Your Credit Score: How to Fix, Improve, and Protect the 3-Digit Number That Shapes Your Financial Future Paperback - 2007

Liz Pulliam Weston is a personal finance columnist whose twice-weekly columns for MSN Money reach more than ten million people each month. She's also the author of the Q&A column "Money Talk," which appears in the "Los Angeles Times "and other newspapers nationwide. Weston's regular TV and radio appearances include NPR's "Talk of the Nation" and "All Things Considere"d, American Public Media's "Marketplace Money," and NBC's "Today." For several years, she was a weekly commentator on CNBC's Power Lunch. Her advice on credit and finance has been featured in "Consumer Reports," "Marie Claire," "Parents," "Real Simple, ""Woman's World," "The Boston Globe," "The Chicago Tribune," "Associated Press," "Forbes.com," and numerous other publications. Formerly a personal finance writer for the "Los Angeles Times," Weston has won numerous reporting awards. She was part of a three-member writing team that won a Gerald Loeb Award for coverage of the Comparator Systems penny stock scandal in1997. She was a member of the" Anchorage Daily News" team that won a Pulitzer Prize for Meritorious Public Service in 1989 for coverage of the alcoholism epidemic among native Alaskans. Weston is author of "Deal With Your Debt: The Right Way to Manage Your Bills and Pay Off What You Owe" (Pearson Prentice Hall, 2006). Her advice on budgeting is featured in "The Expert's Guide to the Baby Years." A graduate of the certified financial planner training program at University of California, Irvine, she lives in Los Angeles with her husband and daughter. She can be reached via her Web site, www.lizweston.com.