Coming out of the dot com era, serial entrepreneur Liz Pelletier has more than thirty years of experience in software engineering, systems analysis, and business management. In 2011, Liz channeled her love of romantic fiction and co-founded Entangled Publishing. Her mission statement was simple: offer authors the highest royalties in the industry, combined with an … Read More
Michele Zugnoni is a writing instructor at UC Davis, recently ranked by US News and World Report as one of the nation’s top ten public universities. As a writing instructor, Michele uses self-reflection as a tool for challenging her students and encouraging them to learn more about themselves through writing. Michele is currently in the … Read More
From the moment Michelle Grajkowski first opened the doors to the 3 Seas Literary Agency in August of 2000, she has been living her dream. (What could be better than surrounding yourself with amazing authors and their exciting and imaginative books?) Since then, her agency has sold almost 700 books to all the major publishing … Read More
Deb Werksman has been at Sourcebooks for the past eighteen years, before which she had her own publishing company. She is the editorial director of romance fiction and acquires single title romance in all subgenres. Sourcebooks publishes 6-8 romance titles per month, in print and ebook formats simultaneously. We are the country’s largest woman-owned independent … Read More
Angela Ackerman is a writing coach, international speaker, and co-author of the bestselling book, The Emotion Thesaurus: A Writer’s Guide to Character Expression, and its many sequels. Her books are available in eight languages, are sourced by universities, recommended by agents and editors, and used by novelists, screenwriters, and psychologists around the world. Angela is … Read More
Lisa Cron is a story coach and the author of Wired for Story: The Writer’s Guide to Using Brain Science to Hook Readers From the Very First Sentence and Story Genius: How To Use Brain Science to Go Beyond Outlining and Write a Riveting Novel (Before You Waste Three Years Writing 327 Pages that Go … Read More
Kerry Schafer, also writing as Kerry Anne King, is the author of nine novels, including the Amazon Charts and Washington Post bestselling novel Whisper Me This. She is also a writing coach, speaker, and the creator of the Five Fs to Creative Freedom, a program designed to help writers make peace with their inner critic … Read More
Marty McCarty’s feature stories have appeared in more than 40 magazines and publications in the U.S. and abroad. She has written or ghostwritten eight books, a children’s series, short stories and a memoir. She won the coveted Thorpe Menn Award for Literary Excellence, was guest lecturer for the International Women’s Writing Guild, featured author on … Read More
Julie Glover writes young adult fiction, collects boots, practices rampant sarcasm, and advocates for good grammar and the addition of the interrobang as a much-needed punctuation mark. Her YA contemporary novel, SHARING HUNTER, finaled in the 2015 RWA® Golden Heart®. In addition to brainstorming and grammar workshops, she teaches a YA character course for the … Read More
Louise Fury is a literary agent at The Bent Agency in NYC. She has sold books to both traditional and electronic publishers and also represents many successful self-published authors. Louise encourages authors to have one foot in traditional publishing and the other in the digital-first arena and believes in staying ahead of the pack by … Read More
