Rohan Hall (ISBN 0972918736, Eye Contact Media). Stop Working teaches everyday Americans and entrepreneurs how to build successful global businesses. It makes the case that the smallest disruption in most people’s lives could create financial ruin and that the only true financial security is to own and control your own business. The book teaches how to use the convergence of the global market and technology to become financially independent. “The words of the book rang true for me.” She now has no home to go back to, no job and a questionable future. Sara started turning around the tragedy of Katrina by contacting various book publishers. She offers her services as a Literary Agent to introduce American books to the Chinese market – a growing $7.3 trillion market highlighted by the book. “I am originally from China, and books are like oxygen to me, so the idea of starting a global literary business is like a dream, my American dream. I have a lot of literary contacts in China and would like to introduce books like Stop Working to the Chinese people. I believe everyone benefits from this,” says Sara. Last week Sara was awarded a long-term contract with Eye Contact Media to represent them in China as their literary agent to the 1.3 billion people Chinese market. “These books will be hot sellers in the Chinese urban population,” says Sara. “I already have Chinese publishers who are very excited about having these books.” “I’ve discovered a secret,” says Sara. “A fulfilled life must be one that combines passion and action. I am more passionate about my life today than I have ever been.”
CONTACT:Sylvie HallEye Contact Media, Inc.Tel: (775) 354-0197Fax: (775) 201-7823sylvie@eyecontactmedia.comhttp://www.eyecontactmedia.com