My Books

Driver Performance Focused

Professional Driver Performance & Improvement

Earn the status of a QUALITY Driver

These books focus on operational discipline, professionalism, and the performance of quality drivers. Drivers who wish to perform at the top of their profession as quality drivers. Learn what it takes to set yourself apart from the rest of the pack.

The Professional Driver's Performance Playbook

THIS BOOK IS NOT ADVICE. IT IS A SYSTEM - The Professional Driver’s Performance Playbook provides you with a structured way to take control of your career using the same principles that define elite drivers.

The Professional Driver's Companion Workbook

A structured performance system designed to help drivers take control of their daily habits, decisions, and long-term career stability. Built to support The Professional Driver's Playbook, this workbook turns awareness into action through a simple, repeatable daily process.

Reshaping Driver Recruiting

In Driven to Excellence: Skills, Habits, and Strategies of a QUALITY Driver, veteran transportation professional Edward D. Smith draws on 28+ years of industry experience to reveal what it truly takes to rise above the average and build a long-lasting, successful career on the road.

Future Driver  Specific Books

Keep your eye out for future driver specific books to strengthen driver professionalism.

A New Take on Recruiting

Transportation Professional Development

Understanding Workforce Stability

These books focus on operational discipline, recruiting strategy, retention systems, and executive alignment within transportation and logistics.

Recruiting Reality Check

Recruiting Reality Check is not a hiring manual. It is not a tactical recruiting guide. It is an executive risk document designed for transportation leaders who want clarity before committing to more activity.

Workforce Stability

most fleets are operating without full visibility into the three numbers that are quietly controlling the entire business. Seat Gap Costs, Recruiting Costs, True Cost Per Mile. In Workforce Stability, transportation professional and workforce stability advisor Edward D. Smith reveals how these three connected numbers influence profitability, turnover, utilization, hiring pressure, and long-term company survival.

The Missing Key

The Missing Key reveals the truth you have been looking for. The fact of the matter is that success isn’t found in recruiting harder or blaming a specific department. It lies within the company's HARMONIZATION

Reshaping Driver Recruiting

Starting from scratch, learn how to select the best recruiters and what your recruiting department will need for success. Follow the processes for obtaining QUALITY candidates

Preserving the stories every family wishes they had

Legacy Journals

More than a journal, this is a guided legacy book designed to help fathers preserve the experiences, values, and life lessons that shaped who they became.

A Father's Story

Designed to help fathers preserve the experiences, values, and life lessons that shaped who they became. Through 624 thoughtfully crafted prompts across nine life stages, you'll be gently guided from childhood memories and family traditions to career, military service, marriage, parenthood, personal struggles, hard-earned wisdom, and the legacy you hope to leave behind.

A Mother's Story

Designed to help mothers preserve the experiences, values, and life lessons that shaped who they became. Through 639 thoughtfully crafted prompts across nine life stages, you'll be gently guided from childhood memories and family traditions to career, military service, marriage, motherhood, parenthood, personal struggles, hard-earned wisdom, and the legacy you hope to leave behind.

Deplopyment Reflections

A guided journal designed to help service members preserve the memories, stories, and lessons that often fade with time. Designed to serve as a lasting record of service, this journal is available in a durable hardcover for the long-term preservation of memories, photographs, and personal reflections.

A Veteran's Story

A complete guided military autobiography designed to help veterans preserve the stories, experiences, lessons, and legacy of a lifetime.

Through more than 1,500 carefully crafted prompts, you'll record everything from childhood memories and the decision to enlist to boot camp, military schools, deployments, leadership, friendships, promotions, family life, transition to civilian life, and the years that followed.

Planning the Day. Preserving the Beginning of Our Family.

NEW: Our Wedding Journey

Most wedding planners help you organize a single day.

This journal helps you preserve the beginning of an entire family.

Beautifully blending practical planning with meaningful reflection, Our Wedding Journey is more than a wedding organizer. It is a guided heirloom journal created for couples who want to remember not only the details of their wedding, but also the emotions, conversations, traditions, and milestones that made the journey unforgettable.

Inside you'll find:

Proposal memories, Engagement reflections, Wedding planning worksheets, Budgets and timelines, Guest lists and vendor organization, Bridal shower memories, Family traditions, Wedding vows, Toasts and speeches, Remembrance pages honoring loved ones, Honeymoon memories, First year of marriage reflections, Anniversary milestones, Letters to future children, Legacy pages for future generations

With more than 440 beautifully designed pages, this journal grows alongside your engagement, your wedding, your first year of marriage, and beyond.

Strength developed under pressure.

Resilience, Perspective & Longevity

Sharing life stories of adversities, both physical and mental, to help one another find strength within themselves. Along with journals to help share your memories and pass them down to future generations.

Finding Strength

Finding Strength isn't a book about cancer. It's a companion written by someone who walked the same road, created to help patients and families through every stage of the journey.

Different on Purpose

A support book for children and anyone who has faced bullying, and how to overcome negative feelings.

Different on Purpose Classroom Edition

Created this version specifically for teachers and educators for classes on equality and adversity.

My Journey Through Life

Designed for my wife, who writes in her journal every day, to someday pass along her life's story. Over 365 blank pages to use for an entire year.

Business & Travel

Useful Resources

A collection of books based on business services, and travel.

Driver Staffing

Drawing on more than 30 years of transportation experience across recruiting, operations, sales, workforce planning, and driver staffing, Smith provides transportation leaders with a practical guide to understanding when staffing works, when it doesn't, and how to avoid costly workforce mistakes.

St. Martin Sint Maarten Travel Guide

Island Overview, Vacation Planning, Transportation, Accommodations, Weather, Ocean Waters, Beaches, Wildlife/Insects, Navigating the Island, Communications, Energy/Power, Shopping, Banking, Excursions & Fun, Neighboring Islands, Water Activities. Bars & Restaurants, Nightlife, Holidays, Emergency, Health, & Safety, Social Media, Religious Services, and Traveling w/Pets.

Saint Martin / Sint Maarten Travel Guide 26'-27'

Be on the lookout. A whole new revised edition will be coming out soon in July 2026. 

Future Books

Place held for my next book.

Author: Ciersten Michelle

Luna and the River of Riddles

Luna and the River of Riddles is a heartwarming debut story about friendship, courage, teamwork, and believing in one another.

Perfect for:

  • Classroom read-alongs
  • Bedtime stories
  • Young animal lovers
  • Teachers looking for SEL lessons
  • Early readers, while developing confidence

Written and illustrated by elementary school teacher Ciersten Michelle, this imaginative story invites children to explore kindness, curiosity, and the magic of solving problems together.

"Perfect for classroom read-alongs and SEL discussions.”

 

A big "CONGRATULATIONS" goes out to Ciersten Michelle, who is a new author working with Pen2Paper. We are proud of what she accomplished in her first book.

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