Libertayo is a multi-media company run by authors, editors, and producers Michael McKinley & Nancy Merritt Bell in Brooklyn, NY.
Books
An inspiring memoir that shows that anyone can achieve their dreams if they are willing to fight for them.
Nominated for the 2021 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Biography/Autobiography.
The true story of Herbert O. Yardley, a small-town college dropout who worked his way up through the US State Department to become the nation’s most infamous codebreaker—and who revealed all his secrets in a bestselling book.
Controversial hockey star Sean Avery’s no-holds-barred memoir of high living and bad behavior in the NHL—coupled with the behind-the-scenes glitter of celebrity and media nightlife in New York and LA.
This compelling account brings World War 1 intelligence stories together for the first time to reveal how codebreakers won the “Great War,” initiated the “Age of Information,” and launched the security state we live in today.
Finding Jesus, a companion to the CNN TV series, looks at six holy objects connected to Jesus, the most famous– and mysterious –man in history to see what they can tell us about his life, and his “after life”.
If every hockey player’s dream begins on a frozen pond, it reaches its pinnacle in a packed arena facing off against a bitter international rival. Could be the mighty Soviets. Could be the vainglorious Americans.
Crime novelist Nattie Broward’s dream of riches becomes a nightmare when he stumbles onto a human skull in the middle of the ruined golf course he wants to remake into pricy condos.
Nominated for the 2011 Arthur Ellis Award for Best First Crime Novel.
At first fans worried that television would ruin the game. Now Canadians can hardly imagine the game without the CBC broadcast. Hockey Night in Canada: 60 Seasons celebrates the moments, the personalities, and the innovations that have shaped our experience of the game.
Martin Carter has to solve a murder to save his life… The stakes are high for Carter, a former hockey star, as he becomes the main suspect in a murder and must race to clear his name.
Hockey: A People’s History, like the ten-part CBC TV series it accompanies, tells the story of this breathtakingly fast game from its hotly contested origins, and the surge in its popularity after 1875, when it was first taken inside, through the rise and fall and rise again of women’s hockey, the sagas of long-lost leagues, to the present day and the first-ever lockout of players by the one remaining league.
TV Reality Series
Created with Julia Amisano, Alice Barrett Mitchell & Julia Barrett Mitchell
TV Documentary
CNN, 2008
Winner of the Gracie Award for Best Hour-long Documentary Aired in the US
Creator, co-writer & producer
Dramatic sections of “Lost in the Show” for “I Shouldn’t Be Alive”
The Discovery Channel, 2004
Writer