USA Today Bestselling author Erin Wright has worked every job under the sun, including library director, barista, teacher, website designer, and ranch hand helping brand cattle, before settling into the career she’s always dreamed about: Author. She still loves coffee, doesn’t love the smell of cow flesh burning, and is currently living out her own … Read More
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Mark Leslie Lefebvre
Mark Leslie Lefebvre is a writer, editor, publisher, and bookseller. If you asked him to leverage a single title, he’d likely default to “book nerd.” There are very few people in the world who understand, in detail, so many different aspects of bookselling, of traditional publishing, and of the self-publishing realms. Mark Leslie Lefebvre has been writing since … Read More
Kirsten Oliphant
Kirsten Oliphant has her MFA in creative writing and has published over a dozen books in various genres from nonfiction to romance. For five years, she has hosted the Create If Writing podcast, which has been named one of the best writing podcasts by Writer’s Digest and The Write Life, among others. She has spoken … Read More
Becca Syme
Becca Syme is the creator and founder of the Better-Faster Academy and is a Gallup-Certified Strengths Performance Coach who has worked with 5500+ individual writers on creativity, productivity, and author success. She is the host of the Quitcast and the author of the Quitbooks for Writers. She lives in the mountains of Montana where it … Read More
Darynda Jones
New York Times and USA Today Bestselling Author Darynda Jones has won numerous awards for her work, including a prestigious RITA®, a Golden Heart®, and a Daphne du Maurier, and her books have been translated into 17 languages. As a born storyteller, she grew up spinning tales of dashing damsels and heroes in distress for any unfortunate … Read More
Alexandra Sokoloff
Alexandra Sokoloff is the bestselling, Thriller Award-winning and Bram Stoker and Anthony Award-nominated author of thirteen supernatural, paranormal and crime thrillers. The New York Times has called her “a daughter of Mary Shelley” and her books “Some of the most original and freshly unnerving work in the genre.” As a screenwriter she has sold original suspense and … Read More
Alex Sehulster
Alexandra Sehulster is an Assistant Editor at St. Martin’s Press. She began her career working at Macmillan in the Merchandise Sales department, where she assisted in the selling of hardcover, trade paperback, and mass market titles to the book distributors for WalMart, Target, grocery stores, and airports. After three years in sales, she transitioned to … Read More
Kristen Lamb
Kristen is the author of the top resource for author branding in the digital age, “Rise of the Machines–Human Authors in a Digital World.” She’s also the author of the #1 best-selling books “We Are Not Alone–The Writer’s Guide to Social Media” and “Are You There, Blog? It’s Me, Writer.” She’s an international speaker, award-winning … Read More
Donald Maass
Donald Maass founded the Donald Maass Literary Agency in New York in 1980. His agency sells more than 150 novels every year to major publishers in the U.S. and overseas. He is the author of The Career Novelist (1996),Writing the Breakout Novel (2001), Writing the Breakout Novel Workbook (2004), The Fire in Fiction (2009) , The Breakout Novelist (2011) and Writing 21st Century Fiction (2012). … Read More
Rachel Caine
Rachel Caine is the NYT, USA Today, Amazon Charts and #1 internationally bestselling writer of more than 50 novels in a diverse range of categories: suspense, young adult, science fiction, fantasy, mystery, horror, paranormal romance, new adult, and media tie-in. She’s written screenplays for web series, television, and film, and has more than fifty published … Read More