Publisher
W. Wayne Lin was the co-founder and CEO of Clinical
BioResearch, Inc. (1975-1980), a manufacturer of
radioimmunoassay kits. From 1979 to present, he is the founder, CEO and publisher of EGW Publishing Inc., and was
responsible for publishing 10 printed consumer magazines in
the past: Popular Woodworking, Veggie Life, Best of Veggie
Life, Weekend Woodcrafts, Yoga 4 Everybody, Children’s
Album, Tole World, Wood Strokes, Holiday Painting and
Needlepoint News. These magazines had a combined paid
subscriber base of over one million. They were distributed in
20,000 stores & newsstands, and 20 countries (mostly
in the U.S. & Canada). EGW also previously published 15 tole
painting books, over 300 tole painting booklets and 3
woodworking books. Currently, EGW publishes two
magazines: Herb Quarterly and Nourish-poetry,
and 15 poetry books. From 1976 to 1995, W. Wayne
Lin worked a second job as a nuclear chemist and then as a
real estate broker to support his growing family and to foster
his budding endeavors in both radio pharmaceutical
manufacturing and publishing. The story of his publishing
career was included in the book The American Dream,
which featured 12 Chinese Americans, including the late
chancellor of U.C. Berkeley, C.L. Tien, and Nobel laureate
Y.T. Lee, (chemistry 1986). In the last 15 years, he
cofounded many online ventures in B2C and B2B, software as
a service (SaaS) fields. He is currently focusing on expanding
his publishing venture into the field of poetry.