Marilyn Lester has a wide range of experience across multiple disciplines, including journalism, market research, advertising, public relations and new media. She's also a theater and music reviewer as well as a playwright, scriptwriter, dialogue consultant, and dramaturg.

In the publishing world, Marilyn is the co-author of Rewrite Your Life (St. Martin’s 1998) and Graphotypes: A New Slant On Handwriting Analysis (Crown/Dell 1983), and has been an editor/co-writer for The Gamblers Anonymous Handbook, Leaders in Electronics, The Electronic Engineers'Handbook, The Purchasing Handbook, The World Book Yearbooks, Dr. John Diamond's Life Energy (Harper & Row) and Life Energy in Music.