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The word ‘Everyday’ in this book’s title points to a critical but under-recognized feature of highly effective negotiation, its inclusiveness. It isn’t limited to any one set of situations, topics, masters or, tellingly, to any one gender. With the research-based information and instruction engagingly offered within its pages, we can all up our game significantly.

Robert Cialdini, Author of INFLUENCE and PRE-SUASION

The Covert Buccaneer is two stories in one. An important book that bridges generations, reclaiming women’s space and Indigenous voices in community and cultural memory.

Christine Pelosi, DNC Executive Committee, Candidate for California State Senate

For the Forces of Good is a fantastic book for anyone who wants to supercharge their negotiation powers. It is highly readable, thoughtful, personal, and full of useful ideas and tips to improve to your everyday negotiation skills. Lucia’s energy, smarts, and passion for negotiation sparkled and inspired me throughout the entire book.

Grande Lum, Obama Administration Director, DOJ’s Community Relations Service; author of The Negotiation Fieldbook

Riveting testament to women’s courage and legacy throughout history. The Covert Buccaneer stands as a powerful testament to women who make history and refuse to be written out of it, urging readers to recognize that the past is not static, but something we must continuously confront and renew. 
 
Publishers Weekly, Booklife (Editor’s Pick)

The interlinked tales of two women who walk their own paths across two timeframes, The Covert Buccaneer amounts to an epic intergenerational novel.

LoveReading (Book of the Month)

Once you hit chapter 15, there is truly no turning back. This is a work of careful and loving architecture, of fundamental skills, intellect, and storytelling. You wouldn’t think a topic like this could be so moving. Lucia understands human complexity, and how to connect. It’s a book to return to time and time again. 
 
Florence Bienvenu, Attorney, Chief of Staff, United Nations Women, San Francisco

Thoughtful without ever losing its breezy pacing… The Covert Buccaneer will please readers of both contemporary and historical fiction. A sprawling, engaging saga of two women making their ways through tumultuous American eras.

KIRKUS REVIEWS

Truly a Force for Good, Lucia has produced a critical missing link in the marketplace of negotiation literature. Inspiring and transformative, while certainly a work of skills building, it has a soul – and potential to generate not just better everyday negotiators, but more thoughtful participants in society at large. The time is overripe for more offerings like this that equalize the negotiating table, and make it fun and interesting in the process.
 
Kwame Christian, Founder, American Negotiation Institute and host of the #1 negotiation podcast “Negotiate Anything”
An amazing, refreshing and practical take on Negotiation! Very well written by an expert in her field with a strong handle on the pschology of influence, For the Forces of Good is easy to read with huge everyday take aways. This book should be read by everyone “new” as well as seasoned to negotiation.
 
Mikkel Gudsoe, ICC, Paris, Judge and Mediator; Danish Fashion Industry Chief Negotiator; Professor, Aarhus University