Shomail Malik was recently featured in USA Today in recognition of his best-selling book, “Against The Grain.”

Somerset, NJ – June 9, 2014 – Real Estate Expert Shomail Malik, Founder of Strategic Realty Solutions and Co-Founder of the REST University, was recently seen in USA Today in recognition of his recent best-selling book, Against The Grain: The World’s Leading Experts Reveal How They Achieved Positive Results in a Down Economy! The National Academy of Best-Selling Authors™ (NABSA) offers its congratulations to Mr. Malik for his contribution to the book. The NABSA is an organization that honors authors from many of the leading independent best-seller lists.

In the USA Today feature, Shomail Malik remarked, “This book is all about taking that ‘ton of potential’ that someone sometime ago told you that you had and turning it into its kinetic manifestation. The overwhelming majority of us are not doing what we want to do and not living the lives we thought we’d be living. So just as a baker would follow a recipe to create a masterful cake, herein lies the recipe for you to create your masterpiece life and achieve massive success.”

Against The Grain showcases a group of Celebrity Experts® including entrepreneurs, mentors and coaches who have survived and thrived in the midst of the constantly changing marketplace – going Against The Grain. To the reader who wants to enjoy success, these Celebrity Experts® share with them proven ways to move forward with their plans and the mindset required to do it.

Shomail Malik contributed a chapter titled “Mindset of a Successful Entrepreneur Goes Against the Grain.”

On the day of release, Against The Grain: The World’s Leading Experts Reveal How They Achieved Positive Results in a Down Economy! achieved best-seller status in five Amazon.com categories.  The book reached best-seller status in the following categories: “Direct Marketing,” “Marketing,” “Entrepreneurship,” “Marketing and Sales” and “Personal Finance.”

In 2008, as the economy began its downward spiral, Shomail started Strategic Realty Solutions (http://www.strategicrealtyllc.com), a real estate solutions and residential re-development company dedicated to helping homeowners avoid foreclosure and buyers find great deals on and off the market.  Along with his success with SRS came opportunities for him to teach what he had successfully done in real estate investing to new and upcoming investors, which gave birth to Real Estate Solutions Team (www.RESTUniversity.com), a premier teaching company that teaches and provides supports to real estate investors all over the country.

To order a copy of the book, please go to http://shomailmalik.theagainstthegrainbook.com/

Learn more at http://www.strategicrealtyllc.com and http://www.rewacademy.com